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Swedish doctors on Monday presented a new method they said dramatically reduces the risk of multiple births from in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) without affecting chances of having a baby. http://phys.org/news229004956.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-07-04T13:29:37-07:00 Canada will fund clinical trials for a controversial multiple sclerosis treatment that targets blocked neck veins, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Wednesday. http://phys.org/news228588033.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-29T17:40:44-07:00 An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet. http://phys.org/news228416734.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-27T18:05:51-07:00 Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used to treat diabetics, soldiers with damaged limbs, people having heart bypass surgery and others. http://phys.org/news228409720.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-27T16:08:53-07:00 Scientists in Hong Kong said Monday they had made a "breakthrough" discovery in how animals see and react to changing light conditions, which could ultimately help fight a range of human diseases. http://phys.org/news228389789.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-27T10:36:49-07:00 The first clinical trials that examine the use of stem cells to treat two forms of blindness are ready to begin now that patients have been enrolled, a US company announced on Thursday. http://phys.org/news227441842.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-16T11:17:48-07:00 (AP) -- Scientists say they've found cells in the hearts of mice that can make new muscle after a heart attack, raising hopes that doctors can one day help the human heart repair itself. http://phys.org/news226771459.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-06-08T17:05:41-07:00 Someday soon, thanks to advances in medicine, a surgeon will operate on a patient who is not in the same room, but thousands of miles away. http://phys.org/news225719984.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-05-27T13:04:12-07:00 Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments. http://phys.org/news225286322.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-05-22T12:32:36-07:00 Pain researchers from the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation at Children's National Medical Center have discovered that resiniferatoxin, a drug that has shown early promise as an option for chronic, severe pain sufferers, may decrease the body's ability to fight off bacterial infections, particularly sepsis. http://phys.org/news223119125.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-27T10:32:19-07:00 Every day the world over, runners hit the streets, pounding the pavement. Their knees are taking a pounding, too. http://phys.org/news223036227.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-26T12:00:01-07:00 The latest Perspectives in General Physiology series examines the ion selectivity of cation-selective channels and transporters. The series appears in the May 2011 issue of the Journal of General Physiology. http://phys.org/news222953406.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-25T12:30:28-07:00 Decreasing blood levels of a protein that helps control inflammation may be a red flag that could help children avoid type 1 diabetes, researchers say. http://phys.org/news222947205.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-25T11:10:01-07:00 During embryonic development, cells migrate to their eventual location in the adult body plan and begin to differentiate into specific cell types. Thanks to new research at the University of Pennsylvania, there is new insight into how these processes regulate tissues formation in the heart. http://phys.org/news222693017.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-22T12:40:04-07:00 The finding establishes a role for the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling pathway in B cell differentiation, a key step toward the development of B cell-targeted drugs for treatment of autoimmune diseases and allergies. http://phys.org/news222681625.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-22T09:00:42-07:00 You know how you yell and curse and say bad things when you drop a hammer on your foot or burn your hand on a stove? http://phys.org/news222625979.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-21T17:50:01-07:00 A research team from Chiang Mai University (CMU) have developed a simpler, less-expensive Detection Kit for monitoring Hyaluronan using purified protein from the waste cartilage of a variety of species from the meat processing industry. The research won the team the National Research Council Invention Award, 2011. http://phys.org/news222614894.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-21T14:28:24-07:00 New research identifies a distinctive population of immune cells that may play a key role in the pathogenesis of diabetes. The research, published by Cell Press and available online in the April 21st issue of Immunity, sheds new light on the pathogenesis of diabetes and may lead to the development of new more selective therapeutic strategies for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases of the accessory organs of the digestive system. http://phys.org/news222609584.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-21T13:00:00-07:00 A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure. http://phys.org/news222539270.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-20T17:28:06-07:00 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have for the first time determined that the ketogenic diet, a specialized high-fat, low carbohydrate diet, may reverse impaired kidney function in people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. They also identified a previously unreported panel of genes associated with diabetes-related kidney failure, whose expression was reversed by the diet. The findings were published in the current issue of PLoS ONE. http://phys.org/news222539036.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-20T17:24:11-07:00 In the future, when you walk into a doctor's surgery or hospital, you could be asked not just about your allergies and blood group, but also about your gut type. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and collaborators in the international MetaHIT consortium, have found that humans have 3 different gut types. The study, published today in Nature, also uncovers microbial genetic markers that are related to traits like age, gender and body-mass index. These bacterial genes could one day be used to help diagnose and predict outcomes for diseases like colo-rectal cancer, while information about a person's gut type could help inform treatment. http://phys.org/news222523896.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-20T13:11:53-07:00 It can be heart-wrenching to watch a loved one try to verbally express him- or herself after suffering stroke-induced brain damage known as conduction aphasia. http://phys.org/news222513273.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-20T10:14:48-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Humans carry several pounds of microbes in our gastro-intestinal tracts. Recent research suggests that this microbial ecosystem plays a variety of critical roles in our health. Now, working in a mouse model, researchers from Canada describe many of the interactions between the intestinal microbiota and host, and show that antibiotics profoundly disrupt intestinal homeostasis. The research is published in the April 2011 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. http://phys.org/news222509699.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-20T09:15:36-07:00 To date, there is no therapy for Batten disease. Patients pass away in their teens or twenties. Four years ago, the working group lead by Dr. Mika Ruonala at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany started to study the consequences of the underlying genetic defect. In the meantime, the scientists have detected several "biomarkers" that can now be used in search for screening for potentially active drugs in cooperation with the Harvard Medical School in Boston. http://phys.org/news222442872.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-19T14:41:26-07:00 Neurobiologists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) of the Novartis Research Foundation are the first to describe a mechanism that controls the synthesis of retinoic acid in the developing brain. This is of interest in view of the deleterious effect too much or too little retinoic acid - a derivative of vitamin A - can have in the developing brain during pregnancy. Their results are published in the latest issue of Developmental Cell. http://phys.org/news222424854.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-19T09:50:01-07:00 Most patients who have a reduced ability to smell or detect odors seem to attach less importance to the sense of smell in their daily lives than people with a normal olfactory function, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. http://phys.org/news222362835.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-18T16:27:36-07:00 Tinnitus, a relentless and often life-changing ringing in the ears known to disable soldiers exposed to blasts, unwary listeners of too-loud music and millions of others, is the result of under-inhibition of key neural pathways in the brain's auditory center, according to scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery, which used a new technique to image auditory circuits using slices of brain tissue in the lab, points the way to drug development and effective treatment for a condition that currently has no cure. http://phys.org/news222361166.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-18T15:59:37-07:00 Anti-depressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a study by neurosurgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center. http://phys.org/news222340603.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-18T10:17:11-07:00 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have identified networks of genes that play an important role in embryonic-heart development, advancing knowledge of how healthy hearts develop—and offering clues about how to combat a common birth defect known as congenital heart disease. http://phys.org/news222337940.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-18T09:32:27-07:00 A Loyola University Health System study has found another reason to not binge drink alcohol. http://phys.org/news222337896.html Medicine & Health - Medical research 2011-04-18T09:31:52-07:00