Thailand Medical News

German MRI Study Shows That Playing The Drums Improves Brain Function

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

A German study shows that individuals who play drums regularly for years differ from unmusical people in their brain structure and function. The results of a study by researchers from Bochum suggest that they have fewer, but thicker fibers in the main connecting tract between the two halves of the brain. In addition, their motor brain areas are organized more efficiently. This observation and c...

Canadian Researchers Identify Immune Cells Called Tr1 That Helps Treat Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

Canadian researchers in a new study suggests that specialized immune cells that dampen inflammation and help repair the gut could be used as a potential therapy for children dealing with the painful symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A study by the BC Children's Hospital and the University of British Columbia shows that a specific type of T cell, called a Tr1 cell, produces a che...

Stem Cells For Diabetes?

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

There are currently more than 180 clinical trials ongoing in various countries with regards to using stem cells in treating diabetes. One biotech company, Global Institute of Stem Cell Therapy and Research (GIOSTAR), a leader in regenerative technologies, has announced that they are in the process of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct type 2 diabetes ...

Cinnarizine And Sodium Valproate For Pediatric Migraine Prevention

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

A new research by pediatrics and migraine specialists from the University of Medical Sciences, Tehran show that Cinnarizine and Sodium Valproate are effective as the preventive agents of pediatric migraine in young children and teenagers. The study article entitled "Cinnarizine and sodium valproate as the preventive agents of pediatric migraine: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled t...

Medical Community Calls For New Labeling Of Food Based On Physical Activity Needed To Burn Calories

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

With growing metabolic syndrome related diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases on the rise, labeling food and drink with the amount and type of exercise needed to burn off the calories in it might be a more effective way of encouraging people to make 'healthier' dietary choices, indicates research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. M...

Common Yeast Found On Fruits And Certain Foods Able To Combat Drug-Resistant Fungal Infections

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from the United States and India has shown that probiotic yeasts derived from fruits and food are able to reduce the virulence of, and even prevent infections by, several types of fungi that are responsible for life-threatening infections in hospitalized and immune-compromised individuals, including the multi-drug resistant Candida auris, which was recently listed as an urgent thr...

Canon’s New Aquilion ONE / PRISM Edition Spectral CT Scanner Already Getting Massive Orders In Asia

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Despite only being unveiled at the RSNA 2019 conference in Chicago, a forthnight ago, Canon Medical’s brand new Aquilion ONE / PRISM Edition spectral CT scanner, a system that takes advantage of artificial intelligence technologies is already getting massive orders in Asia including one for new hospital in Bangkok, 3 for new hospitals in Vietnam, 3 for hospitals in India and more in th...

US FDA Approves Generics Versions Of Gilenya, A Multiple Sclerosis Drug

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Pharma News The American Regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic versions of Novartis multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya (fingolimod). Applications for the generic fingolimod by HEC Pharm, Biocon and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries secured the FDA authorisation to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis ...

ViiV Healthcare’s Fostemsavir , A New HIV Med For Drug Resistant HIV Patients Submitted To US FDA For Approval

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Pharma News The global HIV specialists pharma company, ViiV Healthcare, majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, has filed a New Drug Application in the US for fostemsavir, an investigational, first-in-class attachment inhibitor for the treatment of HIV-1 infection. Fostemsavir, the drug is being developed for use in combination with other antiretroviral agents ...

Combo Therapy With Azacitidine And Enasidenib More Effective For Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patients

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Phase II of a multi-institutional, study led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center showed that pairing standard chemotherapy azacitidine (AZA) with a drug called enasidenib (ENA) measurably boosts complete remission in patients newly diagnosed with a specific form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Study results from the randomized, open-label study were presented at the recently he...

Boosting Brain Blood Flow Using MR Guided Focused Ultrasound For Alzheimer Treatment

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

MR Guided Focused ultrasound is a safe and effective way to target and open areas of the blood-brain barrier, potentially allowing for new treatment approaches to Alzheimer's disease, according to initial study results presented at the recent annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Presently, there is no effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease, the most c...

New Biomarkers For Aggressive Triple Negative Breast Cancer Identified

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Oncologists who treat patients with the aggressive triple negative breast cancer have two new ways to predict which cancer patients may benefit most from the well-established post-surgery treatment known as AC chemotherapy, short for adjuvant doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide. Oncology researchers from the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials network funded by the National Canc...

Protein Linked To Aging Identified By Researchers From Institut Pasteur

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Department at the Institut Pasteur have concluded a study that sheds light on the mechanisms of senescence, by identifying a key protein known as CSB that associated with ageing. Currently, ageing is a dramatic public health issue in the face of the current demographic changes: the proportion of 60 and over in the world's population w...

Researchers Discover Lipoteichoic Acid From Probiotic Lactobacillus Paracasei Which Can Aid In Aging-Related Leaky Gut And Inflammation

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers from Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina have identified a dead probiotic that reduces age-related leaky gut and inflammation in older animal models. The results from the study is published in the journal GeroScience. Past research has indicated that leaky gut, in which microbes and bacteria in the gut leak into the blood stream through holes or cr...

Researchers Discover Biomarker sCD14 For Dementia, Cognitive Decline And Brain Atrophy Diagnosis

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio along with medical scientists from Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne have discovered an inflammatory biomarker called sCD14 that is related to brain atrophy, cognitive decline and dementia, according to a study of more than 4,700 participants from two large community-based heart studies. The stud...

Engineered Probiotic For Treatment Of IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

Approximately 26 million people globally have lifelong and incurable Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and 470,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. IBD patients suffer from pain, extreme discomfort, and many other symptoms caused by continuously relapsing and remitting inflammatory lesions in the layer of cells that lines the intestinal ...

HeartBeat Model Leads To better Treatment Choices For Atrial fibrillation

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

Imperial College London researchers have shown how the chaotic electrical signals underlying irregular heart rhythms lead to the failure of standard treatments. By modelling how electrical signals on the inside and the outside of the heart move across the muscle, the researchers have suggested why corrective surgery is not currently always beneficial. The new insight could improve surgery...

Study Shows That Even Small Amounts Of Alcohol Consumption Increases Risk Of Cancer In Japan

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

In a joint study conducted by researchers from Harvard University and University of Tokyo, it was found that even light to moderate alcohol consumption was associated with elevated cancer risks in Japan. In the study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the overall cancer risk appeared to be the lowest at zero alcohol consumption. In the...

Polio Re-emerges In Malaysia After 27 years And More Cases Suspected

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

First it was Philippines in the later part of the year, now Malaysia too is witnessing cases of polio re-emerging in its country after almost 27 years. Malaysia has reported its first polio case in 27 years, health authorities said yesterday, announcing a three-month-old baby had been diagnosed on Borneo island. Malaysian health ministry's director-general, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, sa...

‘Probiotic Drops’ For Future Treatments Of Eye Diseases? ….An Intro To The Eye Microbiome

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

Many of you may be familiar with the newly found fact that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes ranging from fungi, bacteria and viruses, that are vital for keeping you healthy. But how many of you are aware that your eyes are also host a unique menagerie of microbes? Collectively, they are called the eye microbiome. It has been discovered that when these microbes are out o...

Diverse Variety Of Alpha-Synuclein Proteins Involved In Parkinson’s Disease And MSA

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

Both neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson’s Disease and Multisystem Atrophy (MSA) are associated with the accumulation of alpha-synuclein proteins in the brain. Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-BPC) have investigated the molecular makeup of these protein deposits finding structural diversity. E...

Non-Coding SNPs Plays A Role In Inherited Risk of Cancer

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

An individual’s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don’t code for proteins, previously dismissed as ‘junk DNA’, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer last week. Professor Dr John Quackenbush, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and lead author of the study told Thailand Me...

Stanford University Researchers Develop New Blood-Based Diagnostics That Can Indicate Your True Biological Age And Overall Health Status

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 09, 2019 5 years ago

A team of Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have developed a new blood diagnostic platform that functions as a kind of physiological clock: monitoring the levels of 373 proteins circulating in one’s blood. If the protein levels are out of the recommended levels, it can indicate critical issues about a person’s health and stage of biological aging. Dr Tony Wyss-Coray,...

Siemens New AI Apps for Automatic MRI Image Segmentation, Aids In Diagnosing Parkinson’s, Dementia, Alzheimer And Prostate Cancer

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 08, 2019 5 years ago

A must for every hospital, Siemens Healthineers has released a couple of AI-driven and cloud-based software applications, one for the brain and one for the prostate, that automate a great deal of the manual tasks that radiologists have to perform. Both of the applications can be used with data coming from any MRI machine, so they can be deployed by just about any facility using an MRI scanner and...

Cardiac Disease Status Can Be Predicted By Cellular Repair Response to Physical Exercise

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 08, 2019 5 years ago

Isolating patients with otherwise stable coronary artery disease (CAD) who are high-risk and would benefit from more intense or invasive interventions is currently a major theme in cardiology research. Often CAD patients undergo a treadmill exercise test to look for signs of blockages in their coronary arteries, and Emory researchers have been examining measurements that could provide additional i...

Carcinogen Contaminated Versions of Diabetes Drug Metformin Found In South-East Asia

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 08, 2019 5 years ago

Of the 46 different brands of metformin, a diabetes medication that is available in most South-East Asian countries, three versions are being recalled after they were found to contain unsafe levels of an impurity called NDMA that can potentially cause cancer. The Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) tested all 46 locally marketed metformin medicines and the remaining 43 are not affected. The...

Study Shows That Treating Fungal Meningitis With Fluconazole Is Actually Increasing Drug Resistance

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

A new research by University of Liverpool warns that common first-line treatment approach of using fluconazole for cryptococcal meningitis in low-income countries is being compromised by the emergence of drug resistance. The study findings highlight the need to develop new drugs and treatment regimens for the lethal brain infection, which kills around 180,000 people each year. The results fi th...

Soon All Your Meats Will Not Be Coming From Farms But From Laboratory Factories. Cultured Meats The Next Wave Of Poison From The Processed Food Industry

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

It’s the next wave, cultured meats or in vitro meat, also called "clean meat" by its supporters, is meat produced in a laboratory using bioengineering techniques that will be appearing in supermarkets and restaurants as early as 2020. Dr Mark Post, professor at Maastricht University, presented the first hamburger in 2013 made of cultured meat. ...

AI To Diagnosis Colorectal Cancer Accurately

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

Presently, colorectal cancer is the second most common type of cancer worldwide, with about 90% of cases occurring in people 50 or older. Arising from the inner surface, or muscosal layer, of the colon, cancerous cells can penetrate through the deeper layers of the colon and spread to other organs. Left untreated, the disease is fatal. Conventional colon cancer screening is performed by flexibl...

Acupuncture Alleviates Xerostomia Conditions In Cancer Patients.

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have demonstrated in a new study that after receiving acupuncture treatment three days a week during the course of radiation treatment, head and neck cancer patients experienced less dry mouth or xerostomia conditions. The clinical trial results, published in JAMA Network Open, is the first randomized, placebo-controlled, P...

Alarmingly, More Teens Developing Multiple Sclerosis

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

Though traditionally, Multiple Sclerosis has always been a sickness associated with adults, doctors worldwide are witnessing a phenomena of more teenagers especially girls developing the disease over the last 6 years especially in developed countries. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). In MS, the immune system a...

Researchers Discover Drug From Oleander Plant To Treat HTLV-I Virus, The Deadly Cousin OF HIV That 15 Million People Worldwide Are Infected With

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers From Southern Methodists University (SMU) have discovered that the drug oleandrin derived from the Nerium oleander plant could prevent the HTLV-1 virus from spreading by targeting a stage of the reproduction process that is not currently targeted by existing drugs. This is significant discovery because there is currently no cure or treatment for the virus of a lesser-known "c...

Japanese Researchers Discover New Biomarker For Bile Duct Cancer

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 07, 2019 5 years ago

In Asian populations, despite biliary tract cancer being a type of cancer that is considered rare globally, its growing incidence rate is becoming a worrisome trend. In countries like Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Korea and Japan, the incidence of bile duct cancer has been rising at an exponential rate. Currently Thailand* has the highest incidence rate in the world with an estimate...

Study Shows New ‘Diet’ Regimen Known As Time-Restricted Eating Actually Improves Health

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

A new research suggests it's about time to consider that possibility that a clock could do a better job than a scale at promoting weight loss, improving sleep and preventing diabetes. By exploring the benefits of daily fasting in humans, researchers have found that people who are at high risk of developing diabetes improved their health in myriad ways when they ate all of their meals ov...

Medical Scientists Collectively Agree That Preventing Or Early Treatment Of Chronic Inflammation Reduces Illnesses And Saves Lives

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

Medical Scientists from 22 prestigious institutions, are recommending early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of severe chronic inflammation to reduce the risk of chronic disease and death worldwide. Chronic Inflammation leads to a varierty of medical conditionsincluding neurodegenerative disease, cancer, autoimmune issues, etc. The collective group of international experts, which also includ...

Study Shows That Aspirin Use Reduces Cancer In The Elderly

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, Aspirin use three or more times per week is associated with reductions in all-cause, any cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality among older adults. Dr Holli A. Loomans-Kropp, Ph.D., M.P.H., from the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues examined the correlation of aspirin use wit...

Researchers Reengineer CP24 Peptide For Use As A Long Acting Anti-HIV Drug

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

Thailand HIV News By reengineering a peptide called CP24, the new compound called IBP-CP24 has the potential to be further developed as a long-acting anti-HIV drug that can be used alone or in combination with a broad neutralizing antibody for the treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection, according to a study published December 5 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Lu ...

Study Shows Fructose Consumption Increases Risk Of Death From Cardiovascular Diseases

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

Heart health impact by sugars depends on the dose and type of sugar consumed, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital. The research team, led by Dr. John Sievenpiper, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, examined the relationship between total and added sugars that contain fructose...

Analytical Techniques To Measure BPA (Bisphenol A) Levels Used By US FDA And Other Regulatory Bodies Worldwide Deeply Flawed

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

-Real exposure levels to the endocrine disruptor and carcinogenic chemical could be as could be as high as 44 times more, raising questions as to whether it was a deliberate attempt. Washington State University researchers have developed a more accurate method of measuring bisphenol A (BPA) levels in humans and found that exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical is far higher than previous...

Obeticholic Acid : First Ever Drug To Be Able To Treat Liver Disease Called NASH, Submitted For US FDA Approval

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 06, 2019 5 years ago

Individuals with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a chronic liver disease and a leading cause for liver transplantation in the world, currently lack an approved drug therapy, but this may soon change. A large Phase III clinical trial designed in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University is the first to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of an oral medication to treat ...