A 16-year-old from the Toronto area used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that shows potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, and won top honors for his work.
Marshall Zhang, an 11th-grade student at Richmond Hill’s Bayview Secondary School, received first place Tuesday (May 10) in the 2011 Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge, a contest in which students conduct their own research projects with the help of mentors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In China, where a growing demand for organ transplants coupled with a dramatic shortage of donors has fuelled a rampant black market trade, selling your organs for cash is a mouse click away.
An internet search reveals a website offering kidneys for sale and the contact information of those able to procure them. A young woman, posing as a migrant worker from Hebei province, calls a man who has advertised on the website, identified as Mr He.
I need money,
she says over the phone. Do you want a woman’s kidney?
Mr He asks her age. Twenty-five, she replies.
Of course we want your kidney
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Japan, Twitter is proving an excellent system
for communicating with chronically-ill patients, say doctors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new vaccine can protect macaques against the monkey equivalent of HIV and could provide a fresh approach to an HIV vaccine, a study suggests.
US researchers say the vaccine offered protection to 13 of 24 rhesus macaques treated in the experiment.
In 12 of the monkeys, the vaccine was still effective 12 months later — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of scientists in China has found a way to restore damaged livers using adult skin stem cells — via redwolf.newsvine.com
You will need to amputate a patient’s leg about five times more often than his arm. Once you have cut off a limb there is no going back, so try to retain as much function as you can.
In the arm save every centimetre. In the leg amputate at the classical sites only — via ubergrid
Coeliac sufferers may not have to eliminate gluten from their diets after a successful trial of a potential vaccine — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian researchers say they are a step closer to a vaccine for HIV and hope to be able to offer a preventative jab within the decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I do so love to report these wins for reality, as rare as they are: the very vocal antivax advocate Mark Geier has had his medical license revoked in Maryland. Why?
The Maryland State Board of Physicians reviewed nine cases of autistic children seen by Geier, of which he treated seven. Of those nine, the Board found he misdiagnosed six of them — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An Australian researcher says he hopes to begin testing the venom of komodo dragons on cardiac patients within five years.
University of Queensland researcher Bryan Fry has been collecting the venom of Antarctic octopus, primates and komodo dragons for two decades — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A doctor who used synthetic blood to save a Victorian woman’s life says he is delighted the procedure was successful — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Community health will hopefully be improved in Wilcannia, with a free animal health program being run this week.
The RSPCA in conjunction with Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation is in the town desexing cats and dogs, while also microchipping and treating animals for parasites.
The Mayor of the Central Darling Shire, Paul Brown, says it is an important initiative to help improve the health of the local population — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new hearing aid has been developed by the inventors of the bionic ear in Melbourne.
Researchers say the tiny device costs less than half that of conventional aids, and people can take control of their hearing by programming the device themselves — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A controlled diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate can repair kidney damage in diabetic mice, according to US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Current screening for TB in immigrants arriving in the UK is missing the majority of cases, say researchers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The American Academy of Pediatrics has urged CBS Outdoor to take down the advertisement funded by anti-vaccine groups — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Astronauts on long space missions may not be able to take paracetamol to treat a headache or antibiotics to fight infection, a study has found.
Scientists at the Johnson Space Center have shown that the effectiveness of drugs declines more rapidly in space.
Continuous doses of radiation onboard spacecraft may be to blame, according to the study published in the AAPS Journal — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study presented at the European Association for the Study of the Liver in Berlin this month has renewed hopes for a possible cure for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police are investigating an apparent death by malnutrition in Adelaide’s southern suburbs.
A 27-year-old woman was found dead in her Brighton home recently weighing just 11 kilograms, the average weight of a small child.
It is understood she was suffering from a spinal condition and had been bedridden for some time.
Questions are being asked about whether authorities were aware of the woman’s case — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Embryonic stem cells from mice have been transformed into a rudimentary eye, raising hopes of growing parts of the human eye to investigate and treat blindness — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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