Archive: 15/02/2016

Russia says its Ebola vaccine 'effective' in initial tests

Russia's health minister said Monday that an Ebola vaccine developed by the country over the last 15 months had shown encouraging results and would undergo further testing in West Africa.

Feb 15, 2016

Raising a child has a bigger effect on the immune system than gastroenteritis

Raising a child together has a greater effect on your immune system than the seasonal 'flu vaccine or travellers' gastroenteritis, a study by researchers at VIB and KU Leuven in Belgium and the Babraham Institute in the UK ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Cancer patients snagged in health law's tangled paperwork

Walt Whitlow was under treatment for cancer when he got an unwelcome surprise.

Feb 15, 2016

Scientists prove feasibility of 'printing' replacement tissue

Using a sophisticated, custom-designed 3D printer, regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have proved that it is feasible to print living tissue structures to replace injured or diseased tissue ...

Feb 15, 2016

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No change in epilepsy incidence in younger patients, increase among elderly

There appears to have been no change in the incidence of epilepsy in patients younger than 65 over the past 40 years in Finland but an increased incidence among older patients, which a new study suggests means no progress ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Childhood obesity, rapid growth linked to pregnant moms eating lots of fish

Eating fish more than three times a week during pregnancy was associated with mothers giving birth to babies at increased risk of rapid growth in infancy and of childhood obesity, according to an article published online ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Vulnerability to depression linked to noradrenaline

The team of Bruno Giros, a researcher at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and professor of psychiatry at McGill University, reports the first-ever connection between noradrenergic neurons and vulnerability to ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Discovery lays the foundation to expand personalized chemotherapy for leukemia patients

An international research team has determined how inherited gene variations lead to severe drug toxicity that may threaten chances for a cure in children with leukemia. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists led ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Proton pump inhibitors may be associated with increased risk of dementia

The use of proton pump inhibitors, the popular medications used to treat gastroesophageal reflux and peptic ulcers, may be associated with an increased risk of dementia in a study using data from a large German health insurer, ...

Feb 15, 2016

New subgroups of ILC immune cells discovered through single-cell RNA sequencing

A relatively newly discovered group of immune cells known as ILCs have been examined in detail in a new study published in the journal Nature Immunology. By analysing the gene expression in individual tonsil cells, scientists ...

Feb 15, 2016

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Archive: 15/02/2016

Russia says its Ebola vaccine 'effective' in initial tests

Raising a child has a bigger effect on the immune system than gastroenteritis

Cancer patients snagged in health law's tangled paperwork

Scientists prove feasibility of 'printing' replacement tissue

No change in epilepsy incidence in younger patients, increase among elderly

Childhood obesity, rapid growth linked to pregnant moms eating lots of fish

Vulnerability to depression linked to noradrenaline

Discovery lays the foundation to expand personalized chemotherapy for leukemia patients

Proton pump inhibitors may be associated with increased risk of dementia

New subgroups of ILC immune cells discovered through single-cell RNA sequencing

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