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Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 23, 2019 5 years ago
Typically, a class of drugs known as hypnotics are traditionally used to treat Insomnia which is one of the most common sleep disorders. However, usage of hypnotics come with motor and cognitive side effects. A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan, show that Suvorexant, (trade name : Belsomra) which is a recently approved and is a more ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 23, 2019 5 years ago
Overall survival and progression-free survival in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) significantly improves with a combination therapy using PD-L1 inhibitor atezolizumab (an immunotherapy drug) and the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab, according to results from a phase 3 study reported at the ESMO Asia 2019 Congress.
Dr Ann-Lii Cheng, Director of the National Taiwan...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 23, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from Northeastern University, Boston have discovered a new antibiotic that could treat infections caused by some of the drug-resistant bacteria that humanity is facing in the global antibiotic resistance crisis.
Dr Kim Lewis & Dr Yu Imai, discovered an antibiotic that can help fight drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern Universi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Pain relievers are as diverse as with the type of pains that a person experiences. By interacting with different parts of the nervous system, pain relievers treat some pains better than others.
Researchers from West Virginia University led by Dr Shane Kaski have recently discovered that an anti-itch medication that targets a specific part of our nerve cells can make morphine, which targets ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Typically, one of the ways a cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a cancer cell is by copying itself over and over, like a Xerox machine. Scientists have long noticed that when cancer-causing genes do that, they also scoop up some extra DNA into their copies. But it has remained unclear whether the additional DNA helps drive cancer or is just along for the ride.
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Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
One of the leading Universities in the Southern Hemisphere, University Of New South Wales, Sydney has developed a simple to use app for testing for dementia among elderly merely by talking into a smartphone thanks to speech-analyzing technology developed by its engineers.
The new app uses machine learning technology to look at paralinguistic features of a person's speech such as proso...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Medical Device News
Siemens Healthineers obtained US FDA clearance and is releasing its brand new SOMATOM X.cite single-source premium CT scanner. The device, along with a high-end X-ray tube and other enhancements, features the company’s new myExam Companion technology that can intelligently adapt each scan to optimize a number of variables.
The new medical devi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Pharma News
The US FDA has granted supplemental approval to acalabrutinib (Calquence, AstraZeneca) for the treatment of adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic leukemia (SLL).1
The Project Orbis, a collaboration between the United States, Australia, and Canada, provides a framework for concurrent submission and review of oncology pharmaceutical ap...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
A group of medical researchers from the University Of Bern have discovered a manner to control Natural Killer Cells for potential applications in cancer immunotherapy
Natural killer (NK) cells are cells of the innate immune system that recognize and eliminate infected cells or cancer cells. During a virus infection, NK cells also keep the body’s own immune cells such as the T cells at bay...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report early today stating that four in five teenagers worldwide do not get enough physical activity, to the detriment of their health, warning that girls especially need more exercise. The advent of social media, internet apps and also gaming is all largely contributing to this disturbing trend which will have severe repercussions on their health in ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
A research team involving interdisciplinary experts from MedUni Vienna has shown that important information about the stage and prognosis of chronic liver diseases can be gotten by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) involves lying in a tube-like machine, the having contrast agent injected into a patient's arm vein. Within an hour, imag...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Leading Biomedical Research Giant, Oligomerix, Inc., a privately held company pioneering the development of tau oligomer inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related neurodegenerative disorders, and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research announced the publication of preclinical data demonstrating that an oral small molecule drug inhibits the formation of neurotoxic tau olig...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
A new broad European study involving multiple medical institutes finds that patients with diabetes do not benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) pacemakers.
Typically, current treatment recommendations support ICD pacemaker treatment for all patients with severe malfunction of the left ventricle. The purpose of the defibrillator is to protect the patient from life-threatening...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from the University of Luxembourg together with researchers from the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) and oncologists from the Centre Hospitalier Emile Mayrisch (CHEM) are in the process of developing a kit which could facilitate the detection of colorectal cancer at early stage and help clinicians choose the best treatment.
Dr. Elisabeth Letellier, principal investig...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 22, 2019 5 years ago
Globally, overweight and obesity issues have become a severe public health problem which can lead to an array of diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular problems and kidney diseases among many other health issues. Current anti-obesity strategies are mainly aimed at restricting calorie intake and absorption including dietary restrictions.
Now, Chinese scientists suggest in a new study that bur...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Despite a few past research studies that links HIV with 'erosion" of the gut's intestinal linings, leading to inflammation and also the ‘leaky gut” syndrome, many HIV patients and even doctors are not aware of this.
In one past research in 2014, researchers at University of California, Davis had made some surprising discoveries about the body's initial response...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have reported the first successful results of an oral, inactivated vaccine candidate ETVAX against enterotoxigenic E. coli diarrhea in a placebo-controlled phase I/II study in infants and children from six months to five years of age in Bangladesh.
The results were extremely positive as all predefined primary endpoints for the study were achieved, s...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
A team of researchers from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and from the Centre of Genomic Regulation (CRG) has created the BacFITBase database that would help other medical researchers identify therapeutic targets for the future development of new antibiotics.
Typically, infectious diseases are caused by pathogenic microorgani...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Cancer News
Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR), the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA), the University of Zaragoza, and the Cancer Research UK Edinburgh Centre at the University of Edinburgh in a collaborative research and study are using “Trojan horses” to combat cancer from within the tumour cells themselves without damaging healthy tissues is the aim of...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
A study conducted by University of California, Davis found that previous exposure to the pollutant DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) may contribute to the risk of diabetes among Asian Indian immigrants to the United States.
The recent study in the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology, linked high levels of DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrich...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Cancer News
A joint research study by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists along with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), have developed a new therapy that extended the survival of mice with acute myeloid leukemia.
The researchers are the first to demonstrate the anti-cancer effect of blocking the Salt-Inducible Kinase 3 (SIK3) pathway in...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Cancer News
The University of Barcelona (UB) and Hospital Clínic de Barcelona entered into a collaboration with pharma giant, Boehringer Ingelheim Inc to improve the efficiency of nintedanib, an antiangiogenic and antifibrotic drug, for the treatment of lung cancer. This public-private collaboration enabled researchers to identify molecular mechanisms underlying the lack of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Thailand Cancer
A recent study by A QIMR Berghofer, a medical research institute in Queensland, Australia has identified how a newly approved blood cancer drug works and found the treatment is better than other drugs at targeting cancer stem cells while causing minimal damage to healthy cells.
In mid-2018, the long-acting form of the drug Interferon alpha was approved for use in Australia...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Dental News
Individuals should chew sugar-free gum after meals to prevent their teeth from rotting, scientists say. Medical researchers scoured 50-years' worth of studies and found sugar-free chewing gum reduced the risk of tooth decay by 28 per cent.
It works by causing the mouth to produce more saliva, which helps neutralise and rinse away acid that forms when we eat. These a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 21, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from the University of Dundee has shown that a commonly used class of antibiotics increases a patient’s risk of suffering a serious and potentially permanent form of nerve damage by almost 50%.
Although peripheral neuropathy has long been recognised as a potential side effect of fluoroquinolone antibiotics but it was not known how strong this association was and how it...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
An innovative biosensor technology developed by a Rutgers-led team has created better that may help lead to safe stem cell therapies for treating Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and other neurological disorders.
The new technology, which features a unique graphene and gold-based platform and high-tech imaging, monitors the fate of stem cells by detecting genet...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
A new fertility tech startup, Mojo has announced that it has secured a US$ 2 million seed funding led by Nordic seed fund Inventure,Doberman and Privilege Ventures (an investor in Ava), plus a number of angel investors including Josefin Landgard (founder and ex-CEO of Kry) and Hampus Jakobsson (venture partner at BlueYard, BA in Clue & Kind.app).
Co-fou...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
The excessive overuse and misuse of opioid pain medications in the US has triggered an urgent search for alternatives in an array of modalities.
Two novel approaches presented at medical meetings in the spring of 2019 appear to offer effective and long-lasting peri- and post-operative analgesia for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty (TJA).
The first approach involves the use of ambul...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
The US FDA (Food and Drug Administration ) has approved Fetroja (cefiderocol), an antibacterial drug for treatment of patients 18 years of age or older with complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including kidney infections caused by susceptible Gram-negative microorganisms, who have limited or no alternative treatment options.
Dr John Farley, acting director of the Office of Infecti...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
Another progressive politician, New York Democratic Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has signed a new law that requires manufacturers of menstrual products to disclose the ingredients on their products. The law will be put into effect starting 2020 gives manufacturers 18 months to develop new packaging and labels. As stated by Gov. Cuomo, many consumers aren’t aware of the toxic and/or allergy-causin...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
A new collaborative study by researchers from King's College London and China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, have found omega-3 fish oil supplements improve attention among children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but only among those with low levels of omega-3 in their blood.
The medical researchers say their results bring a personalised medicine approach to ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that can affect more than just your joints. In some people, the condition can damage a wide variety of body systems, including the skin, eyes, lungs, heart and blood vessels. An autoimmune disorder, rheumatoid arthritis occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body's tissues. The condition is characterized by pain a...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 20, 2019 5 years ago
A large comprehensive study involving more than than 1,000 elderly individuals assessed over six years have revealed no links between statin medication and cognitive decline, such as memory loss, presenting new advice amidst some consumer concerns that statins may have a negative impact on cognitive health.
The international collaborative study, led by researchers at the Garvan Institute of Med...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
Findings from a new international study involving 5179 patients at over 320 hospital locations worldwide and involving more than 20 prestigious medical universities are creating a huge buzz in the medical industry especially in the field of cardiology.
Costly bypass operations, angioplasty and the placement of artery-opening stents: for decades, millions of Americans and millions worldwide have...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that eating a healthy diet may reduce the risk of acquired hearing loss. Using longitudinal data collected in the Nurses' Health Study II Conservation of Hearing Study (CHEARS), researchers examined three-year changes in hearing sensitivities and found that women whose eating patterns more closely adhered to commonly recommen...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from Taiwan have discovered from a new research that exposure to radiation from CT scans is associated with higher risks of developing thyroid cancer and leukemia. The finds of the study was published today in the medical journal, JNCI Cancer Spectrum.
The medical researchers conducted study from a National Health Insurance dataset in Taiwan between 2000 and 2013. The study ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
A new German study has unveiled some disturbing news. Toxic substances such as pesticides can cause health effects on sensitive individuals in concentrations up to ten thousand times lower than previously assumed. This was shown by researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in a series of research studies.
UFZ ecotoxicologist Prof. Dr. Matthias Liess told Thailand Medi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
University of California researchers have developed a breakthrough stem cell therapy to improve memory and prevent seizures in mice following traumatic brain injury. In the research, the University of California (Irvine) team transplanted embryonic progenitor cells (a specialized type of stem cells) capable of generating inhibitory interneurons, a specific type of nerve cell that controls th...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
A new study by researchers from the gastroenterology team at Henri-Mondor AP-HP Hospital and University Paris-Est Créteil, led by Professor Iradj Sobhani, together with teams from Inserm and the Institut Pasteur Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis Unit (U1202), led by Professor Philippe Sansonetti,holder of the Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Chair at the Collège de France,have dem...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
The first contact lens indicated to slow the progression of myopia in children ages 8 to 12 years, called MiSight, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week.
The disposable single-use soft contact lenses should be discarded after one-day use and are not intended to be worn overnight. They are indicated to correct and slow progression of myopia in children with he...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 19, 2019 5 years ago
Doctors are cautioning individuals after numerous incidences of health related incidences have risen with regards to usage of beddings, duvets and pillows that are filled with feathers. Cases of lung inflammations, allergies and other respiratory problems have risen not only in UK but also in the US, China, Australia and also other Asian countries.
Despite being a premium commodity as the...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
Salk Institute researchers have developed a new gene therapy to help decelerate the aging process. Aging is a leading risk factor for a number of debilitating conditions, including heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, to name a few. This makes the need for anti-aging therapies all the more urgent.
The research findings, published in the journal Nature Medicine, highligh...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
According to a new study on cancer trends in Canada from 1971 to 2015 published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association),the overall rate of new cancer cases is decreasing in men but increasing in women younger than 80 years, and obesity-related cancers are increasing in young people, according to a study on cancer trends.
Dr. Darren Brenner, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
China has announced that a 55-year-old man has been diagnosed with pneumonic plague after killing and eating a wild rabbit, adding to two plague cases already discovered in the capital Beijing.
A media statement from the health authority in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region north of Beijing said that as of Saturday the man was being treated at a hospital in the city of Huade.
Health investi...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
The lemon water hype started about 4 years ago in the US and spread globally and started to rise increasingly in 2017 to the point that celebrities were swearing by it, commercial bottled versions started to appear in supermarkets, organic stores and wellness centres and even so called prominent medical news sites were disseminating fake news about its merits. (google search lemon water and you ca...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
The breakthrough discovery of the UM171 molecule, by Dr. Guy Sauvageau and Dr Anne Marinier, made headlines in 2014 following an article in Science journal. Hailed by some as a revolution, even a miracle, in the field of blood stem cell transplantation, the UM171 molecule is delivering on its promise.
Results from a two-year clinical trial, which used the UM171 molecule in blood...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 18, 2019 5 years ago
The latest edition of the IDF (International Diabetes Federation) Diabetes Atlas (the 9th edition) shows that more than 463 million people worldwide are currently living with diabetes.
China leads the lists with more than 116 million diabetics, followed by India with 77 million diabetics and America in third place with 31 million diabetics.
Though Thailand did not secure a place am...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 5 years ago
Researchers from Murdoch University, Australia have conducted a new study that shows saffron may assist adults with depression when it is taken in conjunction with pharmaceutical antidepressants.
Dr. Adrian Lopresti and Professor Peter Drummond, and UWA researcher Professor Sean Hood found greater reductions in depressive symptoms when adults with persistent depression, and currently ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 5 years ago
A disturbing discovery has unveiled that not only are many female hygiene products laden with numerous types of dangerous volatile organic compounds(VOCs) but these chemicals can actually end up in the bloodstream of the users where it can create untold health catastrophes.
Many VOCs are carcinogenic ie cancer causing and they can also cause a variety of immunity related issues and are also end...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from the University of Birmingham have uncovered an explanation for the correlation between mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness. Around 12 million UK citizens have a chronic medical condition, and many of them report severe mental fatigue that they characterize as 'sluggishness' or 'brain fog'. This condition is often as debilitating as the diseas...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 5 years ago
A panel of specialists from the US Food and Drug Administration has approved allowing Amarin Corp Plc's fish-oil derived drug, Vascepa to be used as an add-on therapy for reducing the chance of heart attack and stroke in high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease.
Everyone of the 16 panelists voted that the drug should be sold as a medicine to reduce the risk of cardiovascular eve...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 5 years ago
The human liver is the largest organ inside the body, and it plays a vital role. In fact, its function is so important that without it, the body would die within less than 24 hours. The liver serves as a processing plant for the nutrients obtained from food and a detoxification center for various chemicals and compounds produced in the body as a result of various cellular and internal processes an...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 16, 2019 5 years ago
The US Food and Drug Administration approved Novartis AG's Adakveo (crizanlizumab) as new medicine that can help reduce extremely painful sickle cell disease flare-ups for patients 16 and older. The monthly infusion, which halves occurrences of sickle cell pain episodes, will carry a list price of roughly US$82,000 to US$114,000 per year, depending on dosing.
Unfortunately, sickle cell dise...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 16, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from Danish SSI and Imperial College London have recently published promising results from the first clinical trials of a vaccine against chlamydia. This represents a significant step toward a preventative treatment for the world’s most common sexually transmitted bacterial disease.
Currently, chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 16, 2019 5 years ago
Medical researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered that a type of immune cell known as a pancreatic islet macrophage is capable of promoting insulin production during the pre-diabetes phase.
Assitant Professor Yusof Ali from NTU
The medical researchers believe that the macrophages could be harnessed through new targeted treatments to prevent typ...