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Parkinson's Risk Prediction From Colonic Tissue Samples
Date: May-29-2012Colonic tissue samples taken during flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy can be used to predict whether or not a patient will develop Parkinson's disease, researchers from Rush University Medical Center reported. The scientists reported findings from two studies in Movement Disorders. As background information, the authors explain that nearly 5 million people globally are affected with Parkinson's disease. This number is set to double over the next two decades. Alpha-synuclein, a protein, collects in the cells of Parkinson's patients...
Radioactive Tuna Migrated Into Californian Waters From Japan
Date: May-29-2012Pacific bluefin tuna which have migrated from Japan to California have been found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium from the Fukushima nuclear accident, researchers from Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific have reported in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences). Despite radiation contamination, levels so far detected are well below those considered hazardous for human health, the authors emphasized. The researchers have no doubt that the fish caught of the San Diego coast in 2011 were contaminated with radiation that originated from the nuclear disaster...
Free World Neuroscience Online Conference To Be Held On June 14-16, 2012
Date: May-29-2012Target Meeting is a leading online life science conference organizer. They specialize in organizing conferences, symposiums and workshops, which brings together the known researchers, professors and life science suppliers from across the world to debate over the latest developments in biomedical research. The 2012 World Neuroscience Online Conference scheduled to be held on June 14 - 16, 2012...
Aspirin May Guard Against Skin Cancer
Date: May-29-2012Aspirin and other commonly used painkillers may help guard against skin cancer, according to a new study about to be published online in the journal CANCER, that was led by researchers from Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Previous studies have already suggested that NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, and other prescription and over the counter drugs, can reduce people's risk of developing some cancers...
Managing Partnerships With CROs 2012, 3-4 October
Date: May-29-2012Drugs discovered today can realistically cost upwards of 900 million dollars and around 12 years of development to reach a market. CRO's have been increasingly used by larger pharma to outsource their clinical research, allowing big pharma to shut down in-house R&D, in practice saving money. There have been some issues however with the outsourcing of trials to CROs, including serious relationship break down with negative attitudes, failure to communicate between to the partners and some claiming CROs do not 'get in the spirit' of the research following only the letter of the contract...
3-D Test Bed For Human Diseases Provided By Engineered Microvessels
Date: May-29-2012Mice and monkeys don't develop diseases in the same way that humans do. Nevertheless, after medical researchers have studied human cells in a Petri dish, they have little choice but to move on to study mice and primates. This video shows blood pumping through an engineered microvessel stimulated with an agent that causes inflammation. Over time green clots form in the vessel, like they do in the human body...
Bone Loss May Be Detectable Earlier, NASA
Date: May-29-2012Scientists from NASA and Arizona State University (ASU) in the US have developed a new way of detecting bone loss that promises to be safer and capable of earlier diagnosis than current methods that rely on X-rays. They write about their work in a study due to published in PNAS this week. Osteoporosis, where loss of bone causes bones to grow weaker, threatens more than half of the over-50s in the US. Bone loss also occurs in the advanced stages of some types of cancer...
Health, Behavior And Identity Are The Focus Of Bisexuality Studies
Date: May-29-2012Bisexuality, often stigmatized, typically has been lumped with homosexuality in previous public health research. But when Indiana University scientists recently focused on the health issues and behaviors specific to behaviorally bisexual men and women, they found tremendous variety, and that commonly used labels, such as heterosexual and homosexual, can sometimes do more harm than good...
NSAIDs May Offer Protection Against Skin Cancer
Date: May-29-2012A new study suggests that aspirin and other similar painkillers may help protect against skin cancer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings indicate that skin cancer prevention may be added to the benefits of these commonly used medications. Previous studies suggest that taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, which include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, as well as a variety of other nonprescription and prescription drugs, can decrease an individual's risk of developing some types of cancer...
Kidney Failure In Type 2 Diabetes May Not Be Reduced By Aggressive Glucose Control
Date: May-29-2012Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that intensively controlling glucose (glycemic) levels in type-2 diabetes patients may not reduce the risk of kidney failure. The study, which is a review of data from seven clinical trials, is published in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. To test the hypothesis that aggressive glycemic control can prevent renal disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, first author Steven G...
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