Sentences with phrase «new type of medicine»

The technology could provide a path toward a new type of medicine that allows physicians to treat diseases with electronics rather than drugs.

Wymer: The health care sector has not kept up with information technology over the past year, but I think that new types of medicine, often coupled with new diagnostic techniques, have the potential to extend lives.

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«Elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks definitely have some increased morbidity,» says Abdulla Al - Khan, MD, the director and chief of maternal and fetal medicine and surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey Other factors such as type of delivery and reason for early term delivery also affect these risks, he says.

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral concurrent session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York, will present their findings in a study titled, Comparison of subcuticular suture type in post-cesarean wound complications: a randomized controlled trial.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified a mutation in a fat - storage gene that appears to increase the risk for type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders, according to a study published online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a trigger of recurrent UTI infections: a type of vaginal bacteria that moves into the urinary tract.

In a paper published in the May 5 online issue of The Oncologist, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center detail their experience evaluating 34 patients between December 2012 and June 2013 using a molecular tumor board — a new type of advisory group comprised of multidisciplinary experts, including those in the fields of tumor genetics, basic science and bioinformatics.

The findings, described in the May 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, may eventually help scientists develop molecular tests to distinguish between aggressive and clinically «indolent,» or non-aggressive, types of endometriosis.

In some 3000 elderly people, Nir Barzilai of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and his colleagues plan to conduct a trial in which half the subjects would get a placebo and half would get an old (indeed, ancient) drug for type 2 diabetes called metformin, which has been shown to modify aging in some animal studies.

A link between diabetes and statins wasn't discovered until a 2008 analysis of almost 18,000 people published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that 216 people taking a placebo developed type 2 diabetes while 270 taking a statin did.

A one - time intravenous infusion of the high dose of gene therapy extended the survival of patients with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1) in a Phase 1 clinical trial, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have shown the large potential impact of a completely new type of antimalarial drug that kills mosquitoes, as opposed to existing drugs that target the parasite, to reduce the spread of malaria.

The drugs were thought to produce those effects through distinct molecular pathways, but according to a new study led by scientists at Temple University School of Medicine, both types of drugs may help the failing heart by counteracting the effects of an enzyme known as GRK2.

Higher levels of leisure - time physical activity were associated with lower risks for 13 types of cancers, according to a new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

A new type of cancer vaccine has yielded promising results in an initial clinical trial conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

New research led by Li Ding, Ph.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, shows that current approaches to genome analysis systematically miss detecting a certain type of complex mutation in cancer patients» tumors.

Probing the link between adiponectin deficiency and metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City injected adiponectin into wild - type mice, diabetic mice, and obese diabetic mice.

The latest weapons in modern medicine's arsenal are two new vaccines that were recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for preventing this type of cancer altogether.

Their findings suggest a profound association between oral microbe and gut ecosystem, which provides new insights into microbiome research, and advance development of a novel type of medicine in therapeutics of chronic inflammatory diseases.

A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine, based on a 6 - month clinical trial, finds that use of a CGM is cost - effective for adult patients with type 1 diabetes when compared to daily use of test strips.

Prof Sharon Peacock, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings suggest that the emergence of new types of E. coli is not uncommon, and is necessarily followed by successful competition with other types to become a dominant cause of infection in humans.

In a new systematic review appearing this week in PLOS Medicine, Meghan Bohren and colleagues of the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research, including HRP, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence to form a clearer picture of the extent and types of mistreatment that occurs during childbirth in health facilities.

Genetically modified «hunter» T cells successfully migrated to and penetrated a deadly type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma (GBM) in a clinical trial of the new therapy, but the cells triggered an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and faced a complex mutational landscape that will need to be overcome to better treat this aggressive cancer, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study this week in Science Translational Medicine.

The findings, which can be read in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, provide new insights on how certain types of lymphomas form.

New technology helped the researchers identify a type of E. coli bacteria found in people with Crohn's disease that can trigger inflammation associated with spondyloarthritis, according to the study led by principal investigator Dr. Randy Longman and scientists from the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at NewYork - Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine and the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell Medicine, microbiologists at Cornell University and rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery.

«The data are impressive and may have opened a new field of investigation in metabolic function and type 2 diabetes,» said Dr. Samuel Klein, chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science at the Washington University School of Medicine Diabetes Research Center.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) in Washington, D.C., yesterday held the first public meeting of a new committee of academic and industry researchers, tasked with forecasting what biotechnologies will emerge in the next 5 to 10 years, and what new types of risk they might pose to the environment or human health.

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

Depending upon the type of medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and medicine and where you live, the threat of falsified medications (also referred to as counterfeit, fraudulent, and substandard) can be quite real, yet the full scope and prevalence of the problem is poorly understood, say researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Medicine in a new report published April 20 in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Medicine and Hygiene.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

In the lifestyle modification group, however, even individuals with two copies of the variant were no more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than participants without the variant, the team reports 20 July in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The specific type of cells the researchers in the new Nature Medicine paper looked at, and identified as giving rise to suPAR, are bone marrow GR - 1lo, Sca1 + immature myeloid cells.

University of Calgary researchers Raylene Reimer, professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, and PhD student Heather Paul, in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate program in the Cumming School of Medicine, have published a new animal study that describes how a special type of dietary fibre known as prebiotic impacts the gut microbiota and may be one factor in reducing obesity in mom and baby.

In their new study, co-corresponding authors Wei Wang, PhD, professor in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Gary S. Firestein, MD, professor in the Department of Medicine, investigated epigenetic patterns in fibroblast - like synoviocytes (FLS)-- a specialized type of cell that lines the inside of joints.

The latest data from a large clinical trial of Merck's cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, found it offered 100 % protection against cervical, vulval and vaginal diseases, caused by HPV (types 6, 11, 16 and 18) and 98 % protection against advanced pre-cancers caused by HPV types 16 and 18 (New England Journal of Medicine: vol 356, p1915).

While legal abortions in the U.S. are safe, the likelihood that women will receive the type of abortion services that best meet their needs varies considerably depending on where they live, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Baltimore, Md. (Embargoed until 12:30 pm EDT on Monday, June 8)-- A relatively new biomarker called prostate - specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is the bullseye for three new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) agents that bind to the protein in not only prostate cancer, but a range of tumor types, according to research unveiled at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

The study, published online today by The New England Journal of Medicine and scheduled for the Nov. 26 print edition, also shows that anti-coagulant medications such as Warfarin quickly resolve the clotting issue for all patients, regardless of the type of valve or procedure.

In the journal PLOS Medicine, David Healy, now at Bangor University in Wales, argued that these types of ads «reach beyond those suffering from a mood disorder to others who will as a consequence be more likely to see aspects of their personal experiences in a new way that will lead to medical consultations.»

«We have identified novel molecular features in diverse cell types using a new strategy of analyzing hundreds of cells individually,» said Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

Deepak Srivastava writes about how by helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

«The ability to direct a gene to a specific cell type and prevent expression in other cell types is a powerful new tool that allows us to bypass one of the most troubling safety concerns facing gene therapy,» said Michael Parmacek, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and director of the study.

This week, the New England Journal of Medicine issued a type of editor's note we've never seen before, on a highly influential letter published nearly 40 years ago.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

By helping cells switch their type, we may have discovered a new way to repair damaged hearts, and potentially revolutionize the future of medicine.

Professor Ruth Plummer, study lead at the Newcastle Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre, said: «It is incredibly exciting to have the opportunity to run a trial of a completely new type of potential drug to treat patients across a range of different cancers.

11/6/2007 UCSD Researchers Discover Inflammation, Not Obesity, Cause of Insulin Resistance Findings may have important potential for new drug discoveries in fight against Type 2 diabetes Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrop... More...

«ViaCyte has a history of working with patient advocacy groups, such as JDRF and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Beyond Type 1 represents a new and exciting platform to help connect patients to product development,» said Paul Laikind, PhD, President and CEO of ViaCyte.

March 25, 2015 New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20New analysis finds successes, gaps in community - based diabetes prevention programs Lifestyle interventions designed to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes can work well in group - based, community settings, conclude authors from the University of Chicago Medicine in a new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20new report issued by the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 2015.