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FridayAug 19, 2022 12:31 pm

Targeted Cancer Vaccines Show Promise in Halting Tumor Progression

As of 2020, an estimated 18.8 million people worldwide had cancer. The deadly disease takes millions of lives each year, with the United States losing more than 600,000 yearly to cancer deaths. Although scientists have worked tirelessly for years to develop a cure for cancer with little success, there are several treatments that can reduce the growth of the cancer and increase the lifespan of cancer patients. Efforts to develop cancer vaccines have been equally unsuccessful — that is until the Tufts School of Engineering revealed that it may have found a way to halt tumors in their tracks and prevent…

ThursdayAug 18, 2022 2:25 pm

Study Finds Vitamin D May Help Alleviate Depression Symptoms

A new study has found that supplementing using vitamin D may help alleviate symptoms of depression in adults suffering from the mental health condition. The study, which involved an extensive meta-analysis, was carried out by a global team of scientists and included numerous studies from various regions of the globe. Depression symptoms can cause substantial disease burden globally, which isn’t helped by the fact that many currently used antidepressants aren’t therapeutically effective. This is why alternative methods of relieving the symptoms of depression are being studied in nutritional research. Vitamin D is an important nutrient for the body, which helps…

WednesdayAug 17, 2022 12:23 pm

New Study Plans to Eliminate Side Effects of Cancer Therapies in Children

Around 1 in 285 children will develop some kind of cancer before they turn 20. Cancer is one of the deadliest disease that afflicts children and adolescents, taking an estimated 1,800 lives in the United States each year. Although scientists still haven’t developed a cure for cancer, there are a variety of treatments, including radiation, chemotherapy or surgery, that can attack fast-growing cancer cells and prevent them from growing. However, most pediatric cancer treatments come with a variety of side effects, with treatments such as chemotherapy inadvertently causing unwanted side effects, including fatigue, mucositis, endocrine dysfunction, neurocognitive impairment, neurotoxicity, nausea…

WednesdayAug 17, 2022 9:30 am

Silo Pharma Inc. (SILO): Promising Psylocibin Study Ongoing with UCSF

Company entered scientific research agreement with UCSF in June 2021 to study psilocybin effects on various inflammatory conditions Silo Pharma (OTCQB: SILO), recently announced that the University of California San Francisco (“UCSF”) had successfully administered psilocybin to a test group of Parkinson’s disease patients as part of a scientific research agreement (“SRA”) entered with Silo in June, 2021 to “to determine the effects of psilocybin on inflammatory markers of patients who have exhibited Parkinson’s, Bipolar disorder, and chronic back pain. “Successful dosing and collection of blood samples from enrolled patients is an important milestone that demonstrates the progress being made…

TuesdayAug 16, 2022 2:32 pm

Research to Examine Potential Link Between Concussions, Long COVID

The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. In the following months, countries around the world shut down their borders as the virus infected millions of people. Although the virus had a high survival rate of more than 90% in the United States, thousands of patients across the country began reporting coronavirus symptoms that lasted more than two months. Christened long COVID, this condition left patients suffering from symptoms such as cognitive dysfunction, shortness of breath, headache, chest pain and fatigue for up to three months after they contracted COVID-19. According to a report from…

TuesdayAug 16, 2022 10:30 am

QSAM Biosciences Inc. (QSAM) Awarded Patent for Potential Breakthrough Bone Cancer Treatment

This is the third U.S. patent granted to QSAM, further strengthening its IP portfolio, which consists of 14 patents among three patent families. “CycloSam has potential to be a breakthrough therapy for both primary and secondary forms of bone cancer,” says QSAM CEO. Patent covers formulation and preparation of CycloSam in the U.S. QSAM Biosciences (OTCQB: QSAM) has been awarded a key patent for its exclusive radiopharmaceutical drug candidate, CycloSam(R). Granted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the patent “protects how CycloSam(R) is formulated and prepared, namely by using a nonradioactive kit that can be delivered and stored local to…

MondayAug 15, 2022 12:47 pm

Senate Review Reveals Screening Mistakes Caused Organ Transplant Failures, Illnesses, Deaths

There have been more than 25,000 organ transplants per year in the United States since the mid-2000s. On average, around 95 organ transplants are carried out in the country per day, with someone being added to the national organ transplant waiting list every nine minutes. Kidney transplants tend to have the highest post-transplant survival rate followed by liver, heart and lung transplants. A recent report from the Senate Finance Committee has revealed a disturbing fact: a lack of oversight in the organization charged with supervising organ testing and transplants in the country has led to dozens of cases of illness…

FridayAug 12, 2022 1:41 pm

Researchers Want to Manage Cancer By Keeping Malignant Cells Restricted in Place

Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. It affects millions of people across the world, takes more than 10 million lives every year, and still doesn’t have a cure. Most cancer-management therapies involve treatments such as chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy and immunotherapy that are meant to remove the cancer cells as much as possible. However, these treatments aren’t always effective, and many patients have gotten cancer again years after the initial cancer was treated. Always on the lookout for novel therapies that can manage and potentially cure cancer, researchers are now exploring how they can manage and…

ThursdayAug 11, 2022 12:21 pm

Study Finds Smells Experienced in Nature Boost Mental Health

Have you ever felt rejuvenated, more alert and in a better mood after stepping out for some fresh air? Breathing in pure clean air, especially when surrounded by nature, can have significant mental and physical benefits. Fresh air cleanses the lungs, strengthens the immune system, increases energy levels, sharpens the mind and individuals happier. New research from the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) has confirmed that smells experienced in nature, such as smelling the rain on earth, can have a positive impact on mental health. Scents like the smell of wet grass on a damp…

ThursdayAug 11, 2022 9:30 am

Odyssey Health, Inc. (ODYY) Redesigns Website, Corporate Presentation, to Update Information on Medical Products, Including Concussion Therapy

Odyssey Health Inc. is a medical product developer advancing treatments for conditions ranging from choking to neurodegenerative maladies The company’s flagship candidate is a drug-device combination for treating mild brain injuries (“MTBIs”) known as PRV-002, which is currently being used in clinical testing with human volunteers Odyssey Health recently announced a redesign of its website and an update of its corporate presentation to better communicate its efforts and allow interested investors to access information regarding the company The website redesign follows on the company’s name change earlier this year to similarly improve the expression of its brand identity Medical technology…