Scientists at Galileo Pharmaceuticals confirm inflammatory response linked to glucose levels
A team of scientists has discovered three molecules –?from a search of 58,000 compounds –?that appear to inhibit a key perpetrator of Alzheimer's disease. Ken Kosik, co...Creeping crinoids! Sea lilies crawl to escape predators, new video shows
With their long stalks and feathery arms, marine animals known as sea lilies look a lot like their garden-variety namesakes. Perhaps because of that resemblance, scientists had always assumed that sea lilies stayed rooted instead of moving around lik...Doubling the lily pads: Controlling the explosion in health care costs
MADISON Back in his math teacher days, Al Jacobs taught students about the power of doubling by talking about lily pads. Imagine a colony of lily pads on a pond and the pads doubled in area every day: How long would it take for an area of two square feet of lily pads to cover a pond of 250,000 square feet? Only 17 days, thanks to the power of doubling. Two square feet becomes four, eigh...OBESE LIL' GIRLS !! SWEAT IT OUT OR U MIGHT BE ASTHAMATIC !!!
Yes its true , this salient disclosure revealed its truth when then Researchers of Arizona University did a study headed by Dr. Fernando D. Martinez According to Dr.Fernando D.Martinez and collegues , girls who become overweight or obese when they are between 6 and 11 years of age have a sevenfold increased risk of developing asthma .The boys do not have any such associated risk of asthma...Animal insulin product to be discontinued by drug major Eli Lilly
The Chairman and Managing Director of Eli Lilly and Co., India, disclosed on January 3rd, during the announcement of a price cut in the company's human insulin product 'Huminsulin', that its animal insulin product 'Iletin' will be phased out from the market by the end of this year. He added that the company// resorted to this move due to the growing use of human insulin products and the p...Sensitive Taste Buds Can Be The Blame for Lil'One Not Eating Vegetables
A new study has concluded that preschool children who are sensitive to bitter flavors are very likely to be among those who do not eat vegetables.// The researchers publishing their study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, have explained that their findings suggest that the naturally sensitive taste buds help explain why some children are so staunchly opposed to vegetables...Hepatitis C : By No Means Lily-livered! Beware
Hepatitis C has become the scourge of multitude of Queenslanders, with nearly thousands of them fighting a relentless battle with the disease//, underlining the importance of early medical intervention in the successful treatment of the disease. Hepatitis C is caused by a virus that targets the liver, which can also turn fatal. The University of New South Wales have rolled out figures...Did Eli Lilly Turn Wily With Regard to Their Best-selling Schizophrenia Drug?
Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company, is in a tight spot, defending its position against the law suits from mentally ill patients//, about the company’s best-selling schizophrenia drug, Zyprexa. The company is being blamed for undermining the health risks of the drug, which is being linked to obesity and high blood sugar. On the basis of many supporting documents and internal commu...Lilly Studies Try to Shed Light on Impact of Race on Lung Cancer Treatment
Company Launches 1,000-Patient Lung Cancer Diversity Study CHICAGO, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Statistics showlung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death inAfrican-Americans, with 21,550 new cases expected to be diagnosedand 16,700 deaths expected this year.(i) Equally devastating, lungcancer is the leading cause of cancer death in Hispanic men and thesecond leading caus...Making Science Personal: Lilly Oncology to Unveil 76 Studies at ASCO 2007
37 Thoracic Cancer Studies; 11 Breast Cancer Studies; 9 TargetedAgent Studies INDIANAPOLIS, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LillyOncology will unveil 76 studies at the 43rd Annual Meeting of theAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, Ill. fromJune 1-5, 2007. The company will present important data onGEMZAR(R) (gemcitabine HCl for injection), ALIMTA(R) (pemetrexedf...