Clinical Research

Tako-Tsubo: Can We Diagnose And Treat True Heartbreak?

In 2003, Rollin McCraty, the Director of Research at the Institute of HeartMath in Boulder Creek, California, published an e-book called The Energetic Heart: Bioelectromagnetic Interactions Within and Between People. In it he explains his research on an el ...

Article - Christie Sosa - Apr 25 2011 - 11:47pm

Hizentra(R), The First 20 Percent Subcutaneous Human Immunoglobulin For Treatment Of Primary And Secondary Immunodeficiencies

BERN, Switzerland, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- CSL Behring announced today that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Hizentra(R) (Human Normal Immunoglobulin), 20 percent solution for subcutaneous injection, for treating patie ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 25 2011 - 10:24am

Can Older Diabetics Relax About Their HbA1c?

If you’ve been managing type 2 diabetes for a while, you know that current advice is to maintain your glucose levels at 7 percent or less, as this is where blood glucose levels are for non-diabetics. A large observational trial published online this week, ...

Blog Post - Ryan Luce - Apr 28 2011 - 1:30pm

ERBB4 Gene Associated With Congenital Heart Defects

What helps can sometimes hurt.     ERBB4, a gene known to be important in cardiac development, has been associated with congenital heart malformations that result in obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract.  Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2011 - 12:08pm

Clinical Research: A Road Towards New drug Arrival

Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research  conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions  and adverse effects of other treatments and safety and efficacy  data to be collected for health interv ...

Blog Post - Ebin Abraham - May 17 2011 - 9:57am

HPV vaccine: Drastic unethical trial

The question whether all human clinical trials undertaken in India are conducted ethically has been answered. The final report of the three-member committee appointed by the central government to go into the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the hu ...

Blog Post - Ebin Abraham - May 17 2011 - 9:56am

Stress Does Not Increase Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis

A new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS).  Researchers studied two groups of women nurses from the Nurses' Health Study. The first group of 121,700 nurses between the ages of ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2011 - 10:34pm

Can Systems Biology Help In The Fight Against Malaria, HIV And Tuberculosis?

The three conditions mentioned in the title, malaria, HIV and tuberculosis, are responsible for about 5 million deaths per year and thus constitute some of the most compelling challenges in biomedical research. Slowly but surely, new knowledge is being ga ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jun 7 2011 - 9:36am

Xenotransplantation- Growing Pig Organs To Use In Humans

Growing human, perfectly matching organs inside a pig and then transplanting them into humans is not a new idea- it may revolutionize medicine- but a new discovery may also allow pig tissue to be transplanted directly into humans. The research in the Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2011 - 9:52am

Are Balanced Nutrition Campaigns Leading To More Obesity?

Habituation is when people lose interest in something after being repeatedly exposed to it (insert your favorite joke about being married here). When it comes to diet, it is hypothesized that habituation can decrease caloric intake.    That also means calo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2011 - 12:09pm