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Now Fight Iron Disorders With a Drug Against Hypertension

...nifedipine exerts its effect on iron metabolism by acting on a molecule called DMT-1. DMT-1 transports iron across cell membranes. This transport is increased ten to 100-fold by nifedipine, but how exactly the compound brings about its effect is still unknown. Nifedipine is known to block membrane channels ...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

...lity of food and decreased necessity for exercise, acting on genetically susceptible individuals. Professor Philippe Froguel, one of the authors of the article published in Nature from the Division of Medicine at Imperial College London, said: “The two major reasons why people develop Type II diabetes are...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

...agreeing to donate will have to show that they are acting for altruistic reasons, for example because they have a close relative suffering with one of the conditions scientists are trying to develop new treatments for with the aid of human eggs. But scientists from the University of Padua in Italy have wa...

Study Examines Negative Reactions to Sexual Assault Victims

... her life). ? Treating the victim differently or acting like she is "damaged goods," ignoring her disclosure, or minimizing the experience. ? Overreacting, or focusing on how the victim's disclosure or the assault is affecting the support provider instead of attending to its impact on the victim. Ullm...

Researchers Discover Breakthrough in Malaria Treatment

...Chinese herbal extract (artemisinin) with a longer acting antimalarial drug. The researchers found that bo...Dr Price. 'It also provides evidence that longer acting drugs can prevent patients, who remain at risk of further infections, from getting sick again within...

A New Pain Killer With Less Side Effects

... interaction with opioid receptors. In addition to acting as a pain killer this drug produces a number of un...characterised a prototype analgesic (pain killer), acting at a new opioid receptor, with a much reduced side effect profile. In his inaugural lecture he wil...

Easy Money-NHS Trusts Make Millions from Parking Fees

...l of ￡95 million ‘shocking’. Says Judy Beard, acting chief executive: "When the Government announced its revised hospital car parking guidance last year, Macmillan fully expected NHS trusts to look again at their hospital car parking charges and exempt cancer patients - however we have yet to see this ...

Antioxidant Molecule Could Help Minimize Stroke-Linked Brain Damage

... that can reach the stroke site and keep CD36 from acting as it does Luckily, another researcher at Weill Cornell, professor of pharmacology Dr. Hazel Szeto, had already developed a candidate antioxidant peptide, SS31. Dr. Szeto is a co-researcher on the current paper. "Dr. Szeto was, in fact, looking f...

New Ribosome Finding Could Lead to Antiviral Therapies

...y help coordinate ribosome-associated functions by acting as a switch or a gatekeeper,” Dinman said. “When you alter the L3 switch, you alter the way the ribosome coordinates all of the functions of the cell. We found that the cells with this L3 mutation could not reproduce viruses. “These mutant forms of...

Estrogen Protects Liver After Traumatic Injury

...h a form of estrogen that cannot enter cells, thus acting only via cell surface interactions. As expected, rats affected by trauma-hemorrhage released high levels of liver enzymes associated with liver damage. However, treatment with surface estrogen decreased the amount of enzymes released. Further, suc...

1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

...veloping countries, said Paul Blumenthal, MD, MPH, acting professor of obstetrics and gynecology. He is the lead author of the study, which will be published in the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In developed countries such as the United States, women receive a regular P...

Climate Change Threatens Sundarbans and World Heritage Sites

...ublication stressed that these mangroves have been acting as protective buffers against tropical cyclones that are common in the Bengal basin. About 10 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in this area of Bay of Bengal, and 17 percent of them sweep the land in Bangladesh. "No matter whether the ...

Nanoparticles can Damage DNA, Increase Cancer Risk

...ell and causing DNA damage directly or if they are acting on the membrane and inducing a cascade of events resulting in DNA damage," Pacheco said. "Once we understand the mechanisms by which nanoparticles induce their toxicity, we will be better able to prevent or mitigate their harmful effects." In the m...

Baby Foods That Prevent Obesity and Diabetes in Adulthood to Hit the Market Soon

...han Seckl says. 'We need to know whether leptin is acting pre- and post-natally, figure out how it works, and dissect the possible side-effects before this becomes a potential approach for humans. Nonetheless, this is good science,' he says. Source-Eurekalert/V...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

...absent in the donor’s tissue. Victoria State’s acting chief health officer Dr John Carnie says, “Organ transplant recipients are hit with a variety of drugs to suppress their immune system so that they don't reject the organ that's transplanted. So if you're immunosuppressed, any kind of infection can h...

Vaccines On Your Plate

...ent. Now, the researchers say this strain of rice acting as a vaccine, can last for more than a year and a half at room temperature. The benefits of such a vaccine have far-reaching effects. It could be used for large-scale and cost-efficient immunization programs. Developing countries, many of whic...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

... poorly understood, that kills them. "They start acting like they're youngsters again," Northwestern quoted Surmeier as saying. The study is published online on Sunday by Nature, the British science journal. So far the work has only been carried out on animals, and more needs to be done to assess the ...

Titan may Produce Glucose Watches Soon

...materials also have special electronic properties, acting as conductors, semiconductors and even superconductors losing all electrical resistance at a certain temperature depending on how they are made. For diabetics, a prick-less sensor of this kind would be most welcome. India tops the list of diabet...

Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks

...cause they say Lactalis and Isigny Cooperative are acting out of purely business motives. And they fear the companies may yet use their commercial weight to get AOC regulators to change the rules -- placing the future of traditional Camembert in real jeopardy. "They talk about a supposed danger to heal...

Toolkit to Assess Reproductive Health Needs of Displaced Women

...estically or internationally," said John Lehnherr, acting director of CDC's Division of Reproductive Health. CDC officially began a reproductive health for refugees program in 1998....

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