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Nanotechnology: A New Avenue to Fight Cancer
Paris-based Nanobiotix is a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company that is spearheading efforts to harness physics rather than biology, as a way to destroy cancer cells. Founded in 2003 by CEO Laurent Levy, Ph.D., as a spin-off the State University of New...
Why We Need a Culture of International Collaboration to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance poses one of the biggest threats to public health faced in modern times. If left unchecked, it’s thought that by 2050 the global number of deaths from antimicrobial resistance may be as high as 10 million per year –...
FDA Grants 23andMe Authorization for Genetic Risk Tests for 10 Diseases
The first authorization for genetic risk tests for the disease was issued to 23andMe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. The 10 conditions are all heavily determined by DNA variants – and the company has demonstrated the ability to...
Bio-sensing Contact Lens Could Someday Measure Blood Glucose, Other Bodily Functions
Transparent biosensors embedded into contact lenses could soon allow doctors and patients to monitor blood glucose levels and a host of other telltale signs of disease without invasive tests. Scientists say the bio-sensing lenses, based on technology that led to the...
New Finding Could Lead to Earlier Liver Cancer Diagnosis
In many parts of the world, including Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, exposure to a fungal product called aflatoxin is believed to cause up to 80 percent of liver cancer cases. This fungus is often found in corn, peanuts, and other...
Music, an Effective Tool for Relief of Chronic Osteoarthritis Pain in Elders
A research published in 2003 showed that listening to music is an effective way to relief osteoarthritis pain in elders. The purpose of the clinical trial was to examine the influence of music as a nursing intervention on osteoarthritis pain in...
Brain-aging Gene Discovered
University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have discovered a common genetic variant that greatly impacts normal brain aging, starting at around age 65, and may modify the risk for neurodegenerative diseases. The findings could point toward a novel biomarker for the evaluation...
Light Scattering Spectroscopy Identifies Early Pancreatic Cancer with 95% Accuracy
A new light-scattering tool is able to detect structural changes happening in pre-cancerous or cancerous pancreatic lesions, through a highly accurate, minimally-invasive method. Typically, pancreatic cancer survival rates are very low due to a lack of diagnostic tools that can catch...
Prevalence of Doctor-Diagnosed Arthritis and Arthritis-Attributable Effects Among Hispanic Adults, by Hispanic Subgroup
Arthritis affects approximately 50 million adults in the United States, making it one of the most prevalent health conditions among U.S. adults and the most common cause of disability. Arthritis is associated with substantial activity limitation, work disability, increased prevalence of...
Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Provides New Insights on Risk Factors, Identification Tools, Intervention
Rheumatoid Arthritis Research Established wisdom holds that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) will fare better if their disease is diagnosed as early as possible, and treatments with disease-modifying drugs are started before inflammation can do more damage to joints and tissue....
Probiotic Found in Yogurt Can Reverse Depression Symptoms, Study Finds
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have reversed depression symptoms in mice by feeding them Lactobacillus, a probiotic bacteria found in live-cultures yogurt. Further, they have discovered a specific mechanism for how the bacteria affect mood, providing a...
Disease Trends in Hispanic RA Patients in the U.S.
Hispanic rheumatoid arthritis patients Hispanics are the most robustly growing segment of the U.S. population. Research has not explored longitudinal trends in functional disability in Hispanic patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, when compared with the general RA population in the...