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Scientists have identified a way to prevent Type I diabetes in rats that are genetically prone to develop the disease. The discovery could one day lead to the prevention, and possibly to the treatment, of autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes.
The Baltimore study is the second Ebola vaccine trial being led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine CVD, the first currently taking place in Mali, West Africa. The Mali trial is being performed by CVD-Mali in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Mali.
New research from scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has found that tiny lumps of calcium phosphate may be an important triggering factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a degenerative eye disease that can cause severe vision loss and blindness. This is the first time these mineral deposits have been implicated in the disease, which affects more than 10 million Americans. The article appeared in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
After eight years of analysis, scientists from around the world have completed an unprecedented project to delineate a wide spectrum of human genetic variation. This enormous catalog of data, known as the 1000 Genomes Project, will yield insights for decades. Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine played a key role in the consortium, and co-authored two papers published this week about the effort in the current issue of the journal Nature.
In an event that showed the growing breadth and depth of research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, more than 500 attendees participated in the Third Annual Festival of Science on December 11.
The White House has awarded Robert E. Fischell, ScD, a member of the University of Maryland School of Medicine Board of Visitors, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honor for technological achievement bestowed by the president of the United States.
The University of Maryland School of Medicine announced today that the Maryland Proton Treatment Center has treated its first cancer patients with proton therapy at a new $200 million facility in the University of Maryland BioPark in West Baltimore.
New research has provided more evidence that an innovative treatment strategy may help prevent brain swelling and death in stroke patients. J. Marc Simard, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, along with colleagues at Yale University and Massachusetts General Hospital, found that Cirara, an investigational drug, powerfully reduced brain swelling and death in patients who had suffered a type of large stroke called malignant infarction, which normally carries a high mortality rate.
The the University of Maryland School of Medicine Program in Health Disparities and Population Health now has a new home in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.
It is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Christina鈥檚 World, by Andrew Wyeth. The subject in the painting suffered from a mysterious disorder that took away her ability to walk. Her disease has never been diagnosed. Now, a leading neurologist has pinpointed a diagnosis.
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