GaitTrack app makes cellphone a medical monitor for heart, lung patients
(Medical Xpress)—By simply carrying around their cellphones, patients who suffer from chronic disease could soon have an accurate health monitor that warns their doctors when their symptoms worsen.
View ArticleA molecular target may lead to drug to fight leukaemia
(Medical Xpress)—A molecular 'target' that could lead to a drug to fight leukaemia is in the sights of a team of University of Queensland researchers.
View ArticleResearchers discover 'bad' cholesterol contributes to cancer spread in the body
(Medical Xpress)—In a world-first, University of Sydney researchers have discovered one of the main reasons behind why cancer spreads throughout the body - the help of 'bad' cholesterol.
View ArticleMethamphetamine use directly linked to violence
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers for the first time have found a direct link between use of the drug ice and violence, with a six-fold increase in violent behaviour when chronic users take the drug.
View ArticleStudy confirms clinical benefit for interleukin-2 immunotherapy in patients...
(Medical Xpress)—A retrospective study published online ahead of print in the medical journal Urology by a physician team from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) found that patients with metastatic...
View ArticleAbility to isolate and grow breast tissue stem cells could speed cancer research
(Medical Xpress)—By carefully controlling the levels of two proteins, researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered how to keep mammary stem cells—those that can form breast tissue—alive and...
View ArticleIsolating the circuits that control voluntary movement
(Medical Xpress)—Extraordinarily complex networks of circuits that transmit signals from the brain to the spinal cord control voluntary movements. Researchers have been challenged to identify the...
View ArticleResearchers pursuing powdered nasal vaccine against West Nile
Riding the expansion of mosquito-borne diseases from the tropics as temperatures rise across the globe, the West Nile Virus made its American landfall in New York about 15 years ago. Since then, it has...
View ArticleSleep researchers identify promising new treatment for narcolepsy
Neuroscientists at SRI International have found that a form of baclofen, a drug used to treat muscle spasticity, works better at treating narcolepsy than the best drug currently available when tested...
View ArticleResearchers use DNA to build tool that may literally shine light on cancer
Bioengineers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Montreal have used DNA to develop a tool that detects and reacts to chemical changes caused by cancer cells and that may one day...
View ArticleProtein identified as important trigger of antiviral response
Cells have to protect themselves: against damage in their genetic material for one thing, but also against attack from the outside, by viruses for example. They do this by using different mechanisms:...
View ArticleFor slumbering diabetics, a way to detect low blood sugar and stop insulin...
New research could soon make it easier for people with type-1 diabetes to get a safe night's sleep, says a Stanford University School of Medicine scientist who led the study.
View ArticleBrain noise found to nurture synapses
A study has shown that a long-overlooked form of neuron-to-neuron communication called miniature neurotransmission plays an essential role in the development of synapses, the regions where nerve...
View ArticleStudy urges caution in stem cell clinical trials for heart attack patients
A new study in Nature challenges research data that form the scientific basis of clinical trials in which heart attack patients are injected with stem cells to try and regenerate damaged heart tissue.
View ArticleVascular simulation research reveals new mechanism that switches in disease
Blood vessel formation is critical to life and its manipulation is instrumental to a number of diseases. For more than 40 years, investigations into the structure and function of endothelial cells...
View ArticleE-cigarette vapor contains potentially harmful particles, review says
(HealthDay)—E-cigarettes may not be as harmless as they initially seemed. New research suggests that e-cigarette vapor produces tiny particles that users suck deep into their lungs, potentially causing...
View ArticleViagra, cialis may help duchenne muscular dystrophy patients
(HealthDay)—Drugs normally prescribed to treat erectile dysfunction in adult males may help boys who have a muscle disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, according to a new study.
View ArticleStudy finds genetic patterns in preeclampsia
Different manifestations of preeclampsia, such as early vs. late timing or typical vs. high severity, appear to have distinct genetic underpinnings, suggesting that they may need to be studied and...
View ArticleHandshake strength reveals education, age
A physical test for measuring age shows wide differences between the rates of aging among different population groups, according to new research by demographers at the International Institute for...
View ArticleUS doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby
A leading US medical journal on Wednesday hit out at the powerful American gun lobby for opposing the nomination for the post of top doctor, calling it a new form of "political blackmail."
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