Bereavement-Related Depression Dr Hensley is voluntary associate professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque.Dr Clayton is medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in New York.
The loss of a...
Natural substance Argyrin shows promise for new cancer therapies The effective treatment of many forms of cancer continues to pose a major problem for medicine.Many tumours fail to respond to standard forms of chemotherapy or become resistant to the medication.
Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for...
[Articles] Toward Optimization of Postremission Therapy for Residual Disease-Positive Patients With Acute Myel Toward Optimization of Postremission Therapy for Residual DiseasePositive Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Luca Maurillo, Francesco Buccisano, Maria Ilaria Del Principe, Giovanni Del Poeta, Alessandra Spagnoli, Paola Panetta, Emanuele...
Mechanisms of Disease: The Evolving Role of Regulatory T Cells in Atherosclerosis cells Identify the association between regulatory T cells and human diseases Identify results of murine studies of regulatory T cells and atherosclerosis Describe the role of regulatory T cells in atherosclerosis in humans Authors and Jacob...
Keeping a Food Diary Doubles Diet Weight Loss Jul-2008, 03:05 ET Libraries Medical News Keywords WEIGHT LOSS, FOOD DIARY Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description Keeping a food diary can double a persons weight loss according to a study from Kaiser...
Want To Lose Weight? Keep A Food Diary Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News Featured Article Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet email to a friend printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Current Article Ratings: Patient /...
Contrast sensitivity testing always beneficial in cataract work-up Practitioners usually do not bill for this useful exam but say it is much needed when testing for functional vision.Jena Passut Surgery may have come a long way in terms of removing cataracts, but optometrists are well poised to look...
Argyrin: Natural substance raises hope for new cancer therapies Scientists at HZI, MHH and LUH publish previously-unknown chemical mechanism The effective treatment of many forms of cancer continues to pose a major problem for medicine.Many tumours fail to respond to standard forms of chemotherapy or...
Unique New CRT Pacemaker With Advanced Algorithm For RVsense Triggering And Wideband IEGM Snapshot Memory Is N LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIOTRONIK today announced the market release of the Stratos LV Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy pacemaker (CRT-P). Stratos LV extends BIOTRONIK's already comprehensive heart failure product...
[Articles] Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation for Myeloid Sarcoma: A Retrospective Study From From the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Htel-Dieu; Cellule de Promotion la Recherche Clinique, CHU Hotel-Dieu, Nantes; CHU Haute-Pierre, Strasbourg; Hopital de la Timone; Institut Paoli-Calmette, Marseille; Centre Henri-Becquerel,...
Local and National Legislation Banning Phthalates and Bisphenol A Considered July 7, 2008 New York State legislators are considering at least 2 bills that would limit or ban the sale of both bisphenol A (BPA), which is a chemical constituent of polycarbonate plastics, and phthalates, which are chemical agents used in...
A Thought Leader Analysis Conference Examining Coagulants, Pricing, Gene Therapy and Third World Market Growth DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/df5991/thought_leader_ins) has announced the addition of the 'Thought Leader Insight & Analysis: Coagulants' report to their offering....
PCSK1 Gene Variants Contribute to Obesity Risk in European Populations Investigators have found that variants in PCSK1, the gene encoding the enzyme proconvertase, are significantly associated with obesity in several European populations.The study, published online July 6 in Nature Genetics, found that the...
Effectiveness of Probiotics in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Riordan S, Kim R.Bacterial overgrowth as a cause of irritable bowel syndrome.
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Bacterial peptide provides new insight into common tumor suppressor Scientists have identified a new antitumor drug that might prove useful in developing treatments for a multiple human cancers.The research, published by Cell Press in the July 8 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, advances the understanding...
MicroIslet Provides Safety and Efficacy Data Update; No Adverse Events Attributable To MicroIslet-P In Animal MicroIslet Inc.(OTCBB: MIIS, www.microislet.com), a biotechnology company engaged in the development and commercialization of cell therapies for diabetes, is pleased to report recent safety and efficacy data.
To date, MicroIslet has...
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Outcomes of patients with transient ischaemic attack after hospital admission or discharge from the emergency To compare outcomes at 28 days and 1 year between patients admitted to hospital and those discharged after presenting to the emergency department (ED) with transient ischaemic attack (TIA).Design and setting: All TIA presentations to EDs...
Biotechnology Business: William P. Sheridan Appointed Chief Medical Officer of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals William P. Sheridan Appointed Chief Medical Officer of BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NewsRx.com) -- BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:BCRX) announced that William P.
Sheridan, MB BS, has been appointed Chief Medical Officer of...
Invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous people in north Queensland: an update, 20052007 To examine trends in invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Indigenous people in north Queensland following the introduction of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV).Design: Trends in IPD were compared over three 3-year...
Data-mining of medication records to improve asthma management Intervention and control groups The intervention Data collection The preventer-to-reliever ratio Statistical analysis Ethics approval and patient consent Results Discussion Acknowledgements Competing interests Author details References...
WaferGen's SmartChip Real-Time PCR System to Begin Alpha Testing at University of Pittsburgh Medical Sc WaferGen Biosystems, Inc., a leading developer of state-of-the-art gene expression, genotyping, cell biology and stem cell research systems, today announced that it has shipped the alpha version of its SmartChip Real-Time PCR System, as well...
Global Hospital conducts first spinal cord stimulation in South India The Hyderabad-based Global Hospital, a unit of the Ravindranath GE Medical Associates Pvt Ltd, has successfully conducted spinal cord stimulation for chronic pains in a 65 year old patient recently.It has claimed that it is the first of...
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