Clinical Research

Smoking Linked To Adverse Neurosurgical Outcomes

Long-term cigarette smoking impacts morbidity and mortality, no question about that, but there may be a good reason to stop smoking in the weeks before surgery even if you don't intend to quit overall.  In a review article, researchers from the Unive ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2013 - 10:52am

Top-Line Results From ASSURE Clinical Trial

Resverlogix Corp. has announced that its Phase 2b ASSURE clinical trial evaluating RVX-208 in high-risk cardiovascular patients with low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) did not meet its primary endpoint of a-0.6% change in percent atheroma volume as determi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2013 - 12:18pm

Positive Results Of 3002 Study: LCP-Tacro

Veloxis Pharmaceuticals announced that LCP-Tacro successfully demonstrated non-inferiority compared to tacrolimus (Prograf®; Astellas Pharma) in its Phase III clinical trial, Study 3002. The Phase III randomized, double-blind and double-dummy study in 543 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 7:46pm

Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome: Lentivirus Gene Therapy Helps 3 Kids

An international team that developed a new gene therapy approach to treatment of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a fatal inherited form of immunodeficiency has reported results. Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome is a disorder that weakens the body's immune system. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 5:33pm

Interspecies Transplant Works- Without Immunosuppressive Drugs

At some point it would be ideal for animal-to-human transplants of insulin-producing cells for people with type 1 diabetes, such as from pigs, but first there must be baby steps. Or in this case, mouse steps. Scientists have successfully transplanted isle ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2013 - 1:06pm

SLC26A4 Gene Fix Leads To Restoration Of Hearing And Balance

A research project at Kansas State University has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance. More than 28 million people in the United States suffer some form of hearing loss and mutation of the SLC26A4 gene, normally found in the cochlea and ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2013 - 1:00pm

'Artificial Bones' Generated From Adult Stem Cells In Umbilical Cord Blood Gets A Patent

A new biomaterial that facilitates generating bone tissue- artificial bones, in their words- from umbilical cord stem cells has gotten a patent for researchers in Granada, Spain. The material is an activated carbon cloth support for cells that differentia ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2013 - 12:28pm

Acupuncture To Improve In Vitro Fertilization: Mixed Results

Acupuncture to improve fertility rates?  The University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine says that acupuncture, when used as a complementary or adjuvant therapy for in vitro fertilization, may be beneficial  - depending on the baseline pregnancy ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2013 - 12:27pm

Natural Killer Cells: More Are Not Always Better

Natural killer cells (NK cells) are part of our innate immune system. As they first line of defense, researchers agree that the body needs as many active NK cells as possible. But, as is often the case, there can be too much of a good thing and researcher ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2013 - 10:33am

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells From Urine Used To Create Human Tooth

Researchers writing in Cell Regeneration report that they used induced pluripotent stem cells from urine to create a human tooth structure. The integration-free human urine induced pluripotent stem cells were differentiated to epithelial sheets (from the G ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 2 2013 - 9:56am