(University of California - San Diego) Molecules of sugar sitting on the surface of cancer cells are keys to the development of a new vaccine aimed at both treating and stopping the spread of certain types of cancers called carcinomas, which include prostate, breast, ovarian and lung, among others.
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(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) New cells are born every day in the brain’s hippocampus, but what controls this birth has remained a mystery. Reporting in the Jan. 1 issue of Science, neuroscientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered that the birth of new cells, which depends on brain activity, also depends [...]
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(University of Alabama at Birmingham) A new report underscores the notion that stroke risks go beyond geographic and racial differences. University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Vermont researchers report in the Annals of Neurology that non-traditional risk factors must explain the South’s higher stroke death rate. What those factors are need further [...]
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ATLANTA (MedPage Today) — A decade after the 1998 federal mandate to fortify the food supply with folate, the spina bifida rate in the U.S. continues to decline, according to the CDC.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Tom Daschle, picked by President-elect Barack Obama to be Health and Human Services secretary, said medical trainees should have school loans forgiven and receive other incentives to choose careers in primary care.
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(St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated a more effective treatment for bacterial pneumonia following influenza. They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria by inhibiting their protein synthesis, are more effective than a standard first-line treatment with the “beta-lactam” antibiotic ampicillin, which causes the [...]
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(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Researchers have uncovered why some dietary fats, specifically long-chain fats, such as oleic acid (found in olive oil), are more prone to induce inflammation. Long-chain fats, it turns out, promote increased intestinal absorption of pro-inflammatory bacterial molecules called lipopolysaccharides.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Only 26 of more than 3,300 hospitals in a new federal program on outpatient quality data reporting will be penalized for inadequate submissions in 2008.
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(Northwestern University) Northwestern University and Baxter Healthcare Corporation will create a multidisciplinary research and innovation alliance, the two entities announced today. Under the three-year renewable agreement, Baxter will fund research-collaboration projects at Northwestern. Funding levels for each year may reach approximately $1 million, and Baxter will determine specific project funding levels on a case-by-case basis.
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(McGill University) Researchers at McGill University, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center and the McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Center, along with colleagues at other Canadian and Belgian institutions, have discovered DNA variations in a gene that increases susceptibility to developing Crohn’s disease. Their study was published in the January issue [...]
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