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To support the global need for innovation in paediatric medical device development, the Alliance for Pediatric Device Innovation (APDI), a consortium funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and led by Children’s National Hospital, is partnering with DeCODe, a new European Commission-funded device consortium, to advance medical technologies that benefit children. DeCODe was [...]
The race to prevent heart failure and death after a heart attack is one of the toughest challenges in medicine. Previous studies have indicated that a specific cell receptor, known as low-density lipoprotein receptor 1, may protect the heart from damage caused by restored blood flow after a cardiac event. However, researchers don’t yet understand [...]
Being a teenager is hard, confusing — and crucially important. Scientists studying teenage socialising have found that teenaged friendships could lay essential foundations for wellbeing in later life, and that not just the kinds of friendships teenagers experience but the timing of those friendships is critical. Emily Shah of the University of Arkansas is first [...]
Scientists have identified a protein that blocks the activity of bone-forming cells (osteoblasts) by stopping them from maturing during the journey to sites of bone formation, a new study has found. In a paper published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers have found that protein CLEC14A, which is found on blood vessel cells called [...]
Research into population screening and targeted surveillance for childhood cancer should be a key priority, according to leading cancer experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham. Each year in the UK 1,900 children are diagnosed with cancer and it’s the biggest cause of death by disease in children aged 0-14 years. One in 300 [...]
Parents seeking help in encouraging toddlers to be physically active may soon need to look no further than an inexpensive robotic buddy for their kids, a new study by Oregon State University suggests. The findings are important because movement plays a key role in the overall health of children, both in youth and later on [...]
Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have discovered that DNA sequence changes known to increase a person’s risk for diabetes are linked to how well pancreatic cells can handle two different kinds of molecular stress. In people with these DNA changes, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas may be more likely to fail or die [...]
The secret to losing weight could all be down to a combination of 14 ‘skinny genes’, a new study has found. University of Essex researchers discovered they helped people drop twice as much weight when they ran for half an hour three times a week. The team - led by Dr Henry Chung, from the [...]
Waiting more than four hours in emergency care for treatment is linked to heightened risks of death and a longer hospital stay for hip fracture patients, a study suggests. The waiting time for more than one in three of these patients exceeded the four hour national standard, which now requires that 76 per cent of [...]
Muscle activation in people suffering from hip osteoarthritis might be a case of ‘mind over matter’, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has shown. Research undertaken by ECU post-doctoral research fellow Dr Myles Murphy investigated muscle function in people with hip osteoarthritis and found that these patients were unable to activate their muscles as [...]
