http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Health Policy gives the first detailed look at the types of research currently being conducted within U.S. academic medical centers - medical schools and their affiliated hospitals. The report in the Sept. 2 Journal of the American Medical Association describes how the traditional way of categorizing life-science researchers as either basic or applied clinical investigators does not adequately reflect the reality of today's academic medical research. http://www.physorg.com/news171044651.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:37:10 EST news171044651 Worried there won't be enough of the swine flu vaccine? Stanford University researchers are beginning clinical trials to determine if vaccines for the swine flu virus, also known as H1N1, could be stretched by lowering the dosage and coupling it with a booster. http://www.physorg.com/news171007567.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:40:01 EST news171007567 An increasing number of heart failure patients are treated with a number of complex devices, i.e. cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Recently completed and ongoing clinical trials such as MADIT-CRT and EchoCRT provide evidence of a growing number of CRT patients, in need of individualised treatment. Rising demand for implantable cardiac devices and the simultaneous need for increased efficiency as well as enhanced patient comfort and safety significantly increase the need for remote monitoring technology. http://www.physorg.com/news171007694.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:20:01 EST news171007694 The Bioproduction Facility at Cornell University has produced the first batch of NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein -a cancer vaccine -that will be used in clinical trials for patients facing either ovarian cancer or melanoma. The facility was developed as a partnership between The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Cornell University. http://www.physorg.com/news170013469.html Medicine & Health Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:20:01 EST news170013469 Patients with cirrhosis are at risk for developing portal hypertension that can lead to the formation, dilation, and rupture of esophageal varices. The annual incidence of esophageal varices is approximately 5% and one third of those will bleed. http://www.physorg.com/news169898284.html Medicine & Health Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:10:03 EST news169898284 Britain's first swine flu vaccine trials, led by the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, are taking place at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. http://www.physorg.com/news169209153.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:33:17 EST news169209153 From a health-care system perspective, it may be more efficient to use the drug cetuximab only in colorectal cancer patients whose tumors have a wild-type KRAS gene, according to a study published online August 7 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news168929397.html Medicine & Health Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:50:31 EST news168929397 (AP) -- French drugmaker Sanofi Pasteur says it has started human trials of its swine flu vaccine in about 2,000 people in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news168849919.html Medicine & Health Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:45:46 EST news168849919 Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have devised a laboratory test for predicting whether microbicides against HIV are safe for human use. The researchers have also discovered why several supposedly "safe" microbicides made women more susceptible to HIV infection. The study appears today in the online version of the Journal of Infectious Disease. http://www.physorg.com/news166441689.html Medicine & Health Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:48:40 EST news166441689 When faced with patients suffering a heart attack, doctors have two choices: inject them with medication to dissolve the blood clot (fibrinolytic therapy) or insert a small balloon to open the blocked artery (primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)). http://www.physorg.com/news165150274.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:30:01 EST news165150274 Health and religion have always been intertwined, most obviously through prayer on behalf of the sick. Does intercessory prayer for sick people actually help heal them? For thousands of years some people have believed so. But new Brandeis University research in the Journal of Religion this month shows that over the last four decades, medical studies of intercessory prayer -the prayer of strangers at a distance -actually say more about the scientists conducting the studies than about the power of prayer to heal. http://www.physorg.com/news164471135.html Other Sciences Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:10:02 EST news164471135 The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced that results of the largest meta-analysis to date comparing mortality rates for drug-eluting stents (DES) versus bare metal stents (BMS) were published online June 15 in the journal Circulation. The study also compared the rates of myocardial infarction (MI) and target vessel revascularization (TVR). http://www.physorg.com/news164376550.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:09:37 EST news164376550 BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The system is based on neuroscience, engineering and computer science research at Brown University. http://www.physorg.com/news163835209.html Medicine & Health Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:47:10 EST news163835209 Women continue to be under-enrolled in cancer clinical trials, according to a new review, published in the July 15, 2009 issue of CANCER. The study's results suggest that greater efforts are needed to ensure that oncologists know the true effects of treatments and medical procedures in female patients. http://www.physorg.com/news163644964.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:56:45 EST news163644964 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of New Mexico Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic mutation underlying one of the most common childhood cancers, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The discovery could lead to more effective treatments for a subset of ALL patients who experience minimal benefit with current therapies by using drugs that are already in clinical trials for similar blood diseases in adults. http://www.physorg.com/news163263827.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:04:46 EST news163263827 A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to 10,902 meters (6.8 miles) occurred on May 31, 2009, at the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news163167519.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:19:47 EST news163167519 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has shown that, while taking aspirin is beneficial in preventing heart attacks and strokes among people with established cardiovascular disease (secondary prevention), its benefits don`t clearly outweigh the risks in healthy people (primary prevention). http://www.physorg.com/news162820199.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 12:50:37 EST news162820199 The vast majority of advanced colon cancer patients in a clinical trial were not concerned about the cost of prescription drugs for managing chemotherapy side effects, such as infection, pain and nausea and few adopted strategies to reduce drug cost burdens after joining the clinical trial, according to a study led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Although few patients reported substantial worry about drug costs, still fewer reported discussing drug cost issues with their physicians, suggesting there are opportunities for improving how physicians integrate discussions about drug costs into clinical practice. http://www.physorg.com/news162812925.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 10:49:06 EST news162812925 Could a holiday in the sun reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis? In a recent review for F1000 Medicine Reports, Bridget Bagert and Dennis Bourdette highlight recent advances in potential treatments. http://www.physorg.com/news162553554.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 10:46:17 EST news162553554 New treatments for the devastating Parkinson's disease and ALS are in clinical studies in Sweden, thanks to breaking new stem cell research. This news was presented today by Dr. Jonas Frisen, Professor of stem cell research at Karolinska Institutet, at the world's largest biotech convention, BIO 2009 in Atlanta. http://www.physorg.com/news162130324.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 13:12:49 EST news162130324 (PhysOrg.com) -- Couples are being asked to replace their usual form of birth control with a new male contraceptive in a study to test its effectiveness. http://www.physorg.com/news162053568.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 15:53:40 EST news162053568 A ground-breaking Canada-wide clinical trial led by Dr. Katherine Borden, at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, has shown that a common anti-viral drug, ribavirin, can be beneficial in the treatment of cancer patients. Published in the journal Blood (First Edition), the study demonstrates that ribavirin suppresses the activities of the eIF4E gene in patients. This gene is dysregulated in 30 percent of cancers including breast, prostate, head and neck, colon and stomach cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news161454431.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 17:27:29 EST news161454431 Levels of biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid of individuals with very mild dementia may be associated with the rate at which their thinking, learning and memory skills decline, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news161278742.html Medicine & Health Mon, 11 May 2009 16:39:25 EST news161278742 An in-depth proteomic analysis of the sera of 50 participants from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) hormone replacement therapy trial provides some explanations for the trial's clinical results. The study, published in Biomed Central's open access journal Genome Medicine, shows that estrogen upregulates proteins involved in several major body processes. http://www.physorg.com/news160213500.html Medicine & Health Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:47:37 EST news160213500 Scientists testing a cosmetic anti-ageing product sold on the high street have shown it can clinically reduce wrinkles and improve the appearance of skin damaged by everyday exposure to sunlight. http://www.physorg.com/news160144292.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:32:18 EST news160144292 (PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a nurse with a calm, patient bedside manner? http://www.physorg.com/news159724733.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:59:21 EST news159724733 Three recent African trials support male circumcision for reducing the risk of contracting HIV in heterosexual men. After including new data from these trials in their review, Cochrane Researchers have changed their previous conclusions that there was insufficient evidence to recommend circumcision as an intervention to prevent HIV infection in heterosexual men. http://www.physorg.com/news158992038.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:27:55 EST news158992038 Just as no two humans are the same, a Purdue University scientist has shown treating mice more as individuals in laboratory testing cuts down on erroneous results and could significantly reduce the cost of drug development. http://www.physorg.com/news157643106.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:45:34 EST news157643106 Relaxine, a naturally occurring hormone that helps women adapt to pregnancy, is showing promise as a treatment for acute heart failure, a new study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news157616798.html Medicine & Health Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:27:51 EST news157616798 A new vaccine has the potential to be the first to prevent maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the March 19 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news156615651.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:21:22 EST news156615651