October 31, 2016
New way to replace aortic valve successful in high-risk patients
New way to to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacemen successful in high-risk patients
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Tag: NIH
October 27, 2016
NIH:Gene therapy shows promise for treating Niemann-Pick disease type C1
National Institutes of Health researchers have demonstrated in mice that gene therapy may be the best method for…
March 15, 2016
Decoding the molecular ties between vascular disease and Alzheimer’s
Scientists have long been interested in how the vascular system — the body’s network of large and small blood vessels — may be involved in the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
March 15, 2016
Fish and insects guide design for future contact lenses
Making the most of the low light in the muddy rivers where it swims, the elephant nose fish survives…
November 30, 2015
DNA repair factor linked to breast cancer may also play a role in Alzheimer’s disease
Low levels of breast cancer factor 1 (BRCA1) protein in the brain may contribute to dementia, according to results of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study, published in Nature Communications.
November 17, 2015
NIH finds Lucentis effective for proliferative diabetic retinopathy
A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that the drug ranibizumab (Lucentis) is highly effective in treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
October 27, 2015
Health care costs for dementia found greater than for any other disease
In the last five years of life, total health care spending for people with dementia was more than a quarter-million…
October 21, 2015
Prevalence of Marijuana Use Among U.S. Adults Doubles Over Past Decade
The percentage of Americans who reported using marijuana in the past year more than doubled between 2001-2002 and 2012-2013, and the increase in marijuana use disorder during that time was nearly as large.
October 13, 2015
ene therapy staves off blindness from retinitis pigmentosa in canine model
Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving dogs with naturally occurring, late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, according to research funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
October 8, 2015
New NIH breast cancer research focuses on prevention
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a new phase of the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program (BCERP), focused on prevention.