A new "research impact ranking" provides a more objective approach to assessing and comparing research productivity at US orthopedic departments, according to a study in the November Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma (JOT), published by Wolters Kluwer.
The FDA said in a news release that after safety labeling changes are made, opioid contatining products will no longer be indicated for use to treat cough in any pediatric population and will be labeled for use only in adults aged 18 years and older.
German scientists have developed a novel nuclear medicine test that can determine whether a kidney transplant patient has developed the infection in the transplanted tissue. The study, which utilizes positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI), is presented in the The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
The Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN) is including Patient Voice editorials that will accompany certain journal articles in an effort to provide patients the opportunity to share practical health consumer perspectives.
According to JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery, in patients with chronically discharging open mastoid cavities, typing of the cavity coverage could be important for treatment expectations.
Researchers from the Quadram Institute have identified genes encoding a previously undiscovered version of the botulinum neurotoxin in bacteria from a cow's gut. This is the first time that an intact cluster of genes for making botulinum neurotoxin has been found outside of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum or its close relatives, and only the second report of a new botulinum toxin in the past 40 years.
The researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital, Finland, and the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden said that the bacteria that cause periodontitis, a disease affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth, seems to play a part also in the onset of pancreatic cancer. The study findings were published in the British Journal of Cancer
According to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, asthma costs the U.S. economy more than $80 billion annually in medical expenses, missed work and school days and deaths.
In a new research published in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, scientists have identified four biomarkers that could help doctors diagnose brain trauma and concussions through a simple blood test. The biomarkers are proteins, from brain cells called astrocytes, which are released instantly into the bloodstream when astrocytes' outer membranes rupture from blunt impact or whiplash trauma.
Caltech researchers have developed a method to easily see neural connections and the flow of communications in real time within living flies. The work is a step forward toward creating a map of the entire fly brain's many connections, which could help scientists understand the neural circuits within human brains as well. The study is published in the journal eLife.
The procedure, called deep brain stimulation ( DBS ), improved tic severity by nearly half in 171 patients with uncontrolled Tourette symptoms at 31 hospitals in 10 countries. Senior researcher Dr. Michael Okun, said, "To get that much improvement in these symptoms is difficult when using medication or behavioral therapy ."
In a new study published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists have developed a material-based T-cell-expansion method using APC-mimetic biomaterial scaffolds, which helps achieve greater expansion of primary mouse and human T cells than existing methods.