Archive for the ‘Liver Disease / Hepatitis’ Category
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Minority patients do not necessarily have worse outcomes after liver transplantation. When treated at the same medical centers as Caucasians, they fare just as well. These are the results of a new study in the November issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
The negative consequences of alcohol use and abuse have a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. New research findings indicate that racial disparities in treatment completion could be reduced by increasing enrollment in residential alcohol treatment for African American and Hispanic alcohol abusers.Results are published ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Moderate to severe chronic liver disease can be predicted with the use of diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI), according to a recent study conducted by researchers at New York University Medical Center in New York, NY."Due to the increased incidence of chronic hepatitis in the United States, particularly hepatitis C, there is ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
The connection between tattoos and hepatitis C virus (HCV) has long been suspected but never completely substantiated. Tattoos and the connection to the disease were clouded by a perceived propensity to other risk factors, such as injection drug use. "Other studies did not exclude patients with other risk ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
The reproduction of the deadly hepatitis B virus is dependent on the mobility of one of the virus's RNAs. This is shown by Katja Petzold and Jurgen Schleucher, Umea University, Sweden, in an article in the latest issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research.More than 300 million people all over ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold.The finding, reported on-line in the journal "Nature", reveals one of the key mechanisms by which the body detects temperature sensation. But in so doing it also illuminates ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Innovative new drugs for obesity, diabetes, pain, cancer and multiple sclerosis are being assisted to market at The University of Queensland by Australia's only "one-stop" integrated drug development organisation. TetraQ, a preclinical contract research and development (R&D) facility providing services to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, was officially ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Two papers selected for publication in the August 2007 issue of Biology of Reproduction demonstrate that adolescent female sheep that become pregnant before they have achieved their full growth may not be able to supply enough nourishment for their fetuses to develop without physical deficits.These studies may also have implications ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The steady formation of new brain cells in adults may represent more than merely a patching up of aging brains, a new study has shown. The new adult brain cells may serve to give the adult brain the same kind of learning ability that young brains have while still allowing ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
For the first time anywhere, a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has succeeded in observing in vivo the generation of neurons in the brain of a mammal.Dr. Adi Mizrahi of the Department of Neurobiology at the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University, used mouse ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited mental retardation, occurring in 1 in 3600 males and 1 in 4000 to 6000 females.The researchers, led by Huibert Mansvelder, published their findings in the May 24, 2007 issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press.To understand the details ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Cutting-edge research at South Dakota State University could give doctors a longer window of time in which to find out whether someone has been exposed to chemical warfare agents. Assistant professor Brian Logue in SDSU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is doing the lab studies to find out whether a ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
You may not be able to relive your youth, but part of your brain can. Johns Hopkins researchers have found that newly made nerves in an adult brain's learning center experience a one-month period when they are just as active as the nerves in a developing child. The study, appearing ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
This was the question asked at the Clinical Biochemistry annual conference in Manchester last month. At a session new to the conference, patients spoke about their experiences when interacting with hospital laboratories. Mr Geoff Hayward from Solihull described how he carried out his own 'research project' on his cholesterol ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
An exciting new venture 'Labs are VitalTM' was launched at Focus 2007. 'Labs are VitalTM' will provide a combined approach for the Association for Clinical Biochemistry, Royal College of Pathologists, Association of Clinical Pathologists and the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association to promote clinical science and laboratory medicine. This comes ...
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