Archive: 20/02/2018

Social media as good a barometer of public health attitudes as traditional phone polling

A record number of Americans are able to access the internet from their home or their smartphone, and nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults have a social media account, according to the Pew Research Center.

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MRI stroke data set released by USC research team

A USC-led team has now compiled, archived and shared one of the largest open-source data sets of brain scans from stroke patients via a study published Feb. 20 in Scientific Data, a Nature journal.

Feb 20, 2018

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Deconstructing lupus—could some of its makeup be part of its cure?

Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering, has received a $600,000 Target Identification in Lupus grant from the Lupus Research Alliance to address fundamental questions in ...

Feb 20, 2018

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Spare parts from small parts: Novel scaffolds to grow muscle

Australian biomedical engineers have successfully produced a 3D material that mimics nature to transform cells into muscle.

Feb 20, 2018

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Researchers use data to look 'upstream' to see what makes patients sick

Researchers at IUPUI and the Regenstrief Institute have successfully used data to predict primary care patients' needs for social service referrals, a finding that may potentially help shift the focus of health care from ...

Feb 20, 2018

More awareness, research needed on abuse risk of non-opioid painkiller

Amid the opioid epidemic, abuse of a different prescription painkiller has widely gone unnoticed.

Feb 20, 2018

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Stroke drug demonstrates safety in clinical trial

A preliminary Phase 2 clinical trial has demonstrated that patients with acute ischemic stroke, the most common type of stroke, can safely tolerate high doses of 3K3A-APC, a promising anti-stroke drug invented at The Scripps ...

Feb 20, 2018

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Therapeutic antibodies protected nerve–muscle connections in a mouse model of Lou Gehrig's disease

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, causes lethal respiratory paralysis within several years of diagnosis. There are no effective treatments to slow or halt this devastating disease. Mouse ...

Feb 20, 2018

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Study weighs risks and benefits of phase I trials in pediatric cancer

On average, 1 in 10 children who enroll in pediatric phase I cancer trials are improved after the trial, and 1 in 50 die from drug-related complications, according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis published this ...

Feb 20, 2018

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Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak, signs of recovery for Liberian healthcare system

The effects of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in 2014-2015 were felt not only directly, in the 28,616 cases of EVD and 11,310 deaths, but also indirectly, through the disruption in the provision of healthcare in Sierra ...

Feb 20, 2018

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