ATX-MS-1467 for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)

ATX-MS-1467 is a novel treatment that was developed with the aim of working with the immune system to treat the underlying cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms or suppressing the...

Clinical Approvals - news, views, reports and blogs

Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments) and eff...

Xofigo (radium-223 dichloride)

New treatment for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients with bone metastases. Xofigo shown in a pivotal phase III trial to significantly improve overall survival. Xofigo® with...

Vitamin E Toxicity

Research has not found any adverse effects from consuming vitamin E in food. However, high doses of alpha-tocopherol supplements can cause hemorrhage and interrupt blood coagulation in animals, and...

Contract Research Organization news

A contract research organization, also called a clinical research organization, (CRO) is a service organization that provides support to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries in the form o...

[Articles] Macrosomia in 23 developing countries: an analysis of a multicountry, facility-based, cross-sectional survey

Increasing prevalence of diabetes and obesity in women of reproductive age in developing countries could be associated with a parallel increase in macrosomic births. The effect and feasibility of cont...

Low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy to prevent macrosomia (ROLO study): randomised control trial

Objective To determine if a low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy could reduce the incidence of macrosomia in an at risk group.Design Randomised controlled trial.Setting Maternity hospital in Dublin,....

Confounding in clinical trials

Researchers investigated whether a low glycaemic index diet in pregnancy reduced the incidence of macrosomia—babies large for their gestational age—in an at-risk group. A randomised controlled tri...

Notre Dame researchers scoring a win-win with novel set of concussion diagnostic tools

(University of Notre Dame) A Notre Dame team has developed a tablet-based testing system that captures the voice of an individual and analyzes the speech for signs of a potential concussion anytime, a...

Notre Dame researcher is studying role small dams play in pollution control

(University of Notre Dame) A new Notre Dame study notes that there is a crucial need to gain a better understanding of what small dams mean for our water quality before they crumble and disappear.

GAIN Index moves to Notre Dame

(University of Notre Dame) The Global Adaptation Index (GAIN) -- the world's leading Index showing which countries are best prepared to deal with the droughts, super-storms and other natural disasters...

[Comment] Macrosomia: defining the problem worldwide

In The Lancet, Ai Koyanagi and colleagues analyse data from WHO's Global Survey on Maternal and Perinatal Health to describe the prevalence of macrosomia and its association with adverse maternal and...

Notre Dame researcher is shedding light on how jaws evolve

(University of Notre Dame) If you're looking for information on the evolution and function of jaws, University of Notre Dame researcher Matt Ravosa is your man. His integrative research program invest...

First-Trimester Prediction of Macrosomia.

Objective: To determine if combinations of maternal characteristics and measurements of parameters used in screening for aneuploidies at 11-13 weeks provide significant prediction of macrosomia. Metho...

Breathing perchlorate.

Response to letter to the editor from david p. Fyhrie.

Secular trends of macrosomia in southeast China, 1994-2005.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The rate of macrosomia (birth weight[greater than or equal to]4,000g) increased over the past four decades in many parts of the world. Macrosomia is associated not only with hig...

Low-symmetry uranyl pyrophosphate cage clusters.