Scientists at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovered a technique to make pancreatic cancer cells reliant on one energy source and then starve them of it; a finding that has led to clinical studies of a novel treatment strategy for one of the deadliest cancers. Published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers…
Although overall salaries for emergency physicians have increased over the past four years; and despite a call to end gender disparities in salary, men still make 18% more than women; and a $12,000 gender salary gap remains essentially unchanged. That is the finding of a study to be published in a March 2019 special issue…
DNA is small. Really, really, small. So, when researchers want to study the structure of a single stranded DNA, they can’t just pull out their microscopes: they have to get creative. In a study published this week in Scientific Reports, researchers from Japan’s Osaka University explain how they came up with a really small solution to…
Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood and pulse pressures, obesity and diabetes, are linked to less healthy brains, according to research published in the European Heart Journal. The study examined the associations between seven vascular risk factors and differences in the structures of parts of the brain. The…
While the high cost of prescription drug prices seems to be a universally agreed-upon trouble spot; in the American health system, a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing Thursday showed that Democrats and Republicans; but are still miles apart on what to do about it. The hearing, focused on using Medicare to encourage affordability, competition…
More than 30 years ago, scientists discovered that neurological illnesses such as mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases are caused by misfolded proteins called prions. But in recent years, Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, MD, demonstrated in mice that some prions are beneficial and serve important biological functions in the brain and body. And today, new Columbia…
Robotic surgery for prostate cancer an increasingly popular treatment option is not proven as more effective, yet many patients believe that it is, a new UNSW and Ingham Institute study shows. An Australian-first study by a team at UNSW Medicine, the Ingham Institute and South Western Sydney Local Health District has shown that prostate cancer patients mistakenly…
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is manifested by a range of digestive problems such as pain, bloating, constipation or diarrhea. It is estimated that 10 – 20% of the Western population is affected by it. Often a diet or probiotics are prescribe to treat it but gut-directed hypnotherapy also alleviates symptoms. There are a lot of…
The need to move ill or injured patients from one location to another by air is not a new concept. Injured soldiers among the first patients in history to transport by air to a medical facility; beginning with the use of hot air balloons in 1784. Since fixed-wing aircraft was developed in 1903; the use…
Working your triceps might not always be top of mind, but toning the muscles that run along the backs of your upper arms is key to the smooth functioning of your elbows and to also give bare arms a sleeker look. For a study sponsored by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), scientists from the…
Dr Paulo Rocha from the University of Bath’s Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering is developing a low-cost integrative sensing tool for early detection of Dengue virus, using a novel platform containing electrical sensors to investigate the behavior of human cells infected with Dengue virus.When someone is infected by the Dengue virus it produces proteins,…
Osteogenic differentiation is a sophisticated and tightly regulated biological process. In response to specific stimuli, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) differentiate into osteoblasts; the bone-forming cells, through a multistep process characterized by four major phases: commitment toward the osteogenic lineage, osteoprogenitor cells proliferation; osteoblast maturation, and bone matrix mineralization. Induction of the differentiation process and progression…