Clinical Research

Study Links Lower Serotonin Levels To SIDS

Preliminary research published this week in JAMA indicates that decreased levels of serotonin  and tryptophan hydroxylase in the brainstem are associated with an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).  The study included for biochemical an ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2010 - 5:26pm

Media Wakes Up From Coma

Media Wakes Up From Coma The media is currently reporting on 'mind-reading' experiments using brain scanners.  Whilst the 'yes-no' response is news, the use of brain scanners to detect awareness in comatose patients is not. Research in ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 4 2010 - 3:48am

Broken Hearts: Not Just Fodder For Songwriters

If you feel like you have an achy breaky heart, you may not be imagining things. "Broken hearts" are indeed real, although in the medical community they go by the much less lyrical name of stress (tako-tsubo) cardiomyopathy. A recent article in t ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 9 2010 - 11:15am

Stroke Patients Could Improve Motor Skills With Video Games

Video games may help recovering stroke patients improve their motor function, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2010.The pilot study focused on movements with survivors' impaired ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2010 - 5:59pm

Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)- Lorenzo's Oil

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Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 6 2010 - 11:29am

More Dissolved Oxygen In Alcohol May Help Drinkers Sober Up Faster

Researchers from Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea say that increasing dissolved oxygen concentrations in alcohol may reduce drinking-related side effects and accidents. The Results will be published in Alcoholism: Clinical&Experimen ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2010 - 5:22pm

Help Reduce the Placebo Effect in Clinical Drug Trials! $25,000 Reward

I first spotted this as a small advert on Nature. "Help Reduce the Placebo Effect in Clinical Drug Trials" I smiled cynically and just had to check it out- and I was right! "Placebo responses in as many as 60% of the placebo-receiving patien ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 3 2010 - 5:52am

Netherton Syndrome NS Or Bamboo Hair

Netherton syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis of unknown cause characterized by: erythroderma, trichorrhexis invaginata (TI) (bamboo hair), ichthyosis linearis circumflexa (ILC), atopic diathesis and failure to thrive. The syndrome is na ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 17 2010 - 12:58pm

EBOLA

EBOLA- CLINICAL SYMPTOMS:  Ebola was discovered in 1976 in Zaire and Sudan.  The virus called Ebola takes its name from the Ebola River, which flows into Zaire, where the virus was isolated for the first time.  ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - May 17 2018 - 6:38am

Shortened Clinical Trials Exaggerate Treatment Effects

Clinical trials ended early due to positive treatment effects likely exaggerate those effects, according to a new review published in JAMA. The authors caution that researchers should resist pressures to end clinical trials early because of the potential r ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 4:19pm