Promising therapy for fatal genetic diseases in children nears human
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Not exact matches
«There are no randomized, controlled
trials in human beings that show that these nootropics have any benefits above and beyond what we would see if someone were to follow a healthy diet and maintain regular exercise,» Dr. Tsourounis says, adding, «You should always talk to your doctor or
health - care provider before starting any supplement or any
medicine.»
To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a
medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical
trial data; and involving
health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that
medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.
Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's
health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health, Institute for Women's
Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior
trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal
health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child
health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal
medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child
Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (
health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health economist, NPEU; professor of
health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's
health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwi
health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).
Dr Alan Dangour, Reader in Food and Nutrition for Global
Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine, said: «This is the first
trial of the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on neurological and cognitive function in older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.
This investigator initiated randomized
trial was published in collaboration with academic collaborators from the University of Illinois at the Chicago School of Dentistry and the University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public
Health.
The research, entitled «Adjunctive yoga v.
health education for persistent major depression: a randomized controlled
trial,» has been published in Psychological
Medicine.
«The CASTLE - AF clinical
trial represents a landmark in the history of cardiovascular
medicine because of its potential impact on our patients who are suffering from heart failure,» said James Fang, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Utah
medicine because of its potential impact on our patients who are suffering from heart failure,» said James Fang, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular
Medicine at the University of Utah
Medicine at the University of Utah
Health.
The
trial using
medicines produced by Egyptian drug manufacturer Pharco Pharmaceuticals was run by DNDi and co-sponsored by the Malaysian Ministry of
Health, in ten sites in Malaysia and Thailand.
«We observed that a multifaceted audit and feedback intervention aimed at
health professionals results in a slight reduction in the rate of caesareans for low - risk pregnancies, without adverse effects on maternal and neonatal
health,» revealed Nils Chaillet, principal investigator of the QUARISMA
trial, researcher at the CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Centre and professor at Université Laval's Faculty of
Medicine.
«The clinical
trial results are extraordinarily encouraging,» said Dr. Donald Krogstad, senior author and professor of tropical
medicine at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical M
medicine at Tulane University School of Public
Health and Tropical
MedicineMedicine.
«While not a clinical
trial, this study, in stark contrast to prevailing attitudes that views these drugs as harmful, speaks to the public
health potential of psychedelic
medicine,» says Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh, the co-director for UBC Okanagan's Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law.
«While dozens of clinical
trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of collaborative care for treating depression in primary care, comparatively few have addressed anxiety, despite their similar prevalence and adverse impact on
health - related quality of life and excess utilization of health services,» said Bruce L. Rollman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine and director of Pitt's Center for Behavioral Health and Smart Techn
health - related quality of life and excess utilization of
health services,» said Bruce L. Rollman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine and director of Pitt's Center for Behavioral Health and Smart Techn
health services,» said Bruce L. Rollman, M.D., M.P.H., professor of
medicine and director of Pitt's Center for Behavioral
Health and Smart Techn
Health and Smart Technology.
A 38 - center clinical
trial sponsored by the National Institutes of
Health and led by researchers at the Stanford University School of
Medicine has shown that far more people than previously thought can benefit from an emergency procedure for acute ischemic stroke.
A multi-institutional team of hearing and communication experts led by the Keck School of
Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) is breaking sound barriers for children born without a hearing nerve in a clinical
trial backed by the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).
The new study, funded by the National Institute for
Health Research, and published in The Lancet Respiratory
Medicine, collated and analysed the individual data from 955 participants in seven randomised controlled
trials, which tested the use of vitamin D supplements.
The results of this
trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of
Health Policy and chair of the Department of
Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.
«This is the second clinical
trial that shows improved
health and lower hospital admissions for the IMPaCT community health worker program,» says senior author Shreya Kangovi, MD, an assistant professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Wo
health and lower hospital admissions for the IMPaCT community
health worker program,» says senior author Shreya Kangovi, MD, an assistant professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and executive director of the Penn Center for Community Health Wo
health worker program,» says senior author Shreya Kangovi, MD, an assistant professor of
Medicine at the Perelman School of
Medicine and executive director of the Penn Center for Community
Health Wo
Health Workers.
In this issue of PLOS
Medicine, Clara Menendez from the Barcelona Institute for Global
Health (ISGlobal), Spain, and colleagues report results from two large randomized controlled
trials conducted in Africa to test an alternative drug for malaria prevention in HIV - negative and HIV - positive pregnant women.
«PROBIT, the largest randomized
trial ever carried out in the area of human lactation, continues to yield scientifically and clinically important information more than two decades after its inception,» says Dr. Michael Kramer, from McGill's Faculty of
Medicine and the Research Institute of the McGill University
Health Centre (RI - MUHC), the Principal Investigator on the PROBIT study.
We need studies like this to find out how the two are intertwined and hopefully find the right formula to help prevent Alzheimer's disease,» said Dr. Rong Zhang of UT Southwestern, who oversees the clinical
trial and is Director of the Cerebrovascular Laboratory in the Institute for Exercise and Environmental
Medicine at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where the Dallas arm of the study is being carried out.
News and reports of the latest clinical
trials, translational
medicine, drug development and research with potential for direct impact on human
health.
Dr. Xianmin Zeng is currently in discussions with the NIH (National Institutes of
Health) Center for Regenerative
Medicine and the NIH Clinic Center on using the cells for a Phase I clinical
trial.
The University of Chicago
Medicine will bring its cancer care, academic specialists and array of clinical
trials to the Little Company of Mary Hospital and
Health Care Centers (LCMH) in Evergreen Park under a new affiliation agreement.
Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and
Health System, which renamed itself Sanford
Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic
medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative M
medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical
trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative
Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative M
Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative
MedicineMedicine.
Honored to be selected in partnership with Dr. James Shapiro, for @StemCellNetwork's Clinical
Trials Program for innovative regenerative
medicine research that could help translate discoveries into better
health.
The website is a perfect complement to the «Stem Cells in Focus» blog, housing informational pages on basic stem cell biology, the process by which science becomes
medicine, clinical
trials and the use of stem cells in understanding and potentially treating specific
health conditions.
Three primary research themes drive all research activities: Molecular
Medicine, including vascular and brain
health; Imaging Research; and Clinical
Trials.
San Diego, January 8, 2015 — ViaCyte, Inc., a privately - held regenerative
medicine company with the first stem cell - derived islet replacement therapy for the treatment of diabetes in clinical
trials, has received a No Objection Letter from
Health Canada providing clearance to proceed with sites in Canada for the Company's Phase 1/2 clinical
trial of its VC - 01TM product candidate.
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Do you know how a
trial works, how patients are protected and the benefits of having a research - focused Medical Center and College of
Medicine as an option for your family's
health care?
«For those of us who saw the AIDS epidemic explode and who watched helplessly as thousands died, the opportunity to try to develop an HIV cure is truly amazing,» said Paul Volberding, MD, a UCSF professor of
medicine who started the Positive
Health Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in the early days of the epidemic and was a leader in early clinical
trials to evaluate antiretroviral therapy.
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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.
In addition to JDRF, the California Institute for Regenerative
Medicine (CIRM)'s Alpha Clinic, the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center, the JDRF Canadian Clinical
Trials Network (CCTN), the Stem Cell Network, and Alberta Innovates
Health Solutions (AIHS) are all providing support for the
trial.
Rutgers Cancer Institute along with its partner RWJBarnabas
Health, offers patients access to the most advanced treatment options including clinical
trials and novel therapeutics such as precision
medicine, and immunotherapy — many of which are not available at other facilities across the state.
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Physician - scientists with Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego
Health have been leading the way in pancreatic cancer care by investigating new therapies as well as offering innovative clinical
trials and the latest treatments with a personalized
medicine approach.
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin — Madison School of
Medicine and Public
Health conducted a randomized controlled
trial in 2010 to test the efficacy of this common cold treatment.
The topic has fascinated study author Dr. Vinay Prasad, an assistant professor of
medicine at the Oregon
Health and Science University, ever since he noticed that cancer doctors were tweeting about drugs and clinical
trials.
Before I went to med school I worked at the NYU School of
Medicine's Mental
Health and Addictive Disorders Research program as a research coordinator for pharmaceutical
trials for adult ADHD medications.
Another
trial in
Medicine and Science In Sports and Exercise found a similar boost in aerobic performance while the subjects kept up levels of glutathione, a molecule that promotes cellular
health (and usually diminishes as it fights free radicals released by intense exercise).
«In a randomized controlled
trial we have demonstrated that healthy individuals consuming reclaimed wastewater - irrigated produce excreted carbamazepine and its metabolites in their urine, while subjects consuming fresh water - irrigated produce excreted undetectable or significantly lower levels of carbamazepine,» said Prof. Ora Paltiel, Director of the Hebrew University - Hadassah Braun School of Public
Health and Community
Medicine, who led the research.
A clinical
trial reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Dec. 17, 2015 was performed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine and Harvard Medical School found no evidence to support starchy diet
health dangers claims for normally healthy eating people.
The US federal government's expert panel on preventive
medicine came to this conclusion after reviewing six randomized
trials studying the
health effects of vitamin D and calcium supplements.
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