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Primitive Yeast Yields Secrets Of Human Cholesterol And Drug Metabolism

... production and potentially drug metabolism. The collaborative study by investigators at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Indiana University and Eli Lilly Co., was published in the February issue of Cell Metabolism. “Dap1 controls the activity of a clinically important class ...

Treat Childhood Trauma by Building on Parental Memories of Loving Care

... director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a collaborative of four university sites funded by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration. ETTN is part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a 40-site national initiative with the mission of increasing the access and quality ...

Reading Hidden Intentions in Brain

...s' different plans. The findings, reported by a collaborative group led by John-Dylan Haynes of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, appear in Current Biology online on February 8th. Past research had indicated that activity in the area of the prefrontal cortex ...

New Guidelines for Diagnosis of Venous Thromboembolism

...nary embolism. "These new guidelines represent a collaborative effort between family medicine and internal medicine," said Rick Kellerman, M.D., The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) president. "We are pleased to collaborate with the American College of Physicians on this endeavor to provide physician...

Korean Varsities Seek Partnership With AIIMS

...odalities for exchange of faculty and students and collaborative research in various fields that are of common interest to both," Gupta told IANS. In October, international magazine Newsweek had profiled AIIMS as one of the top 10 hospitals of the world by calling it "an oasis for India's poorest". Source-IANS...

Tax Concession to Pharma Comapnies

...rging as one of the most favoured destinations for collaborative R&D, bio-informatics, contract research and manufacturing and clinical research as a result of// growing compliance with internationally harmonized standards such as Good Laboratory Practices, current Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Clinical Pract...

First International Gene Screen for Typical ALS Is on Track

...as completed in record time, reflecting the highly collaborative nature of the involved scientists and clinicians. The NINDS, for example, contributed the American samples in the study from among those that ALS clinicians at multiple medical centers nationwide sent to its new national repository. The researcher...

Preserving Fertility for Child Cancer Patients

...nt Professor Stacey Urbach argue for consensus and collaborative research. “The paediatric community has been slow to embrace routine and consistent counselling for families about preservation options, in part because the options in young children are both limited and complicated,” says Prof Greenberg. “Paed...

Paunch Size Linked To Cardiovascular Diseases Risk: Study

...ajor studies including DESMOND and a multinational collaborative study (ADDITION). The Leicester Ethnic Atherosclerosis and Diabetes Risk (LEADER) Study is one of the world's largest epidemiological cohort study of diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in Caucasian and South Asian populations. Source-IANS...

Threat posed by highly resistant strains of TB

...n to Dr. Gandhi, other researchers involved in the collaborative project were Dr. Gerald Friedland, director of the AIDS Program at Yale University; Dr. Tony Moll, of the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, South Africa; and Drs. Willem Sturm, Robert Pawinksi and Umesh Lalloo, of the Nelson R. Mandela Sch...

ADHD Treatment -Phase 3 data on Lisdexamfetamine dimesylate Presented

...(also known as NRP104 or LDX) by Shire plc and its collaborative partner// New River Pharmacuticals has yielded a good response in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, it was announced today. The data was presented at a national meeting of child and adolescent psychiatrists last weekend. The...

Childhood Cancer Survivors May Suffer Health Problems in Adulthood

...e. Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, the collaborative study drew on researchers from more than two dozen cancer centers throughout the U.S. and Canada. In comparing more than 10,000 adult survivors of pediatric cancer to approximately 3,000 of their siblings, the researchers found survivors to be more ...

Toxin causing Gastrointestinal problems identified

...cil and the Australian Research Council funded the collaborative research. The results are available in the latest issue of the journal Nature. GYT...

Free Drug Samples Influence Prescribing, Say One in Three Doctors

...rmaceutical industry. The members were part of a collaborative research network, representing each of the 10 districts covered by the College. Just over half of those surveyed responded (217). More than 90% of the respondents thought it was ethical to accept free samples of a new drug from a pharmaceutical c...

NSET recognizes needs related to engineered nanoscale materials

...ely important in that it is the result of a highly collaborative effort by the Federal agencies that participate in the NNI to identify and agree upon major EHS research needs. It reflects inputs from the Federal regulatory agencies and describes the EHS research and information needed to enable sound risk assessm...

Prenatal Multivitamins to prevent risk of Brain Tumors In Kids

...arts. The Children's Oncology Group, a multicenter collaborative organization of pediatric cancer programs in the U.S. and Canada had enrolled the kids with cancer chosen for this study. These kids were diagnosed between 1991 and 1997. A telephone survey was conducted in which the mothers were interrogated. "Ch...

A Novel approach in Malaria treatment

...th malaria. The treatment developed in an 8-year collaborative study is published in the journal PLOS Clinical Trials. The study revealed that fluid depletion was the major cause of occurrence of serious symptoms in Kenyan kids with malaria. Previously, kids with severe malaria were not given extra fluids due ...

Molecule responsible for age associated macular degeneration identified

...ted macular degeneration.' The results of their collaborative work were published in the recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). AMD is a progressive disease that results in the severe loss of vision. The early stages of AMD are characterized as 'dry,' with the disease advancing to the '...

Latest Enhancements to the Free Access Grid Toolkit Now Available

...a robust foundation on which researchers can build collaborative tools for enabling discovery, allowing them to communicate seamlessly and naturally across physical and institutional boundaries” The Access Grid Toolkit employs a very open license and is designed to allow researchers to use the toolkit as a platf...

Gene variants hold clues about vulnerability to cardiovascular disease

...ies affected by coronary artery disease, through a collaborative study, called GENECARD, led by William E. Kraus, M.D., associate professor of medicine, under way at the Duke Center for Human Genetics. Using these DNA samples, the researchers scanned the GATA2 gene for SNPs that differed in sequence between indivi...

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