Clinical Research

Decitabine Blood Cancer Drug Stops Spread Of Breast Cancer Cells In Animal Model

Decitabine, a drug used to treat blood cancers, may also stop the spread of invasive breast cancer. according to a study done in lab and animal models. Decitabine turns on a gene coding for protein kinase D1 (PRKD1) that halts the ability of cancer cells ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2013 - 9:50pm

Induced Hyposmia In Mosquitoes May Make Humans 'Invisible' To Them

Mosquitoes may seem like just a nuisance but they are more deadly to humans than any other animal. The Anopheles mosquito, for example, transmits malaria. Researchers are on the path to using  substances that occur naturally on human skin and block mosqui ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2013 - 2:33pm

Back Braces Work For Adolescents With Idiopathic Scoliosis

A multi-center study has determined that wearing back braces would prevent the need for spinal correction surgery in children with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS)- early results were overwhelmingly in favor of bracing. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2013 - 7:11am

Ethoxyquin: Dog Food Preservative May Prevent Chemotherapy Side Effect

Working with cells in vitro and in mice, researchers have discovered that an antioxidant called ethoxyquin, a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative, may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of five c ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2013 - 4:27pm

Everolimus Slows Disease Progression In Advanced Papillary Kidney Cancer Patients

The first Phase II study to investigate the use of the anti-cancer drug, everolimus, for the initial treatment of advanced papillary kidney cancer has shown that it is successful in slowing or preventing the spread of the disease, according to research to ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2013 - 11:39am

How MRSA Became Antibiotic Resistant

A new paper details how methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) regulates the critical crosslinking of its cell wall in the face of beta-lactam antibiotics, the mechanistic basis for how the MRSA bacterium became such a difficult pathogen over ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2013 - 9:23am

Clinical Trial Outcomes Are More Complete In Unpublished Reports

Grey literature in medicine has some valuable insight, according to a new paper. The authors say that clinical trial outcomes are more complete in unpublished reports than in publicly available information. The results found that publicly available inform ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 8:30am

Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency: No Link Between Venous Narrowing And Multiple Sclerosis

A study to see whether narrowing of the veins from the brain to the heart could be a cause of multiple sclerosis has found that the condition is just as prevalent in people without the disease. The results call into question a controversial theory that MS ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 12:24pm

Halting neurodegeneration in mice — a possible cure for Alzheimer's?

Discovery ‘could hold key to Alzheimer’s treatment’ ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 10 2013 - 2:29am

Progress: Diet And Lifestyle Advice For Diabetes 'No Different' Than General Public

A new paper suggests that lifestyle advice for people with diabetes should be no different from that for the general public- but diabetes may benefit more from that same advice.  In the study, the researchers investigated whether the associations between ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 6:30am