South Asians with diabetes more likely to lose their eyesight earlier than white Europeans
South Asians with type 2 diabetes are significantly more at risk of losing their eyesight and losing it at an earlier age, compared to White Europeans with the same condition. A UK study carried out by the University of Warwick shows diabetic retinopathy (damage to the retina) is more prevalen...Drug Helps Asians Battling Liver Cancer
Sorafenib boosts survival, even when tumor is linked to hepatitis B, researchers say TUESDAY, Dec. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The drug sorafenib increased overall survival in Asian-Pacific patients with advanced liver cancer, according to the results of a study that included 226 patients ...Alcohol 'flush' signals increased cancer risk among East Asians
Many people of East Asian descent possess an enzyme deficiency that causes their skin to redden, or flush, when they drink alcohol. Scientists from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and Japan's Kurihama Alcohol Center now caution that heavy alcohol consumption greatly...South Asians Seek Bone Marrow for Young Indian American
Diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, a young Indian American is hard put to find a matching bone marrow donor by July 10 as very few South Asians are listed in the US Bone Marrow registry. Since 28-year old Vinay Chakravarthy was diagnosed with a disease known as Acute Myelogenous Leu...South Asians Wait for Matching Bone Marrow Donors
Los Angeles: The percentage of South Asians registered in the US National Marrow Donor Registry// is so small that patients from the region perforce join a long queue for matching donors. Urmi and Girish are two of those waiting for a matching bone marrow transplant here. Urmi, 5, has b...South Asians in US More Prone to Heart Disease
Washington: South Asian immigrants in America have a higher risk of heart disease than any other segment of the American population, according to a new study led by an// Indian American doctor. The trouble, Medical College of Georgia (MCG) researchers suspect, is that their high-density lipopr...Blacks and East Asians Prone To Side Effects of Cardiovascular Drugs
A new study conducted to analyze the incidence of adverse drug reactions in cardiac patients has revealed that it is more common in blacks and those of an East Asian origin//, the results of which are published in the British Medical Journal. The results of the present study highlight that di...South Asians Have Increased Heart Disease Risk in The UK
New research by the British Heart Foundation says that British Asians are at least 50 percent more likely to fall a victim to heart disease than people// of European origin. One in five has also developed type 2 diabetes as compared to 3 percent of the general population in the UK. Of immedia...South Asians in Canada being wooed by chips now!
As a strategic step taken by the Canadian snacks company Frito Lay Canada has launched a new range of potato chips which are targeting the South Asians. 40 chip flavours created and tested include seaweed, cucumber //and green tea before choosing spicy curry and wasabi for test marketing. Store...British Heart Experts Use Cricket To Target South Asians
Britain's heart experts are hoping to exploit the passion for cricket among South Asians to launch a campaign to encourage people from the community not to delay calling// emergency help when experiencing chest pain. Research shows that South Asians in Britain have a 40-50 per cent higher dea...New Analysis Evaluated Impact of Genetic Variation on Response to Prasugrel
...res the use of cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes to convert the drug into the active metabolite. Approximately 30 percent of Caucasians and 60 percent of asians have reduced function in the CYP2C19 gene, which is part of the CYP system and encodes the enzymes that are responsible for converting prasugrel into ...Medarex Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Clinical Development Program for the Treatment of Lupus
...pus occurs about 10 times more frequently in adult females than adult males, and is two to three times more common among African Americans, Hispanics, asians and Native Americans. About Medarex Medarex is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and potential commercialization o...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Study for Convivia(TM)
...en documented in numerous studies over the past several years, they are not widely known to the general population or to the substantial proportion of asians who are at risk. Even light to moderate ethanol intake may expose people with this condition to increased risks for serious diseases without them real...Feeling Anxious or Distracted? New Research Shows a Cup of Tea Could Help
...sease and Parkinson's disease, which may help to explain why there are significantly lower incidence rates of age-related neurological disorders among asians than in Europeans or Americans. Dr. Silvia Mandel, of the Eve Topf Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Israel, has been studying the effects of ...La Jolla Pharmaceutical Announces Positive Interim Antibody Results From Riquent Lupus Phase 3 Trial
... irreversible renal damage, renal failure and the need for dialysis, and is a leading cause of death in lupus patients. Latinos, African Americans and asians face an increased risk of serious renal disease associated with lupus. The current standard of care for lupus renal disease often involves treatment w...La Jolla Pharmaceutical Provides Update on Interim Antibody Results From Riquent Lupus Phase 3 Trial
... irreversible renal damage, renal failure and the need for dialysis, and is a leading cause of death in lupus patients. Latinos, African Americans and asians face an increased risk of serious renal disease associated with lupus. The current standard of care for lupus renal disease often involves treatment w...Genetic variant increases triglyceride levels in Asian-Americans
...with high plasma TG (>150 mg/dl) carried at least one copy of the 553T variant, compared with only 3.7% of those with normal TG levels; in non-Chinese asians these values were 13.7% and 5.4%. When calculated, the 553T variant corresponds to a 4.4 and 2.5 times greater risk of elevated TG in Chinese-American...U-M researchers release most detailed global study of genetic variation
... Africa---the cradle of humanity---increases. People of African descent are more genetically diverse than Middle Easterners, who are more diverse than asians and Europeans. Native Americans possess the least-diverse genomes. As a result, searching for disease-causing genes should require the fewest number o...MIT: Culture influences brain function
...Institute for Brain Research at MIT, asked 10 East asians recently arrived in the United States and 10 Ameri...were more accurate on absolute judgments, and East asians on relative judgments. In the current study, the t... more culturally familiar absolute judgments. East asians showed the opposite tendency, engaging the brain's...Genetic ancestral testing cannot deliver on its promise, study warns
...ative markers" (AIMs), which show genetic differences between what are assumed to be four biologically distinct populations: Africans, Europeans, East asians and Native Americans. But "the AIMs that characterize 'Africans,' for example, were chosen on the basis of a sample of West Africans. Dark-skinned ...Amid spiralling government interest, world's top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei
...hniques and traditional taxonomy, and practical, cost-effective way to both study this under-explored region and protect its biodiversity. That's why asians were proud to host this conference and eager to attend." Barcoding the extinct Questions and research to be aired by presenters at the confer...Amid spiralling government interest, world's top 350 DNA barcode scientists meet in Taipei
...hniques and traditional taxonomy, and practical, cost-effective way to both study this under-explored region and protect its biodiversity. That's why asians were proud to host this conference and eager to attend." Barcoding the extinct Questions and research to be aired by presenters at the confer...'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay
... roots in Africa and its main branch extending to Asia. A second branch, extending from Asia back to Europe, traces the migration of a small group of asians who founded at least one group of modern-day Caucasians." Additional branches, tracing the coevolution of humans and bacteria from Asia into Nor...Minorities, uninsured less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals
...procedures." For all 10 operations, black patients were significantly less likely to receive care at high-volume hospitals in 6 of the operations, asians less likely in 5, and Hispanics less likely in 9. Medicaid patients were significantly less likely than Medicare patients to receive care at hig...US infant mortality rate fails to improve
...s, according to the NCHS report. Babies born to Black mothers continued to have the highest rate of infant deaths at 13.5 per 1,000 live births, while asians had the lowest rate at 4.8. The rate for American Indians was 8.7 and for Whites it was 5.7. Infants born to Hispanic mothers, who can be of any race,...Huge cyber-tsunami developing in Asia
...f a suitcase, and cell phones, which at first were the size of a briefcase, asians got sleek, small, turnkey solutions from the get go, while missing the earl...s been adversely noted in the East. Most now fully understand that they are asians first. Overall, the benefits of technology will be felt far more greatly...Globalization of biotech industry is a decidedly worldwide phenomenon
... of all global net losses Nevertheless, the Europeans are investing more of the R&D expense as a percent of sales than American companies while the asians are investing a paltry 12 percent of revenues into R&D. This is typically lower than Big Pharma levels, which averages about 15 percent of revenue. ...Kauffman study shows consistent entrepreneurial growth
...vity for immigrants was substantially higher than the rate for the native-born population (0.27 percent). The rate of entrepreneurial activity for asians increased from 0.27 percent in 2005 to 0.32 percent in 2006. The rate for non-Latino whites remained constant at 0.29 percent between 2005 and 20...Detect Single Nucleotide Sequence Changes with Mx4000 Molecular Beacon Allelic Discrimination Kits
...15%) 3 Hispanics (~17%) 3 asians (~25%) 3 Delays A...~20%) 6 Europeans (2 15%) 6 asians (010%) 6 Africans (00.5... African Americans (~5%) 9 asians (~25%) 9 Mutant h...