Antibiotics: Change Route of Delivery to Mitigate Resistance

New research suggests that the rapid rise of antibiotic resistance correlates with oral ingestion of antibiotics, raising the possibility that other routes of administration could reduce the spread of resistance. More...

Animal study shows promising path to prevent epilepsy

Duke Medicine researchers have identified a receptor in the nervous system that may be key to preventing epilepsy following a prolonged period of seizures. More...

New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS

A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More...

Breakthrough Allows Fast, Reliable Pathogen Identification

A University of Toronto team -- including researchers from Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering -- has created an electronic chip that can analyze blood and other clinical samples for infectious bacteria with record-breaking speed. More...

MRI Detects Early Effects of Chemotherapy On Children's Hearts

MRI scans of children who have had chemotherapy can detect early changes in their hearts finds research in biomed Central’s open access journal Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. More...

Multiple Sclerosis: Phase 1 Trial Safely Resets Patients' Immune Systems, Reduces Attack On Myelin Protein

A phase 1 clinical trial for the first treatment to reset the immune system of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients showed the therapy was safe and dramatically reduced patients' immune systems' reactivity to myelin by 50 to 75 percent, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. More...

Cancer Drug Shortages Hit 83 Percent of U. S. Oncologists

Eighty-three percent of cancer doctors report that they've faced oncology drug shortages, and of those, nearly all say that their patients' treatment has been impacted, according to a study from researchers at the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. More...