Babies who receive a RV3-BB rotavirus vaccine at birth showed higher levels of good bacteria in their gut, better protecting them against infection during the first weeks of life, according to a new study. And the discovery will help to pave the way for researchers to improve the health outcomes of young children with severe […]
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Combination of drugs could prevent thousands of heart attacks; Patients who receive an add-on medication soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive it later, or not all. This is according to a new study from researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Imperial College London. The findings suggest that […]
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NHS approval of endometriosis therapy Ryeqo enhances patient care, eases healthcare strain, says GlobalData. A new endometriosis pill, relugolix combination therapy (Ryeqo), has been approved for NHS use in England. Expected to benefit around 1,000 women annually, the pill offers a more convenient, effective treatment option. The National Health Service (NHS) in England has approved […]
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How reliable RTSM Solutions are reducing the Carbon Footprint of Clinical Trials: The urgency of the climate crisis requires attention from all sectors, and biomedical research is no exception. As climate change impacts health outcomes, the biomedical community faces ongoing pressure to adapt its research practices to become more sustainable, and to address the growing […]
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Exploring the Mushroom Health Craze: Why Everyone’s Talking About It: Mushrooms are one of the most abundant substances on the planet. They grow everywhere. A quick walk through a forest will show you countless mushroom species and many other fungi growing nearby. They’ve also existed for millennia; mushrooms are hardly new, and we’ve been eating […]
Personalised cancer vaccines to be produced at new UQ lab: A new facility at The University of Queensland is set to provide Australian researchers with cancer vaccines tailored to individual patients. The lab at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) will bring together the equipment and expertise to enable the design, manufacture and […]
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Is Melatonin the wonder drug of anti-aging? Melatonin is produced in the pineal gland in the brain – more at night and less during the day – and helps to maintain the body’s natural 24-hour circadian clock. It has been called the ‘wonder drug’ of anti-ageing. The pineal gland starts to produce less of this […]
Tell-tale gene Neuregulin 3 affects success of drug used to treat chronic pain: Women who carry this particular form of a pain gene are more likely to respond well to a common medication used to treat long-term discomfort, research shows. In a study, women with chronic pelvic pain who had a naturally occurring variation of […]
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Curtin University research to develop an early diagnosis tool predicting how cancer patients will respond to chemotherapy has received a funding boost of almost half a million dollars through the Innovation Seed Fund 2023-24. Led by Dr Yu Yu from Curtin Medical School and the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, the project seeks to create […]
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Kitchen spices such as turmeric and black pepper could revolutionise wound dressings: Nano-fibres made from everyday kitchen spices are being spun in the biomedical and tissue engineering laboratory at the University of Bradford to create advanced wound dressings. The fibres, which are finer than spider silk, are being made from turmeric, black pepper, curry leaf, cinnamon […]
