http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and in laboratory and animal tests it appears to reduce the systemic damage done to other organs while significantly improving the treatment of lung tumors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-approach-treatment-lung-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 22 May 2013 13:49:29 EST news288449361 A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to allowing for more natural studies of brain activity in moving subjects, this implantable device represents a potential major step toward cord-free control of advanced prosthetics that move with the power of thought. The report is in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-wireless-implanted-sensor-broadens-range.html Neuroscience Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:03:13 EST news282909706 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering are part of a team that has used stretchable electronics to create a multipurpose medical catheter that can both monitor heart functions and perform corrections on heart tissue during surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-heart-surgery-stretchable-electronics-devices.html Cardiology Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:05:13 EST news272210692 (Medical Xpress)—A new drug developed by researchers from Flinders University, in partnership with collaborators in Melbourne, could hold the key to better treatment of some blinding eye diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-drug-eye-disease.html Ophthalmology Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:50:01 EST news270970718 University of Iowa researchers have previously shown that an enzyme called CaM kinase II plays a pivotal role in the death of heart cells following a heart attack or other conditions that damage or stress heart muscle. Loss of beating heart cells is generally permanent and leads to heart failure, a serious, debilitating condition that affects 5.8 million people in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-inhibiting-camkii-enzyme-therapies-heart.html Cardiology Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:24:41 EST news269191475 Creating a radioactive antibody fragment may allow scientists to identify fat and debris deposits in artery walls that are most likely to rupture and cause heart attacks, according to a new study in Circulation: Research, an American Heart Association journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-radioactive-antibody-fragment-scientists-artery.html Cardiology Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:38:22 EST news252257877 Contact allergy affects around 20% of the population in the western world. Scientists are working intensively to develop alternative test methods that do not require animal testing. A research group at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now developed a unique test method that enables graded results to be obtained using cultured skin cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-method-allergenic-substances-experimental-animals.html Medical research Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:56:47 EST news243611800 Delivering anticancer drugs into breast ducts via the nipple is highly effective in animal models of early breast cancer, and has no major side effects in human patients, according to a report by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in Science Translational Medicine on October 26. The results of the study are expected to lead to more advanced clinical trials of so-called intraductal treatment for early breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-through-the-nipple-breast-cancer-therapy-early.html Cancer Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:00:01 EST news238855423 An extract of the poisonous shrub Jatropha curcas acts as a strong painkiller and may have a mode of action different from conventional analgesics, such as morphine and other pharmaceuticals. Details of tests are reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-natural-pain-relief-poisonous-shrub.html Medical research Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:54:51 EST news229607671