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Renowned hospitals 'not always the best'
Date: Aug-01-2013Patients may think that when it comes to having surgery, the bigger and more renowned the hospital is, the better the treatment they are likely to receive. But a new US hospital ratings report has revealed that this is not necessarily the case. The Consumers Union, the non-profit organization behind Consumer Reports magazine, has provided hospitals in the US with individual surgery ratings, in an attempt to guide patients to the right medical centers...
Diabetes: secondary complications, regulation and innovation - 1st and 2nd October, 2013, London UK
Date: Aug-01-2013Attendees at Diabetes: Secondary Complications, Regulation and Innovation, will hear Timothy Broke-Smith, Chief Operating Officer from Diabetology provide delegates with a unique insight into the oral delivery of insulin and other diabetes therapies. The address covered in the Clinical Development and Innovation session will draw from Axcess™ and Capsulin™ case study examples as well as discussing oral GLP-1...
Autism: 'different developmental brain chemistry'
Date: Aug-01-2013Researchers have discovered that children with autism can be set apart from those with other developmental disorders through differences in chemical changes in the brain. The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, reveals that gray matter chemical changes that occur between the ages of 3 and 10 years differentiate children with autism spectrum disorder from those with idiopathic (an unknown cause) developmental disorder...
Full-sized human-like ear grown from animal tissue
Date: Aug-01-2013A team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has engineered an artificial ear from animal structural tissue and cells. It looks and flexes like a human one and distorts only minimally during growth, thanks to the incorporation of a thin wire frame. The researchers hope their techniques, once fine-tuned and adapted to use patients' own cells, could one day help people with missing or deformed outer ears. They write about their work in a July 31st online issue of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Lead author Dr...
Better prospects for metastatic cancer survival - mouse study
Date: Aug-01-2013Researchers have found a way to preserve gut health in mice who have been given very high doses of chemoradiotherapy. They say if the same works in humans, it could be a huge step towards treatments that eradicate metastatic cancer. Jian-Guo Geng, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, and colleagues, describe their promising findings in a July 31st online issue of Nature. Metastatic cancers are those that have spread from the primary tumor to other parts of the body. The vast majority of deaths from cancer are due to metastatic cancer...
Tisch MS researchers announce breakthrough in disease monitoring
Date: Aug-01-2013A research team lead by Violaine Harris, Ph.D., at the Tisch MS Research Center of New York, has just published findings on a new method of measuring disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). This important biomarker discovery is based on spinal fluid measurement of Fetuin-A levels obtained over the course of several years of clinical and pathological studies of MS patients as well as experimental models of the disease. Dr. Harris's findings are likely to change the process for making treatment decisions in MS patients...
Reducing drug costs for patients could improve outcomes for high blood pressure
Date: Aug-01-2013Expanding health insurance coverage and reducing drug costs that are paid by patients (drug co-payments) in countries without universal free healthcare, such as the United States, may improve the treatment, and control of high blood pressure (hypertension, a condition which affects one billion people worldwide and leads to 7.5 million deaths), according to a study by UK and Canadian researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine...
Molecular tools may help solve the riddle of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome
Date: Aug-01-2013The term Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) is used when healthy people with a structurally normal heart die without warning, without any identifiable natural or toxicological cause. In the United Kingdom alone, SADS causes the death of over 400 young people each year. SADS is thought to result from electrical disturbances in the heart, mediated by mutations in genes that control its rhythm...
Disabled children treated more harshly in developing world
Date: Aug-01-2013Children with disabilities receive harsher punishment across the developing world, according to a new study based on interviews with nearly 46,000 caregivers in 17 low- to middle-income countries. The study found that disabled children were more likely to be severely punished by being hit on the head or beaten with an object such as a stick or belt, said Jennifer Lansford, a research professor with the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy. The work appears July 30 in Child Development...
Contemplation increases willingness to follow up with the doctor
Date: Aug-01-2013Some studies of at-risk populations suggest that up to half of the people tested for HIV never return to the doctor's office to find out their test results. While many of these people may simply forget to return or deem the results unimportant, it is likely that a portion of people don't return because they don't want to know the results...
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