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The Quality Of Patient Care By Residents
Date: Jun-29-2012Medical residents are an essential part of the hospital workforce. Although still in training the take on much of the day to day care of patients. A systematic review published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patient care by properly supervised residents is safe and of equal quality to that of fully trained doctors. Residency training is an essential part of a doctors education after they leave university...
Patient-Derived Stem Cells Successfully Transplant Into Mice With Muscular Dystrophy
Date: Jun-29-2012Stem cells from patients with a rare form of muscular dystrophy have been successfully transplanted into mice affected by the same form of dystrophy, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine. For the first time, scientists have turned muscular dystrophy patients' fibroblast cells (common cells found in connective tissue) into stem cells and then differentiated them into muscle precursor cells. The muscle cells were then genetically modified and transplanted into mice...
New Cancer Stem Cell Mechanism Identified
Date: Jun-29-2012Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have uncovered a link between two genes which shows how stem cells could develop into cancer. The research, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, found a novel mechanism which could be the catalyst for stem cells changing into a tumour. Dr Ahmad Waseem, a reader in oral dentistry at Queen Mary, University of London who led the research, said: "It was quite an unexpected discovery. We set out to investigate the role of the stem cell gene Keratin K15 which was thought to be a biomarker for normal stem cells...
Transplant Of Stem Cells May Beat Back Type 1 Diabetes
Date: Jun-29-2012University of British Columbia scientists, in collaboration with an industry partner, have successfully reversed diabetes in mice using stem cells, paving the way for a breakthrough treatment for a disease that affects nearly one in four Canadians. The research by Timothy Kieffer, a professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, and scientists from the New Jersey-based BetaLogics, a division of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, is the first to show that human stem cell transplants can successfully restore insulin production and reverse diabetes in mice...
Novel Antibody Vaccine Blocks Addictive Nicotine Chemicals From Reaching The Brain
Date: Jun-29-2012Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed and successfully tested in mice an innovative vaccine to treat nicotine addiction. In the journal Science Translational Medicine, the scientists describe how a single dose of their novel vaccine protects mice, over their lifetime, against nicotine addiction. The vaccine is designed to use the animal's liver as a factory to continuously produce antibodies that gobble up nicotine the moment it enters the bloodstream, preventing the chemical from reaching the brain and even the heart...
Potential New Treatment For Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Date: Jun-29-2012Scientists at UCLA have identified a new compound that could treat certain types of genetic disorders in muscles. It is a big first step in what they hope will lead to human clinical trials for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD, is a degenerative muscle disease that affects boys almost exclusively. It involves the progressive degeneration of voluntary and cardiac muscles, severely limiting the life span of sufferers...
Experts Say Harm Reduction Is Best Goal For Emerging Drug Policies
Date: Jun-29-2012In the Americas, the toll of illegal drugs has grown dramatically in recent years, but with different impacts on producing, consuming, and transit countries...
Patient Care By Residents Is As Good As By Fully Qualified Doctors
Date: Jun-29-2012Medical residents are an essential part of the hospital workforce. Although still in training the take on much of the day to day care of patients. A systematic review published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine shows that patient by properly supervised residents care is safe and of equal quality to that of fully trained doctors. Residency training is an essential part of a doctors education after they leave university...
War On Drugs Fueling Spread Of HIV
Date: Jun-29-2012World leaders release groundbreaking report The Global Commission on Drug Policy released a groundbreaking report in London this week. The Commission, which includes six former national presidents, Richard Branson and other world leaders, argues that the global War on Drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Their groundbreaking was released in advance of the world's largest gathering of HIV/AIDS experts, the International AIDS Conference, to be held in the US this July 22-27, in Washington DC...
Amniotic Fluid Could Be Elixir That Prevents Deadly Gut Inflammation In Preemies
Date: Jun-29-2012Lack of exposure to amniotic fluid could be the reason that preterm infants are more susceptible to the gastrointestinal inflammatory disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), according to researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In an early online report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they show that feeding amniotic fluid to young mice reduced the risk of NEC in an experimental model, suggesting new therapeutic avenues for warding off the deadly condition. Senior author David Hackam, M.D...
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