Medical Research Be a Partner in Clinical Research By article Are you aware that you can participate in clinical research? Whether youΓÇÖre healthy or sick, young or old, male or … Read More→
Heart Health Medical Research Women's Health and Wellness Women's Heart Disease Should Be a Research Priority By article The latest gender-specific research on heart disease continues to show differences between women and men, yet gaps remain in how … Read More→
_ Medical Research Progress Made Toward A New Kind of Anesthesia By article Researchers say they are drawing closer to developing a new class of anesthetics. ΓÇ£While physician anesthesiologists have improved the safety … Read More→
_ Medical Care Medical Research Senior Health Progress in Fighting Diseases of Aging? By article Scientists have found a new way to increase the length of human telomeres, protective caps on chromosomes that have been … Read More→
_ Medical Research Environment More Important than Genes for Immune System By article Environment may be a stronger factor than genes in shaping the human immune system, according to a new study. Research … Read More→
Medical Research Toward Inhalable Vaccines for Flu, Pneumonia & TB By article Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University have uncovered a novel approach … Read More→
_ Medical Research The Feds Under-Fund Chronic Disease Prevention Research By article Investigators at The Vitality Institute, a research organization working to strengthen the evidence base for health promotion and chronic disease … Read More→
Health Headlines Medical Research Is It Really FDA Approved? By article “FDA Approved!”… Maybe you saw these words on a company’s website somewhere, or in a commercial promoting a new product … Read More→
Cancer Center Medical Research Cancer-Causing Mutation Found in 1982 Now Target of Clinical Trials By article In 1982, the gene TRK was shown to cause a small percentage of colon cancers. In 2013 and 2014, next-generation … Read More→
Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias Medical Research New Treatment for Frontotemporal Dementia By article Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells … Read More→
Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias Medical Research Another ΓÇ£Alzheimer's in a DishΓÇ¥ Model By Jane Farrell article In October 2014, we posted an article on ThirdAge.com about an ΓÇ£AlzheimerΓÇÖs in a Dish ModelΓÇ¥ (https://thirdage.com/node/2884631) developed at Massachusetts … Read More→
_ Medical Research A New Use for Mushrooms? By Jane Farrell article A couple of poisonous mushrooms may show scientists how to attack deadly diseases. Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered … Read More→
Medical Research Vaccine Holds Hope of Preventing MRSA By Jane Farrell article Research reported online in December 2014 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA holds new hope for … Read More→
Medical Research Osteoporosis Drugs May Prevent Some Cancers By Jane Farrell article The most commonly used medications for osteoporosis worldwide, bisphosphonates, may also prevent certain kinds of lung, breast and colon cancers, … Read More→
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_ Medical Research Women's Health and Wellness Females Ignored in Medical Research By Sondra Forsyth article Research done at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago has found that surgical researchers rarely use female animals or female cells in the research for their published studies, despite a huge body of evidence showing that gender differences can play a crucial role in medical research. The study was published August 28th 2014 in the journal Surgery. A "60 Minutes" segment aired in February about the problem of overlooking sex differences in biomedical research featuring Northwestern Medicine scientists Melina Kibbe M.D. and Teresa Woodruff.
_ Medical Care Medical Research How Lizards Grow New Tails By Sondra Forsyth article The secret of how lizards regenerate their tails could offer hope that researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans. A team of researchers from Arizona State University in Phoenix is one step closer to solving that mystery. The scientists have discovered the genetic "recipe" for lizard tail regeneration, which may come down to using genetic ingredients in just the right mixture and amounts.