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Rapid tissue donation program offers feasible approach to improve research

13.12.2019 Health Problems

Precision medicine with targeted therapies has led to improved treatment options and patient outcomes. These approaches were developed by studying tumors grown in laboratories and patient samples obtained before and during their treatment. However, there is often a limited supply of patient samples to adequately study, and the samples that exist do not always tell the complete genetic story of […]

Promising findings for treating damaged heart valves

13.12.2019 Health Problems

Aortic valve calcification is a challenging condition for the health service and for the patients concerned. The only treatment currently available is surgery. Mariia Boganova recently defended her thesis which addresses the options available for future pharmacological treatment. Mechanisms behind the disease The Russian doctoral research fellow explains that her thesis first looks at the mechanisms behind the disease. She […]

Restoring arm, hand function after spinal cord injury focus of clinical trial

13.12.2019 Health Problems

Spinal cord injuries caused by accidents, violence and disease paralyze from the neck down more than 5,000 people every year. In the first few months after injury, some people regain some movement and sensation in their limbs. Those who do not show improvement in the first few months are unlikely to ever recover. Now, a team of researchers led by […]

Ebola cases sharply up in eastern DR Congo

12.12.2019 Health Problems

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twenty cases of Ebola have been recorded in three days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where deadly violence is hampering efforts to end the 16-month-old epidemic, the authorities said on Thursday. Ten cases were notified on Wednesday alone in Mabalako in North Kivu province, after six on Tuesday, according to the Multisectoral Committee for Epidemic […]

Potential new cancer treatment a step closer

12.12.2019 Health Problems

QIMR Berghofer researchers have discovered a potential new cancer immunotherapy target that involves switching off a regulatory cell to stop tumors growing and spreading. The study findings have been published today in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Senior researcher and head of QIMR Berghofer’s Cancer Immunoregulation and Immunotherapy Laboratory, Associate Professor Michele Teng, said […]

Veterans study suggest two sub-types of Gulf War illness

12.12.2019 Health Problems

Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups—an outcome that suggests a more complex illness that previously thought. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have shown the Gulf War Illness patients have one of two different of kinds of changes […]

The right mouse model is crucial for Huntington’s disease drug development

11.12.2019 Health Problems

Huntington’s disease (HD) is an incurable and fatal hereditary disease. Developing disease-modifying drugs to treat patients with HD depends on studying them in animal models. Scientists evaluated the mouse models used for developing new treatments for mood disorders in HD and recommended which of these models are most relevant to their studies. Their findings are published in the Journal of […]

As heat strikes, here’s one way to help fight disease-carrying and nuisance mosquitoes

11.12.2019 Health Problems

Mosquito-borne disease is a concern for health authorities around Australia. Each year, thousands fall ill to Ross River virus disease caused by mosquito bites. Tracking mosquito populations can help us respond to these threats, and new research suggests citizen scientists may be the key to doing this more effectively. Health authorities coordinate the surveillance of mosquitoes and their pathogens. These […]

Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables

10.12.2019 Health Problems

Neurons in the brain’s motor cortex previously thought of as active mainly during hand and arm movements also light up during speech in a way that is similar to patterns of brain activity linked to these movements, suggest new findings published today in eLife. By demonstrating that it is possible to identify different syllables or words from patterns of neural […]

American Samoa to begin mass measles vaccination this week

10.12.2019 Health Problems

Health officials in the U.S. territory of American Samoa say they will begin mass measles vaccinations later this week. At a meeting Sunday, officials said the vaccinations would be given for seven days starting Friday. There are nine confirmed cases of measles in the island territory. American Samoa Health Department Epidemiologist Dr. Aifili John Tufa says five of the island’s […]

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