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Bavarian Nordic receives European marketing authorization for Imvanex smallpox vaccine
Date: Aug-09-2013Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA) announced today that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for IMVANEX® (MVA-BN) for active immunization against smallpox disease for the general adult population, including people with weakened immune systems (people diagnosed with HIV or atopic dermatitis). The authorization covers all 27 European Union member states and European Economic Area countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. IMVANEX will be made available for governments to purchase and use in accordance with official national recommendations...
Connecticut boy helps alert physicians to rare seizure disorder
Date: Aug-09-2013A 14-year-old Connecticut boy has joined the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) in alerting pediatricians and other physicians to a rare medical condition that can leave babies with lifelong disability. The boy, Jacob Maren, experienced the rare disorder, which is known as "infantile spasms", in the first year of his life. Prompt diagnosis and treatment helped protect him from any lasting ill effects...
AARP announces health law tool for consumers
Date: Aug-09-2013AARP announced new resources available to all Americans looking for facts about the Affordable Care Act including a new online tool called Health Law Answers. These resources are a part of AARP's ongoing nationwide effort to educate Americans about the health care law and what it means for individuals - whether they have health coverage or not - by providing simple, clear-language information about the law and resources for families to understand what the law means for them and how to access new available benefits. The new tool - HealthLawAnswers...
Data collection is hiding the truth about the health of ethnic minorities
Date: Aug-09-2013A new report calling for health data to be broken down by ethnicity has been published by international development organisation Health Poverty Action, ahead of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People this Friday. Health Poverty Action is calling for the measurement of any new goals on health and wider development to be broken down by ethnicity in the run up to the UN high level meeting on the new framework for international development in September...
Leading bowel cancer charity launches new endoscopy guide
Date: Aug-09-2013Bowel Cancer UK, has launched a new information booklet which will inform and advise patients who have been referred by their GP for either a flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. The guide discusses both procedures and also helps people understand what to expect and what choices they may have. An endoscopy, such as flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, is the most common diagnostic and therapeutic technique in the UK to detect bowel cancer and conditions of the gastrointestinal tract...
Scientists study brain activation when processing Chinese hand-radicals
Date: Aug-09-2013A number of studies in which patients with lesions to frontal pre-motor areas are included have identified deficits in action comprehension. In addition, imaging studies have revealed the activation of brain areas associated with perception or action during tasks involving reading of words with related semantic meaning. For example, the mere passive reading of action verbs such as kick, pick and lick has been found to activate areas of the sensory-motor cortex associated with the legs, hands and face, respectively...
Birthwort herb implicated in upper urinary tract cancers
Date: Aug-09-2013Genomic sequencing experts at Johns Hopkins partnered with pharmacologists at Stony Brook University to reveal a striking mutational signature of upper urinary tract cancers caused by aristolochic acid, a plant compound contained in herbal remedies used for thousands of years to treat a variety of ailments such as arthritis, gout and inflammation. Their discovery is described in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Aristolochic [pronounced a-ris-to-lo-kik] acid is found in the plant family "Aristolochia," a vine known widely as birthwort, and while the U.S...
DNA can be gently inserted into living cells using new high-tech laser method
Date: Aug-09-2013The applications of gene therapy and genetic engineering are broad: everything from pet fish that glow red to increased crop yields worldwide to cures for many of the diseases that plague humankind. But realizing them always starts with solving the same basic scientific question - how to "transfect" a cell by inserting foreign DNA into it. Many methods already exist for doing this, but they tend to be clumsy and destructive, not allowing researchers to precisely control how and when they insert the DNA or requiring them to burn through large numbers of cells before they can get it into one...
When inflammation is controlled, treadmill training after spinal cord injury promotes recovery
Date: Aug-09-2013New research suggests that treadmill training soon after a spinal cord injury can have long-lasting positive effects on recovery - as long as the training is accompanied by efforts to control inflammation in the lower spinal cord. The study, in animals, also is among the first to show that spinal cord injuries can create impairments in parts of the cord located many spine segments away from the trauma site. Researchers observed signs of inflammation in the lumbar region of the spine, at least 10 segments below the mid-back injury, within 24 hours of the trauma...
Loss of microRNA decoy might contribute to development of soft-tissue sarcoma
Date: Aug-09-2013Researchers have discovered a novel mechanism responsible for the loss of a critical tumor-suppressor gene in rhabdomyosarcoma and other soft-tissue sarcomas, rare cancers that strike mainly children and often respond poorly to treatment. Their cause is largely unknown. Knowledge of the mechanism could guide the development of more effective therapies for these malignancies, say researchers who led the study at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James)...
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