Archive: 09/02/2015

Smoking impairs treatment response in inflammatory back arthritis

Smoking impairs the response to biological drugs used to treat inflammatory arthritis affecting the lower back, known as axial spondyloarthritis, or AxSpA, for short, reveals research published online in the Annals of the ...

Feb 9, 2015

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Historic US and UK dietary advice on fats 'should not have been introduced'

National dietary advice on fat consumption issued to millions of US and UK citizens in 1977 and 1983, to cut coronary heart disease incidence, lacked any solid trial evidence to back it up, and "should not have been introduced," ...

Feb 9, 2015

Case series addresses spine tumors in pregnancy

(HealthDay)—For most pregnant patients with benign spine tumors, surgery can be postponed until after delivery, according to a study published in the Feb. 1 issue of Spine.

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FDA approves new device aimed at easing stroke risk

(HealthDay)—A new technology designed to reduce stroke risk in certain patients has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced Monday.

Feb 9, 2015

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Blood vessel cells improve the conversion of pluripotent stem cells to blood lineages

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can differentiate into all of the different types of cells that comprise the blood and immune cell lineages. HSC transplantation is the only effective treatment for certain blood disorders; ...

Feb 9, 2015

Cancer's ability to 'hijack' regulatory mechanism increases metastasis

When skyscrapers go up, contractors rely on an infrastructure of steel beams and braces. Some cancers grow the same way, using a biological matrix from which the tumor can thrive and spread.

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Infants with rare bone disease improve bone formation after cell transplantation

Recent research carried out by a team of researchers in Japan has investigated the use of bone marrow transplants (BMTs) to treat hypophosphatasia (HPP). In this study, the researchers carried out BMT for two infants with ...

Feb 9, 2015

Akt Pathway 'ramp ups' effects of transplanted umbilical cord cells used in stroke therapy

Researchers have known that transplanted human umbilical cord cells (HUCBCs) can have a restorative effect on the brain and brain function following a stroke. However, just how the cells exert their therapeutic effects has ...

Feb 9, 2015