New blood biomarker can predict if cognitively healthy elderly will develop Alzheimer’s disease Why do some people develop Alzheimer’s disease while others don’t? And, even more puzzlingly, why do many individuals whose brains are chock-full of toxic amyloid aggregates –…
Multivitamin improves memory in older adults, study finds Taking a daily multivitamin supplement can slow age-related memory decline, finds a large study led by researchers at Columbia University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital “Cognitive aging is a top health concern…
Capturing transporter structure paves the way for drug development Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied the structure and function of a transporter involved in cancer and immunity. They captured six…
EUROPEAN STUDY FINDS THE ABBOTT CARDIOMEMS SENSOR RESULTS IN IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE AND 44% REDUCTION IN HEART FAILURE HOSPITALIZATIONS New data presented from an investigator-sponsored European trial found managing indicated1 heart failure patients with Abbott’s CardioMEMS™ HF System resulted in a significant1 improvement…
GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus older adult vaccine candidate gains positive European Medicines Agency CHMP opinion GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion by…
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a devastating autoimmune disease that destroys the protective myelin covering around nerves, disrupting communication between the brain and body, and causing patients’ ability to move and function to progressively decline. The Atlas of MS reported in…
Cocktail of modified antibodies provides strong effect against SARS-CoV-2 Is it possible to improve the antibodies that the body produces to fight SARS-CoV2? In a study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, this was investigated by redesigning antibodies…
UC Davis Health researchers have dosed the second participant in their clinical trial looking to identify a potential cure for HIV utilizing CAR T-cell therapy. The novel study uses immunotherapy. It involves taking a patient’s own white blood cells, called…
New research shows that several anti-obesity medications could be manufactured and profitability sold worldwide at far lower estimated lower prices compared to their high costs, according to a new study in Obesity, The Obesity Society’s (TOS) flagship journal. “Access to…
The current COVID-19 vaccines are designed to trigger an antibody response to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is vulnerable to mutations that could make the vaccine less effective over time. Focusing on the T-cell instead, Penn State researchers partnered with…
A research team led by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) with members from Duke-NUS Medical School, KK Women and Children’s Hospital, A*STAR’s Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), the University of Southampton and the Alan Turing Institute, has discovered how cancer…
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has become a promising immunotherapy tool to help treat advanced melanoma. The therapy, which harnesses immune cells collected from the patient’s own tumors, could provide a new treatment option to cancer patients, potentially bypassing radiation therapies…