Thailand Medical News

Pharma Giant Novartis Does Noble Deed Of Giving Away For Free Costly Therapy For Babies With Spinal Muscular Atrophy

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

Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company is preparing to give away 100 doses of the world's most expensive drug, which treats a rare childhood disorder, through a special recipient selection process. The pharmaceutical giant announced this week that starting next month, its AveXis unit will begin distributing doses of Zolgensma, a one-time gene treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, also ...

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...

Warning: Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy Should Avoid Consuming Any Antioxidants Or Health Supplements

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

Patients suffering from breast cancer who take the dietary supplements known as antioxidants, as well as iron, vitamin B12, and omega-3 fatty acids, during chemotherapy may be at increased risk of disease recurrence and death, according to new study results appearing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Researchers from the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials network fun...

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...

Canada Objects To America’s Announcement To Import Drugs From Its Northern Neighbor

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

President Trump's administration unveiled a plan Wednesday to allow imports of lower-priced prescription drugs from Canada and other countries, but it was opposed by Ottawa, which said the scheme threatened its own medicine stocks. Typically, Americans spend an average of $1,200 on prescription drugs per year, more than in any other country in the world and the US president ...

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...

Researchers Discover That Lactate Helps Melanoma Cells To Spread

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

Medical researchers at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at University Of Texas Southwestern (CRI) have uncovered why certain melanoma cells are more likely to spread through the body. The discovery opens up a potential new avenue of treatment and could be used to help reduce the proportion of patients who progress from stage 3 melanoma to more-deadly stage 4 cancer. Dr. Sean Mor...

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...

New Genetic Signature For Accurately Predicting Breast Cancer

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

Genome and oncology researchers have identified a genetic signature with prognostic value for certain kinds of breast cancer. The discovery also contributes to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of pathological angiogenesis, the aberrant proliferation of blood vessels that occurs during cancer and other diseases. The new research combined a study of the genes involved in retinop...

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...