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Hormone-based Heart Pill to Control High Blood Pressure

...he process, they have overcome a key technological hurdle that has stymied researchers around the world in the development of new therapies based on clusters of amino acids called peptides. The Mayo Clinic researchers will present their findings March 27 at the American College of Cardiology’s 56th Annual S...

Can Science Stop Cancer Before It Starts?

...d to cancer research. For many of these areas, the hurdle to these advances is not the science but the funding. Funding at the National Cancer Institute – the primary source for most basic cancer research – has been virtually flat since 2003. President Bush’s FY08 budget proposes decreases the NCI’s budget ...

CT Imaging With Novel Contrast Agent May Predict Heart Attack in Waiting

... be useful to prevent cardiac events but one major hurdle in detecting high-risk plaque is the lack of an imaging modality that allows physicians to see the composition of dangerous plaque, explains study author Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, FAHA, FACC, Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology) and director of...

Novel Delivery Method of Insulin Gene to Combat Juvenile Diabetes Developed

... attractive approach to cure this disease. A major hurdle with this approach has been replicating automatic insulin secretion that is tuned to the bodys requirements. Dr. Anthony Cheung and his colleagues at enGene, Inc., Vancouver, aim to develop an approach to restore the meal-responsive insulin product...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

... other countrys model will only be seen as another hurdle by doctors and may not serve the desired effect of maintaining clinical knowledge. My personal view, is an Indian recertification should be based on a points system where points are continuously acquired multimodally consisting of essential and opt...

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