November 26, 2014
(Nature) – In the quest to develop personalized cancer therapies, researchers are increasingly examining an individual’s immune response to cancer to find ways to tailor treatments. The shift comes with the emergence of therapies designed to unleash the immune system … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Science) – Researchers have taken several steps toward using stem cells to treat a rare genetic disease that leaves people with skin so fragile it blisters at the slightest touch. A trio of lab and animal studies reported today could … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Nature) – Most journal editors know how much effort it takes to persuade busy researchers to review a paper. That is why the editor of The Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry was puzzled by the reviews for manuscripts … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – The World Health Organization says 600 new cases of Ebola were reported in the most-affected countries in the past week, more than half of them in Sierra Leone. The U.N. health agency said Wednesday that 15,935 people … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Advanced practice clinicians (APCs) use more imaging than primary care physicians (PCPs), according to a study published online Nov. 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Danny R. Hughes, Ph.D., from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute in … Read More
November 26, 2014
(The Guardian) – Metastatic lung cancer is hard to treat. So if there were a treatment for people with the disease that had minimal side effects, could extend not just the quantity of life but also its quality, we’d expect … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Gene therapy has great potential to treat intractable diseases such as cancer, arterial sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Successful gene therapy requires a gene vector that can deliver the therapeutic gene selectively to the target site. However, the … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Phys.org) —Two of the most exciting areas of science and technology, synthetic biology and genetic engineering, have just taken a step towards a brave new future in which large-scale synthetic biological circuits composed of bioengineered logic gates, orthogonal to (that … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Phys.org) – What do pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, Iron Man and flu vaccines all have in common? They are examples of an old idea that’s been gaining in significance in the last several decades: transhumanism. The word denotes a set of … Read More
November 26, 2014
(The Epoch Times) – European doctors, legal and law enforcement professionals gathered at the headquarters of Europol in The Hague on Nov. 21 to discuss the trafficking of human beings for the purpose of organ removal (THBOR). THBOR refers to … Read More
November 26, 2014
(Nanowerk) – Conventional treatment seeks to eradicate cancer cells by drugs and therapy delivered from outside the cell, which may also affect (and potentially harm) nearby normal cells. In contrast to conventional cancer therapy, a University of Cincinnati team has … Read More
November 25, 2014
(BBC) – Burial workers in the Sierra Leonean city of Kenema have dumped bodies in public in protest at non-payment of allowances for handling Ebola victims. The workers, who went on strike over the issue, left 15 bodies abandoned at … Read More
November 25, 2014
(The Atlantic) – Vancouver, one of North America’s most progressive cities in respect to drug policy, will conduct a groundbreaking experiment: prescription heroin. Following a clinical trial involving 26 subjects, doctors at the city’s Providence Medical Clinic have earned permission … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Wired) – “What we’ve learned in the last five years about the underlying genetics is that there are hundreds, if not a thousand or more, different genetic subtypes of autism,” says geneticist David Ledbetter, chief scientific officer at Geisinger Health … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – With research and development costs for many drugs reaching well into the billions, pharmaceutical companies want more than ever to determine whether their drugs already at market have any hidden therapeutic benefits that could warrant putting additional … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Nanowerk) – Medical researchers from Keele University and Nottingham University have found that magnetic nanoparticles coated with targeting proteins can stimulate stem cells to regenerate bone. Researchers were also able to deliver the cells directly to the injured area, remotely … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Medscape) – Recent offerings from Apple and Facebook to pay for the cost of oocyte cryopreservation as an elective benefit for their female employees are being applauded by some gynecologists and fertility experts as a way to provide women with … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Slate) – In vitro fertilization was originally intended to help a very specific young, married, and female demographic to conceive. But a lot has changed since Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born in 1978. The explosion of … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Managed Care Magazine) – Most people don’t lose sleep worrying about health care services provided to inmates in jails or prisons, but maybe they should. Lack of proper coverage is a major cause of recidivism, experts say, but this year … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – For many people, talking about end-of-life decisions can be very difficult. Although making choices about health care at the end of life is an important outcome of these conversations, recent research suggests that talking about end-of-life choices … Read More
November 25, 2014
(The Times of India) – The much anticipated Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Bill, 2014, is said to have specified an upper age-limit for couples wanting to commission surrogacy in India. Likely to be tabled in the winter session of Parliament, … Read More
November 25, 2014
(The Japan Times) – Under the revised organ transplant law, organs can be taken from anyone regardless of their age with family consent, unless the individual in question has explicitly refused to donate. But tougher brain-death criteria are applied to … Read More
November 25, 2014
(The Telegraph) – An 84-year-old Frenchman who reportedly could not bear the anguish of losing his terminally ill wife, has shot her dead in her hospital bed and then turned the weapon on himself in an apparent suicide pact. Their … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – After more than six years of intensive effort, and repeated failures that made the quest at times seem futile, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) and Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and … Read More
November 25, 2014
(Nanotechnology Now) – A team of scientists from Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute and IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center have developed a prototype DNA reader that could make whole genome profiling an everyday practice in medicine. “Our goal is to put … Read More
