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C-Reactive Protein Induces Hypertension

...major circulating factor regulating blood pressure via arterial constriction. This was due to alterations in key proteins in the vascular wall that are involved with angiotensin II. Also, the researchers discovered that the initiating mechanism is a lack of the key signaling molecule nitric oxide in th...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

... new medicine, safety and efficacy are established via preclinical and clinical trials; hence submission of the trial data is an important prerequisite for registration. Because of data exclusivity, regulatory agencies cannot rely on clinical data from the company that originally registered the drug to a...

Humble Salad Leaf may Help Combat Cancer

...tercress can be linked to a reduced risk of cancer via decreased damage to DNA and possible modulation of antioxidant status by increasing carotenoid concentrations." <BR...

Body Shop Founder’s New Project-against Hepatitis

...real, says she was infected with the virus in 1971 via infected blood, during the birth of her daughter. The businesswoman who is well known for her indefatigable campaigning has decided to take on the government’s policies or lack of them, on Hepatitis C. She says: "I am astounded that the Govern...

Mobile Technology to Meet Healthcare Needs

... the data network is not available, it can be sent via short message service. 'Health workers will also be able to use the system to order medicine, send alerts, download treatment guidelines, training materials and access other appropriate information,' says Paul Meyer, chairman of Voxiva, the compan...

Chlamydia Vaccine a Step Closer to Reality

...accine had been developed it could be administered via a patch, similar to ones used by smokers for nicotine. "Patches are a good way to deliver proteins to a part of the body's immune system and they are also easy and user-friendly." He said with rates of Chlamydia infection in some Australian comm...

Doctors –you’ve Got Mal

...us danger of communicating urgent medical problems via e-mail instead of directly. Advances in technology seem to be answering these fears. There are now websites, which enable doctors to access their patients’ records without compromising their security and also fully electronic medical record files f...

How Bloods Vessels are Linked Together?

...during the formation of blood vessels by signaling via receptors on the surface of the endothelial cells, the specialised layer of cells on the interior surface of the blood vessels. Swedish scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the biotech company AngioGenetics AB have now shown that another factor ...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

...REV-ERBa that shuts down circadian gene expression via suppression of a clock gene Bmal1. The modified gene had tetracycline-responsive elements (TREs) that respond to tetracycline and similar antibiotics. Mice with this modification were bred with a strain carrying a gene construct that activates the el...

Bacteria Harnessed as Micro-Robot Motors

...-fifth of the size of each bead and adhere to them via electrostatic, van der Waals forces and hydrophobic interactions. As the attached bacteria rotate their flagella, feeding on surrounding glucose, they push their bead forward at speeds of around 15 microns per second. To stop the bacteria's motion,...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

...up in the spleen and other organs, spreading there via the bloodstream. Previous research had suggested that pneumonic plague might be spreading in the body in part through use of a protein known as plasminogen activator (PLA). The protein is a protease, which degrades other proteins. Goldman, Lathem ...

Cat Owners at Risk of Bird Flu

...he First World War. It spread from birds to humans via pigs. Dr Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam said: "We know the 1918 pandemic was a bird flu virus that adapted to mammals in some intermediate mammalian host, possibly pigs. Maybe for H5N1 the intermediate host is cats." Two ot...

Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed

...ion of one dose of measles vaccine for all infants via routine health services; · A second opportunity for measles immunization for all children, generally through mass vaccination campaigns; · Effective surveillance for measles; and · Enhanced care, including the provision of supplemental vitamin A...

Chinese Herb Shows Promise In Reducing Hypertension

...rioles in the hamster cheek pouch microcirculation via enhanced expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase. The topical application of tanshinone IIA at one |ìg/ml and five |ìg/ml caused significant dose-related vasodilation, indicated by the increased agent/control ratio of arteriolar diameters fro...

Swimming in Troubled Waters

...zzed regarding their exposure to chlorinated water via swimming pools, bathing etc. The levels of TMH wer...g to Dr.Villaneuva when TMH is inhaled or absorbed via the skin as occurring while swimming, there is no chance of detoxification via the liver. Hence t...

Plum School Students Set the Trend in Healthy Eating

...een taking a food additive for the last 10 months; via cafeteria meals. This was announced Thursday. An ersatz fat ‘Z-Trim’ produced naturally from agricultural by-products such as hulls of oats, soybeans, peas and rice, or bran from corn or wheat has been used in school meals to cut down calories whil...

Insulin Tablets-No More Injections

...the common injections.At, present insulin is given via injections or via inhalation like Exubera, a recent invention. Scientists from Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University...

Hold the Milk Please

...ric oxide. The FMD levels of the women, measured via ultrasound, were found to increase with consumption of black tea, and found to decrease when milk was added to the tea. These experiments were also repeated on laboratory rats and similar results were observed. Senior researcher Dr Verena Stangl, p...

Risk Factors That Cause NODM After A Liver Transplant

...by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/livertransplantation. The development of NODM after a liver transplant is associated with increased cardiovascular disease and death, a higher incidence of rejection, more infections a...

Telephone Outreach Boost CRC Screening In Urban Minority

...e. CRC screening, which when conducted regularly via three day stool blood test, reduces mortality by as much as 15-33 percent. With early detection, five-year CRC survival rates exceed 90 percent. The study suggests a promising strategy for increasing CRC screening, which may help reduce CRC inciden...

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