' One and Done': Scientists Develop Vaccine That May Fight Any Viral Strain
TUESDAY, April 16, 2024 -- Genetics-based“one-and-done” vaccines for the flu and COVID could prove more effective and easier to craft than current jabs, researchers report.
These new vaccines would target viruses using a different... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 16, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Ozempic Hurts the Fight Against Eating Disorders
It’s impossible to escape the soaring popularity of Ozempic and similar drugs these days—daily headlines, celebrity “success” stories, and apparent ease in procuring prescriptions (even Costco sells them now) abound. But the cumulative effect of all of this has many experts in the eating disorder field worried about how this might affect their patients. This makes sense—even for those without eating disorders, these drugs can feel both triggering and enticing. After all, research tells us about 90% of women are dissatisfied with their bodies. This sounds like a quick fix.
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Source: TIME: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Cole Kazdin Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
Advance in immune cell screening uncovers receptors that target prostate cancer
This study validated the ability for nanovials to find T cells, and their receptors, that react to viruses.A second experiment with a different patient applied the technology to a much more challenging problem: rare prostate cancer targets the scientists had identified in previous studies. Importantly, those molecular targets acted to both capture the T cells and cause them to secrete certain molecules that kill target cells. In other experiments, the nanovials also had molecules allowing each to capture more than one type of immune-activating secretion.CNSI at UCLAA closer look at UCLA-developed nanovials, which are hydro...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 15, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Chinese pharma firm WuXi that makes life-saving cancer drugs accused of STEALING American's genetic information
A major Chinese pharmaceutical company is using Americans' genetic information to build a massive worldwide database to create new drugs and vaccines, Senators said. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HbA1c test may be inaccurate for thousands of South Asian people, research finds
Tens of thousands of people of South Asian heritage with diabetes and pre-diabetes may have underestimated HbA1c levels researchers have said, after they identified a genetic variant that affects the accuracy of the test. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 15, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Genetic 'handbrake' could be key to stopping prostate cancer growth
EXCLUSIVE: A Nottingham team has received £ 271,000 from Prostate Cancer UK to investigate a promising new treatment avenue. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - April 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Francis Collins Discloses His 'Aggressive' Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
(MedPage Today) -- Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, a renowned physician-geneticist and former director of the NIH, revealed he has prostate cancer.
In a perspective piece published in the Washington Post, Collins said he went public to "share lifesaving... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - April 12, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Groundbreaking treatment approach shows promise in hard-to-treat cancers
Researchers have developed a functional precision medicine approach that targets cancer by combining genetic testing with a new way to test individual drugs on tumor samples. The results of the clinical study were published today in Nature Medicine.
This combined approach, developed by Florida International University cancer researcher Diana Azzam, was used successfully for the first time to guide treatment of relapsed pediatric cancer patients in collaboration with First Ascent Biomedical and Dr. Maggie Fader at the Helen & Jacob Shaham Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. (Sourc...
Source: World Pharma News - April 12, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Your brain on genetics
There ’s nothing like seeing new perspectives through the study of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases.Dr. Daniel Geschwind— without getting too philosophical, he promises — is ready to explain why.Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics, Neurology and Psychiatry at UCLA, has been a pioneering neurogeneticist for more than 25 years, during which time a genomics revolution has allowed research, much of which has come out of UCLA, to show that psychiatric disorders have pathology that ties t hem together.In the last 10 years, hundreds of genes that increase s...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - April 11, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Long Covid trials aim to clear lingering virus —and help patients in need
One Monday morning last September, Shelley Hayden pulled into a parking spot in an underground garage at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She switched off the ignition, pushed the red record button on her cellphone, and gazed into the camera. “The time has come,” said Hayden, long dark-blond hair framing her blue eyes. “Here we are, I’m actually getting to do something.”
More than 3 years earlier, in the summer of 2020, Hayden had come down with COVID-19 while visiting family in Colorado. Since then she’s been plagued by the disease’s cruel sequel, Long Covid, whose symptoms include ov...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 11, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
How to Talk to Your Family About Their Heart Health History
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is the most common genetic heart disease, affecting about 1 in every 500 people, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). In people with HOCM, genetic variants cause the heart’s walls to thicken and stiffen, blocking blood from flowing freely from the left ventricle to the aorta. This, in turn, results in shortness of breath and chest pain (especially during physical activity), abnormal heart rhythms, lightheadedness, dizziness, and fainting, and can worsen over time.
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If a parent has HOCM, offspring have a 50% ch...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
The relationship between CYP46A1 polymorphism and suicide risk: a preliminary investigation - Serna-Rodr íguez MF, Cienfuegos-Jiménez O, Cerda-Flores RM, Marino-Martínez IA, Hernández-Ordoñez MA, Ontiveros-Sánchez de la Barquera JA, Pérez-Maya AA.
Suicide is a global public health issue, with a particularly high incidence in individuals suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The role of cholesterol in suicide risk remains controversial, prompting investigations into genetic markers that may... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Whooping Cough Is Surging in China With Tens of Thousands of Cases and Over a Dozen Deaths
Discussions are needed to determine if the country should update the vaccine it uses for the disease or adjust the immunization program, Shen Hongbing, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a conference in March.
“It requires close attention to prevent and control the spread of whooping cough in China,” Shen said, according to local media reports.
Vaccination woes
Whooping cough infections have been rising in China since 2014, with more than 30,000 in 2019, according to the Chinese CDC. After a respite during the Covid isolation days, they bounced ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Bloomberg News Tags: Uncategorized News Desk overnight wire Source Type: news
Genetic aspects of child and adolescent alcohol-substance use problems - Mutlu C, Gercek C, Ocako ğlu FT, Karaçetin G.
Genetic effects in child-adolescent drug use dependence are generally affected by age, gender, specific drug and stage of use. The genetic effect in alcohol-drug use increases with increasing age and the stage of use. In children and adolescents, genetic s... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Rett Syndrome Research Trust Launches the MECP2 Editing Consortium With Goal to Advance Programs to Clinical Trials
The Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) has taken a significant stride in the pursuit of innovative genetic medicines for Rett syndrome by establishing the MECP2 Editing Consortium. Mutations in MECP2 cause Rett syndrome, a debilitating neurological disorder that causes a lifetime of... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 10, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
