Breast Cancer Patients Not Offered All Options For Reconstruction, UK Free DVD for Breast Cancer Patients Revealing Range of Alternatives. An inequality in breast reconstruction options for mastectomy patients has been highlighted by a West Sussex hospital.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTaking The Next Step Toward Advanced Artificial Limbs A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will receive $1 million in federal and state grants to advance the critical development of neuroprosthetics - next-generation artificial limbs that could one day be permanently implanted and perform most of the movements and functions of natural limbs.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCulture Shapes Young People's Drinking Habits Whether young people get drunk as a purposeful behavior or as an unintended consequence depends on what country they live in, according to new research on young people in seven countries. The research finds that young people's views on alcohol and drunkenness were influenced more by culture than by factors such as age and sex.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStudy Of 'Big Eaters' Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments A new study into the role of a particular immune cell in the lungs could lead to better treatments for the 5 million people in the UK affected by asthma.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBreast MRI Scan Could Determine Need For Radiation Therapy For women whose breast cancer has spread to their lymph nodes, a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan could replace exploratory surgery as the method for determining whether those women need radiation therapy to treat their disease, according to a study to be presented during the annual me
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNottingham Scientists To Develop Blood Test For Alzheimer's Researchers from Nottingham's two universities are joining forces to develop a simple blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. The £200,000 study, funded by the leading charity the Alzheimer's Research Trust, will aim to find out whether 'biomarkers' in blood could be used to identify someone with Alzheimer's.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAMT Obtains License To Amgen's GDNF Gene To Develop Treatment For Parkinson's Disease With AMT's Proprietary Gene Therapy Platform Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced that it obtained a license from Amgen to use their GDNF gene for the development of a gene therapy treatment for Parkinson's disease.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBioheart Reports Promising Results From Preclinical Study Of Adipose Derived Acute Cell Therapy A preclinical study involving the injection of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) into the myocardium (heart muscle tissue) of infarcted rats, was recently completed at the Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan by medical and veterinary doctors from that institution and the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comChild Witnesses - How To Improve Their Performance A study at the University of Leicester into how to improve child and young adult witnesses' evidence has looked at several issues that affect witnesses' accuracy.
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