Doctors have no approved medicine to help treat marijuana dependence and abuse, but in small new clinical trial topiramate reduced the amount of cannabis heavy smokers used when they lit up. The results also show, however, that many volunteers couldn’t tolerate the drug’s side effects. (more…)
Crowdsourced research project led by University of Nottingham will help scientists better understand and address one of world’s deadliest diseases
ARMONK, NY & NOTTINGHAM, UK – 24 Mar 2016: IBM’s World Community Grid and scientists at the University of Nottingham are launching a study to address tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of volunteers will donate vast computing resources to aid this effort facilitated by IBM. (more…)
University of Chicago researchers have developed a method to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier in patients. By collecting samples from the portal vein—which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver—physicians can learn far more about a patient’s pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm. (more…)
One of Lois Frane’s last wishes embraced life and hope.
Stricken with terminal breast cancer, just weeks before her death at the age of 62, she allowed doctors to draw her blood and bank it so that someone in the future might benefit from the genetic information encoded in the blood cell DNA. (more…)
Researchers from Brown have come up with a new approach to analyzing images of neurons taken from microscopes. The Neuron Image Analyzer uses new techniques to pick out delicate neuron structures, helping scientists better assess the growth of cells. (more…)
UCLA study finds most patients who choose “active surveillance” don’t follow up with tests and office visits
An increasing number of men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are opting for active surveillance – closely monitoring their cancer – rather than aggressive treatment to avoid the debilitating potential side effects of surgery and radiation, such as erectile and urinary dysfunction. (more…)
Freiburger Wissenschaftler entschlüsselt Gehirnprozesse bei der unbewussten Bewertung sozialer Gruppen
Innerhalb von wenigen Millisekunden bewerten Menschen ihr Gegenüber und entscheiden, ob die Person ihnen sympathisch ist oder nicht. Der Freiburger Psychologe und Neurowissenschaftler Dr. Bastian Schiller hat mit einem Team an der Universität Basel/Schweiz sowie an der Universität Bern/Schweiz erstmals herausgefunden, welche unbewusst ablaufenden Hirnprozesse in welcher zeitlichen Abfolge dafür verantwortlich sind, dass Menschen soziale Informationen wie zum Beispiel Sympathie oder Antipathie verarbeiten. Die Ergebnisse sind in der aktuellen Ausgabe des US-amerikanischen Fachjournals „Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences“ (PNAS) erschienen. (more…)
Dr. Anees Chagpar, associate professor of surgery (oncology) at Yale School of Medicine and director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, breaks down the new set of breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF). (more…)
