Tropical Medicine - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Tropical Medicine is the study of diseases more commonly found in tropical regions than elsewhere. Examples of these diseases are malaria, yellow fever, Chagas disease, Dengue, Helminths, African trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy, Lymphatic filariasis, Onchocerciasis and Schistosomiasis. They are of great importance, because of the high proportion of the population that live in these regions, and the lack of adequate health care provisions in these areas allows the diseases to prosper.
Source; Adapted from Oxford Medical Dictionary
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Sports Medicine New Frontiers: Platelet-Rich-Plasma (PRP) and Stem Cell Therapy
CLEARWATER, Fla., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sports Medicine is always at the forefront of innovative medical technology. Athletes are constantly striving to improve. Records are broken as hum...
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Personalized medicine and targeted therapies hold great potential to improve patient care and health care efficiency. At the Ninth Annual Stat...
Wild Medicine On View at The New York Botanical Garden Through Sept. 8
NEW YORK, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The power of plants to cure and rejuvenate, one of the most important ways in which mankind depends on the plant kingdom, is the subject of The New York Botanica...
Understanding Stresses of Infertility, Tennessee Reproductive Medicine Guarantees IVF Treatments
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tennessee Reproductive Medicine partners Dr. Rink Murray and Dr. Jessica Scotchie launched the "IVF Guarantee Program" last week as demonstration...
GfK to Share Insights on Personalized Medicine, Complex Treatment Regimens At PBIRG Annual Meeting
GfK will deliver a major presentation about patient perspectives’ on personalized medicine at the Pharmaceutical Business and Intelligence Research Group (PBIRG) Annual General...
SoundCure Supports Tinnitus Awareness Week, Marks One-Year Anniversary
SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/16/13 -- As Tinnitus Awareness Week commences, (May 19-25), SoundCure®, along with the American Tinnitus Association and tinnitus sufferers will draw attention to...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cosmetic Boot Camp Financial Summit in Aspen returns this year with entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and key opinion leaders in core aesthetic s...
Events
Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress
North America’s commercial stem cells event
Select Biosciences Translational Medicine Summit (TMS) is focused on providing an up-to-date expansive view of the current marketplace focused primarily on translational activities worldwide.
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Companies
Ignyta, Inc., located in San Diego, California, is a personalized medicine company developing revolutionary new products and services to customize diagnosis and treatment of patie...
Foundation Medicine is dedicated to the development of comprehensive tests that will help physicians personalize cancer treatment for their patients. Foundation Medicineâs la...
Health Discovery Corporation is a molecular diagnostics company that uses advanced mathematical techniques to analyze large amounts of data to uncover patterns that might otherwis...
National Academy of Sports Medicine
The National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) has been a global leader in providing evidence-based certifications and advanced credentials to Health and Fitness Professionals sin...
OvaScience is a life sciences company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of new treatments for infertility. The Companyâs patented technology is base...
PatientsLikeMe is a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine. Through the network, patients connect with others who have the sa...
IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc.
IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPCM) is a leading physician group practice company focused on the delivery of hospitalist medicine and related facility-based services. IPC's physicians and...
Dr. Laurence Jacobs is a Chicago reproductive endocrinologist who has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years. He is a senior partner at Fertility Centers of Illinois â...
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. is a biotechnology company applying cellular technology in the field of regenerative medicine. For more information, visit http://www.advancedcell.c...
Greenville Health System (GHS) is committed to medical excellence through patient care, research and education. GHS offers patients a sophisticated network of expertise and...
Clinical Trials
The purpose of this study is to determine whether an experimental medicine (mirabegron) is as good as a currently approved medicine (solifenacin) in the treatment of patients with overacti...
Exploration of Tumor Accumulation of BAY94-9392 in Patients With Cancer
The study will be conducted as an open label, single-dose, explorative study with patients with histologically proven cancer and, preferably, tumor positive lesions in previously performed...
Genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients who did not respond (did not lose virus during treatment) or relapsed (virus went away on treatment but came back after treatment was stopped) a...
Extension Neoadjuvant Taxotere: Study of the Effects of Taxotere in Patients With Breast Cancer
We, the investigators at Baylor Breast Care Cancer, are doing this study to learn how well Taxotere makes tumors become smaller. We are also doing this study to find out how well Taxotere...
Does Telephone Follow-up Improve Patients Satisfaction
Several studies have shown the importance of Telephone follow-up in reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure. Therefore, we aimed in this cohort to investigate whether telephone fo...
Julius Schachter, PhD, from the Department of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF, and Jeffrey Klausner, MD, from the Department of Public Health, are conducting a study to evaluate a type of test...
This clinical research study is for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (in short AML) that did not respond to previous treatment or unable to receive chemotherapy. Arsenic has been...
Study on the Relationship Between Physical Constitution and Diseases
Physical constitution is an important factor for the development and outcome of diseases according to the theory in traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of the study is to find the c...
TB Nutrition, Immunology and Epidemiology
The purpose of this study is to see whether people who take vitamins along with the standard medicine for tuberculosis (TB) recover better and quicker than people who take only the standar...
Outcomes in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients Receiving Cellcept
The survival of children who have received heart transplants has greatly improved over the last ten years. One reason for this is better control over rejection. Rejection medications requi...
PubMed Articles
Pelibuey and Suffolk sheep were compared as to their capacity to regulate body temperature under environmental hyperthermia by measuring their differences in cellular response to heat stress (HS). In...
No need to compete, better to cooperate.
Bypassing the challenges of lower-limb electromyography by using ultrasonography: AnatoMUS-II.
Genetic Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Recent years have witnessed an increased appreciation of the extent and relevance of strain-to-strain variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This paradigm shift can largely be attributed to an impro...
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Signature of ocean warming in global fisheries catch.
Marine fishes and invertebrates respond to ocean warming through distribution shifts, generally to higher latitudes and deeper waters. Consequently, fisheries should be affected by 'tropicalization' o...
SUMMARY Understanding how seasonality shapes the dynamics of tuberculosis (TB) is essential in determining risks of transmission and drug resistance in (sub)tropical regions. We developed a relative f...
Bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) is an economically important vector-borne viral disease of cattle and buffalo. It has been reported from most of the world's tropical and subtropical regions. In the last...
Bunch rot of grape berries causes economic loss to grape and wine production worldwide. The organisms responsible are largely filamentous fungi, the most common of these is Botrytis cinerea (gray mold...
Females as intraguild predators of males in cross-pairing experiments with phytoseiid mites.
Studies on intraguild interactions between phytoseiid species have shown that intraguild predation occurs and is most commonly manifested as adult females of one species feeding on juveniles of anothe...
Videos
15. Tropical Medicine as a Discipline
Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234) The sub-discipline of tropical medicine furnishes a clear example of the socially constructed character of...
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Alangiaceae
A plant family of the order Cornales, subclass Rosidae, class Magnoliopsida, consisting of slow-growing evergreen trees common in tropical forests of south India and Burma. Members contain tetrahydroisoquinoline-monoterpene and iridoid glycosides.
Monascus
A genus in the family Monascaceae, order EUROTIALES. One species, Monascus purpureus, has multiple uses in traditional Chinese medicine (MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL).
Ganoderma
A genus of fungi in the family Ganodermataceae, order POLYPORALES, containing a dimitic hyphal system. It causes a white rot, and is a wood decomposer. Ganoderma lucidum (REISHI) is used in traditional Chinese medicine (MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL).
Cinnamomum Aromaticum
A plant species of the genus CINNAMOMUM that contains CINNAMATES and has been used in traditional Chinese medicine (DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL).
Narration
The act, process, or an instance of narrating, i.e., telling a story. In the context of MEDICINE or ETHICS, narration includes relating the particular and the personal in the life story of an individual.
