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Ground-Breaking Research Reveals Government Must Focus On Healthy Children's Diets To Prevent Diabetes
Date: Jun-19-2012June 15th 2012 represents a ground-breaking date in the history of diabetes research. After twelve years the EarlyBird project has made significant advances in understanding what triggers diabetes and cardio-vascular disease and the means to determine how advanced these conditions are. The Earlybird research has worryingly shown just how early in life the underlying symptoms of diabetes start, and how focus must move to early prevention through diet not simply physical activity, despite the current focus of government policy...
DNA Repair Tied To Key Cell Signaling Network
Date: Jun-19-2012University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have found a surprising connection between a key DNA-repair process and a cellular signaling network linked to aging, heart disease, cancer and other chronic conditions. The discovery promises to open up an important new area of research - one that could ultimately yield novel treatments for a wide variety of diseases...
NICE Denies Patient Access To Breakthrough Skin Cancer Pill
Date: Jun-19-2012Negative draft decision for Zelboraf (vemurafenib) highlights challenges facing future value-based pricing implementation and UK access to medicines.Roche is extremely disappointed with the preliminary decision that NICE is not planning to recommend Zelboraf (vemurafenib) to be available on the NHS for the treatment of BRAF mutation positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma...
Near Real-Time Water Quality Testing
Date: Jun-19-2012Ongoing research by Mercyhurst University biologists intended to expand and expedite testing for potential pathogens in beach water at Presque Isle State Park has resulted in a new method that delivers near real-time water quality results. Mercyhurst biologist Dr. Steven Mauro, who has been instrumental in local beach water research the past five years, said the system is being piloted at Presque Isle this summer and represents a collaboration of Mercyhurst, Penn State Behrend, the Regional Science Consortium and Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources...
For Older Adults, Answer Isn't Always On The 'Tip Of The Tongue'
Date: Jun-19-2012Has your memory failed you today, such as struggling to recall a word that's "on the tip of your tongue?" If so, you're not alone. New University of Michigan research indicates that "tip-of-the-tongue" errors happen often to adults ages 65-92. In a study of 105 healthy, highly-educated older adults, 61 percent reported this memory mishap. The study's participants completed a checklist of the memory errors made in the last 24 hours, as well as several other tests...
Buried In Complicated Brain Networks In Primates Is The Manipulation Of A Specific Neural Circuit
Date: Jun-19-2012The collaborative research team led by Professor Tadashi ISA, Project Assistant Professor Masaharu KINOSHITA from The National Institute for Physiological Sciences, The National Institutes of Natural Sciences and Fukushima Medical University and Kyoto University, developed "the double viral vector transfection technique" which can deliver genes to a specific neural circuit by combining two new kinds of gene transfer vectors...
Patient Outcomes In Lung Cancer Resections Influenced By Hospital Volume And Surgeon Specialty
Date: Jun-19-2012In other studies, outcomes of specific surgeries has been shown to improve when performed at high-volume centralized centers. Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute wanted to understand if patients undergoing lung cancer resections would benefit from having their procedures performed in a high-volume specialized center. The study, published in the July 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, concluded that hospital volume and surgeon specialty are important factors in patient outcomes...
Revealing The Most Contaminated Surfaces In Hotel Rooms
Date: Jun-19-2012An experiment of surfaces in hotel rooms finds television remotes to be among the most heavily contaminated with bacteria and items on housekeeping carts carry the potential to cross-contaminate rooms. Researchers from the University of Houston reported the findings at the 2012 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. "Hoteliers have an obligation to provide their guests with a safe and secure environment. Currently, housekeeping practices vary across brands and properties with little or no standardization industry wide...
Improved Understanding Of Childhood Brain Tumors Should Lead To New Treatments
Date: Jun-19-2012Researchers at The University of Nottingham have identified three sets of genetic markers that could potentially pave the way for new diagnostic tools for a deadly type of brain tumour that mainly targets children. The study, published in the latest edition of the prestigious journal Lancet Oncology, was led by Professor Richard Grundy at the University's Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre and Dr Suzanne Miller, a post doctoral research fellow in the Centre. It focuses on a rare and aggressive cancer called Central Nervous System primitive neuro-ectodermal brain tumours...
Network Approach To Drug Design May Yield More Effective And Less Toxic Cancer Drugs
Date: Jun-19-2012A new approach to drug design, pioneered by a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Mt. Sinai, New York, promises to help identify future drugs to fight cancer and other diseases that will be more effective and have fewer side effects...
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