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Checking sous vide cooking for safety
Date: Aug-10-2013The Institute of Food Research (IFR) has been undertaking research for the Food Standards Agency to establish if the cooking technique sous vide is safe. Sous vide uses lower temperatures to improve food quality and could be a step closer to being more widely adopted after Institute of Food Research scientists assessed the steps needed to ensure the process is safe. Sous vide cooking involves vacuum packing food in a plastic pouch and then heating in a water bath...
Alcoholism could be linked to a hyper-active brain dopamine system
Date: Aug-09-2013Research from McGill University suggests that people who are vulnerable to developing alcoholism exhibit a distinctive brain response when drinking alcohol, according to a new study by Prof. Marco Leyton, of McGill University's Department of Psychiatry. Compared to people at low risk for alcohol-use problems, those at high risk showed a greater dopamine response in a brain pathway that increases desire for rewards...
2nd Digital Marketing for Medical Devices Europe Summit, 22-23 October 2013, London
Date: Aug-09-2013Is Your Marketing Contributing to Medtech Growth? With a 100-billion Euro market size and an annual growth of 5% the medtech market in Europe has still a lot of potential for development and so do the marketing strategies supporting this growth. Digital Marketing plays a major role in accessing emerging markets and reaching new and younger customers. With a changing customer profile and growing competition, medtech companies need to rethink their communication and engagement strategies and explore new channels. The future is online, mobile and immediate...
New method for diagnosing children's lung conditions
Date: Aug-09-2013Researchers from the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in the UK are revolutionizing the way children's lung conditions are diagnosed, after a study has shown how their lung capacities differ within healthy children of different ethnicities...
MERS coronavirus: are camels the carrier?
Date: Aug-09-2013A new European study published this week gives the first hint that camels could be a reservoir for the mysterious MERS virus. Writing in Lancet Infectious Diseases, senior author Dr Marion Koopmans of the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and colleagues, describe finding evidence that the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS- CoV), or a related virus, has infected camel populations. They found traces of antibodies to the virus in blood taken from dromedary camels in the Middle East in Oman and on Spain's Canary Islands...
Malaria: 100% protection in early vaccine trial
Date: Aug-09-2013An early-stage clinical trial of an unusual experimental malaria vaccine shows it is safe, generates an immune response, and may provide 100% protection against malaria infection in healthy adults, the best result for a malaria vaccine so far. The trial tested the PfSPZ vaccine, developed by Sanaria Inc of Rockville, Maryland, in the US...
SMi's 2nd Annual Orphan Drugs & Rare Diseases Conference, 14 - 15 October 2013, London
Date: Aug-09-2013Join SMi for their 2nd Annual Orphan Drugs & Rare Diseases Conference as they showcase world leading experts speaking inclusively on the orphan drug industry featuring cutting edge research via case studies taking place in previously untreatable patients. The conference will highlight current regulatory policies involving the FDA & EMA, new drug discoveries and partnerships in clinical trials and drug development with patient groups...
Global vaccination community turns its back on getting new vaccines to refugee children
Date: Aug-09-2013As Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) starts vaccinating against pneumonia in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organisation warned that the global vaccination community is neglecting the roll out of new vaccines among crisis-affected children. While planning to immunise children against pneumococcal diseases in Yida camp, MSF faced multiple barriers trying to purchase newer vaccines at an affordable price and was left struggling to navigate bureaucratic policies that exclude the needs of conflict-affected populations...
Material in dissolvable sutures could treat brain infections, reducing hospital stays
Date: Aug-09-2013A plastic material already used in absorbable surgical sutures and other medical devices shows promise for continuous administration of antibiotics to patients with brain infections, scientists are reporting in a new study. Use of the material, placed directly on the brain's surface, could reduce the need for weeks of costly hospital stays now required for such treatment, they say in the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Shih-Jung Liu and colleagues explain that infections are life-threatening complications that occur in about 5-10 percent of patients who have brain surgery...
Gold 'nanoprobes' hold the key to treating killer diseases
Date: Aug-09-2013Researchers at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, have developed a technique to help treat fatal diseases more effectively. Dr Sumeet Mahajan and his group at the Institute for Life Sciences at Southampton are using gold nanoprobes to identify different types of cells, so that they can use the right ones in stem cell therapies. Stem cell therapy is in its infancy, but has the potential to change the way we treat cancer and other life-threatening diseases, by replacing damaged or diseased cells with healthy ones...
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