Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 15, 2013

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 14, 2013

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Angelina Jolie has double mastectomy due to breast cancer risk

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 10, 2013

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Injectable nano-network controls blood sugar in diabetics

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Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar in Diabetics for Days at a Time

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 2, 2013

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Scientists Decode “Molecular Chatter” That Makes Cancer Cells Spread

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“Recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells into prostate tumours promotes metastasis”; Younghun Jung, Jin Koo Kim, Yusuke Shiozawa, Jingcheng Wang, Anjali Mishra, and others; Nature Communications 4, Article number 1795, published online 30 April 2013; DOI:10.1038/ncomms2766; Link to Abstract.

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 1, 2013

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Young Girl Receives Lifesaving Windpipe Transplant Made From Her Stem Cells

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 22, 2013

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‘Bed-of-needles’ super-grip plaster for surgical wounds

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 18, 2013

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Frog-like robot will help surgeons

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 15, 2013

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New Technique Holds Promise For The Treatment Of Multiple Sclerosis And Cerebral Palsy

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Transcription factor–mediated reprogramming of fibroblasts to expandable, myelinogenic oligodendrocyte progenitor cells

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 2, 2013

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Ottawa doctors behind breakthrough MS report

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2013

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Nanoparticles Loaded With Bee Venom Kill HIV

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Cytolytic nanoparticles attenuate HIV-1 infectivity

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 7, 2013

Source: Stomach Cancer Test: ‘Bad’ Breath Sensor Can Indicate Illness Reference: A nanomaterial-based breath test for distinguishing gastric cancer from benign gastric conditions

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 25, 2013

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Reprogramming Alpha Cells To Fight Diabetes

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“Epigenomic plasticity enables human pancreatic α to β cell reprogramming”

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 20, 2013

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FDA approves first bionic eye

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 18, 2013

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A ‘Needleless’ Vaccination Even Mothers Will Love!

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 23, 2013

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New way to kill lymphoma without chemotherapy: Golden nanoparticle starves cancer cell to death

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S. Yang, M. G. Damiano, H. Zhang, S. Tripathy, A. J. Luthi, J. S. Rink, A. V. Ugolkov, A. T. K. Singh, S. S. Dave, L. I. Gordon, C. S. Thaxton. Biomimetic, synthetic HDL nanostructures for lymphoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013; DOI:10.1073/pnas.1213657110

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for December 10, 2012

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Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do

Will Technology Replace Doctors? Not So Soon!

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 21, 2012

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Obesity gene linked with lower risk of depression: Study

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“The protective effect of the obesity-associated rs9939609 A variant in fat mass- and obesity-associated gene on depression”

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 8, 2012

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One test may ‘find many cancers’

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The DSB Biomarkers Pilot Study

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 26, 2012

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Is Obesity Irreversible? Timing Is Key in Weight Loss

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Obesity-programmed mice are rescued by early genetic intervention

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 9, 2012

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What Your Breath Reveals

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 4, 2012

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Researchers poised to test stem cells for treating damaged hearts

 

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 3, 2012

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Breast cancer treatment targets tumours with few side effects

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Trastuzumab Emtansine for HER2-Positive Advanced Breast Cancer

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for September 24, 2012

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Breast cancer study finds four distinct genetic types

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Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 31, 2012

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Bionic Eye Restores Sight For Australian Woman Who Was Blind For 30 Years

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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 21, 2012

Source: Non-invasive diabetes test available in pharmacies Reference:

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for August 3, 2012

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Ottawa umpire dies of flesh-eating disease after being struck by foul ball

‘Spray-on Skin’ May Someday Heal Stubborn Leg Ulcers

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Chronic venous leg ulcers: the future of cell-based therapies

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 22, 2012

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Meet the first organism to be entirely modeled on a computer

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First self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 2, 2012

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New DNA test could point to a healthier diet

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 29, 2012

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Scientists Invent Particles That Will Let You Live Without Breathing

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John N. Kheir, Laurie A. Scharp, Mark A. Borden, Edward J. Swanson, Andrew Loxley, James H. Reese, Katherine J. Black, Luis A. Velazquez, Lindsay M. Thomson, Brian K. Walsh, Kathryn E. Mullen, Dionne A. Graham, Michael W. Lawlor, Carlo Brugnara, David C. Bell, and Francis X. McGowan, Jr. Oxygen Gas–Filled Microparticles Provide Intravenous Oxygen Delivery. Science Translational Medicine, 27 June 2012 DOI:10.1126/scitranslmed.3003679

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 28, 2012

Source: Speech Algorithms To Detect Parkinson’s Disease Reference: “Novel Speech Signal Processing Algorithms for High-Accuracy Classification of Parkinson’s Disease”; Tsanas, A.; Little, M.A.; McSharry, P.E.; Spielman, J.; Ramig, L.O; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, published 2012, Volume 59, Issue 5, Pages 1264 – 1271; DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2183367; Link to [...]

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 15, 2012

 

 

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Vein grown from girl’s own stem cells transplanted

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Successful transplantation of tissue-engineered vein, The Lancet

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 14, 2012

 

 

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Cold virus holds promise as cancer therapy: study

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Cell Carriage, Delivery, and Selective Replication of an Oncolytic Virus in Tumor in Patients

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 11, 2012

 

 

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Fixing broken bones a growth industry

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 5, 2012

 

 

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Study: ‘Smart Bomb’ Drug Attacks Breast Cancer

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 1, 2012

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Rat Paralysis Rehab Method Holds Clues for Aiding Humans

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Rehabilitation Restores Voluntary Motion in Paraplegic Rats

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 23, 2012

 

 

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Google algorithm proves extremely useful in cancer study

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Google Goes Cancer: Improving Outcome Prediction for Cancer Patients by Network-Based Ranking of Marker Genes

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 7, 2012

 

 

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U of O discovery offers hope for cancer, heart disease miracle drugs

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An oxygen-regulated switch in the protein synthesis machinery

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May 3, 2012

 

 

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Gene Therapy Safe in Decade-Long HIV Study That May Widen Use

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Decade-Long Safety and Function of Retroviral-Modified Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April , 2012

 

 

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Study extends breast cancer subtypes to 10 from 4: Video

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The genomic and transcriptomic architecture of 2,000 breast tumours reveals novel subgroups

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 17, 2012

 

 

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New Zealand firm to trial pig cells to treat Parkinson’s

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 4, 2012

 

 

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Gene Maps Are No Cure-All

Study Warns That DNA Scanning to Predict Disease Can Mislead; ‘Not a Crystal Ball’

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The Predictive Capacity of Personal Genome Sequencing

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2012

 

 

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Study results give patient care boost

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 20, 2012

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To Fix a Heart, Doctors Train Girl’s Body to Grow New Part

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 19, 2012

 

 

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Study sheds light on workings of Crohn’s disease, colitis

 

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Activation of neuronal P2X7 receptor–pannexin-1 mediates death of enteric neurons during colitis

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March , 2012

 

 

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Ottawa researchers get grant to test stem-cell therapy for septic shock

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Mesenchymal Stem Cells 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 8, 2012

 

 

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New approach for treating genetic muscle wasting disease shows promise in mice

 

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for March 5, 2012

 

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Winnipeg scientist says gene could heal heart damage

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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 16, 2012  

  Source: Under-the-skin microchip delivers doses of medicine  

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 27, 2012

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Heart patient’s stem cells harnessed for healing

Madely Health Headlines Commentary for January 4, 2012

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Stem cells stave off old age, study finds

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Muscle-derived stem/progenitor cell dysfunction limits healthspan and lifespan in a murine progeria model