Clinical Research

Trainers = Wreckers?

One of the things I used to enjoy as a youngster was Dundee Cake, a famous traditional Scottish fruit cake with a rich flavour. Not long ago, one of the reporters on The One Show went up to Bonny Dundee to be put through his paces by Professor Rami Abboud ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 26 2011 - 3:39pm

Improving Gene Therapy For Cancer And Heart Disease

In gene therapy, one or more desired genes are introduced into an adenovirus, a virus that causes the common cold, which is then administered to the patient. Once in the body, the virus enters targeted cells and delivers the desired genes. In heart diseas ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2011 - 2:30pm

Y chromosome, female, & fertility are compatible: an example found from a new Akodon discovery

A big puzzle has been solved with regard to fertile XY female Akodon. There are 3 types of X chromosomes noted amongst these XY fertile female Akodon. One type of altered X chromosome results in XY Akodon becoming female. http://www.sciencedirect.com/scie ...

Blog Post - M Italiano - Oct 24 2011 - 1:34am

Does Yoga Help With Back Pain?

Does yoga help with chronic back pain?  Yes it does, but so does stretching.  Either is better than handing people a book, according to the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga to date.  In the trial, 228 adults in six cities in western Washin ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2011 - 4:02am

Mass Murder In Mississippi??

On Nov. 8th, Mississippi will vote on a proposed 'personhood' constitutional amendment that will outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories. The amendment has been endorsed by both gubernatorial candidates and appears likely to pas ...

Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Oct 27 2011 - 5:47pm

AP-1 Protein Causes Varicose Veins

Varices, commonly called varicose veins, are a cosmetic problem if they occur as spider veins but in their advanced stage they pose a real health threat. In those patients, the blood is no longer transported to the heart unhindered but instead pools in th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2014 - 9:01am

AB Blood Type And Infant Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Premature infants suffer a life-threatening destruction of intestinal tissue called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) have gotten a new data point for researchers to examine: Preemies with the AB blood type who develop NEC are nearly three times as likely to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 27 2011 - 8:02am

Solving Insomnia Without Drugs

BMC Neurology has published the results of the HYPNOS I clinical trial demonstrating the sedative action of the Cefaly medical device (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22035386). The results show, in a statistically highly significant manner using four ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2011 - 10:42am

Full Face Transplantation: The Process Behind It

In March 2011, a surgical team at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) performed the first full face transplantation (FFT) in the United States and went on to complete a total of three FFTs this year. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, res ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2011 - 8:00am

Alcohol For A Longer Life?

Forget starving yourself or kooky ideas like a lettuce diet for increased longevity- the answer to living longer may be found in a bottle of alcohol.  Minuscule amounts of ethanol, the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, has been shown to more th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2012 - 3:36pm