NovaDigm Therapeutics, a company developing innovative vaccines for fungal and bacterial infections, today announced that it has acquired the rights, in four separate transactions, to three well-studied Candida vaccine antigens, significantly bolstering the Company’s Candida vaccine pipeline.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Coordinating Council presented the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) with its Community Service Award on May 22, an annual honor it gives to an organization with programs that “greatly benefit the community.”
The Council, formed in 1956, provides programs of interest to the community and publishes an updated calendar of nonprofit events as a service the community. It has been presenting the Community Service Award to local organizations since 1961.
Investigator(s):
The Lundquist Institute
The rates of community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CO-MRSA) varied dramatically among academic medical centers in California, New York, Illinois and North Carolina, suggesting there is not a uniform change in the “national epidemic” of the “superbug” that has generated extensive public health concern over the past decade, according to a new study.
Green tea and its extracts have been widely touted as potential treatments for cancer, as well as several other diseases. But scientists have struggled to explain how the green tea and its extracts may work to reduce the risk of cancer or to slow the growth of cancer cells.
With the rate of chronic kidney disease on the rise among older Americans, researchers seeking to improve patients’ quality of life studied a group of adults undergoing hemodialysis and found their higher rates of depression and anxiety could be associated with their impaired physical exercise capability and reduced daily physical activity, according a new study published online by the Journal of Renal Nutrition.
Expertscape, a service to help patients find the experts they need to consult on specific medical conditions, recently named Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher, the world’s No. 1 expert on end-stage kidney, or renal, disease.
Expertscape says it objectively identifies the “most knowledgeable and experienced doctors” by surveying their research publications and determining who has the greatest expertise in a specific condition.
Investigator(s):
The Lundquist Institute
Loren Miller, MD, a Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) lead researcher, is the senior author of a published study that will receive the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Award for Publication Excellence at its annual conference in Anaheim on June 7.
A first-ever World Health Organization assessment of the growing problem calls for rapid changes to avoid the misery and deaths of a potential “post-antibiotic era”
Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria and other pathogens have now emerged in every part of the world and threaten to roll back a century of medical advances. That’s the message from the World Health Organization in its first global report on this growing problem, which draws on drug-resistance data in 114 countries.
From iodine eyedrops that prevent blindness in children to cholesterol testing to early discoveries that led to in vitro fertilization, the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute has made innovative scientific breakthroughs with worldwide implications since 1962.
But the renowned research institute hasn’t profited much from the groundbreaking technologies it birthed.
A new study which shows a specific form of garlic that you can buy in any health food store; may control, maybe even reverse heart disease.
Although previous studies have focused on garlic’s effect on cholesterol, this research done by Dr. Matthew Budoff, of LABiomed at Harbor General Hospital in Carson, is the first to look at its direct effect on the hearts arteries.
Budoff told NBC4’s Dr. Bruce Hensel that the reserchers wanted “to see if there is actually benefit to the arteries themselves; if there’s heart disease benefit by taking aged garlic extract.”