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Weight Control for Obese Diabetics

...lycemic medication requirements. This intervention holds promise for use in overweight populations with and without diabetes mellitus....

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...S by the British Medical Association. He currently holds the award of Leaders for Change from the Health Foundation, London. Interview: 1. India is gaining popularity as a healthcare destination. Having contributed both in India and abroad, what in your estimate are the key challenges to providing w...

First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another

...his research as we believe that synthetic genomics holds great promise in helping to solve issues like climate change and in developing new sources of energy." Methods and techniques> The JCVI team devised several key steps to enable the genome transplantation. First, an antibiotic selectable marker g...

Surface Logix Commences Phase 2a Clinical Trial of SLx-2101 in Raynaud's Disease

...development of digital ulcers. "PDE-5 inhibition holds promise in several cardiovascular indications, though many disorders such as Raynaud's are currently not addressed by marketed PDE-5 inhibitors," commented Paul Sweetnam, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Surface Logix. "We used our novel chemistry ...

Taking Low-calorie Soup Before Meal Will Help Cut Calories at Meals

...ood intake," says co-author Dr. Barbara Rolls, who holds the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition at Penn State. "Earlier work suggests that chunky soup may be the most filling type of soup, so the purpose of this study was to determine whether different forms of soup might have different effects on food intake." ...

Gluten Intolerance Cases Diagnosed Late in UK

...hat forms the structure of the bread dough. Gluten holds the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by the yeast and expands during fermentation, and provides the elasticity and extensibility (stretch) in bread dough. Glutenin and gliadin are the two proteins that form gluten. Gluten is generally found in rice, w...

Estrogen May Be a Good Therapy for Women Before They Turn 65

... part of the Women's Health Initiative Memory, and holds a distinction of being the most exhaustive study in the US to look at prevention measures in post menopausal women; the study analyzed the usage of hormone therapy in 7,153 healthy women aged 65-79 . Their cognitive health levels were tracked for an ...

Florence Nightingale Nursing Award For Maj Gen Shashi Bala

...and had her early nursing education in Mumbai. She holds a Masters degree in Nursing. Immediately after joining MNS, she rendered services to the battle casualties of 1971 Indo Pak War. She has 37 years nursing experience and has been awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal in the past. She is an eminent resear...

walk and Work Desk Could Help Obese Workers to Shed Weight

...ch two adjustable arms are bolted. One of the arms holds the computer screen and the other supports the keyboard and mouse. Slats provide storage for personal items. The researchers compared the energy used at the walk and work desk with that used while seated at a conventional desk in 15 obese people wi...

No Evidence Older Women Generate New Eggs

...Gynecology at USF, and colleague Lin Liu, who also holds a post at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, Chi...e of Medicine. The traditional view of fertility holds that women are born with all their eggs and they are released one by one (occasionally two) at each ...

Floida to Electronically Track Alzheimers Patients

...ly that an RFID chip would fail or the system that holds patients' electronic records could crash. Bioethicists don't share all of Albrecht's concerns. Jason Karlawish of the University of Pennsylvania said, "There is a well-worked-out guide to conduct ethics for what is and isn't permissible," Karlawi...

Nanocomposite Labeled Cancer Cells Targeted and Destroyed by Using Lasers

... leave unlabeled cells unaffected. This technology holds promise as an alternative therapy for cancer patients. According to Dr. Balogh, "The DNC is a multi-functional platform. Because it can carry multiple agents inside, yet present a simple outer surface to the body, it can be programmed to deliver th...

Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...a professor of medicine at McMaster University who holds a Canada Research Chair in cardiovascular obesity research and management. "Treating the disease has to be up to (health) professionals, not up to people who could be selling a scam or selling products that are dubious in terms of safety," he said....

Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...lso, science is not special here. The same process holds for certain religious, moral and political beliefs. Currently, said co-author and graduate student Deena Skolnick Weisberg, there is resistance to central tenets of neuroscience and evolutionary biology because the concepts clash with intuitive bel...

Study on Bioactive Paper That can Detect Life Threatening Bacteria and Viruses

...g processes. "The development of bioactive paper holds potential benefits for the paper products industry as well. It provides our industrial partners with the opportunity to develop innovative, high value-added paper and packaging products, said George Rosenberg, managing director of SENTINEL....

Medical Admissions Test Integrity Under Threat

...be focusing on their Year 12 studies. AMSA also holds serious concerns about the equity of access to UMAT preparation courses. They are expensive and infrequently delivered in rural and remote areas, thereby depriving many potential medical students of the chance to undertake the same courses that th...

Researchers Identify the Gene Mutation That Raises Breast Cancer Risk

... cancer , has revealed a common gene mutation that holds 60 per cent increased risk of breast cancer. Douglas Easton at the UK based University of Cambridge says that the gene mutation was observed in one out of six women during the study. The researchers say that the newly identified gene variant, in ...

Tension Building Up in FDA Over Drug Approvals

...verest warning on Avandia. The review group, which holds sway, has not done so. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, and others on Capitol Hill, say the rift between the approval office and the safety office means that the two must separate and that the safety group must have more power. Mr....

FASgen Announces New Diagnostic Research Test for Steatohepatitis

...ty acid biosynthesis. One group of these compounds holds great promise for new a highly specific therapeutics for cancer; additional compounds have the potential of specific therapeutics for obesity and related metabolic disorders. For more information, visit FASgen's website at www.fasgen.com....

"Pre-treatment Blood Test" A New Guide to Lung Cancer Therapy

...orithm in a prospective way, Carbone said. If it holds up, we will be able to separate patients into two groups one that would benefit more from chemotherapy and the other from targeted TKIs and treat them accordingly. The overall survival of the whole group of patients would be better by virtue of thi...

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