New research explains how movie theaters may increase profits by moving away from uniform pricing to variable pricing. The study is being published in an upcoming issue of the International Review of Law & Economics.
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have developed the first gene chip to use in the early diagnosis of at least five hereditary liver diseases, to detect genetic causes of jaundice in children and adults, and potentially to lead to personalized treatment options.
Pregnant and nursing women who eat generous amounts of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage could help protect their children from cancer, both as infants and later in life. A new study done with laboratory mice found that phytochemicals found in certain vegetables provided a very high level of protection against leukemia and lymphoma in young animals, and also significantly protected against lung cancer during the rodent’s equivalent of middle age.
A new study co-authored by Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute senior scientist, Elizabeth Theil, Ph.D., is the first to show that partial copies of DNA called mRNA (or messenger RNA) morph into specific three dimensional shapes when it combines with a protein regulator called IRP1. This discovery is incredibly important to researchers who design medications based on the specific characteristics of a disease.
Mice with neuroblastoma tumors have been successfully treated with genetically modified cells that sought out the cancer cells and activated a chemotherapy drug directly at those sites, according to investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and their colleagues at City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte, Calif.) and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada). Neuroblastoma is a solid tumor that arises in the part of the nervous system outside the brain.
The following is a statement by Linda A. Suydam, D.P.A., president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), regarding today’s release of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)’s Monitoring the Future survey, which includes data on the non-medical use of medicines containing dextromethorphan among 8th, 10th and 12th grade students.
An attempt to discover how fat British children are has been hampered by the refusal of many families to take part in the study. Only 48 per cent of children in the three age groups ? school starters, aged four to five and 10 to 11 ? were weighed for the National Childhood Obesity Database.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Colazal (balsalazide disodium) for the treatment of mildly to moderately active ulcerative colitis in patients 5 to 17 years of age.
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reminds consumers to pay special attention to the handling of eggs and preparation of foods that contain eggs during this holiday season.
The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, today launched a marketing campaign to raise awareness of the harmful health effects that second-hand smoke has on children, and how to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke in homes and cars.