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Single-tablet With Two Drugs may Help Control High BP Better

...n moderate hypertension. The international study named ACCOMPLISH (Avoiding Cardiovascular Events through Combination Therapy in Patients Living with Systolic Hypertension) was conducted by a team of researchers led by Ken Jamerson at the University of Michigan Medical School. As part of the study, res...

Heart-Assist Device Gives Culver City Man a Good Quality of Life

...ited States. For 19 consecutive years, it has been named Los Angeles most preferred hospital for all health needs in an independent survey of area residents. Cedars-Sinai is internationally renowned for its diagnostic and treatment capabilities as well as breakthroughs in biomedical research and superlativ...

Fecal Bacteria, a Source of Contamination

...y the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality named Plum Creek the most contaminated tributary to the middle reaches of the Platte River. The researchers used two fecal source-tracking tools to analyze contaminated water and stream-sediment samples in the Plum Creek watershed. The source-tracking to...

Suicide Among Returning US Soldiers on the Rise

...mmittee on Veterans' Affairs is considering a bill named for Joshua Omvig. It directs the VA to develop a suicide prevention program for veterans suffering from PTSD and other depression issues. It unanimously passed the House in March....

American Who Set Off TB Scare Doing Well in Hospital

..., although that strain had not been identified and named at the time. He said the patients had improved enough to be released. 'With drug-resistant tuberculosis, it's quite a challenge to treat this,' Daley told CNN Thursday. 'The cure rate that's been reported in other places is very low. It's about 30 ...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...s of game play, in which players control a nanobot named Roxxi as she travels through the bodies of fictional cancer patients to destroy cancer cells, battle bacterial infections, and manage side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatments. The game is designed to be cool and fun to appeal to it...

Now, Natural Looking, Energy Efficient Robotic Ankles for Amputees

...obotic ankle model. They have developed a device named Sparky, for "spring ankle with regenerative kinetics." Sugar's device lacks sensors but has springs specifically adjusted to a person's weight. A motor adjusts the position of the springs so that they store and release the energy to propel the ankle ...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...ists Association. The two associations have not named the separatist group for fear of reprisal. "There is a lurking fear that the militants would target us to extract the extortion amount served on the drug dealers," a pharmacy owner in capital Imphal told IANS on condition of anonymity. Some drugs...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

...ghout the US and Puerto Rico. AstraZeneca has been named one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers...azine and is the only large pharmaceutical company named to FORTUNE magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best Companies to Work For." In 2006, for the fifth consecut...

New Bacterium Discovered - Related to Cause of Trench Fever

... and recurrent fevers. The new species, recently named Bartonella rochalimae, is also closely related to the bacterium identified about 10 years ago as the cause of cat scratch disease: Bartonella henselae, which infects more than 25,000 people a year in the U.S. The woman had been traveling in the Per...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...oluntarily stopped using them. Last year, Wal-Mart named nonylphenol ethoxylates as one of the chemicals; it is planning to phase out. But legal experts state that the EPA has limited authority to ban chemicals already in use when the toxics law came into force in 1976....

Health Drink Blamed for Persistent Penile Erection

...s lawsuit, that sought unspecified damages, he has named Novartis Consumer Health Inc as a defendant. The advertisements for Boost Plus describe the drink as a ``great tasting, high calorie, nutritionally complete oral supplement for people requiring extra energy and protein in a limited volume''. Boost Pl...

InfoLogix, Inc. the Leading Healthcare Technology Company SaysHealthcare Informatics

...d in suburban Philadelphia, PA, InfoLogix has been named the sixth fastest growing new business in the United States for the last three years by Entrepreneur Magazine. InfoLogix is a publicly-traded company (OTC Bulletin Board: IFLG). For more information, visit www.infologixsys.com....

Nagaland Gets Its First Test-Tube Baby

...ould help this infertile couple." The couple has named the baby Hekhulu meaning "Blessing from God" in the local dialect. The world's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born on July 25, 1978 in England. There have been over a million children born through in-vitro fertilization since then....

Govt Sees Off Casino Challenge

...Secretary Tessa Jowell. In January, Manchester was named by the Casino Advisory Panel (CAP) as the surprise choice for the country's first Las Vegas-style casino. The independent panel also set out plans for eight "large" and eight "small" casinos in various other towns and cities around the country. How...

Gel Developed to Treat Male Menopause

...ports the Telegraph. The colourless gel has been named Tostran, and contains two per cent synthetic testosterone, which is absorbed through the skin when applied to the shoulders, upper arms or abdomen. The hormone is then released slowly into the bloodstream, and trials have found that normal levels o...

Chinese Surname Shortage Sparks Rethink

...the China Daily reported. For instance, a father named Zhou and mother named Zhu could choose to call their child either Zhou, Zhu, Zhouzhu or Zhuzhou, the report added. Guan Xi...

Genetic Secrets Behind the Dragline Silk

... identify the genes encoding the two key proteins, named MaSp1 and MaSp2, and determine the genes complete DNA sequences. The UCR Office of Technology Commercialization has filed a patent application on the gene sequences. There are currently no products on the market based on the dragline silk of spider...

New Symptom-free STD on the Rise in US and Australia

...g menace, researchers say . The new infection is named Mycoplasma genitalium and was first identified in the 1980s. It can cause inflammation of the urethra (the urinary passage from the bladder), in men, and inflammation of the cervix and the lining of the uterus in women, possibly leading to infertilit...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...fumes. One of the potentially harmful gases was named as trichloramine - or nitrogen trichloride - which can result from chlorine reacting with ammonia or swimmers' urine or sweat. Indoor pools are thought to exacerbate the problem by trapping fumes inside, thus forcing swimmers to inhale higher conc...

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