Archive: 24/02/2015
Should paramedics be allowed to give antibiotics to trauma victims?
For years, infection rates from open fractures have remained stubbornly high.
Feb 24, 2015
Previously unknown effect of vitamin A identified
The signal molecule, retinoic acid, is a product of vitamin A which helps to instruct how different types of tissue are to be formed in the growing embryo. For the first time, Professor Niels-Bjarne Woods' laboratory, Lund ...
Feb 24, 2015
Adjuvant sorafenib and sunitinib do not improve outcomes in locally advanced kidney cancer
Findings from a federally funded study suggest that patients with locally advanced kidney cancer should not be treated with either adjuvant (post-surgery) sorafenib or sunitinib. The average period to disease recurrence was ...
Feb 24, 2015
Findings a step toward a pill that provides benefit of exercise
A researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has magnified a benefit of exercise in mice to provide a "profound" protection from diabetic cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly heart condition that affects ...
Feb 24, 2015
Gene regulatory path revealed as target for therapy of aggressive pediatric brain cancer
Working with cells taken from children with a very rare but ferocious form of brain cancer, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have identified a genetic pathway that acts as a master regulator of thousands of other ...
Feb 24, 2015
Facial expression more important to conveying emotion in music than in speech
Regular concert-goers are used to seeing singers use expressive and often very dramatic facial expressions. Indeed, music and speech are alike in that they use both facial and acoustic cues to engage listeners in an emotional ...
Feb 24, 2015