New Molecules With Many Branches Will Help Unleash Potential Of Nanotechnology Materials science and the pharmaceutical industry could soon be revolutionized by emerging nanotechnologies based on designer molecules with long complex tree-and branch structures. Such molecules offer almost limitless scope for design of bespoke compounds for specific applications in disease therapy, for novel materials such as resins, as well as electronic displays, and energy storage.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSie Foundation Launches Campaign To Expand Research By Government And Private Sector For Down Syndrome The Anna and John J. Sie Foundation today launched a major campaign to change the nation's approach to Down syndrome. The Foundation's goal is to significantly increase public and private research aimed at eradicating the ill effects associated with the chromosomal disorder and improve the
health outcomes for the 400,000 people in the United States, and millions worldwide, with the condition.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMRSA Is More Prevalent In Paediatric Healthcare Than Previously Thought - Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK Birmingham Children's Hospital has introduced a new way of detecting the MRSA superbug amongst its most critically ill young patients. The test, developed by molecular diagnostics company Cepheid, has so far proven to be 100% accurate and is allowing doctors at the hospital to identify if a patient to be admitted to the ICU has MRSA within an hour.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGPC Biotech Presents New Pre-Clinical Data On RGB-286638 Broad-Spectrum Kinase Inhibitor At EORTC-NCI-AACR Meeting GPC Biotech AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: GPC, NASDAQ: GPCB) today reported that pre-clinical data on RGB-286638, the Company's multi-targeted protein kinase inhibitor, were presented at the 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium: Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva, Switzerland in a poster en
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAdapting To Life With The Risk Or Reality Of Genetic Disease: Genetic Counselors Suggest Ways To Help Patients Cope If you are afflicted with a genetic disease -- or at risk of developing one -- how do you handle it? Do you tell your loved ones? What is the best way to cope? If your loved one has a genetic disorder, how do you best adapt? New research funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOpinion Piece Calls For Evidence-Based Approach To Health Care, Citing Success In Baseball "In the past decade, baseball has experienced a data-driven information revolution" that has allowed teams to succeed while spending less on payroll, and the U.S.' "overpriced, underperforming
health care system needs a similar revolution," according to a New York Times opinion piece by Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker and founder of the Center for
Health Transformation; Sen.
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