Fighting cancer with sticky nanoparticles
Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets — and then stay there — could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers. (more…)
Category Archives: Health
Keep Your Spirit Up and Stress Level Down for the Holidays
When the holidays descend upon us, we find ourselves simultaneously excited and bracing for the stress that is rushing toward us. As children, we only had to look forward to all the magic and festivities that awaited. As adults, we have become the facilitators of all of those festivities, working too hard to get them right. (more…)
A promising step toward controlling Zika virus and dengue fever
UCLA scientists and colleagues identify structure of a molecule that kills mosquitoes carrying malaria and West Nile
Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes. The findings move the scientific world one step closer to genetically engineering a toxin that would be lethal to species that carry dengue fever and the Zika virus. (more…)
Yale doctors confront an opiate crisis in the city and a bad night in the ED
On the night of June 23, it was all hands on deck in the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital. They were running out of resuscitation rooms and breathing tubes. Patients were put in overflow rooms, and doctors and nurses came from other departments to keep up with the flood of patients. The pace was unrelenting—beginning at 4 p.m. and lasting for six hours. The emergency staff had never seen anything like this before. (more…)
Personalisierte Antibiotika-Therapie
Freiburger Forscher haben eine Sensor-Plattform entwickelt, die das Medikament in wenigen Minuten im Blut nachweist
Ein Freiburger Forschungsteam hat ein von der Biologie inspiriertes Verfahren entwickelt, das verschiedene Antibiotika in menschlichem Blut oder in anderen Flüssigkeiten gleichzeitig nachweisen kann. Zukünftig ließe sich das Biosensor-System in der medizinischen Diagnostik und besonders in so genannten patientennahen Tests in Arztpraxen, Apotheken oder bei Hausbesuchen, aber auch in der Umwelt- und Lebensmittelkontrolle einsetzen. (more…)
From DNA to disease, study describes rare, new brain disorder
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease. (more…)
Increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria hinders treatment of kidney infections
Researchers recommended development of new medications and new guidelines for treatment
The increase in illnesses and deaths linked to medication-resistant bacteria has been well-documented by researchers and received extensive public attention in recent years. Now, UCLA-led research shows how these bacteria are making it more difficult to treat a common but severe kidney infection. (more…)
Among some veterans, painkiller misuse strongly linked to starting heroin
In a study that followed thousands of veterans over a decade, initiating non-medical use of opioid painkillers was associated with a more than 5-fold risk of also beginning to use heroin. (more…)