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A Protein in Brain Cells Controls Obesity: Research

...ve physiology at U-M. “SH2B1 appears to play a key regulatory role in this system, through its direct influence on the processing of leptin and insulin signals in cells of the brain’s hypothalamus.” Rui, who first discovered SH2B1’s metabolic importance as a graduate student at U-M in the 1990s, worked on th...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

... and abuse of emerging technology. There have been regulatory procedures to limit the misuse of technology but rapid advances often make the regulatory process redundant. It is therefore necessary to periodically review such regulations. One such te...

Environmental Toxicants Target Stem Cells

...udy. "We have discovered a previously unrecognized regulatory pathway on which chemically diverse toxicants conv... "These toxicants are activating a normal cellular regulatory pathway, they are just activating it inappropriately," said Noble. "If this disruption occurs during...

FDA Clears Breast Cancer Specific Molecular Prognostic Test

...discuss its draft guidance document describing its regulatory approach to this type of test. "There have been rapid advances in microarrays and other pioneering diagnostics, and a corresponding increase in the use and impact of these complex tests. This has prompted FDA to take a closer look at the potential ...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

...action between the public and private sectors in a regulatory framework that supports and rewards investment in good science." Source-Eurekalert PR...

New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered

...pid shut-off. They think it might be a very common regulatory event called phosphorylation, where a phosphate molecule is introduced to another molecule, changing the latter, and preparing it for a chemical reaction. They have found a site for phosphorylation and are looking at this possibility further. A le...

Smog in Warm Weather may Contribute to Stroke Risks in Elderly: Study

...on between particulate matter and stroke. “Thus, regulatory efforts should be focused on reducing emissions of combustion particles. “We suggest that on high pollution days, elderly people should avoid spending unnecessary time in traffic, whether in a vehicle or walking, especially if they suffer from card...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

...rmaceutical product and allowing it on the market, regulatory authorities verify its quality, safety, and effica...ite for registration. Because of data exclusivity, regulatory agencies cannot rely on clinical data from the company that originally registered the drug to approv...

'Gateway' Gene Discovered for Brain Cancer

...wed that knocking out the function of a particular regulatory protein, Olig2, almost completely eliminated tumor... as well as ways to target other components of the regulatory pathway by which it exerts its influence on tumor growth, wrote the researchers. Source-Eurekalert...

Targeting the Adrenal Gland Could Be Key Against Heart Failure

...and norepinephrine. By blocking GRK2, an important regulatory enzyme, they cut the hormone production that forces the heart to pump too hard, leading to heart failure. Such a novel approach – targeting the adrenal gland in addition to the heart – provides a potential new strategy against heart failure, and coul...

Merck Announces Plans for Licensing Atripla Widely in Developing World

... take several years in some cases owing to lack of regulatory agency capacity. Tenofovir, one of the components of Atripla, remains unlicensed in South Africa despite the grant of a voluntary license for the product to South African manufacturer Aspen in 2004. According to the Treatment Action Campaign, Aspen’s...

Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease

...aging,” he said. “We need to better understand the regulatory systems that control the level and activity of known cardiac channels and other unknown factors involved in coordinated heart muscle contraction.” In fact, the researchers are now looking at identifying other genes that regulate KCNQ channel functi...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

... help providers maintain a legal EHR for business, regulatory and accreditation purposes." EHR-S Standard Pro...al Government Agencies (FDA and NIH), and European regulatory organizations and the European EHR certification authority, EuroRec. For more information contact:...

Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

...P-Capt? Filter by MacoPharma, has received CE Mark regulatory approval in Europe. Carbonell and his colleagues are now looking for ways of targeting other pathogens in blood such as Hepatitis A virus, B19 parvovirus and Hepatitis C virus. He says it should be possible to engineer new molecules that capture pr...

Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation

...are a lot of decisions that have to be made by the regulatory genes, like paired box gene 8, before the end products can be made. Bowen’s next steps are to find out why paired box gene 8 gets turned on and to discover its targets in order to find out of it turns on another decision-making gene or an endpoint ...

FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics

... it can approve ANDAs provided all other legal and regulatory requirements are met. The FDA added that the ruling was in response to a citizen's petition from a patent attorney that was filed in June 1995. However, even if rival drug makers were to file an application for the drug, the respective company cou...

Researchers Discover New Molecular Path to Fight Autoimmune Diseases

... that act on the FOXP3 protein, in turn making the regulatory immune cells work better. These findings have impo...which drugs could be developed to stabilize immune regulatory cells in order to fight autoimmune diseases,” says senior author Mark Greene, MD, PhD, the John Eckm...

Australian Food Industry Plans to Phase Out Trans Fats

...al government to deal with the issue, or else face regulatory requirements. This would force levels of trans fats in foods ,to be spelled out on nutrition information panels. Trans-fats, made by dissolving hydrogen in oils to make them solidify, are widely used because they extend shelf life and improve textu...

India Fast Become Prime Location for Clinical Trials, but Vigilance Called for

...y with. However, many doubt whether India's top regulatory body, the Drug Controller General of India, is technically equipped to cope with the influx. In recent years, there has been a spate of failures of clinical trials with many of the top pharma companies being forced to withdraw drugs after adverse ...

India Should Take the Lead in Stem Cell Research, Expert

...aged or dead tissues. Unfortunately in the US, the regulatory system does not allow research on this subject,” he regretted. The therapeutic potential lies in the possibility of breeding stem cells and transplanting them to repair damaged or dead tissues in the body. This could remove the need for organ tran...

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