http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. NIH-supported scientists used lab-grown human lung cells to study the cells' response to infection by a novel human coronavirus (called nCoV) and compiled information about which genes are significantly disrupted in early and late stages of infection. The information about host response to nCoV allowed the researchers to predict drugs that might be used to inhibit either the virus itself or the deleterious responses that host cells make in reaction to infection. Since nCoV was recognized in 2012, 17 confirmed cases and 11 deaths have been reported—a high fatality rate that is spurring urgent research efforts to better understand the virus and its effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cell-response-coronavirus-unveils-paths.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:33:04 EST news286547577 National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the drug combination could be used to treat patients infected with the new coronavirus, but more research is needed to confirm this preliminary finding. The study appears in the April 18, 2013, issue of Scientific Reports. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-treatment-coronavirus-early-lab.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:00:02 EST news285437011 The rate of drug overdose from prescription opioids increased seven-fold in New York City over a 16-year period and was concentrated especially among white residents of the city, according to latest research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The study is one of the earliest and most comprehensive analyses of how the opioid epidemic has affected an urban area. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-prescription-overdose-epidemic-nyc.html Medications Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:38:22 EST news279099113 A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict of ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-high-blood-calcium-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:20:22 EST news278162409 (HealthDay)—People with psychiatric disorders have a 30 percent higher death rate from cancer, even though they are no more likely to develop the disease than others. And the underlying reason may be relatively simple: Their cancer is frequently discovered late, often after it has spread, a new Australian study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychiatric-patients-cancer-late.html Cancer Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:08:58 EST news275134131 (Medical Xpress)—Worldwide, more than 1.2 million traffic fatalities occur yearly, and the lives of pedestrians account for a third of those lost. In the United States, pedestrians make up 12 percent of deaths from traffic collisions. According to a newly published study, male pedestrians struck by vehicles are more than twice as likely to die as their female counterparts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-males-vehicles-die.html Health Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:17:18 EST news274436097 (AP)—Vietnam has recorded more cases of hand, foot and mouth disease this year than in 2011, but the fatality rate has decreased sharply. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-child-disease-cases-vietnam-fatalities.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:20:03 EST news271654851 New vaccines and drug treatments are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, according to medical experts writing in a new Series on bacterial meningitis, published in The Lancet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-clinical-trials-bacterial-meningitis-treatments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:30:07 EST news271613751 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 33 people, while the number of suspected cases has risen, the health ministry said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-dr-congo-health-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:01 EST news267959765 It's not bird flu or SARS, and nor does it appear to be contagious, but little more is known about a mysterious disease that has killed dozens of Cambodian children, some within 24 hours of being hospitalised. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-killer-disease-cambodia-stumps-experts.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:31:32 EST news260944284 Researchers said Monday they were a step closer to developing a vaccine against the type of meningitis that mostly affects Europe and North America and kills hundreds every year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-closer-meningitis-vaccine.html Medications Mon, 07 May 2012 04:46:33 EST news255584761 (Medical Xpress) -- Could engineered human stem cells hold the key to cancer survival? Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world's first bioengineering and nanotechnology research institute, have discovered that neural stem cells possess the innate ability to target tumor cells outside the central nervous system. This finding, which was demonstrated successfully on breast cancer cells, was recently published in leading peer reviewed journal, Stem Cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-discovery-breast-cancer-therapy.html Cancer Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:00:01 EST news254123095 (Medical Xpress) -- The fatality rate from subarachnoid hemorrhage in a five-county area of Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky has declined significantly since 1988, research conducted at the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-decline-subarachnoid-hemorrhage-fatality.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:10:01 EST news247730225 Researchers conducting influenza-like illness surveillance in Cambodia have confirmed a rare incidence of individuals becoming infected with a seasonal influenza and the pandemic strain at the same time, a reminder of the ongoing risk of distinct flu viruses combining in human hosts to produce a more lethal strain, according to a report in the November issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. A pandemic strain is a type of flu against which people have little or no natural immunity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-global-flu-rare-coinfection-southeast.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:34:30 EST news239473602 Road deaths among young adults and seniors are down nearly 60 percent since 1968, but they still have the highest road fatality rates among all age groups, say University of Michigan researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-road-fatalities-young-high.html Health Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:54:20 EST news238830853 A drug used to treat cancer may also be effective in diseases that cause scarring of the internal organs or skin, such as pulmonary fibrosis or scleroderma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cancer-drug-scleroderma.html Medications Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:02:40 EST news235929746 Canadian investigators have shown that a species of ebolavirus from Zaire that is highly virulent in humans can replicate in pigs, cause disease, and be transmitted to animals previously unexposed to the virus. The findings are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pigs-susceptible-virulent-ebolavirus-transmit.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 13 May 2011 03:50:02 EST news224477377