Aggressive lung cancer, sarcoma shrunk by new smart drug
A new oral drug caused dramatic shrinkage of a patient’s rare, aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer that was driven by an abnormally activated protein, physician-scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer...
View ArticleFamily health history seen as key to wellbeing
To support the integration and application of family history information in clinical practice, several federal agencies and professional organizations have developed comprehensive (and free) online...
View ArticleSrFit’s Senior Fitness Specialty Certification Home Study Program
The SrFit™ – Senior Fitness Specialty Certification is approved for the following continuing education credits: ACE, 2.0 (ACSM and NETA accept ACE CECs) BCRPA, 20.0 BOC, 24.0 CAN-FIT-PRO (PTS, OAS),...
View ArticleThe pathogenless pandemic: depression, diagnosis, treatment data mining on...
Could information technology and data mining techniques be used to improve the diagnosis and treatment of depression? That’s the question scientists in Australia hope to have answered in a forthcoming...
View ArticlePersonalized medicine’s future hinges on measuring genetic variants plus...
Personalized medicine centers on being able to predict the risk of disease or response to a drug based on a person’s genetic makeup. But a study by scientists at Washington University School of...
View ArticleCell phones are now personal diagnostic tools that can monitor fertility,...
Washington, D.C., USA; Haarlem, The Netherlands and Shenzhen/HuiZhou, China. GENTAG, Inc. and its partners have just demonstrated a new disposable wireless diagnostic test platform for consumer cell...
View ArticleThe top 11 technology innovations of the last 10 years, from the IEEE
This month IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and sheer technical coolness. 1. Smartphones. These...
View ArticleTop ten advances in cardiovascular research in 2010
Research on reducing risks, improving medical treatment and improving lifestyle behaviors to fight the battle against heart disease and stroke are among the key scientific findings that make up this...
View ArticleAlcohol dependency treatment personalized, genetically, for the first time
For the first time in alcohol addiction research, UVA investigators have successfully treated alcohol-dependent individuals with medication that is tailored specifically to match their genetic...
View ArticleTherapeutic lifestyle changes as useful as drugs in improving mental health:...
Getting more exercise, spending time outdoors and helping others are among the activities that can be as effective as drugs or counseling in treating an array of mental illnesses, including depression...
View ArticleClinical trial process does not work in era of personalized medicine
The current clinical trial process in the United States is on shaky ground. In this era of personalized medicine, as diseases are increasingly defined by specific genetic and biologic markers and...
View ArticleMedicine paradigm earthquake: the only question is when the tsunami hits
People who demonstrated a stronger brain response to certain brain regions when receiving individually tailored smoking cessation messages were more likely to quit smoking four months after, a new...
View ArticleFirst ever use of patients’ own cells to build tailor-made urinary tubes and...
Researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues reported today on a new advance in tissue engineering. The team is the first in...
View ArticleResidential trumps outpatient treatment 2:1 for smoking cessation: Mayo Clinic
In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared...
View ArticleLongevity advice is the opposite of what you think: UC-Riverside researchers
Good advice for a long life? As it turns out, no. In a groundbreaking study of personality as a predictor of longevity, University of California, Riverside researchers found just the opposite. “It’s...
View ArticleGame-changing stem cell study from Children’s Hospital Boston and GW
Proteins in fluids bathing the brain are essential for building the brain, discover scientists in a report published March 10 in the journal Neuron. The finding promises to advance research related to...
View ArticleUK explores IVF technique that would allow for three parents to avoid...
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has asked the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to assess a controversial fertility treatment. The “three-parent IVF” technique developed at Newcastle...
View ArticleRobotic pharmacy at UCSF Medical Center could shift the drugstore paradigm
Although it won’t be obvious to UCSF Medical Center patients, behind the scenes a family of giant robots now counts and processes their medications. With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to...
View ArticleGenetic based tests: consumers have no idea how to read them
A report released by Cogent Research reveals that a majority of Americans support government involvement in the distribution of direct-to-consumer genomics-based tests. This and other findings are...
View Article28 of the top 100 on Amazon are about nutrition, medicine, health, and lifestyle
At the time of this post, there are 28 books on the Amazon Top 100 bestseller list in the areas covered by this news outlet. The rankings change frequently, so don’t be surprised if the one you look...
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