Reports of squalor at a US military hospital show how out of touch America's elites really are, argues a leading US professor in this week's BMJ.According to several recent reports in the Washington Post, seriously wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital are housed in rodent infested facilitie...
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Estelle Sontag, Viyada Nunbhakdi- Craig, Jean-Marie Sontag, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Egon Ogris, Sanjana Dayal, Steven R. Lentz, Erland Arning, and Teodoro BottiglieriElevated plasma levels of homocysteine are a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Because high homocysteine levels can inhibit methyltran...
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Amicus Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing small-molecule, orally administered pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of human genetic diseases, announced today that enrollment has been completed for all ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials of Amigal(TM) (migalastat hydrochloride,...
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Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (Nasdaq: ALXN) announced today that it has received marketing approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Soliris(TM) (eculizumab). Soliris is the first therapy approved for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare, disabling and life-threat...
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A surgeon at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has developed a new procedure to prevent one of the most common side effects associated with breast cancer treatment lymphedema or swelling of the arms due to faulty drainage of the lymph nodes. V. Suzanne Klimberg, M.D., director o...
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Specialists from the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics and their colleagues, chemists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the St. Petersburg Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Academy are developing unique drugs that help to protect the human organism from the influence of ...
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The amount and formulation of an adult heart drug given to children with congenital heart failure varies widely across the UK, reveals a survey published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.The discrepancies suggest that children might not be getting the most effective dose for th...
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For workers with migraines, taking a daily medication to prevent headache attacks can reduce lost productive time on the job, reports a study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOE...
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