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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.

Treating AFib with ablation reduces mortality and stroke

Source: ucdavis.edu Jul 09, 2018 6 years ago

Using catheter-based ablation instead of medications alone reduces the risks of death and stroke in patients with the common form of heart arrhythmia known as atrial fibrillation, or AFib, new research from UC Davis physicians shows. Cardiologist Uma Srivatsa led a new comparative outcomes study of patients with atrial fibrillation Ablation is currently only recommended when AFib medications do...

Novel Nuclear Medicine Approach Shows Promise for Treating Wide Array of Cancerous Tumors

Source: snmmi.org Jul 08, 2018 6 years ago

A novel nuclear medicine approach is showing great promise for precision treatment of solid tumors in many types of cancer--including lung, breast, pancreas and ovarian in adults and glioma, neuroblastoma and sarcoma in children. The research was presented today at the SNMMI 2018 Annual Meeting, June 23-26 in Philadelphia. In 2017, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cente...

Scalp Cooling Reduces Risk of Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 07, 2018 6 years ago

Among patients with breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy, those who underwent scalp cooling were significantly less likely to experience chemotherapy-induced hair loss than those who did not receive scalp cooling, a study published in JAMA has shown.1 Although scalp cooling devices have been used to prevent alopecia caused by chemotherapy, its efficacy has ...

Ultrasound targeting the brain is poised to revolutionize the treatment for Parkinson’s disease

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 06, 2018 6 years ago

About 10 million Americans suffer from a tremor disorder such as Parkinson's disease. Insightec is an Israeli company backed by the Koch brothers that has developed a focused ultrasound technology to treat tremors. The company is in Phase 3 trials with the FDA for its technology to treat Parkinson's disease. Roughly 10 million people in the United States suffer from some s...

Radial artery grafts better than saphenous vein grafts for CABG surgery

Source: nejm.org Jul 05, 2018 6 years ago

Using a radial artery graft as a second conduit in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery results in a significantly lower risk of heart attack and repeat revascularization at 5 years than using a saphenous vein graft, according to the results of a meta-analysis recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Using a radial artery graft instead of a saphenous vein graft i...

Viral immunotherapy for brain tumors in children shows promise

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 04, 2018 6 years ago

A viral immunotherapy using a herpes virus to treat brain tumors has been shown to be safe and well-tolerated in a pediatric study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The findings, presented today at the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology in Denver, also showed preliminary evidence of effectiveness in killing malignant tumor cells. The virus, known as G207, i...

Swallowed capsule could spot gut trouble, send alert

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 03, 2018 6 years ago

Scientists have developed a swallowed capsule packed with tiny electronics and millions of genetically engineered living cells that might someday be used to spot health problems from inside the gut. This undated photo provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering in May 2018 shows a capsule packed with electronics and genetically engineered living cells in Cambridge...

Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 02, 2018 6 years ago

A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), study is featured in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...

New hope for patients with incurable and disabling hand condition, Dupuytren's disease

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 01, 2018 6 years ago

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute and Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, working with clinicians at NHS Lothian, have found that injection of the anti-TNF drug adalimumab into Dupuytren's disease nodules results in the reduction of the cell characteristics responsible for progression of Dupuytren's disease. Based ...

Fat : The future of regenerative therapy

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 09, 2018 6 years ago

Regenerative therapy is a cell-based technique using stem cells to boost tissue regeneration. Though many different stem cells are used, one of the most promising is fat-derived adipose stem cells. When tissue is damaged your body will regenerate it by replacing damaged cells through cell growth and division. Your DNA determines how your body knows when and where to regenerate. Similar to...

Metformin – new possibility to reverse lung fibrosis

Source: Journal Nature Medicine Jul 09, 2018 6 years ago

Metformin found to help reverse lung fibrosis in mice The type 2 diabetes drug metformin could be used to help treat lung fibrosis condition in the future, researchers have said. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or lung fibrosis is a respiratory disease which occurs when scars are formed in the lung tissues, leading to breathing problems. It can develop after lung injuri...

New gene therapy drug for rheumatoid arthritis undergoes phase 1 trial

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 09, 2018 6 years ago

Arthrogen, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in gene therapy, is now recruiting individuals with rheumatoid arthritis to test the new drug ART-I02. Khun Nantida does not wear clothes with buttons. Most of her pants have waistbands and do not require zipping. She uses only electric toothbrushes because she cannot brush her teeth as efficiently on her own. When Khun Nantida cooks for...

How to store your allergy meds

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 04, 2018 6 years ago

There are many different allergy medications which, like other drugs, need to be stored under the right conditions to remain effective. In order for medications to remain effective until their expiry date, they need to be stored correctly , regardless of the diseases or conditions they're intended to treat or prevent. This is important in the case of allergy medication as a severe aller...

Early source of irritable bowel syndrome discovered

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 05, 2018 6 years ago

Michigan State University scientists have identified an early cause of intestinal inflammation, one of the first stages of inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome, which afflict around 11 percent of the world's population. NK2R (green) and enteric glial (blue) The discovery, featured in the current issue of Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, points...

A virus that may actually boost not weaken our immune system

Source: University of Arizona Jul 06, 2018 6 years ago

Janko Nikolich-Zugich, M.D., Ph.D. Credit: UA College of Medicine – Tucson Our immune system is at its peak when we're young, but after a certain age, it declines and it becomes more difficult for our bodies to fight off new infections. "That's why older people are more susceptible to infections than younger people," explains Janko Nikolich-Zugich, MD, Ph.D., co-director...

These antibiotics may endanger vascular health

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 07, 2018 6 years ago

A type of antibiotic used in treating bacterial infections has been tied to many adverse health events, leading specialists to advise caution in the prescription of these drugs. Recent evidence now confirms that they increase the risk of aortic disease, which is a condition that damages the main artery of the human body. Various Types of Fluoroquinolones Fluoroquinolones, a type of antibiotic,...

A New Simple Blood Test For All Types Of Cancers

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 08, 2018 6 years ago

Scientists are designing a blood test that could detect cancer before symptoms occur. Early detection allows early treatment and prevents cancer progression. Cancer is usually diagnosed after a patient has been experiencing symptoms. At this point, the tumor has already grown significantly and often has spread to other organs. Later stage cancers are more difficult to treat, have lower sur...

KRATOM Debate in the US

Davic C Holzman, Mcmahon Grp Jul 09, 2018 6 years ago

The US FDA has continued to voice serious concerns about an opioid like plant, Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa)., a close relative of the coffee tree that is embraced by many pain patients as a treatment alternative to pain drugs such as opioids. A dangerous side effect profile pointed out by the agency and strong opinions on its efficacy on the part of its users—who often ingest the leaves in po...

Thailand’s Siriraj Hospital develops a rapid and accurate method to identify Rare or Uncommon Pathogenic Bacteria

Staff Writer, TMN Jul 10, 2018 6 years ago

The MALDI TOS Spectrometer In a recent article published in the Siriraj Medical Journal, a team at the Department of Microbiology. Siriraj Hospital, had developed a new method of identifying rare pathogenic bacteria using the Maldi Tos Mass Spectrometry Method. (MALDI is the abbreviation for Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionisation, while TOS is the abbreviation for Time of flight mass...

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