health - "medicine"

Australia's regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast Limited (ASX:MSB)(PINK:MBLTY), announced successful preclinical trial results which showed that its proprietary adult stem cells regenerated and regrew damaged knee cartilage in post-menopausal osteoarthritis.

A mutation that causes a childhood tumor syndrome also impairs growth hormone secretion, researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis have found. The discovery provides new insights into an old mystery, revealing why patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 are frequently shorter than their peers.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the most conclusive evidence to date that inadequate levels of vitamin D, obtained from milk, fortified cereals and exposure to sunlight, lead to substantially increased risk of death. In a study set to appear in the Archives of Internal medicine online Aug.

According to an article published in the open-access journal PLoS medicine, children with drug-resistant partial epilepsy who are enrolled in trials tend to have a greater response to placebo than adults enrolled in such trials. Philippe Ryvlin (Hospices Civils de Lyon, France) and colleagues say in their systematic review of antiepileptic drugs that their findings should be considered when researchers are designing drug trials to be carried out with epileptic children.

Researchers from the Indiana University School of medicine, the Regenstrief Institute and Moi University School of medicine are the first to report that adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) to fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in children who live in low income countries is as high as or higher than adherence by children living in high income countries.