In this study, researcher’s evaluation gave nearly a quarter of patients with chronic ischaemic cardiovascular disease are dead or hospitalised within six months. This study has been published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
UConn engineers have created a biodegradable pressure sensor that could help doctors monitor chronic lung disease, swelling of the brain, and other medical conditions before dissolving harmlessly in a patient's body. The UConn research is featured in the current online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Study from the University of Illinois and Mayo collaboration has proved a novel gene expression analysis technique that can accurately measure levels of RNA quickly and directly from a cancerous tissue sample while conserving the spatial information across the tissue. The study published in the Nature Communications.
The addition of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to interval cytoreductive surgery prolonged recurrence-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) without increasing toxicity among patients with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer, according to randomized open-label phase 3 study results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers from the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, they revealed that there are some 42 million protein molecules in a simple cell. Analyzing data from almost two dozen large studies of protein abundance in yeast cells, the team could produce for the first-time reliable estimates for the number of molecules for each protein. The study published in the journal Cell Systems.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have identified a new therapeutic target for the treatment of melanoma. For years, research has related female sex and a history of previous pregnancy with better outcomes after a melanoma diagnosis. The study published in the journal eLife today.
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH), Harvard University and the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), has used ancient DNA and a new data processing program to identify the possible cause of a colonial-era epidemic in Mexico. This study is published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
New research, conducted by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, highlights the need for long-term rehabilitation of Ebola survivors after almost 80% of those interviewed were found to have major limitations in mobility, cognition, and vision.
In a study published in the scientific journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, researchers have shown an improved tactic for delivering new genes into the drain, called the trabecular meshwork.
Patients are asking the doctor to prescribe good drugs after Sri Lanka slapped price controls, slashing the prices of many branded drugs, pushing up pharmacy revenues by 30%, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said.
Italian researches have demonstrated a better way of determining the aggressiveness of tumors in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The study was published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, researchers used 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT imaging to show that the amount of cell-free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the body).