Archive for the ‘General Health’ Category
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) holds U.S. and global patent rights for the use of statin drugs for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), including for patients at risk for AD because of vascular-related risk factors or disease. An important new study has found that people who take statin ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The 2008 Frost & Sullivan European Transdermal Drug Delivery Product Innovation Award is conferred on Israel-based TransPharma Medical Ltd. in recognition of its innovative ViaDerm drug delivery system. The company’s two flagship drug product development programs - ViaDerm hPTH (1-34) for the treatment of osteoporosis and ViaDerm-hGH for the treatment ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
A large-scale survey of Africans in England shows that targeted HIV prevention services are required to improve people’s confidence and skills in order to avoid passing on or getting HIV.More than 4,000 Africans took part in the BASS Line 2007 Survey undertaken by Sigma Research of the University of Portsmouth. ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Today, fpa launches It’s My Right! - a groundbreaking campaign for Sexual Health Week[1], about the rights of people with learning disabilities to have sex and relationships. As part of the week fpa are releasing the results of surveys for professionals[2] working with people with learning disabilities and people with ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center say that their first-of-its-kind study of a telemedicine program which transports stroke specialists via computer desktop or even laptop to the patient’s bedside, using highly sophisticated video, audio and Internet technology, could have an immediate and profound impact on the ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is the same as for life itself - evolution. After analyzing a half million gene mutations, the researchers found that although different gene mutations control different cancer pathways, ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Infections following treatment in clinics, retirement homes, and long-term care facilities are a grave problem for patients, and resistant germs can be particularly devastating. “High infection rates are in particular observed related to implants, catheters, and stents,” reports Karl Gademann, “those for urinary catheters mounting up to 30 % per ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Those who know someone who died in the Iraq War or 9/11 terrorist attacks are less likely to approve of President Bush’s performance in office than people who have no such connections, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The pattern holds true for Republicans as well ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
A new study by researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston could help experts better decide whether to continue the current practice of retesting women during their second pregnancies for a common bacterial infection if they had tested positive for the infection previously.Group B Streptococcus, or GBS, ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Individuals with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor, have an extremely poor prognosis. Although pre-clinical studies indicated therapeutics inhibiting a group of proteins known as receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) would likely be beneficial to individuals with GBM, these RTK inhibitors have met with limited ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Endocannabinoids are substances produced by several cells in the body that are very similar to compounds found in cannabis plants. They have been implicated in the development of many effects of a high-fat diet, including many risk factors for type 2 diabetes: obesity, insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and dyslipidemia. It ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Humans express several proteins that breakdown the synthetic chemicals and drugs (collectively known as xenobiotics) that we ingest or are administered. Expression of these proteins is itself regulated by the xenobiotic-sensing proteins PXR and CAR. Developing animal models to determine the relative importance of PXR and CAR for humans to ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
The leukemic cells in a large proportion of individuals with a form of leukemia known as T-ALL have mutations in the NOTCH1 gene. These mutations lead to the generation of Notch1 proteins that have increased activity, however, it is not known whether they have sufficient increased activity to actually initiate ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
New insight into the way in which inflammatory cells known as macrophages leave the blood and access sites of injury has been provided by Jane Hoover-Plow and colleagues, at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, who studied the process in mice. This information has particular clinical relevance to injury and ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
New data, generated in mice by Riko Nishimura and colleagues, at Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry, Japan, have provided insight into the formation of cartilage, a process that is known as chondrogenesis and that is an important event in bone development.Previous studies have indicated an essential role for the ...
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