January is Alzheimer Awareness Month. Two experts from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are available to comment on the effects of Alzheimerâ??s Disease (AD) and ongoing research focusing on risk factors and potential cures. The availability of our experts coincides with the 2007 "H...
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A higher level of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder may increase the risk of coronary heart disease in older men, according to a report in the January issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.A link between stress and coronary heart disease (CHD) has lon...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Cyanokit (containing the drug hydroxocobalamin, intravenous tubing and a sterile spike for reconstituting the drug product with saline) for the treatment of known or suspected cyanide poisoning. The approval, which is based on evidence of the dr...
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New research has brightened the prospects for using nanodiamonds as drug carriers, implant coatings, nanorobots and other medical applications that take advantage of diamond nanoparticles' attractive properties. The research is scheduled for publication Dec. 28 in ACS' weekly The Journal of Physical...
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Psychoanalysts seeking a greater understanding of autism will participate in the "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Insights from Neurobiology" discussion group at the American Psychoanalytic Association's 2007 Winter Meeting. The discussion group wi...
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Right about now, Chase Edwards should have been starting to think about where he wanted to go to college. Or maybe he would have been filling a portfolio with creative sketches to help him apply to art school.But instead, his parents are bracing for the fourth anniversary of the day they said goodby...
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Previously, the H5N1 virus had been confined to Asia; however, in February it reached Africa, more precisely Nigeria. Dogubayazit (Turkey- January), Irbil and Suleimaniya (Iraq- February), Salyan (Azerbaijan- March), Qaliubiya (Egypt-March) and Arta (Djibouti - May). What do they have in common? In ...
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Archemix Corp. announced the successful initial dosing with ARC1779 in its first-in-human Phase I study.ARC1779 represents a novel therapeutic principle the reduction of platelet aggregation and thrombosis by inhibition of von Willebrand Factor (vWF). [click link for full article]
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Botox"' the popular anti- wrinkle treatment, can also ease writer's cramp, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.Writer's cramp describes the painful involuntary, spasmodic muscle contractions of the fingers, hand, or arm during writi...
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