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Latests Medical News from around the world and also Thailand, bringing you updates, discoveries, studies and findings on various aspects and diseases in the medical world. Most of these articles are not only meant for Doctors In Thailand or Hospitals In Thailand but also for any patients or health conscious individuals wanting to know more.

Functional Iron Deficiency Could be Affecting Individuals With Fatty Liver Disease To Not Exercise

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 27, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers from Edith Cowan University, Australia have found that a chronic disease affecting up to 80 per cent of overweight people may be causing an iron deficiency that simply leaves them too tired to get off the couch. The incidence of fatty liver disease globally is about 25% or 1 of of 4 adults and is often associated with being overweight or obese. If left untreat...

Medical Tattooing: New Device Helps Plastic Surgeons Perform 3D Nipple Tattoos For Breast Reconstruction Surgeries

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 27, 2019 5 years ago

Medical tattooing is a critical reconstructive component in women following mastectomy. recently, novel three-dimensional tattooing techniques mimicking depth by using light and shadow principles have allowed for aesthetically superior results. Three-dimensional tattoos offer a new alternative for creating a natural-looking nipple after breast reconstruction. For most women, accessing th...

Researchers Discover Replication and Death Processes Of The Hepatitis D Virus

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 27, 2019 5 years ago

A research team led by INRS Professor Dr Patrick Labonté has identified the role of a key process in the replication cycle of the hepatitis D virus, an infection that is still very difficult to cure and affects 15 to 20 million people worldwide. HDV or hepatitis D virus has a specific target: it infects only people carrying the hepatitis B virus (HBV). As with other co-infections, the co...

Proton Therapy More Effective For Cancer And With Lesser Side Effects Compared To Conventional Radiation Or Chemotherapy

Source: Thailand Medical news Dec 27, 2019 5 years ago

CANCER A new study shows that Proton therapy leads to significantly lower risk of side effects severe enough to lead to unplanned hospitalizations for cancer patients when compared with traditional radiation, while cure rates between the two groups are almost identical. The study findings come from an expanded analysis of the largest review of its kind, performed by researchers in the Pe...

Research Shows That The Risk Of Seven Types Of Cancer Can Be Lowered By Recommended Physical Activity Or Exercise Levels

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 27, 2019 5 years ago

CANCER NEWS A collated analysis of nine prospective studies involving more than 760,000 adults finds that recommended amounts of leisure-time physical activity were linked to a lower risk for seven cancers, with several cancer types having a 'dose/response' relationship. The research study was led by investigators at the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and...

New Blood-Based Sequencing Diagnostics Identifies Pediatric Cancer Infections Way Before Symptoms Manifest

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 26, 2019 5 years ago

A new sequencing-based blood test can pick up infections among pediatric cancer patients three days before they become ill, a new pilot cohort study has found. Infections are common, yet life-threatening complications that affect immuno-compromised cancer patients. A new pilot study by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of mic...

Study Shows That Disturbance Of Immune Molecular Pathways In Utero Could Impact Susceptibility To Rotavirus

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 26, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered how a brief disruption to a molecular pathway in the guts of animal models before they are born can compromise adult immunity to a common and often deadly intestinal virus. The study team found that in utero inhibition of molecular signaling in the ‘lymphotoxin pathway,’ long known as important in the development of th...

Time Restricted Eating and Intermittent Fasting: Mounting Medical Evidences Shows That It The Way Forward Towards A Health Lifestyle

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 26, 2019 5 years ago

In a new review article published in the Dec. 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine neuroscientist Dr Mark Mattson, Ph.D., concludes that intermittent fasting and time restricted eating not only has many medical and health merits but should be adopted regimen of a healthy lifestyle. Dr Mattson, who has studied the health impact of intermittent fa...

CDC Warns Skin-lightening Creams Containing Organic Methyl Mercury Can Cause Nerve Damage

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

It was reported that a skin-lightening cream from Mexico that contained toxic mercury left a California woman with significant central nervous system damage, doctors report in a case study. Whats more alarming is that after the report, more media outlets are reporting that similar creams that are being made in China are finding its way all around the world from South-East Asia, India, Japan, Austr...

Staph Vaccine On The Horizon

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

The Staph (Staphylococcus) bacteria, is the leading cause of potentially dangerous skin infections, are most feared for the drug-resistant strains that have become a serious threat to public health. Attempts to develop a vaccine against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have failed to outsmart the superbug's ubiquity and adaptability to antibiotics. However a new ...

Study Shows That Acupuncture And Acupressure Can Help Cancer Patients Deal With Pain

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

According to a review published in JAMA Oncology Journal, the use of acupuncture and/or acupressure is associated with reduced cancer pain and decreased use of analgesics Dr Yihan He, Ph.D., from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in China, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify randomized clinical trials (RCTs)...

New Specific Type Of Gastric Cancer Fast Emerging Among Younger Patients

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

Most individuals under 60 who develop gastric or stomach cancer have a "genetically and clinically distinct" disease, new Mayo Clinic research has discovered. Compared to stomach cancer in older adults, this new, early onset form often grows and spreads more quickly, has a worse prognosis, and is more resistant to traditional chemotherapy treatments, the study finds. The research was pub...

Singaporean Researchers Develop Faster Protocol To Harvest Secretome From Stem Cells

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore have found an easier way to harvest healing factors ie molecules that promote tissue growth and regeneration, from adult stem cells. Currently, scientists 'pre-condition' adult stem cells to secrete healing factors by putting them in a low-oxygen chamber or by using biochemicals or genetic engineering. The NTU ...

Low Fat, High Albumin And High Whey Protein Diets Helps Boost Male Fertility

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 25, 2019 5 years ago

According to a new pilot study, a diet low in fat and high in egg whites could be the key to boosting male fertility The new research, by Dr. Karma Pearce from the University of South Australia in collaboration with fertility specialist Prof Dr Kelton Tremellen, Repromed, and Flinders University, presents a direct link between diet and testosterone, showing that what men eat could affect the...

Restoration Of P53 Tumor Suppressor Using Nanotechnology Helps Sensitize Cancer Cells For Treatment

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

Onco-genetic investigators from the Brigham And Women’s Hospital by leveraging advancements in nanotechnology, have found that restoring p53 not only delays the growth of p53-deficient liver and lung cancer cells but may also make tumors more vulnerable to cancer drugs known as mTOR inhibitors. p53 In recent preclinical experiments, investigators restored p53 using synthetic mRNA nanopart...

Study Shows That Tuberculosis Vaccine Decreases Rates Of Alzheimer's Disease In Individuals With Bladder Cancer

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

At the moment, from a statistic perspective, Alzheimer's affects one-in-ten adults over the age of 65 a number that is expected to triple by 2030. The need to find a cure is extremely critical. There might be a glimmer of hope now. A research team headed by Dr Hervé Bercovier, Dr Charles Greenblatt and Dr Benjamin Klein at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)'s Department of M...

New Combo Therapy For Glioblastoma

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

Though immune checkpoint inhibitors are important medications that boost the immune system's response against certain cancer, they tend to be ineffective against glioblastoma, the most deadly primary brain tumor in adults. New research in animal models led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of Florida reveals a promising strategy that makes glioblastoma...

Researchers from Icahn School Of Medicine On The Way To Finding Treatment To Prevent Hair Loss And Baldness

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers from Icahn School Of Medicine, Mount Sinai say a new hair growth discovery might help men keep their locks for a lifetime. The new insight involves a structure lying within the hair follicle. Lead researcher Dr. Michael Rendl, an associate director of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City told Thailand Medi...

Researchers From University Of Western Australia Show That Gene Regulation Is Linked To Energy Production

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

Genomic and medical researchers at The University of Western Australia, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and Curtin University have made a fundamental discovery about of the regulation of genes in mitochondria, providing a new insight into potential drug targets for diseases that involve energy loss. The new research, published in Science Advances, was led by UWA's Professor...

Study Shows Increased Magnesium Intake Reduces Fatal Heart Disease Risk In Women

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 24, 2019 5 years ago

New research involving detailed data analysis based on data from the America’s Women's Health Initiative found a potential inverse association between dietary magnesium and fatal coronary heart disease in postmenopausal women. The study, which also showed a trend between magnesium and sudden cardiac death in this population, is published in Journal of Women's Health. Dr Charl...

First Contactless Ultrasound Invented

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 23, 2019 5 years ago

Most of the time, getting an ultrasound is a relatively easy procedure for most people, as a technician gently presses a probe against a patient’s skin, sound waves generated by the probe travel through the skin, bouncing off muscle, fat, and other soft tissues before reflecting back to the probe, which detects and translates the waves into an image of what lies beneath.Normal ultrasound doe...

Medical Researchers From University Of Washington Discover Method To Protect Brain From Tau Proteins

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 23, 2019 5 years ago

As a result of recent disappointments over clinical trials targeting amyloid plaque build-up in Alzheimer’s disease, researchers now are focusing more attention on misfolded tau protein, another culprit in brain diseases that cause dementia. A new study published in Science Translational Medicine finds that targeting abnormal tau through the suppression of a gene called MSUT2 (mam...

Study Shows That Loud Mouth Individuals Spread Airborne Diseases

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 23, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from University Of California, Davis (UC Davis) in a new study found that the louder people talk, the more airborne particles they emit, making loudness a potential factor in spreading airborne diseases. The study, led by chemical engineering Ph.D. student Dr Sima Asadi in Professor William Ristenpart’s group, looked at particle emission during speech as a function of loudness, a...

New Rapid and Inexpensive Cancer Liquid Biopsy To become Prevalent In The Medical Industry

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 23, 2019 5 years ago

An inexpensive and fast yet sensitive technique to detect cancer markers is bringing researchers closer to a "liquid biopsy"- a test using a small sample of blood or serum to detect cancer, rather than the invasive tissue sampling routinely used for diagnosis. Medical researchers at the University of Illinois developed a method to capture and count cancer-associated microRNAs, or tiny...

New Diagnostic Test To Identify Lyme Disease At Early Stages

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 23, 2019 5 years ago

Researchers from University Of California, Los Angeles have now reported to Thailand Medical News that they have devised a diagnostic blood test that can quickly and sensitively diagnoses Lyme disease at its early stages. More 300,000 cases of Lyme disease, which is caused by the tick-borne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, are diagnosed in the U.S. each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Dis...

Obesity Affects Brain Development In Children

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

Numerous past studies have long found a correlation between obesity in children and decreased executive function. A New research published in JAMA Pediatrics, based on data mined from a massive national research study, suggests that a change in brain structure: a thinner prefrontal cortex,may help explain that interrelationship. Dr Jennifer Laurent, an associate professor in the Department...

Researchers Identify Link Of Cannabis Usage And Detrimental Structural Changes To The Heart

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers identify possible link between cannabis use and detrimental structural changes to heart. Regular cannabis use could affect the structure and function of the heart, research led by a team at Queen Mary University of London suggests. By analyzing MRI images from the UK Biobank population study, the team identified an association between regular cannabis use and ...

New Research By Oregon State University Shows That Watermelon Supplements Might Have Health Benefits To Obese Individuals

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

Consuming watermelon in the form of powdered supplements helped adult obese mice avoid some detrimental health effects of an unhealthy diet, according to a new Oregon State University study. The new study was published in the Journal of Nutrition. An important next step in this research would be a human clinical trial, said study co-author Dr Neil Shay, professor of food science in OSU...

Obesity-Linked Inflammation Can be Decreased By Glutamine

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

According to a new study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Oxford in the UK, Glutamine could help people with obesity reduce inflammation of fat tissue and reduce fat mass, The researchers also show how glutamine levels can alter gene expression in several different cell types. However, more research is needed before glutamine supplementation may be recommended as a tr...

New Btk Inhibitors To Prevent Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

The anticlotting agent Heparin is frequently employed to mitigate the risk of clot formation in the leg veins following surgery, to treat venous thromboses and to prevent thrombotic occlusions of arteries in patients at risk for heart attacks. However, the agent can also lead to a reduction in the numbers of thrombocytes (otherwise known as platelets) in the bloodstream, an effect known as heparin...

Largest Genetic Screen Resource For Cancer Established With Collation and Analysis Of CRISPR-Cas9 Datasets

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

A detailed collation that can lead to a comprehensive map of genes necessary for cancer survival is one step closer, following the validation of the two largest CRISPR-Cas9 genetic screens in 725 cancer models, across 25 different cancer types. Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard compared the consistency of the two datasets, independently verifyin...

New Study Shows That Its Excess Fat That Causes Type 2 Diabetes And That Type 2 Diabetes Is Reversible

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 22, 2019 5 years ago

Thailand Diabetes In a study of the first kind, medical scientists have been able to observe people developing Type 2 diabetes and confirmed that fat over-spills from the liver into the pancreas, triggering the chronic condition. The new research, led by Professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University, UK, is published in the academic journal, Cell Metabolism. The research involved a ...

SIRT6: The Protein That Regulates Aging Also Protects Against Fatty Liver And Fatty Liver Disease

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 21, 2019 5 years ago

Hepatic steatosis or fatty liver disease which develops when the body produces too much fat or doesn't metabolize fat efficiently enough, affects around 25% of the global population. Excess fat is stored in liver cells, where it accumulates and can cause fatty liver and other diseases. A new research study just published in the journal Cell Reports, reveals for the first time that SIRT...

Potential Target For Restoring Movement After Spinal Cord Injury Identified

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 21, 2019 5 years ago

Medical researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have made several novel discoveries in the field of spinal cord injuries (SCI) and most recently, the team led by Dr Xiao-Ming Xu, Ph.D., has been working to determine how to activate movement after a spinal cord injury at the ninth thoracic level, where nerve fibers from the brain down to the spinal cord are interrupted. Instead of focu...

Study Shows That Consuming Vitamin D Alone Does Not Prevent Bone Fractures

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 21, 2019 5 years ago

Thailand Supplements A new study by the University Of Oxford shows that taking Vitamin D alone does not prevent bone fractures. Instead older individuals have to take both calcium and Vitamin D together to see actual effects of curbing the risk of a bone fracture, the new study concludes. The detailed analysis of 28 past studies found that older adults with higher blood levels of vitamin...

New Treatment Protocol For Ovarian Cancer That Is Resistant To Chemotherapy

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 21, 2019 5 years ago

A new oncological research study conducted by the Wistar Institute demonstrated that NAMPT, an enzyme critical for NAD+ biosynthesis, mediates selection of stem-like chemoresistant cells following cisplatin treatment. Researchers showed that a combination of cisplatin treatment with pharmacological inhibition of NAMPT suppresses the outgrowth of resistant cancer cells in vitro and prolongs s...

Two Apples A Day Keeps Cholesterol Away.

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

According to new research, eating two apples a day has been shown to help keep cholesterol down and fight heart disease risk In a study paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a team of scientists led by the University of Reading in collaboration with the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) Institute, Italy found that eating apples which were rich in fibre and compounds cal...

New Biomarker To Measure Nutrient Intake Including Flavanols And Procyanidin

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

An objective way of measuring flavanol intake has been developed, which could help nutritional experts assess the link between these compounds and their health benefits at scale. Researchers from the University of Reading, the University of California Davis and Mars, Incorporated have, In the first study of its kind published in Nature Scientific Reports, identified and validated the first...

Induced Macropinocytosis, A Rare Form Of Cell Death May Help In New Cancer Therapy Protocols

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

New research show that in laboratory experiments, a metabolic inhibitor was able to kill a variety of human cancer cells of the skin, breast, lung, cervix and soft tissues through a non-apoptotic route called catastrophic macropinocytosis. In animal model xenograft studies, the inhibitor acted synergistically with a common chemotherapy drug, cyclophosphamide, to reduce tumor&nb...

Walking And Cycling To Work Lowers Risk Of Heart Attacks

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

Cycling and walking to work were associated with fewer heart attacks across 43 million adults in England, according to a new national study. Co-authored by Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, Olympic-medal winning triathletes and alumni of the University of Leeds, the research suggests that active travel could provide important health benefits. In places where walking or cycling to work were...

New Computational Clinical Tool To Predict Spinal Fractures In Patients

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

OVFs or Osteoporotic vertebral fractures are a prevalent skeletal condition in the elderly, occurring due to a net loss in bone density with the inevitable onset of aging. Unfortunately, they are largely under-diagnosed until detected by clinicians through radiological scans. These fractures have a huge impact on daily lifestyle as the spine is responsible for bodily movements and stability. Howev...

Long Working Hours At Office Increases Risk Of Regular And Hidden High Blood Pressure

Source:Thailand Medical News Dec 20, 2019 5 years ago

White collar workers who spend long hours on the job are more likely to have high blood pressure, including a type that can go undetected during a routine medical appointment, according to a new study published today in the American Heart Association's journal Hypertension. Hypertension or high blood pressure affects nearly 30 per cent of adults globally aged 18 and older and is ...

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Anxiety Also Protects Against Accelerated Cellular Ageing

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

CBT or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for patients with social anxiety not only helps to reduce anxiety levels but also seems to protect against accelerated cellular ageing, a study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in the journal Translational Psychiatry reports. Lead author Dr Kristoffer Månsson, researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Ka...

Research Indicates That More Than 50 Percent Of Americans Will Be Obese By 2030!

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

More than half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts. The new study corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big as it really is. Those estimates often relied on national health surveys and people tend to understate their weight in those. The research used a deca...

University Of Southampton And University Of Cambridge Researchers Develop New Diagnostics To Identify Huntington's Disease

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

University of Southampton and University Of Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique to analyze biochemical changes unique to Huntington's disease. The breakthrough has the potential to lead to the improved diagnosis of disease onset and possibly better ways to track the effects of new treatments. Typically, huntington's disease damages nerve cells in the brain and typically...

Efavirenz : A HIV Drug With A Potential To Treat Alzheimer

Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

A pharmaceutical drug used to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS is showing promise as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's disease, and Vanderbilt University biochemist Dr F. Peter Guengerich, Ph.D., is aiding efforts to make this approach to improving memory and cognitive function even better. Dr Guengerich and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, rep...

WHO Announces Cheaper Biosimilar Drug For Breast Cancer Treatment, Making It Easily Accessible For All

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

It was announced yesterday by the World Health Organization (WHO) that it had for the first time approved a "biosimilar" medicine, one derived from living sources rather than chemicals, to make breast cancer treatment affordable to women globally. The drug Trastuzumab has shown "high efficacy" in curing early stage breast cancer and in some cases more advanced forms of the d...

Finally A Treatment Drug For Lupus : AstraZeneca's Anifrolumab

Source : Thailand Medical News Dec 19, 2019 5 years ago

Research led by Monash University Professor Dr Eric Morand offers the first real hope for the treatment of lupus, a disease which affects 1.6 million people in the US and more than 5.4 million globally, 89% women and for which there is no cure. The study findings were published in the New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM). The results are of an international, three-year, Phase 3 trial of...