Archive: 30/01/2018

Sanitation improves health but not stunted growth in Bangladesh trial

Despite mounting research over the last decade linking poor sanitation to stunted growth in children, a new study found that children born into housing compounds with improvements in drinking water quality, sanitation and ...

Jan 30, 2018

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Alternatives to face-to-face GP consultations unlikely to deliver hoped-for benefits in practice

The realities of implementing alternatives to face-to-face GP consultations, such as telephone, email, online and video consultations, mean that hoped-for reductions in GP workload and increases in available appointments ...

Jan 30, 2018

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Adults with autism show a diminished brain response to hearing their own name

Previously, research has shown that children at risk of an autism diagnosis respond less to hearing their own name. Now, a new study from Ghent University shows for the first time that the brain response to hearing one's ...

Jan 30, 2018

Vitamin B2 deficiency puts cancer cells into hibernation

Cancer stem cells can be put into "hibernation" by a little-known drug called diphenyleneiodonium (DPI) according to researchers from the University of Salford, UK. DPI effectively switches off the cancer stem cells, preventing ...

Jan 30, 2018

Short-course radiation treatment is safe and effective for skin cancer

A recent Penn State College of Medicine physician's study review suggests that shorter courses of radiation are preferable to longer ones for older patients receiving treatment for slow-growing skin cancers.

Jan 30, 2018

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Researchers cure lung fibrosis in mice with a gene therapy that lengthens telomeres

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a potentially lethal disease associated with the presence of critically short telomeres, currently lacking effective treatment. The Telomere and Telomerase Group at the Spanish National Cancer ...

Jan 30, 2018

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Researchers identify a novel periodic autoinflammatory syndrome

A research team from the University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital and Folkhälsan Institute of Genetics in Helsinki, Finland, has identified a new genetic mutation that alters the function of cryopyrin and leads ...

Jan 30, 2018

Researchers map out the atlas of gene regulators in human cardiac cells for the first time

Information for building cells is stored in DNA, the blueprints for the more than 20,000 proteins in the human body. Every cell requires several thousand proteins in order to function. If you were to roll every single protein ...

Jan 30, 2018

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Study shows effectiveness of the school fruit scheme

How can you convince elementary school students to consume more fruit and vegetables? Scientists from the University of Bonn and the University of Koblenz-Landau have found that school fruit schemes can actually help to achieve ...

Jan 30, 2018

Scientists discover how gene mutation triggers immune disease

Scientists discovered how a gene mutation affects T cell function to promote immune disorders and then tested a treatment based on the discovery—successfully fixing donated immune cells from a 16-year-old boy with an abnormally ...

Jan 30, 2018

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Archive: 30/01/2018

Sanitation improves health but not stunted growth in Bangladesh trial

Alternatives to face-to-face GP consultations unlikely to deliver hoped-for benefits in practice

Adults with autism show a diminished brain response to hearing their own name

Vitamin B2 deficiency puts cancer cells into hibernation

Short-course radiation treatment is safe and effective for skin cancer

Researchers cure lung fibrosis in mice with a gene therapy that lengthens telomeres

Researchers identify a novel periodic autoinflammatory syndrome

Researchers map out the atlas of gene regulators in human cardiac cells for the first time

Study shows effectiveness of the school fruit scheme

Scientists discover how gene mutation triggers immune disease

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