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National Cancer Institute to back research efforts for local delivery of chemo
The National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health said last month that it plans to fund up to five projects involving novel methods to locally deliver chemopreventative drugs. The two...
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NIH awards $15M for 3D human tissue models
[Image from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University]The National Institutes of Health has announced 13 2-year awards, totaling $15 million a year, for hospitals and...
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Study: Head-to-head comparison of opioid use disorder therapies finds...
A study published today in The Lancet found that two different therapies used to treat opioid use disorder – an extended-release naltrexone injection and a combination of buprenorphine and naloxone –...
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BioCorRx inks deal with Nat’l Institute on Drug Abuse
BioCorRx (OTC:BICX) said today that it inked a confidentiality agreement with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which will allow the group to share information and potentially work together on...
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Report: Advocacy groups urge Congress to fund diabetes research program
Advocacy groups have reportedly warned Congress that if lawmakers don’t find permanent funding solutions for diabetes research programs, it could jeopardize important work being done around the country...
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Verily, Sanofi and other industry players team up with NIH to advance...
The National Institutes of Health is joining forces with the tech and pharmaceutical industries to speed the development of new drugs for Parkinson’s disease and identify biomarkers for the...
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Congress doles out $300m to fund diabetes research
Congress today approved a two-year extension of the Special Diabetes Program, giving the National Institutes of Health $300 million to fund research into new therapies and technologies for people with...
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With weeks left in flu season, the FDA is already working on next year’s vaccine
Photo credit: USACE There are still weeks left in this year’s flu season, according to the FDA, but the agency is already planning on how to better protect the nation’s public health next year. An...
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NIH: Asthma flare-ups not prevented by temporary increases to inhaled steroid...
Temporarily increasing the amount of inhaled steroids that young children take when their asthma symptoms worsen does not prevent severe flare-ups, according to a new study from the National Institutes...
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NIH study finds islet transplants improve quality of life for people with...
A Phase III trial funded by the National Institutes of Health found that quality of life for people with type I diabetes improved dramatically following transplantation of insulin-producing pancreatic...
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This new technique could make TAVR more available
The BASILICA procedure involves (A) a catheter directing an electrified guidewire through the base of the left aortic cusp into a snare in the left ventricular outflow tract; (B) after snare retrieval,...
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NIH launches $1.1B initiative to accelerate treatment options for opioid...
At the 2018 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit today, National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins announced that the agency is launching the ‘Helping to End Addiction Long-term’...
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Study: PET imaging agent could help predict depression drug’s efficacy
Image courtesy of Mala Ananth Researchers have identified a positron emission tomography imaging agent that could identify the patients that are more likely to benefit from a drug designed to treat...
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Embolx wins $2m NIH grant for pressure-directed embolization therapy
Embolx said today that it landed a $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund development of its next-generation Sniper balloon occlusion microcatheter. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based...
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NIH launches precision medicine project to collect health data from one...
Credit: NIH The National Institutes of Health will open national enrollment next week for its All of Us research program, aiming to collect health data from at least one million volunteers across the...
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Vaccine maker PaxVax tackles the unmet need posed by chikungunya virus
Transmitted by the same mosquitoes that spread Zika virus and dengue fever, the chikungunya virus is named for an African word meaning “to become contorted.” People infected with the alphavirus are...
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NIH gives cancer detection a gigantic image boost
Visualization of the lesion embeddings on the DeepLesion test set. Colors indicate manually labeled lesion types. [Image courtesy of NIH]The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made public more...
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Feds give CytoSorbents’ blood filter a shot at $3 million
CytoSorbents (NASDAQ: CTSO) said it has won another round of funding from the U.S. government to commercialize its HemoDefend red blood cell (RBC) transfusion filter. The critical-care immunotherapy...
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Researchers launch early-stage trial for nasal flu vaccine
Researchers at St. Louis University reported that an early-stage trial testing an experimental nasal flu vaccine in children and teens began enrolling participants this week. In the 50-person study,...
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Motus GI taps Moran as CEO | Personnel Moves – September 25, 2018
Motus GI said today that it named Timothy Moran as its new chief executive officer, effective October 1, replacing former CEO Mark Pomeranz who will assume the role of president and COO. Moran has...
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Study: Wearable defibrillators don’t work unless you wear them
(Image courtesy of Zoll) An electric-shock vest that can detect arrhythmias in heart attack patients reduced deaths among those who wore it as prescribed, according to a study published today in the...
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Could bioelectronic medicine could help the fight against sepsis?
The vagus nerve originates in the brainstem. A Feinstein Institute researcher is studying its role in sepsis. The National Institutes of Health has awarded a New York researcher $1.65 million to study...
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How AI can detect cervical cancer
Cervical cancer cells (Image from National Cancer Institute\Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University) Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that they say can analyze digital images of a...
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Study: Researchers develop ingestible capsule for insulin delivery
Image Credit: Felice Frankel A team of researchers from MIT developed an ingestible, blueberry-sized capsule that can deliver insulin orally. In animal models, the capsule lowered blood sugar levels...
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Study shows catheter ablation for Afib significantly boosts quality of life
Patients who had catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (Afib) had fewer symptoms, a significant long-term improvement in quality of life and fewer recurrences and hospitalizations than those who...
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