PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [August 30, 2021] — The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—a nonprofit alliance of leading cancer centers—today announced significant updates to the NCCN: Cancer and COVID-19 Vaccination guidance. This is the fourth version of NCCN’s COVID-19 vaccination guide and incorporates the latest data plus recent approvals from the FDA and CDC regarding a third mRNA...
Month: <span>September 2021</span>
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Robot-assisted therapy can help treat stroke survivors, study finds
IMAGE: RESEARCH LED BY UTHEALTH SHOWED POTENTIAL FOR THE EKSO 1.1TM EXOSKELETON TO CORRECT IMPAIRED WALKING PATTERNS ON A WEAK OR PARALYZED LEG, AND INCREASE ITS MOTOR COORDINATION. CREDIT: PHOTO COURTESY OF FANGSHI ZHU, PHD/UTHEALTH Exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation can be beneficial in treating stroke survivors, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center...
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International experts outline diabetes remission diagnosis criteria
People with type 2 diabetes should be considered in remission after sustaining normal blood sugar levels for three months or more, according to a new consensus statement from the Endocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), Diabetes UK and the American Diabetes Association, and co-published in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, Diabetic Medicine and Diabetes...
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FDA orphan drug approval: Octapharma’s Octagam(R) 10% receives 7 years of market exclusivity for adult dermatomyositis
IMAGE: OCTAPHARMA USA TODAY ANNOUNCED THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (FDA) OFFICE OF ORPHAN PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT (OOPD) HAS AWARDED SEVEN YEARS OF MARKETING EXCLUSIVITY FOR OCTAGAM® 10% [IMMUNE GLOBULIN INTRAVENOUS (HUMAN)], THE FIRST AND ONLY INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN (IVIG) TO BE INDICATED FOR THE TREATMENT OF ADULT DERMATOMYOSITIS (DM). CREDIT: OCTAPHARMA USA FDA Orphan Drug...
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One in two pregnancies are affected by iron deficiency, yet many women don’t get a simple screening test to check
by American Society of Hematology Credit: CC0 Public Domain Half of pregnant women who had a simple blood test to check their iron stores had low iron levels, and one in four had severe iron deficiency, according to a paper published today in the journal Blood Advances. But despite how common iron deficiency is, 40% of pregnant...
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New insights about melanocytes could lead to more targeted melanoma treatments
by Huntsman Cancer Institute Rachel Belote, PhD, and Robert Judson-Torres, PhD. Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) have generated the first “atlas” of human melanocytes located throughout the body. In analyzing the atlas data further, the researchers discovered there are different types of melanocytes, including what...
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Algorithm can predict possible Alzheimer’s with nearly 100 percent accuracy
by Kaunas University of Technology Prof Rytis Maskeliūnas, KTU Faculty of Informatics. Credit: Kaunas University of Technology Researchers from Kaunas universities, Lithuania developed a deep learning-based method that can predict the possible onset of Alzheimer’s disease from brain images with an accuracy of over 99 percent. The method was developed while analyzing functional MRI images obtained from...
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Old skeletal stem cells interfere with healing, promote ‘inflammaging’
Researchers have found that old skeletal stem cells contribute to bone fragility and poor healing in mice, but that a stem cell-boosting gel may help restore function. Stanford Medicine researchers have discovered how genetic and molecular changes in aging skeletal stem cells may contribute to poor fracture healing, osteoporosis and various blood disorders, as well as general inflammation...
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Mortality risk in transgender people twice as high as cisgender people, data spanning five decades suggests
Retrospective analysis of data from 4,568 transgender people in the Netherlands recorded between 1972 and 2018 indicates an approximately two-fold increased mortality risk compared with cis men and cis women that did not decrease over time. Increased mortality among transgender women compared to cis men and cis women showed greater risks of death due to...
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Statistical model defines ketamine anesthesia’s effects on the brain
IMAGE: A MULTITAPER SPECTROGRAM OF 120 SECONDS OF READINGS FROM A HUMAN PATIENT UNDER KETAMINE ANESTHESIA SHOWS DISTINCT BANDS OF HIGH POWER (WARMER COLORS) AT HIGH “GAMMA” FREQUENCIES AND VERY LOW “DELTA” FREQUENCIES. CREDIT: BROWN LAB/MIT PICOWER INSTITUTE By developing the first statistical model to finely characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain, a team...