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Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

...ve our patients, reducing waiting times as we move toward a maximum 18 weeks from referral to treatment and delivering more care closer to home. "This is not an easy option. NHS Trusts will have to manage their spending, recover any deficits, repay loans but for the first time their financial position and...

Hormone-based Heart Pill to Control High Blood Pressure

...ortunities for cures that we’ve made good progress toward exploring," Dr. Burnett says. The researchers were the first to harness the natural properties of the heart hormone BNP, working in partnership with scientists from the biotechnology firm, Biocon, and to formulate it so it can be taken orally, in pil...

Tumors Targeted Naturally

...cher Coby Carlson. "It's just not usually directed toward tumor cells." In a series of cell-based experiments, the researchers' system recognized and killed only those cells displaying high levels of receptors known as integrins. These molecules, which tend to bedeck the surfaces of cancer cells and tumor...

Scientists Re-grow Dental Enamel from Cultured Cells

...urther development of this technique will be aimed toward production of tissue to replace damaged or missing enamel, and ultimately, regeneration of whole teeth. Source-Eurekalert...

Genetic Pathways to Curable and Incurable Forms of Pancreatic Cancer Identified

...ible for sending cells down the less-traveled path toward cystic pancreatic cancer versus the well-traveled route to the more fatal form of ductal pancreatic cancer. Sunil Hingorani, M.D., assistant member of the Hutchinson Center's Clinical Research and Public Health Sciences divisions, led a study to b...

NIH Announces Phase III Clinical Trial of Creatine for Parkinson's Disease

...tes and Canada. "This study is an important step toward developing a therapy that could change the course of this devastating disease," says Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., director of the NIH. "The goal is to improve the quality of life for people with Parkinson's for a longer period of time than is possible wi...

Energy Supplement Under Study for Parkinson's Disease

... that forestall breakdown of dopamine – are geared toward treating symptoms. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter critical to movement, is depleted in Parkinson’s. Researchers hope newer therapies, including creatine, can be added to the mix to help slow the disease. The creatine study will enroll patients who ha...

AAO Urges Athletes to Wear Protective Eyewear

...ittle care and common sense, you can go a long way toward protecting your precious gift of sight,” said Dr. Hamill. SRM...

Winter Warmth Breaks All Records

.... "Contributing factors were the long-term trend toward warmer temperatures, as well as a moderate El Nino in the Pacific," said Jay Lawrimore of the National Climatic Data Center run by the NOAA. The NOAA said that temperatures were continuing to rise by a fifth of a degree every decade. The 10 warmes...

Stroke Patients With High BMI Less Likely to Be Discharged After Hospitalization

...gories showed a statistically nonsignificant trend toward extended length of hospital stay when compared with the lowest BMI category (6.3 days vs. 5.2 days). "Eighteen of the 451 patients died and in-hospital mortality did not differ among the BMI groups," the authors note. "No significant differences in t...

Parents Should Do Their Homework to Aid Autistic Child's Education

...research and acknowledge that you are both working toward a common goal." Source-Newswise...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...urons--is exerted just before you begin the upturn toward one peak and then it eases off again in the downturn toward a valley,' Knight noted. Once recordings were completed at one site in the muscle, the electrode w...

Partners of Alcoholics May Need to Seek help

...epticism about someone's behaviour smooth the path toward dependence on alcohol and in serious cases extends the addiction,' said Christa Merfert-Diete of the German centre for addiction questions in Hamm. When there's no longer any doubt that there is a problem, relatives can't do much to help - but they...

Bacterium Could Treat PCBs Without the Need for Dredging

...nd lead author of the paper. "This is a major step toward the development of cost-effective methods for on-site PCB remediation." Bedard used sediments from the Housatonic River in Massachusetts — an area known to be contaminated with PCBs — to develop sediment-free cultures and to identify the bacteria t...

Researchers Discover Gene Essencial to Cerebellum Formation

... of adult neurons. This study is an important step toward understanding rare diseases, such as cerebellar ataxias, which is characterized by the degeneration of Purkinje cells. Producing this type of cell in the lab may lead to future neuronal replacement therapy. Source-Eurekalert...

Gene Hunters at Johns Hopkins Close In On Lou Gehrig's Disease

...out the disease. 'This is the first major step toward understanding how genetics may influence the most common form of ALS,' said co-researcher Jeffrey D. Rothstein, professor in the Department of Neurology. 'The results will not only help us to better understand sporadic ALS but also to tailor tools th...

India, China Trying to Fight Disease With Nanotechnology

...nology research initiatives that could be directed toward the particular needs of the poor," said Andrew Maynard, chief science adviser for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. In a 2005 paper describing his team's study "Nanotechnology and the Developing World", Singer said India's Department of Sci...

Natural Antibiotics Yield Secrets to Atom-level Imaging Technique

...Ramamoorthy, who will discuss his group's progress toward that goal March 3 at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society in Baltimore, Md. Ramamoorthy's research group is using solid-state NMR to explore the germ-killing properties of natural antibiotics called antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), which are...

Green Tea and COX-2 Inhibitors Combine to Slow Growth of Prostate Cancer

...model for human prostate cancer, pushing the cells toward programmed cell death (apoptosis). “We believed that COX-2 inhibitors may still prove beneficial if used in combination with complementary agents,” Mukhtar said. “Our studies showed that the additive effect of green tea enables us to utilize the ca...

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

...on between different organizations, as we all work toward the goal of accelerating the adoption of robust, interoperable health IT.” Donald Mon, PhD, vice president at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and HL7 EHR Technical Committee Co-Chair points out that the standard was ...

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