(Carnegie Mellon University) Hyaluronic hydrogels developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers may provide a suitable scaffolding to enable bone regeneration. The hydrogels, created by Newell Washburn, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski and Jeffrey Hollinger, have proven to encourage the growth of preo
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(Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland) A new study conducted by researchers at Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland shows that a century-old drug, methylene blue, may be able to slow or even cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Used at a very low concentration -- about the
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(Weber Shandwick Worldwide) Cocoa flavanols, the unique compounds found naturally in cocoa, may increase blood flow to the brain, according to new research published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal. The researchers suggest that long-term improvements in brain blood flow could
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(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Aug. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine explores the issue of organ donation after cardiac death. In the journal's Perspective Roundtable, Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Scho
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(Journal of Clinical Investigation) Parkinson disease is a debilitating and lethal neurodegenerative disease, for which there is currently no cure. However, new data have provided evidence to support that idea that agents that disrupt the formation of the abnormal aggregates of a protein called alp
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(Indiana University) Review and analysis of all published studies on adherence to antiretroviral therapy to fight HIV in children who live in low income countries find adherence is as high as or higher than adherence by children living in high income countries.
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(BioMed Central) A study of 228 women has revealed genetic variants responsible for body shape. Based on work in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, research published today in the open access journal BMC Genetics identifies natural variation in the human LAMA5 gene as a key determinant of weigh
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(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Eating oily fish once a week may reduce age-related macular degeneration which is the major cause of blindness and poor vision in adults inwestern countries and the third cause of global blindness, according toa study published today in the American Jo
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(University of Montreal Hospital Centre) Canadian researchers have shown that patients who receive early treatment for hepatitis C virus within the first months following an infection, develop a rapid poly-functional immune response against HCV similar to when infection is erradicted spontaneously,
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