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A Squirt of Stem Cell Gel Heals Brain Injuries
Scientists have developed a gel that helps brains recover from traumatic injuries. It has the potential to treat head injuries suffered in combat, car accidents, falls, or gunshot wounds. Developed by Dr. Ning...
Can Bone Marrow Be Quickly Revived After Destruction By Leukemia Treatment? Faster Recovery From Life-threatening Blood Cell Shortages
A key compound resupplies bone marrow with fast-acting stem cells that can more quickly rekindle blood cell production, according to a new study. While the study was in mice, the...
New drug shrinks skin cancer in small trial
An experimental drug shrank skin cancers that had spread, a small-scale drug trial has found.
Swine flu raises ICU-overload concerns
An intensive care specialist in Winnipeg hopes an international conference taking place in the city will find ways to deal with the flood of patients that hospitals could see this...
World-first swine-flu vaccine trial reveals one dose provides 'strong immune response'
Results from the first swine-flu vaccine trials taking place in Leicester reveal a strong immune response after just one dose.
YouTube videos yield clues to brain injury symptom
Brain injury researchers at the University of Kentucky have spent hundreds of hours watching YouTube videos of people getting smacked, punched and knocked in the head during sporting events and...
Buyer beware: Oestrogen supplements not as effective as claimed
Dietary supplements claiming to help postmenopausal women with bone health may not be doing what they say, according to new research from Purdue University...
Avastin dramatically improves response, survival in deadly recurrrent glioblastomas
The targeted therapy Avastin, alone and in combination with the chemotherapy drug CPT-11, significantly increased response rates, progression-free survival times and survival rates in patients with a deadly form of...
Mosquito screens found to be cheap and effective in malaria prevention
Trials of a screen-based malaria prevention programme in 500 homes in The Gambia, Africa, have led to a 50 per cent reduction in malaria transmission and anaemia in children. A...
Image-guided Radiation Therapy May Improve Outcomes For Obese Prostate Cancer Patients
Moderately to severely obese prostate cancer patients may have improved treatment outcomes when treated with image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) over traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) because IGRT corrects for...
Surviving sepsis program - increased compliance gets results
A 'surviving sepsis' in-hospital project has been shown to improve the care of patients with sepsis. The educational program for early management of patients with septic shock, described in BioMed...
High school football, wrestling athletes suffer highest rate of severe injuries
High school football and wrestling athletes experienced the highest rate of severe injuries, according to the first study to examine severe injuries - injuries that caused high school athletes to...
Canadian research breakthrough holds promise for development of effective cancer therapies
Researchers Dr Marc Therrien at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Universite de Montreal, and Dr Frank Sicheri, at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of...
Rise in weight-loss drugs prescribed to combat childhood obesity
Thousands of children and adolescents are using anti-obesity drugs that in the UK are only licensed for use by adults. The number of young people receiving prescriptions for these drugs...
Skin Deep: Plastic Surgery May Also Ease Migraines
Earlier this month, news of a surgical “cure” that touts a high success rate ricocheted worldwide.
U.N. Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition
A set of proposed international sex education guidelines by Unesco, aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people, has provoked criticism from conservatives.
Tuberculosis treatment may be shortened
According to Dutch researcher Hanneke Later-Nijland, it may be possible to shorten the duration of treatment for tuberculosis. Due to the long duration of treatment, not every patient sees it...
Improved Blood Circulation In Coronary Heart Disease
Chest pain is the major symptom of patients with coronary heart disease. Agents that release nitric oxide (NO) within the body can help to treat such angina pectoris attacks because...
Discovery of New Treatment for Hand Disorder Affecting Millions Shown Promising
Researchers in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stony Brook University Medical Center have developed an injectable form of the enzyme, collagenase, that significantly improves outcomes of Dupuytren�s contracture (or disease),...
Statin cuts heart problems after artery surgery
(AP) -- Score another victory for the cheap, cholesterol-lowering wonder drugs known as statins. People getting an artery unclogged or repaired were much less likely to die or have...
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Genetic link found in Mexican asthmatics
CUERNAVACA, Mexico, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. and Mexican scientists say they've identified genetic variants on a specific chromosome that are associated with childhood asthma occurring in Mexicans.
Antibiotic is gene therapy 'off' switch
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- University of Florida scientists say they've found a common antibiotic can become an "off switch" for a gene therapy being developed for Parkinson's...
Neurosurgeons Practice on Virtual Simulator before Removing Brain Tumor
Virtual simulators reach a medical milestone as warm-up for a real-life operation This simulator goes far beyond the olden days of the board game "Operation." Last month, for the first time, neurosurgeons rehearsed...
Booze, Boobs, and Babies
Welcome to the dark side of the open scientific community. Unlike ScienceBlogs where it is sunshine, rainbows, lollipops, and semi-platonic group love all the time (as long as Ayatollah PZ...
Flu prompts Alberta ventilator purchases
The threat of a fall outbreak of the swine flu virus has prompted Alberta Health Services to buy 106 more medical ventilators.
Narrow-band imaging increases specificity of early lung cancer detection
Research published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that narrow-band imaging bronchoscopy increases the specificity of bronchoscopic early lung cancer detection and can...