Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.In a study of American Indians, average age 26. [click link for full article]
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University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers have identified a new way to predict when anti-estrogen drug therapies are inappropriate for patients with hormone-dependent breast cancer.The team's leader, Erik Knudsen, PhD, says the findings could help physicians more accurately predict which tumors will...
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Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers have identified a new way that arsenite, a form of arsenic, acts in treating a rare cancer known as APL, or acute promyelocytic leukemia. Their study is published in the Jan. 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. [click link for full arti...
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A worldwide licensing arrangement for development, production and marketing of an antiepileptic drug created at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been signed by Shire Pharmaceuticals with Yissum, the Hebrew University's technology transfer company. Shire is a multinational firm with operations ...
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At holiday dinners this year, Calabasas, Calif., resident Jim Stavis, 52, was able to eat the same pumpkin pie and special desserts everyone else had, not the sugar-free variety. And when dinner was over, he didnā??t have to reach for his insulin pump to try to compensate. A pancreas transplant perf...
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GenesisBPS (http://www.genesisbps.com) has announced that the SEPAX Cell Separation System, developed and manufactured by Biosafe SA (http://www.biosafe.ch) has received 510(k) marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation & Research (CBER) for use...
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Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (Nasdaq: CTIC; MTAX) today announced it has filed for a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the design of its phase III trial of XYOTAX for women with advanced lung cancer. The trial, PGT306, will focus exclusively on...
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated the potential of a new type of therapy for patients who suffer from high cholesterol levels. The findings are in the January 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). In this study, patients with homozyg...
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Cincinnati burn researchers have created genetically modified skin cells that, when added to cultured skin substitutes, may help fight off potentially lethal infections in patients with severe burns.Dorothy Supp, PhD, and her team found that skin cells that were genetically altered to produce higher...
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