Clinical Research

Is IVF Safe? A Review Of Current Evidence

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is quite common these days, with over 4 million children born following IVF treatments worldwide and it is generally regarded as a safe technique, but some scientific reports have noted an increased rate of problems following I ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2010 - 2:03pm

People With Depression And Heart Disease Have 5X Greater Risk Of Death

A new study in Heart says a combination of depression and heart disease is far more lethal than either one of those condition alone. Depressed people are more likely to die from all causes so it's difficult to narrow down whether or not depressed peop ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2010 - 4:21pm

Proteoglycans- The Achilles Heel Of Tendons

Tendons connect bones to muscles so if you want to run during a football game or fight a Trojan War, they are important.   If you didn't understand the clever pun in the title, the only vulnerability of Achilles was his calcaneal tendon (tendo calcane ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2011 - 7:44pm

Thermal Grill Illusion Shows How Clenching Your Hand Cools Pain

If you get an injury, you might clench your hand.  It turns out there is a brain-related reason for that,  namely a somatosensory body one.   Perception and multisensory interactions at the spinal level. A new report in Current Biology says 'self-touc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2010 - 12:34pm

Nitric Oxide Study May Mean A Nutritional Treatment For Metabolic Syndrome

A new study says sodium nitrate, like you get if you eat plenty of vegetables, reverses features of metabolic syndrome in mice.    Metabolic syndrome is the list of risk factors of metabolic origin that increase likelihood of getting cardiovascular disease ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2010 - 4:51pm

Literal Heartbreak- The Cardiovascular Impact Of Rejection

Social rejection isn't just emotionally unsettling, it can also impact your heart in a literal sense, according to a new study which finds that being romantically rejected makes your heart rate drop for a moment.  Bregtje Gunther Moor, Eveline A. Cron ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2010 - 1:27pm

Father Of The Test Tube Baby Robert G. Edwards Wins 2010 Nobel Prize In Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010 was awarded to Robert G. Edwards "for the development of in vitro fertilization". Their reasoning seemed to be partly cultural- that Edwards battled societal and establishment resistance to his devel ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2010 - 3:32pm

Ultrasound Can Speed Healing Of Fractures

Ultrasound can speed the healing of fractures, according to results of a randomized, controlled trial published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. The researchers found that the use of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) in patients with tibial fracture ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2010 - 3:01pm

His Story (or History) of Drug Discovery

This is a story of Drugs, its HisStory. Drug discovery is a result of humans seeking a solution for life threatening diseases that existed in the 19th century. Drug Discovery started as an offset of chemistry and has now become an interdisciplinary scienc ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Oct 16 2010 - 5:40am

Nobel for Development of IVF

In 1978, Louise Joy Brown was the first child to be Born through In vitro Fertilization (IVF). In 2010, Dr. Robert G. Edwards was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine for his ground breaking work in the development of IVF. The Problem: 10% of the ...

Blog Post - Anirudha Lakshmin... - Oct 17 2010 - 9:17am