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One Day Workshop To Be Delivered On Intellectual Property & Contracting, 16 January 2013, Nottingham, UK
Date: Nov-06-2012Events 4 Healthcare are to deliver a one day workshop focusing on Intellectual Property & Contracting. This workshop will be held at the Nottingham Hilton Hotel on Wednesday 16th January, 2013. The one day workshop is designed to support NHS R&D staff with key tools for innovation and intellectual property management. The day will begin with an introductory session on what is innovation and how to measure it in an NHS context, along with some suggestions on formulating an innovation strategy...
If Your Memory Is Playing Tricks On You, Check Your Medicine Cabinet!
Date: Nov-06-2012Common medication to treat insomnia, anxiety, itching or allergies can have a negative impact on memory or concentration in the elderly, according to Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, Research Chair at the Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal (IUGM, Montreal Geriatric University Institute) and Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacy at the University of Montreal (UdeM). Up to ninety percent of people over the age of 65 take at least one prescription medication. Eighteen percent of people in this age group complain of memory problems and are found to have mild cognitive deficits...
'Obesity Paradox' In Overweight Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia
Date: Nov-06-2012Medical researchers at the University of Alberta studied the records of nearly 1000 patients who were admitted to hospital with pneumonia and noted those who were obese were more apt to survive compared to those who were of normal weight. For their research study, the team examined the records of 907 patients with pneumonia who were admitted to six Edmonton hospitals and also had their body mass index recorded. Two-thirds of the patients had severe pneumonia and 79 died in hospital. Of those who died, 12 were under weight, 36 were normal weight, 21 were overweight and 10 were obese...
Humans Learning To Sense Like A Rat May Improve Aids For The Blind
Date: Nov-06-2012Rats use a sense that humans don't: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense? And if they can, what could understanding the process of adapting to new sensory input tell us about how humans normally sense? At the Weizmann Institute, researchers explored these questions by attaching plastic "whiskers" to the fingers of blindfolded volunteers and asking them to carry out a location task...
Cancer Survivors With Chronic Dry Mouth Benefit From First Human Gene Therapy Study In Human Salivary Glands
Date: Nov-06-2012Gene therapy can be performed safely in the human salivary gland, according to scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health. This finding comes from the first-ever safety, or Phase I, clinical study of gene therapy in a human salivary gland. Its results, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also show that the transferred gene, Aquaporin-1, has great potential to help head and neck cancer survivors who battle with chronic dry mouth...
'Teaching' Computers To Identify Regulating Gene Sequences
Date: Nov-06-2012Johns Hopkins researchers have succeeded in teaching computers how to identify commonalities in DNA sequences known to regulate gene activity, and to then use those commonalities to predict other regulatory regions throughout the genome. The tool is expected to help scientists better understand disease risk and cell development. The work was reported in two recent papers in Genome Research. "Our goal is to understand how regulatory information is encrypted and to learn which sequence variations contribute to medical risks," says Andrew McCallion, Ph.D...
Human Emotions Communicated Through Chemosignals
Date: Nov-06-2012Many animal species transmit information via chemical signals, but the extent to which these chemosignals play a role in human communication is unclear. In a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researcher Gun Semin and colleagues from Utrecht University in the Netherlands investigate whether we humans might actually be able to communicate our emotional states to each other through chemical signals. Existing research suggests that emotional expressions are multi-taskers, serving more than one function...
Etiologic Diagnosis Of Nonsyndromic Genetic Hearing Loss In Adult Vs Pediatric Populations
Date: Nov-06-2012Genetic testing for a certain mutation in pediatric patients is valuable in determining a cause for unexplained hearing loss, according to a study in the November 2012 issue of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The study's authors state that testing for some of the most common mutations that cause sensorineural hearing loss in a targeted way, rather than through generalized screening of hearing loss patients, yields the best results. University of Miami NIH-funded researchers led by Dr...
How Brain Activity Changes When Anesthesia Induces Unconsciousness
Date: Nov-06-2012Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have identified for the first time a pattern of brain activity that appears to signal exactly when patients lose consciousness under general anesthesia. Although their study only involved use of one anesthetic drug, propofol, the researchers believe that their findings will apply to other forms of general anesthesia and could lead to better ways of monitoring anesthetized patients...
MRSA Superbug Found In US Wastewater Plants
Date: Nov-06-2012Scientists have found the superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) at four US wastewater treatment plants. In the past, the drug-resistant bacterium, which causes potentially fatal, difficult to treat infections, was mostly found in people in hospital settings, but is now increasingly found in healthy people in the wider community. The team, led by researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health, report their findings in the November issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives...
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