Monthly Archives: January 2015

How to Find a Cancer Treatment Trial


This guide will help you look for a cancer treatment clinical trial. It does not provide medical advice and should not be used in place of advice from your doctor or other members of your health care team. Your health care team and your loved ones, if you wish, can assist you in deciding whether or not a clinical trial is right for you. The decision to take part in a clinical trial is yours alone to make.
This guide takes you through the following steps:

Step 1: Understand Clinical … Read more

NeuroMetrix – Quell for neurological diseases and sleep disorders

Since approximately 100 million in the US suffer from chronic pain, NeuroMetrix has come out with Quell, a wearable device that can be worn 24 hours a day to help better manage chronic pain, neurological diseases and sleep disorders. It uses non-invasive neurostimulation technology to provide relief from pain, particularly neuropathic pain due to diabetes, fibromyalgia and sciatica.

NeuroMetrix of Waltham will be jumping into the market for wearable electronic devices, which is projected to hit nearly $13 billion in worldwide sales in 2018.
But the company’s new Quell device … Read more

Type-2 diabetes and gene therapy by deactivation of gene WDR13

CCMB scientists reveal deactivation of gene WDR13 controls type-2 diabetes & improves immune system in rats.

Research by scientists at Center for Scientific and Industrial Research-Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CSIR-CCMB) Hyderabad has revealed that gene WDR13 is the major cause of type-2 diabetes and it can be effectively controlled and cured by de-activating the gene.

A team of scientists working under the leadership of Dr Satish Kumar, Head Department of Animal Genetics Research Centre have found that a gene called WDR13 is responsible for causing type-2 diabetes and … Read more