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Blue Dye Halts Worsening Paralysis in Animal Study

Discovery could lead to new treatments for people with spine injuries TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- The food additive that makes M&Ms and Gatorade blue may help prevent the secondary damage that occurs after a spinal cord injury, a new study suggests. Researchers say that...

FDA Halts New Applications From Indian Drug Maker's Plant

Agency says Ranbaxy Laboratories facility falsified scientific data WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials have halted the review of any new drug applications from a Ranbaxy Laboratories plant in India after determining the facility was falsifying scientific data...

Kellogg Halts Sales of Peanut Butter Crackers

Cereal giant calls action 'precautionary' as salmonella outbreak probe continues; 5 deaths now linked; victim count up to 430 in 43 states THURSDAY, Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Cereal giant Kellogg has asked stores to stop selling its popular Keebler and Austin brand peanut butter crac...

Gastric Bypass Halts Diabetes in Obese Teens

Surgery could help them avoid long-term complications of blood sugar disease, scientists say MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Obese teenagers who have gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight but see their type 2 diabetes disappear, a new study finds. Also called bariatric su...

PA Department of Health Halts Admissions at Commonwealth Medical Center in Beaver County

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Department of Health today ordered a ban on all new inpatient, outpatient, emergency and non-emergency admissions to Commonwealth Medical Center, 2500 Hospital Drive, Aliquippa, until further notice. The department sa...

Surgical technique halts cell loss, Parkinson's researchers find

CINCINNATIDeep brain stimulation, a surgical technique often viewed as a last resort for people with Parkinson's disease, halts the progression of dopamine-cell loss in animal models, according to preliminary research by scientists at the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cincinnati (UC)...

St. Jude finds signaling system that halts the growth of a childhood brain cancer

A discovery by St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital scientists suggests a safer way to treat medulloblastoma, a rare but often fatal childhood brain tumor. The group found that one of the brains signaling pathways inhibits the growth of the highly aggressive cancer cells. The researchers disco...

Manufacturer Halts Production of Blood Thinner Heparin

Drug linked to hundreds of allergic reactions and possibly 4 deaths, FDA says MONDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Baxter HealthCare Corp., which produces half of the blood thinner heparin sold in the United States, said Monday that it was temporarily suspending production of its multi-...

Experimental Vaccine Halts Prostate Cancer in Mice

Human trials may start in two years, California researcher says FRIDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental prostate cancer vaccine has stopped the progress of the disease in 90 percent of the mice who got it, California researchers report. "The vaccine turned the cancer into...

Scripps research scientists find new genetic mutation that halts the development of lupus

The new study was published in the January 18 edition (Volume 28, Issue 1) of the journal Immunity. The lupus-suppressing action is the result of what is known as a nonsense mutation of the Coronin-1A gene (Coro1a) required for the development of the disease. A nonsense mutation causes the gene...

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Pharmasset Voluntarily Halts Clinical Studies with Clevudine in Hepatitis B Infected Patients

- Company will increase focus on HCV pipeline - Conference call at 8:00 AM ET today PRINCETON, N.J., April 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pharmasset, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRUS ) announced today that after a discussion with its independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) and the FDA, the co...

Data Presented at AACR Annual Meeting Shows Bavituximab Equivalent Plus Docetaxel Reduces Tumor Growth By Up to 95% and Halts Metastasis in a Model of Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

-No Metastatic Lesions Were Detectable After Combination Therapy Treatment- -Survival Time More Than Doubled in Animals Treated with Combination Therapy- -Established Tumors Regressed by 50% After Combination Therapy Treatment- SAN DIEGO and TUSTIN, Calif., April...

St. Jude Finds Signaling System That Halts the Growth of a Childhood Brain Cancer

Researchers discover that proteins BMP2, BMP4 and BMP7 inhibit the growth of medulloblastoma tumors, while inducing malignant cells to develop into normal neurons, a finding that may lead to better treatments for the cancer MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A discovery by...

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Announces 2007 Third Quarter Financial Results

... product relates to the prevention of osteoarthritis -- Osteoarthritis product has the potential to be the first disease- modifying drug that halts progression of the illness rather than treating symptoms -- Both products use Emisphere's eligen(R) delivery technology to provide salmon cal...

Cytokine Announces Oral Efficacy of Anti-Cytokine Semapimod

...uction pathway. Semapimod's inhibition of Raf-kinase decreases phosphorylation of MEK, thereby also inhibiting phosphorylation of p38 MAP kinase. This halts production of several important inflammatory cytokines, including TNF-alpha, IL-1, and IL-6. Preclinical studies have repeatedly demonstrated semapimo...

Emisphere Technologies, Inc. Announces 2007 Second Quarter Financial Results

... product relates to the prevention of osteoarthritis -- Osteoarthritis product has the potential to be the first disease- modifying drug that halts progression of the illness rather than treating symptoms -- Both products use Emisphere's eligen(R) delivery technology to provide salmon cal...

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Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns

CINCINNATI Inhibiting an enzyme in the brains of newborns suffering from oxygen and blood flow deprivation stops a type of brain damage that is a leading cause of cerebral palsy, mental retardation and death, according to researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Reporting ...

'Trojan Horse' agent halts bone metastasis in mice

A novel vascular targeting agent completely prevented the development of bone tumors in 50 percent of the mice tested in a preclinical study, providing early evidence that it could treat, or thwart, growth of tumors in bone, a common destination for a number of cancers when they start to spread. ...

Intrinsic eye protein halts angiogenesis

Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, of the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Balamurali Ambati, of the Medical College of Georgia, have jointly published a paper in the journal Nature detailing major research discoveries in corneal avascularity and angiogenesis. In their paper published online Oct. 18, 2006, ...

Kenya halts first field trials of GM maize

Kenyan authorities began destroying the country's first genetically modified (GM) maize growing in open field trials. The government halted the research and ordered the destruction after discovering that a technician had sprayed a restricted pesticide on maize modified to resist attack by insects...

The Burnham buzz

...nstrated proof of this concept by inhibiting PHD3, a regulator of HIF-1a. Binding of short protein fragments to PHD3 results in HIF-1a degradation and halts growth of metastatic tumors in mice. Dr. Ronai's team is now investigating how small molecule compounds might accomplish the same thing. ...

UC Riverside biochemists devise method for bypassing aluminum toxicity effects in plants

... RIVERSIDE, Calif. Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land. For many years, scientists have p...

Resuscitation technique after brain injury may do more harm than good

...alled oxidative stress, caused by the formation of highly reactive molecules. The researchers found, however, that administering an antioxidant, which halts the harmful oxidation process, reversed the damage in the mice given 100 percent oxygen. "Further research is needed to determine the best possible...

Retraining immune cells to kill tumors

...alled macrophages can destroy tumor cells by producing inflammatory proteins that are toxic to the tumor. But the environment inside the tumor somehow halts this production and instead causes the cells to make proteins that promote tumor growth. The new study identifies a protein, called IKK(beta), th...

Study supports reason for concern in childhood and adolescent obesity

... using venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP), a technique that measures responses of arm blood vessel responses to an inflatable cuff that externally halts and restarts blood flow. This method has been shown to correlate with coronary artery function in adults with heart disease. The study was designed...

Too much technology may be killing beneficial bacteria

...ilver nanoparticles are extremely toxic. The nanoparticles destroy the benign species of bacteria that are used for wastewater treatment. It basically halts the reproduction activity of the good bacteria. Hu said silver nanoparticles generate more unique chemicals, known as highly reactive oxygen specie...

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Par Pharmaceutical Halts Shipment of Budesonide Inhalation Suspension

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (NYSE: PRX ) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey last night granted AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals' motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) halting sales of Teva...

Defense Threat Reduction Agency Halts Contract Negotiations With Peregrine Pharmaceuticals as It Suffers $100 Million Cut in FY 2008 Budget for Its Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative (TMTI) Program

- Agency Confirms Its Continuing Interest in Peregrine's Anti-PS Technology for Biodefense Applications - TUSTIN, Calif., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPHM ), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antib...

Wisconsin court halts Abbott's sale of genotyping products

Madison, Wis. - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has entered a permanent injunction against Abbott Laboratories , preventing the pharmaceutical company from further sales or use of products or components that infringe on a genotyping patent held by Innogenetics , ...

Nano-Velcro Sticks With Venture Capitalists

...ryland professor and doctoral student team who invented a new material that halts wound bleeding won the attention of a group of venture capitalists and the ... that is applied directly to a wound to stop hemorrhaging, and a spray that halts blood loss and seals tissue in a variety of situations, from minor surgical...

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Electron transport chain

...t the energy associated with reduced electrons, ... COMPONENTS OF THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN (ETC) The components of the ETC ... Oligomycin halts the whole electron transport chain & ATP synthetic pathway when ... The function of the electron transport chain is to produce this...