$5.8m Grant Received By Boston Medical Center To Improve Quality Of Life Of Older Americans

Boston Medical Center (BMC) has received a $5,807,469 grant over five years from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund the Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. BMC's Pepper Center is one of only 11 Pepper Centers in the country. The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Program was established in honor of Claude D. Pepper, the late U.S. senator from Florida. Continue reading ...

Researchers have identified stem cells with the capacity to build fat, according to a report in the October 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have yet to show that the cells can renew themselves, transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from the fat tissue of normal mice can restore normal fat tissue in animals that are otherwise lacking it. Continue reading ...

This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA. Continue reading ...

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth, UK, have carried out research that suggests the one hour of moderate exercise a day recommended to children from health experts may not be enough to tackle the rising problem of childhood obesity. Their research has been published in the most recent issue of the journal Archives of Diseases in Childhood. Continue reading ...

University of Manchester scientists have overturned the 2,500-year-old theory that smell is detected by simple lock-and-key codes - using maggots with only one working olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), a nose with one nerve cell. It was thought that smells are detected by simple lock-and-key codes. Continue reading ...

A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking Bisphenol A (BPA) to diabetes and heart disease in adults. Their research paper was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and it is the first time that evidence has emerged of the association between higher BPA levels and disease in adults. Continue reading ...

Over the past twenty-five years, the number of patients with compromised immune systems has grown astronomically. High-risk patients such as these require a unique set of healthcare solutions that take into consideration everything from the etiology and degree of immune suppression to the individual patient's nutritional status. Continue reading ...

ICE Chemotherapy

ICE chemotherapy treatment is used for non-Hodgkin lymphoma. These types of cancer patients need short stay in hospital for ICE treatment. Before starting the treatment blood test is necessary. If your tests are normal then you are fine for the intake of chemotherapy drugs. ICE treatment is mostly given through a thin plastic tube. This tube is inserted into a vein near the collarbone and the skin or through a vein in your arm. Before chemotherapy drugs, some anti sickness drugs are given to patient.