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Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...ch stem cell-based therapies, including victims of cardiovascular disease, auto-immune diseases, diabetes, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and burns. Chronic diseases, the primary targets of regenerative medicine, affect people at a younger age in developing than developed countries. They are also much more ...

Cigarette smoking impedes tendon-to-bone healing

...is implicated in a host of physical problems, from cardiovascular disease to lung disorders. Many of us probably don't think about smoking's effects on orthopaedic conditions, but several studies have shown that nicotine interferes with healing of bone fractures and also inhibits bone fusion processes -- many spine...

76 percent of workers older than 60 years of age are overweight or obese

...cidence of metabolic syndrome, in conjunction with cardiovascular risk factors which tend to appear in the same indi...at 12% presented this problem. The major impact of cardiovascular illness is the reduction of productivity and the elevation of mortality. On the other hand, it wa...

Getting to the heart of the heart

...that a patient might need," says John Mayer, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon at Children's who is developing tissue-engineering techniques to create biological replacements for failing heart valves. Felix Engel, PhD, a cardiology researcher at Children's, recently got heart muscle cells to replicate, a feat that norm...

How blood flow dictates gene expression

...s and is required for the development of a healthy cardiovascular system, the next step is to elucidate the role of Klf2 in normal adult blood vessels and in the pathogenesis of vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis. ...

High hourly air pollution levels more than double stroke risk

... Medicine. Currently, the risk of respiratory and cardiovascular problems tends to be linked to the average daily amount of air pollution, rather than variations in hourly levels. The researchers assessed data on stroke deaths in people aged 65 years and older, occurring between January 1990 and December 1994 in ...

Halving daily cigarette quota has no health benefit

...study. Participants were initially assessed for cardiovascular risk factors, and then screened again twice at an ...s from specific causes, including early death from cardiovascular disease, among women who cut back their daily consumption, compared with those who continued to smok...

A new jump start for aging blood vessels

...eased TNFa levels likely contribute to age-related cardiovascular disease. Similar cell-protective effects were foun...er confirming the role of TNFa in the aging of the cardiovascular system. The knowledge that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for both men and ...

Study shows interruption of antiretroviral therapy increases risk of disease and death

...- and long-term risks, such as major metabolic and cardiovascular complications and built-up resistance to treatment. According to Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, co-chair of the SMART Study and professor of clinical Medicine and Epidemiology, "Interruption of antiretroviral therapy has been generally advocated as a potent...

Study of gene transfer for erectile dysfunction shows promise

...f of the subjects, the cause of ED was diabetes or cardiovascular disease ?both of which can interfere with the ability of smooth muscle cells to relax. The primary goal of the study was to determine the safety and tolerability of the new therapy. However, the results also showed that at the highest doses, men r...

Green tea and the 'Asian Paradox'

There is a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in Asia where people smoke heav...th muscle cells, which are all factors in reducing cardiovascular disease, he said. Sumpio said other reports show that EGCG prevents growth of certain tumors. Tea,...

Higher levels of obesity associated with greater health risks

...he researchers analyzed data on incident death and cardiovascular outcomes by weight status in 90,185 women recruited from 40 U.S. centers for the Women's Health Initiative-Observational Study who were followed-up for an average of 7.0 years (Oct. 1993 to Aug. 2004). The researchers found that extreme obesity prev...

Reversing 'hibernating' heart muscle focus of UB researchers

...of these patients who are at high risk for adverse cardiovascular events," said Canty. Additional investigators on the study are Alan D. Hutson, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UB Department of Biostatistics; Te-Chung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry; Jun Qu, Ph.D., research assistant professor o...

UCLA study of community health project shows how group dynamics affect fitness, eating habits

...s of the CHC Organizational Wellness Program is on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes within the African-American community, where CVD rates are 20 percent higher for black men and 40 percent higher for black women compared to their white counterparts. And blacks are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as w...

Mapping the protein world

...es of molecules that play crucial roles in cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and molecules from pathogenic bacteria or viruses will contribute to design new revolutionary therapeutic strategies." To meet this objective the scientists intend to study crystals of proteins bound to diverse drug c...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

...d Biomedical Sciences and an investigator with the cardiovascular research center. Lee and colleagues will use the swine model to investigate whether transplanting the model's own bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) -- cells that have the capacity to develop into blood vessels, as well as other types of tis...

Coming soon: 3-D imaging that flies 'through' and 'around' cancer

...ive years, "it could have exciting applications in cardiovascular imaging, providing 3-D views of blood vessels and possibly identifying individuals at risk for heart disease," he predicted. In the case of a patient with colorectal cancer--a term used to refer to cancer that develops in the colon or rectum and is...

Natural vitamin E tocotrienol reaches blood at protective levels

...age cells and are implicated in the development of cardiovascular disease and cancer. The tocopherol, or most common...ause vascular and neuronal lesions associated with cardiovascular disease, and the fatty acid linoleic acid, which can directly stimulate damaging free radical activi...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...ported to show linkage to susceptibility genes for cardiovascular disorders, psychiatric disorders and the accumulation of tissue damage due to oxidative stress. The results of the study also highlighted the detrimental effects of cigarette smoking, excessive drinking and serious mental disorders on successful agi...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

...iology, reproductive physiology, endocrinology and cardiovascular studies. In addition, because it can be infected with simian immunodeficiency virus, a close cousin to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the rhesus is widely recognized as the best animal model for research on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom...

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