Health & Medicine : Science World Report

Mar 13, 2012 09:04 AM EDT

Trudeau Institute Announces Latest Discovery

New research from the Trudeau Institute addresses how the human body controls gamma-herpesviruses, a class of viruses thought to cause a variety of cancers. The study, carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Marcia Blackman, awaits publication in The Journal of Immunology. Led by postdoctoral fellow Mi...

Mar 13, 2012 08:51 AM EDT

Network Approach Improves Outcomes in IBD Despite Lack of New Treatment Options

Many children with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis who received treatment through ImproveCareNow, a national quality improvement and research network, ceased to have symptoms and no longer needed to take steroids for disease management. These are the findings from a study appearing in Pediatr...

Mar 13, 2012 08:01 AM EDT

Chicago Hospital Doctors Say iPads Raise Their Efficiency

When doctors-in-training at the University of Chicago were given iPad tablet computers to use on their rounds, they found that using the device helped them be more efficient at ordering tests and procedures for their patients.

Mar 13, 2012 07:51 AM EDT

Analysis: India Patent Ruling may Open Door for Cheaper HIV Drugs

India's move to strip German drugmaker Bayer of its exclusive rights to a cancer drug has set a precedent that could extend to other treatments, including modern HIV/AIDS drugs, in a major blow to global pharmaceutical firms, experts say.

Mar 12, 2012 01:05 PM EDT

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Public Health

An editorial to be published by the scientific journal Addiction has been made available online, revealing that negotiations are underway behind closed doors for a far-reaching new trade and investment agreement that could tie the hands of governments' future alcohol and tobacco control policies in ...

Mar 12, 2012 11:35 AM EDT

Powerful Treatment Provides Effective Relief for Urinary Incontinence -- New Study

The biggest study into the treatment of urinary incontinence with botulinum toxin (trade name Botox) has demonstrated that it is effective in treating overactive bladder (OAB) - a debilitating common condition which can affect up to 20% of people over the age of 40.

Mar 12, 2012 11:02 AM EDT

Sending out an SOS: How Telomeres Incriminate Cells That can't Divide

The well-being of living cells requires specialized squads of proteins that maintain order. Degraders chew up worn-out proteins, recyclers wrap up damaged organelles, and-most importantly-DNA repair crews restitch anything that resembles a broken chromosome. If repair is impossible, the crew foreman...

Mar 12, 2012 10:53 AM EDT

Researchers Discover Mechanism in Cells that Leads to Inflammatory Diseases

Cedars-Sinai researchers have unlocked the mystery of how an inflammatory molecule is produced in the body, a discovery they say could lead to advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, Type 2 diabetes and numerous other chronic diseases that affect tens of millions of people. The study, ...

Mar 12, 2012 10:43 AM EDT

More Children Now Living with 'Life-limiting' Conditions

The number of children with conditions such as muscular dystrophy, neurodegenerative disorders or severe cerebral palsy who are surviving into adulthood has been underestimated, a new study shows.

Mar 12, 2012 09:41 AM EDT

Discovery Could Reduce Chemo's Side Effects

A team of researchers at Duke University has determined the structure of a key molecule that can carry chemotherapy and anti-viral drugs into cells, which could help to create more effective drugs with fewer effects to healthy tissue.

Mar 12, 2012 07:52 AM EDT

Circumcision may Help Protect Against Prostate Cancer

A new analysis led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that circumcision before a male's first sexual intercourse may help protect against prostate cancer. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that...

Mar 12, 2012 07:28 AM EDT

Protein Discovery could Switch off Cardiovascular Disease

Researchers from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Surrey have found a protein inside blood vessels with an ability to protect the body from substances which cause cardiovascular disease.