My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
10 Feb 2012 SAN FRANCISCO —There is growing evidence that supports an association between atypical fractures of the femur– a rare break of the thigh bone, typically without trauma –…
30 Jan 2012 CHICAGO – Elevated exposures in children to perfluorinated compounds, which are widely used in manufacturing and food packaging, were associated with lower antibody responses to routine childhood…
13 Jan 2012 Boston, MA – Nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs) designed to help people stop smoking, specifically nicotine patches and nicotine gum, do not appear to be effective in helping…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 30-May-2014 - 'hey I never thought about stopping people's statins.' Stopping statins may benefit terminally ill patients Results presented today at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American…
Most women who have double mastectomy don't need it, U-M study finds Worry about recurrence was driving factor, but 70 percent had very low risk of developing cancer in healthy…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 15-May-2014 'Bystander' chronic infections thwart development of immune cell memory Implications for improving efficacy of vaccine campaigns in regions with chronic, infectious diseases PHILADELPHIA – Studies of…
17 DEC 2011 Research: Possible net harms of breast cancer screening: Updated modelling of Forrest report A new study published on bmj.com today supports the claim that the introduction of…
17 DEC 2011 Discordance among commercially-available diagnostics for latent TB infection In populations with a low prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), the majority of positives with the three tests commercially available…
" Can act like wild poliovirus and continue the threat of contagion " November 7, 2011 Health professionals and researchers across the globe believe they are on the verge of…
Public release date: 25-Oct-2011 Seattle, WA—You wouldn’t brake your car while stepping on the gas—or wash down a sleeping pill with espresso. Yet many people taking common Alzheimer’s disease medications—cholinesterase…
Public release date: 17-Oct-2011 During a decade of receiving mammograms, more than half of cancer-free women will be among those summoned back for more testing because of false-positive results, and…
Public release date: 18-Oct-2011 Findings Offer Potential New Drug Target for COPD Therapy Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) leads to persistent inflammation of the airways and is typically managed with…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYq0nyZBbn4] Highlights: - About 80 per cent of the 2012 whooping cough cases in Australia studied by the team were caused by pertactin-free strains. Pertactin is one of the…
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 20-Apr-2014 Discovery of previously undefined molecular pathway is step toward novel clinical trial Most drugs used to treat lung, breast and pancreatic cancers also promote drug-resistance and…
Public release date: 6-Sep-2011 Research: Effectiveness of adenoidectomy in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections, open randomised controlled trial Children who have their adenoids surgically removed do not get…
80 per cent of the 2012 whooping cough cases in Australia were from a strain not covered by the vaccine. PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 15-Apr-2014 The bacterium that causes whooping cough,…
Public release date: 22-Aug-2011 The toxicities associated with aromatase inhibitors (AIs) may explain the lack of overall survival improvement compared with tamoxifen, according to a study published August 22 in…
Public release date: 10-Aug-2011 Based on Data, WHO Advises Against Use of Blood Antibody Test for Active TB Commercial blood serum antibody tests—widely used in India and other developing countries…
Public release date: 19-Jul-2011 Patients who use anti-depressants are more likely to suffer relapse, researcher finds Patients who use anti-depressants are much more likely to suffer relapses of major…
Public Release: 10-Apr-2014 Tamiflu & Relenza: How effective are they? The BMJ and Cochrane call on government and health policy decision makers to review guidance on use of Tamiflu in…
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