Clinical Research

Do Saturated Fats Really Cause Heart Disease?

An international collaboration recently analyzed existing cohort studies and randomized trials on coronary risk and fatty acid intake and drew a conclusion that will surprise you if you only get your science and health news from mainstream newspapers or t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 5:37pm

Why Vitamin D Could Prevent Autism

Researchers have noticed a link between Vitamin D and ASD for years. A new study explains how a lack of the vitamin could lead to problems in fetal and neonatal brain development, creating the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.   Rhonda Patrick and Bru ...

Blog Post - Susan Kuchinskas - Mar 18 2014 - 9:44am

Blood Glucose Doesn't Predict Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease

It's hard to find an article on food or metabolism that doesn't imply it has implications for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD) or diabetes. Because higher glucose levels have been associated with higher CVD incidence, it has been proposed ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 7:26pm

Vaccination Changes Body Odor

Body odor can convey a lot of personal information, according to new research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which reveals that immunization can trigger a distinct change in body odor. This is the firs ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 11:20pm

New: Better Tissue Trauma Repair Than Grafts And Synthetic Material

A breakthrough could speed recovery and limit disfigurement for patients who have suffered large soft tissue trauma, as occurs with serious injury or cancer surgery.   By biomedically engineering a muscle flap that includes a patient's own blood vesse ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 3:30am

Lab-Grown Vaginas Implanted In 4 Young Patients

A report in The Lancet describes the first instance of human recipients receiving laboratory-grown vaginal organs. The research team describes long-term success in four teenage girls who received the vaginal organs, engineered with their own cells. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 11:38pm

5 Patients Get Nose Reconstruction With Cartilage Grown From Their Own Cells

The first ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory has been done by the University of Basel. The details are upcoming in The Lancet. The cartilage cells were extracted from the patient's nasal septum, multip ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 11:44pm

Fialuridine Redux: New Mouse Model Would Have Predicted Fatal Outcome In Human Clinical Trial

In 1993, five people died in a clinical trial of fialuridine, a nucleoside analogue to treat hepatitis B virus infection. An analysis by the US National Academy of Sciences of all preclinical fialuridine toxicity tests, which included studies in mice, rat ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 7:00pm

XBiotech Announces Phase I/II Study Results Of Xilonix Anti-tumor Therapy

XBiotech, a company involved in commercializing biological therapies, has published the results from its Phase I/II oncology study conducted at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The study describes the outcome in 52 advanced cancer patients treated wit ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2014 - 9:11pm

ActiPatch- Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial Significantly Relieves Knee Pain

Preliminary results of a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial on osteoarthritis of the knee using ActiPatch Therapy have been announced. BioElectronics Corporation says the initial interim analysis showed statistically significant results for ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 10:01am