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Improving Medical Research Education Across Europe
Date: Oct-25-2012Fostering and improving medical research education is crucial to biomedical research and clinical patient treatment, and as such it has been identified as the main challenge in every joint European Science Foundation (ESF) - European Research Medical Councils (EMRC) strategy report. A new policy report entitled "Medical Research Education in Europe" has just been published looking at crucial factors to improve medical research education throughout Europe. The new science policy briefing report features an overview of medical researchers' training across Europe...
Experts In Europe Call For More Rigorous Scientific Evidence For Healthcare Interventions
Date: Oct-25-2012Leading clinicians and health researchers from across Europe say much greater emphasis must be placed on the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of treatments and other healthcare interventions to ensure patients receive the best care available. The call is contained in a Science Policy Briefing published by the European Medical Research Councils, which also made ten key recommendations on how to improve the quality of research and healthcare in Europe...
Scientists Aim To Analyse A Whole Mouse Brain Under The Electron Microscope
Date: Oct-25-2012What happens in the brain when we see, hear, think and remember? To be able to answer questions like this, neuroscientists need information about how the millions of neurons in the brain are connected to each other. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have taken a crucial step towards obtaining a complete circuit diagram of the brain of the mouse, a key model organism for the neurosciences. The research group working with Winfried Denk has developed a method for preparing the whole mouse brain for a special microscopy process...
Bacillus Could Transformation Vaccine Delivery
Date: Oct-25-2012Lead scientist Professor Simon Cutting, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, has developed the jabs through the use of probiotic spores. He carried out fundamental studies into the biology of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis which attracted the attention of microbiologists due to its ability to form spores that can last millions of years before germinating under the appropriate environmental conditions. Professor Cutting says: "The mechanisms by which this process occurs have fascinated microbiologists for decades making it one of the most intensively studied bacteria...
2 Paths Used By The Dengue Virus To Penetrate Cells - TIM And TAM
Date: Oct-25-2012By demonstrating that it is possible to inhibit the viral infection in vitro by blocking the bonding between the virus and these receptors, the researchers have opened the way to a new antiviral strategy. These works were published on line in the review Cell Host & Microbe. The Dengue virus circulates in four different forms (four serotypes). It is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. It is a major public health problem. Two billion people throughout the world are exposed to the risk of infection and 50 million cases of Dengue fever are recorded by the WHO every year...
Brainwave Training Pushes For Cognitive Control And Alters Mind-Wandering
Date: Oct-25-2012Teaching the well-known brainwave in humans, the alpha rhythm, can strengthen a brain network in charge of cognitive-control. This technique, known as neurofeedback, may be considered as a hopeful new procedure for reestablishing brain function in mental disorders. This breakthrough study, conducted by a group of researchers at the Western University and the Lawson Health Research Institute, has discovered that functional changes within a specific brain network occur exactly after a 30-minute session of noninvasive, neural-based training...
Nanoparticles Barred By Lung Mucus Gel Scaffold
Date: Oct-25-2012Mucus coats our airways' internal surfaces. The viscous gel humidifies the lungs and prevents viruses and other small particles like diesel soot from entering the body unchecked. Previously unclear was the extent to which such nanoparticles are able to move through the lungs' mucus. Here, the research evidence was contradictory. Scientists could not explain why, in inhaled medication development, drug nanoparticles often simply got stuck in the mucus never making it to their target destination inside the lung cells...
Moderate Alcohol Consumption And Breast Cancer - A Complex Association
Date: Oct-25-2012An excellent review article from two scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the USA to be published in Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2012, describes the epidemiologic and basic scientific evidence linking alcohol consumption to the risk of breast cancer. The authors point out deficiencies in the epidemiologic data, especially that the pattern of drinking (regular moderate versus binge drinking) has generally not been taken into consideration, important given that binge drinking is associated with much higher blood alcohol concentrations and acetaldehyde accumulation...
Orion Receives Positive Phase II Study Results Of A New Levodopa Product For Parkinson's Disease
Date: Oct-25-2012ODM-101, a new levodopa product currently developed by Orion for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, has successfully completed Phase II Proof of Concept trial. The key results indicate that ODM-101 was more efficacious than the reference product Stalevo® in the treatment of advanced Parkinson's disease patients. The study included more than 100 patients in Europe...
Hypnosis Can Help Get Rid Of Hot Flashes
Date: Oct-24-2012Hypnosis can minimize hot flashes, which affect around 80% of women during menopause, by as much as 74%, according to a new trial published in the journal Menopause. The randomized, controlled study was the first to look at hypnosis as a method of helping control hot flashes. Controlled, randomized human trials compare an active ingredient to a dummy drug (placebo); similar investigations with mind-body techniques are very hard to carry out, because finding a placebo is virtually impossible...
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