http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Georgia State University A potential new strategy to developing new drugs to control inflammation without serious side effects has been found by Georgia State University researchers and international colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-key-pathway-dangerous-out-of-control-inflammation.html Inflammatory disorders Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:47:06 EST news284744805 Children with brain lesions suffered before or around the time of birth are able to use gestures – an important aspect of the language learning process– to convey simple sentences, a Georgia State University researcher has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-children-brain-lesions-gestures-important.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:01:23 EST news280584076 Disrupting a key interaction between two types of proteins in cells inhibits the spread of cancerous cells, providing researchers with a new pathway toward developing cancer-fighting drugs, according to new findings by Georgia State University scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:28:03 EST news278760475 A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered by a researcher at Georgia State University's Center for Inflammation, Immunity and Infection and his partners. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-one-way-flu-vaccine.html Medications Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:18:48 EST news275059120 Identifying risk factors in hospital readmissions could help improve patient care and hospital bottom lines, according to a study recently completed by Georgia State University's Experimental Economics Center and a team from the Emory University School of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-factors-hospital-readmissions-surgery-patients.html Surgery Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:18:05 EST news270299873 Scientists at Georgia State University have found that the ability to hear is lessened when, as a result of injury, a region of the brain responsible for processing sounds receives both visual and auditory inputs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-rewired-visual-sound-processing-brain-compromised.html Neuroscience Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:13:49 EST news264860013 Results from a study conducted at Georgia State University suggest that a "fight" between bacteria normally living in the intestines and the immune system, kicked off by another type of bacteria, may be linked to two types of chronic disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-bacteria-immune-chronic-diseases.html Inflammatory disorders Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:43:15 EST news263133777 An international team of researchers, including a scientist at Georgia State University, found that black men who have sex with men (MSM) are more likely to have HIV than other MSM, and that social inequalities play a major role. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-black-gay-men-worldwide-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:08:12 EST news263048874 A team of researchers, including a scientist from the Viral Immunology Center at Georgia State University, have found that a type of herpesvirus infection of the eye is associated with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that causes blindness in the elderly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-viral-infection-eye-disease-elderly.html Ophthalmology Mon, 21 May 2012 18:12:18 EST news256842714 Researchers at Georgia State University have discovered that in one species of freshwater crustaceans, social status can affect the configuration of neural circuitry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-scientists-neurological-due-social-status.html Neuroscience Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:00:04 EST news254065867 An international team of researchers led by Georgia State University scientists have found a key component in the pathological process of pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal disease for which there is currently no cure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-critical-tightly-deadly-pulmonary-fibrosis.html Immunology Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:20:28 EST news253275595