http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Researchers at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have managed to predict the probability of a cardiovascular patient suffering a heart attack, stroke or arterial occlusion within three months. In the long-term, this knowledge may enable targeted preventive measures. The results of the study have appeared in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-protein-enables-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:10:01 EST news284280892 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have succeeded in demonstrating an association between delayed bone fracture healing and increased concentration of specific immune cells in the blood of the patient. Results of the study show that the adaptive immune system responds to the fracture in a similar way as to an infection and attempts to fight against it. The study appears in the current issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-immune-bone-fractures.html Medical research Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:22:17 EST news283162157 Together with colleagues from the international rheumatic diseases research community, scientists of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have presented a new therapy approach for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic form of joint inflammation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scientists-arthritis-treatments-rheumatism-patients.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:40:05 EST news280074115 Scientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now been able to identify the grass pollen molecule, against which the allergic response of hay fever in children is initiated. In addition, it was shown that the first individual antibodies generated in children against individual pollen molecules can be identified even before the initial symptoms of a pollen allergy are developed. The findings of this long-term study have appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-nanotechnology-pollen-allergy.html Immunology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:00:05 EST news279794748 A disposition to be overweight is shaped even before birth. This has been proven by scientists of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in an international study, which has appeared in the professional journal Plos One. The study reveals children with a birth weight of more than 4,000 grams are twice as much at risk of becoming overweight in later life than those with normal birth weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-womb-lifestyle-mother-disposition-child.html Health Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:15:07 EST news277038897 The treatment of inflammatory pain can be improved by endogenous opioid peptides acting directly in injured tissue. Scientists at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Université Paris Descartes showed that pain can be successfully treated by targeting immune and nerve cells outside the brain or spinal cord. The study is published in the current issue of the FASEB Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-approach-therapy-pain.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:50:01 EST news273832436 Early, intensive therapy with a biotechnologically produced medication can provide significantly faster pain relief for patients with rheumatic joint inflammation. Damage to joints can also be reduced when the medication is applied right at the beginning of the illness. A nationwide study sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and conducted by Prof. Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester, director of the Medical Department, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, came to this conclusion. Findings are published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-antibodies-immune-deficiency.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:44:37 EST news267957868 Scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin could explain a yet unknown regulatory network that controls the growth of tumor cells. Understanding such networks is an important task in molecular tumor biology in order to decode the relationships between the determinants defining which molecules are produced and in what quantities, in both normal and tumor cells. The study is published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-self-regulating-networks-dictate-genetic-tumor.html Cancer Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:19:01 EST news267794313 Scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have succeeded in coming closer to determining the risk of relapse in detoxified alcohol-dependent patients. Using an imaging process (magnetic resonance tomography) it was shown that particular regions in the brain demonstrate structural as well as functional abnormalities in relapsed alcohol-dependent patients. Study findings are published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-functional-abnormalities-brains-relapsed-alcohol-dependent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:03:15 EST news267364988 German scientists at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Labor Berlin GmbH have succeeded in clarifying the molecular signature of the viruses that lead to an increasing size and number of hantavirus outbreaks in Germany. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-molecular-signature-hantavirus-infection-humans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:00:02 EST news265887125