News tagged with immature lungs

Preemies born in poverty 4 times less likely ready for school

Advances in neonatal care enable two-thirds of premature babies born with respiratory problems to be ready for school at an appropriate age, but those living in poverty are far less likely to be ready on time than their better-off ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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A new way to make reprogrammed stem cells

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have devised a totally new and far more efficient way of generating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), immature cells that are able to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Prostate cancer spreads to bones by overtaking the home of blood stem cells

Like bad neighbors who decide to go wreck another community, prostate and breast cancer usually recur in the bone, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Southampton scientists begin patient trials of new leukemia cancer vaccine

A new cancer treatment which strengthens a patient's immune system and enables them to fight the disease more effectively is being trialled on patients for the first time in the UK.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Shock findings in Scotland's first smoking in cars study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Smoking in a car exposes a child passenger to dangerous levels of poisonous particles … and even opening a window doesn't protect them.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 83

Study shows how flu infections may prevent asthma

In a paper that suggests a new strategy to prevent asthma, scientists at Children's Hospital Boston and their colleagues report that the influenza virus infection in young mice protected the mice as adults against the development ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Premature babies to benefit from breathing-support trial

(PhysOrg.com) -- A North West trial of alternatives to ventilators for helping premature babies to breathe could reduce the risk of lung problems and other complications for around 7,000 babies a year.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanoparticle-decorated cells power novel approach to cancer therapy

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Drugs encased in nanoparticles travel to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only if the patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Do we clamp the umbilical cord too soon?

The timing of umbilical cord clamping at birth should be delayed just a few minutes longer, suggest researchers at the University of South Florida's Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A trip to the candy store might help ward off rare, but deadly infections

As it turns out, children were not the only ones with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads over this past holiday season. In a new research report published in the January 2010 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Bi ...

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created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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