Tag Archives: Research

New research shows Coke has led efforts by US junk food companies to shape China's obesity policy

Coca-Cola has spearheaded an effort by American junk food companies, including PepsiCo, Nestle and McDonald’s, to quietly shape China’s nutrition policy through a non-profit group called the International Life Sciences Institute, according to new research.

GE Healthcare, VUMC join on cancer immunotherapy research

GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center will collaborate on enabling safer and more precise treatment of cancer immunotherapies. Under the during the five-year program, the organizations will analyze the immunotherapy treatment response of thousands of VUMC cancer patients by using anonymized demographic, genomic, tumor, cellular, proteomic and imaging data. Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment… Read More »

New Brain Research Sheds Light On Mental Illness

THURSDAY, Dec. 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Researchers say a massive genetic analysis of the human brain has yielded new insights into the underpinnings of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism. Scientists at 15 institutions analyzed nearly 2,000 brains, and their findings are detailed in 11 studies published Dec. 14 in a… Read More »

A veteran science communicator’s guidelines for PR news releases on medical research

November 28, 2018 Posted By Categories This guest post is by Earle Holland, a member of our editorial team for the past four years. For almost 35 years, he was the senior science and medical communications officer at Ohio State University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Earlier this week,… Read More »