Novan, Inc. today announced that preclinical data demonstrating the anti-viral effects of the Company’s nitric oxide-releasing drug candidates will be presented at the 31st International Papillomavirus Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Thomas Broker, Ph.D., and Louise Chow, Ph.D., both of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, or UAB, are scheduled to present “Antiviral Efficacy of Nitric Oxide-Releasing Drug Candidates in Suppressing Productive Infection by HPV-18 in the Organotypic Epithelial Raft Culture Model System” on Thursday, Mar. 2. Drs.
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Regents Announce 2 Candidates for Next UA President
… introducing five cross-institutional research initiatives centered on innovation, genomics, regenerative medicine, health policy and clinical research. TMC, the largest medical complex in the world, is at the forefront of advancing life sciences. An …
Sweat sensor network developed to track physiological changes
… is refining the sensor fabrication process to make it more commercially practical for fitness training, athletics, health diagnostics and even large-scale population studies. He is collaborating with exercise physiologists and medical researchers to …
SBP researchers identify new regulator of innate immune response to foreign invaders
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified a new regulator of the innate immune response – the immediate, natural immune response to foreign invaders. The study, published recently in Nature Microbiology , suggests that therapeutics that modulate the regulator – an immune checkpoint – may represent the next generation of antiviral drugs, vaccine adjuvants, cancer immunotherapies, and treatments for autoimmune disease.
Why Men Are Much Worse At Being Sick Than Women
… Sabra Klein, associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It isn’t always the presence of the microbe or the presence of the virus that makes us sick,” says Klein. “It’s our immune …
How your unborn baby’s sex could impact your health
… at the Queen’s University Department of Medicine. Ellis said there are known steps that women can take to minimize health risks during pregnancy such as maintaining a healthy balanced diet and avoiding smoking. For those like Fox who do end up …
Could there FINALLY be a cure for the common cold?
Experts say they have discovered the hidden code for the cold which could pave the way for a treatment being available. However it could still be some time off yet, scientists working on the pioneering study estimated a cure for the virus could hit shops in ten years’ time.
Salmon is healthy, but wild salmon is healthier than the farmed variety.
… as it antidotes mercury, a toxin that can often be found in seafood.” Farmed salmon is associated with another major health concern: toxicity. Bradshaw cites an independent laboratory test commissioned in 2003 by Environmental Working Group that …
Scientists debate underlying cause of bird flu
The answer to whether industrial-scale poultry farming is responsible for bird flu differs depending on who you ask – a virologist or a geographer. In a book published last month, Stephen Hinchliffe, a professor of human geography at the University of Exeter in Britain, argues that mass livestock production is driving molecular changes in diseases that could lead to human pandemics.
Latest breakthroughs in natural cures
… cures and remedies to diseases once thought to be incurable. Dr. Sears takes a fresh, novel approach to patient health and wellness. Our environment and food supply has changed for the worse and this is affecting our health. He helps patients return …
CKNW Health Series: Why are ‘fad diets’ so persistent?
Registered dietician Lori Smart with Health BC says the reason why fad diets keep popping up is because people are always looking for a new way to better themselves. “A lot of the popularity around fad diets come from one’s own personal beliefs that this is a diet that would be healthy for them, or this is a diet that would help them lose weight,” she says.
UI gets $1.8 million from CDC to study bug-borne diseases
… relate to weather and types of vegetation. Information will be shared with other academic institutions and public health departments, with the goal being to create partnerships that can lead to steps to minimize the spread of diseases spread by …
Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Alzheimer’s
New evidence is strengthening the connection between cognitive decline and air pollutants, which means that if indoor air is left untreated, the majority of people face an increased risk of developing dementia and related disorders. FilterEasy wishes to raise awareness of this connection as indoor air pollutants are drastically reduced by regularly changing pleated, high-quality air filters.
NSAIDs could potentially be repurposed as life-saving treatment for sepsis, research suggests
… It kills as many as half of those who contract it, sometimes within days, according to the National Institutes of Health. As the number of cases rises, particularly in intensive care units, pharmaceutical companies have been scrambling to develop a …
Santen and twoXAR Announce Strategic Research Collaboration to Discover New Glaucoma Treatments
Santen, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., the specialty ophthalmology company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, and twoXAR, Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic research collaboration focused on the identification of new drug candidates for glaucoma. Under the agreement, twoXAR will use its proprietary computational drug discovery platform to discover, screen, and prioritize novel drug candidates with potential application in ocular indications, with a specific focus on glaucoma.
Scientists pinpoint blood sugar-Alzheimer’s ‘tipping point’
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Three weeks ago, an outbreak of Avian influenza was confirmed along the shores of Lake Victoria at Lutembe bay in Wakiso and Bukakata in Masaka district. South Sudan Livestock Minister Martin Daku sharing a moment with Uganda’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry, And Fisheries Vincent Ssempijja during a press conference on bird flu at the Ministry head offices in Entebbe Wakiso district.
Tick-borne Lyme disease exploding in Michigan
… their doctors – often don’t test for it. Doctors also don’t always report finding Lyme disease to their local public health department, said Erik Foster, an entomologist with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and a co-author of …
Hamburg chiropractor to celebrate 30
… his 30th anniversary, Dr. Karas has no plans for retirement or even semi-retirement. According to him, “health is wealth” and he looks forward to the future and expanding the practice to include an associate, an individual massage area …
UPDATE 1-Bayer expects stagnant earnings at agriculture unit
… in September last year. Bayer has said the Monsanto deal, which would bring its agricultural division on par with its health care unit in terms of revenues, would help it develop new combinations of seeds and pesticides to compete with large rivals …
Study finds Mediterranean foods as key to reduce pain linked to obesity
… and women 20 to 78 years old and appears this month in the journal Pain . “Obesity and pain are significant public health problems. This was an attempt to take a very detailed snapshot of how they might be related,” Emery said. “We were interested …
Research may show new ways to repress inflammation at outset
Researchers at the University of Tubingen, working with colleagues in other parts of Germany and in the United States, have identified an enzyme as a kind of biological gauge regulating inflammation in the human body. Professor Alexander Weber of the Interfaculty Institute of Cell Biology says the enzyme – Bruton’s tyrosine kinase or BTK – is switched on when an inflammation occurs in the body, playing a key role in the inflammation’s subsequent development.
Antiviral Therapeutics Technologies, Markets and Companies Report…
Dublin, Feb. 21, 2017 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Antiviral Therapeutics – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report reviews the current state-of-art of antiviral approaches including vaccines, pharmaceuticals and innovative technologies for delivery of therapeutics.
Cancer cells adapt nerve cell mechanisms to fuel aggressive tumor growth and spread
How we think and fall in love are controlled by lightning-fast electrochemical signals across synapses, the dynamic spaces between nerve cells. Until now, nobody knew that cancer cells can repurpose tools of neuronal communication to fuel aggressive tumor growth and spread.
China’s H7N9 bird flu mutates, no immediate added threat to human
… for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) has lately confirmed the finding and reported the case to the World Health Organization (WHO), according to China CDC’s website. On the basis of joint study with experts from the agricultural sector, …
Forget genius. Science is the product of less-than-brilliant minds
We scientists tend to tell our story via breakthroughs – paradigm shifts that shake the foundations of knowledge and remake everyone’s understanding of how the world works. It’s a tale of high-flying, singular brilliance, of Einsteins and Darwins, of pure genius.
Creative Thought Center presents Jonna Rae Bartges
Back by popular demand, Jonna Rae will keep us captivate again… with an all new talk: “Oops — I did It Again! An Adventure In Past Life Regressions” . Claustrophobia.
Two Indians die every minute due to air pollution: Study
… to be tackled together. The Lancet concludes that climate change posed both a “potentially catastrophic risk to human health”, while conversely being “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century” if the right steps are taken. The smog …
OPINION: We can improve our mental health care system
The Chronicle Herald has been hosting a valuable, on-going public discussion of ways to improve our health care system and there has been insightful commentary from experienced professionals and patients. Psychologists work with mental health problems as well as preventive and coping behaviours relevant to many physical health problems, both in the public system and in private practice.
Why NASA is sending a superbug to the space station
… MRSA, sometimes called a staph, is resistant to the antibiotic methicillin and many others. It can cause a variety of health problems including sepsis, pneumonia and skin and bloodstream infections. Goel is a medical doctor and a physicist. She’s …
Environmental And Health Justice Intersect for Healthy Black Futures
Creating healthy Black futures requires attention and action to protect the environment in the spaces we call home. The environment greatly influences health status and outcomes, especially for communities of color where many are already overburdened by experiences of injustice that have health, social, and economic consequences.
Myriad’s Prolaris Test Significantly Improves the Risk…
Myriad Genetics, Inc. , a global leader in personalized medicine, today announced new data demonstrating the utility of the ProlarisA test to more accurately classify mortality risk and guide the management of newly diagnosed men with prostate cancer. The data are being presented at the 2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Molecular aid to insulin secretion identified
Blood sugar triggers the secretion of insulin from cells in the pancreas, a process that is impaired in diabetes. A team of Yale researchers have identified a mechanism at the membranes of these pancreatic cells that controls this fundamental function.
Analyzing copies of genes may offer new therapeutic approaches for ovarian cancer
… the pathway that stood out was autophagy — a natural process of cell death that helps maintain normal cellular health. Ovarian cancer cells use autophagy all of the time, but also lose several copies of autophagy genes resulting in a compromised …
SBP scientists identify autophagy linked to beneficial effects of enduring temporary stress
Biologists have known for decades that enduring a short period of mild stress makes simple organisms and human cells better able to survive additional stress later in life. Now, scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have found that a cellular process called autophagy is critically involved in providing the benefits of temporary stress.
An antibiotic-resistant strain of the E. coli bacteria. Photo: Centres for Disease Control
Drug resistant bacteria can be found easily in China’s poultry production chain – from hatcheries to supermarkets – according to recent research by scientists from China, the US and Europe, underscoring the need for Beijing to control the use of antibiotics. Superbugs are bacteria that are resistant to antibiotic drugs.
The Perplexing Psychology Of Saving For Health Care
Spending your own money on health care might mean that you’ll be more frugal with it. That’s the theory behind health savings accounts, a decades-old GOP concept that’s sparking renewed interest on Capitol Hill as Republican lawmakers look for ways to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Researchers explore role played by nicotine in grouping of nicotinic receptors within the brain
This inspired a group of University of Kentucky researchers to explore the role nicotine plays in the assembly of nicotinic receptors within the brain. During the Biophysical Society’s 61st Annual Meeting, being held Feb. 11-15, 2017, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Faruk Moonschi, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, will present the group’s work, which centers on a fluorescence-based “single molecule” technique they developed.
High Fructose Corn Syrup Market Future Demands by 2021
… consists around 50 percent and honey consists around 48 percent fructose which is driving the HFCS market. However, health consciousness and change in life style among consumers of emerging countries are restraining the market since rate of obesity …
Joint venture to produce and sell Cuban vaccines to treat cancer seeks investors
The joint venture – the first in the field of biotechnology – would produce vaccines to fight cancer developed with Cuban technology. U.S. clinical trials of the CIMAvax vaccine against lung cancer began in January, under an authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.