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.
The technology could provide a path toward
a new type of medicine that allows physicians to treat diseases with electronics rather than drugs.
Not exact matches
«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
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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
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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, 20
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, 20
new report issued by the
New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 20
New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) on March 25, 2015.