Rich Haridy New research presented at the the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology has demonstrated a novel topical formation containing cannabidiol (CBD) is effective at killing bacterial infections in the skin. The formulation was also found to kill certain antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We have known for some time that certain cannabinoids found in...
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Neuronal Parkinson inclusions are different than expected
by University of Basel An international team of researchers involving members of the University of Basel’s Biozentrum challenges the conventional understanding of the cause of Parkinson’s disease. The researchers have shown that the inclusions in the brain’s neurons, characteristic of Parkinson’s disease, are composed of a membranous medley rather than protein fibrils. The recently published study in Nature Neuroscience raises new questions about the...
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Prostate cancer urine test shows who needs treatment and when
by University of East Anglia Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital have developed a urine testto diagnose aggressive prostate cancer and predict whether patients will require treatment up to five years earlier than standard clinical methods. The experimental new test called ‘PUR’ (Prostate Urine Risk) also identifies men who are up to eight times less likely to need treatment within five...
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Genetics may help predict the right blood pressure drug for you
Medication can play a huge role in reducing high blood pressure, a leading cause of stroke, heart attack and other serious health problems. Yet given the wide selection of drugs for doctors to choose from, figuring out which drug works best for someone is difficult. But researchers may have found a better way to predict the effectiveness and side...
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Smart Diaper Detects Urinary Tract Infections
MEDGADGET EDITORS DIAGNOSTICS, UROLOGY Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are dangerous for infants and the elderly. While the onset of UTIs generally involves pain and other symptoms, young children are not able to describe how they’re feeling, while the elderly may suffer from neurodegenerative conditions that reduce sensation in the affected area. Moreover, it’s difficult to obtain a sample...
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Researchers reach milestone in use of nanoparticles to kill cancer with heat
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to kill hard-to-reach tumors. Magnetic nanoparticles – tiny pieces of matter as small as one-billionth of a meter – have shown anti-cancer promise for tumors easily accessible by syringe, allowing the particles to be injected directly into the cancerous growth. Once injected into...
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Combination therapy for rosacea shows improved response rates
Martin Schaller, M.D., from Tübingen University Hospital in Germany, and colleagues conducted a 12-week multicenter, randomized comparative trial involving adults with severe rosacea. A total of 273 participants were randomly assigned to IVM and DMR (combination arm) and IVM and placebo (monotherapy). The researchers found that IVM and DMR exhibited superior efficacy in reducing inflammatory...
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Hydrogel offers real promise in treating diabetes
by Cécilia Carron, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Researchers at EPFL have developed a hydrogel that offers unrivaled protection against transplanted cell rejection. The School’s Technology Transfer Office has licensed the new product to Cell-Caps, a Geneva-based startup specialized in cell encapsulation for treating diabetes. Transplanted tissue often comes under attack from the body’s immune system and struggles to survive in...
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Velcro-like proteins keep cancer drugs inside the cancer
Michael Irving There are several techniques used to kill cancer, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but the really tricky part is doing so without harming the rest of the body. Cytokines are small proteins that could play a part in immunotherapy, but they’ve so far not been approved for use, given their toxicity to healthy...
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The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, bacteriophages, or phages for short, may prove useful in fighting bacteria that cannot be killed by antibiotics alone. The research...