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Partnership with eHealthScreenings adds to growing list of solutions available to help companies and their employees manage their health and health-care costs DEERFIELD, Ill., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge and prevention are among the keys to every person's good health. While you may look ...Potential preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes
Scientists believe they may have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes, by making the body's killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition, where the body attacks its...Hope for preventative treatment for cystic fibrosis lung disease
Heidelberg researchers have succeeded in preventing cystic fibrosis lung disease in an animal model by spraying amiloride into the lungs of young mice. This is the first therapy to successfully attack the root cause of the widespread hereditary disease in a living organism. When mice are given ...FeelGoodNow.com Launches Complementary and Preventative Web Site
FeelGoodNow.com offers immediate health research and solutions for consumers and practitioners who seek helpful complementary and preventative information through a user-friendly site. Denver, CO (Vocus) December 16, 2008 -- Touting, Your Apple a Day, FeelGoodnow.com ...Study Finds Preventative Diabetes Care Reduces Amputation Occurrence
Americans Urged: "Elect to Save Your Feet," Get Annual Foot Check-ups BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 246 million people across the globe battle diabetes and its complications every year. However, medical care for diabetes is often not sought in time to prevent serio...The Latest Preventative Treatment Option for Prostate Cancer
In a recent study researchers say they have found that the drug toremifene, also known as Fareston, used to treat breast cancer // decreased patients' cancer incidence after 12 months of treatment. All dose levels were found to have some impact, but the 20-milligram dose had the greatest effect. ...Awardees for the 2009 Young Investigator Grant for Probiotics Research Announced
... contribution in understanding the mechanisms by which yeast, which has been used for centuries for the production of fermented foods, may prove to be preventative or therapeutic in fighting intestinal inflammation and colon cancer. The GI tract has an extremely complicated ecosystem and Dr. Chen's work should co...Landmark Study for GSK's Cervical Cancer Vaccine Published in The Lancet
...vical pre-cancers, cervical cancer and the associated diagnostic and surgical procedures. The results re-affirm confidence in vaccination as a primary preventative measure against cervical cancer when used alongside screening." In the study, rates of serious adverse events and medically significant condition...Advance in Bowel Cancer Test Research
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...her Amling, MD, an AUA spokesman. "This finding and other ongoing research might one day reveal that pomegranate juice is an effective prostate cancer preventative agent as well." Parts of this ongoing study suggest that some patients may be more sensitive to the effects of pomegranate juice on PSA doubling ...Invacare Platinum XL 5-Liter Oxygen Concentrator
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Description:...eatures of Platinum 5, now with eXtended Life to help lower lifecycle costs. Platinum XL features an upgraded compressor, that extends the time before preventative maintenance is required by 40%! Platinum XL also offers an extended limited warranty - now a full 5 years with no hour limit on the compressor! The un...Dairylands Clinical Information Management
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For parents, 8 million cases of acute middle ear infections every year add up to a lot of sleepless nights and trips to the pediatrician. But new research from a collaboration between Rockefeller University and St. Jude Children’s Hospital could change all that. In the March 23 issue of PLoS Pat...Carnegie Mellon's Jean VanBriesen leads research team on Monongahela River
...as a long history of assessing and addressing the cause before it's necessary to respond to the symptom. It's a privilege to support Carnegie Mellon's preventative strategy," said Carol Zagrocki, program director of the Colcom Foundation, established in 1996 by the late Cordelia S. May, a dedicated conservationis...UTSA infectious disease researchers advancing vaccine against Valley fever
...ne that successfully protects mice against Valley Fever, known in scientific circles as coccidioidomycosis. A live, attenuated vaccine is used as a preventative treatment based upon creation of a mutated form of the pathogen that is no longer capable of causing disease. Coccidioides , a soil-dwelling fung...Gear bans 'can help save reefs'
...tions that depend on it." Dr Cinner says "Of course, where the conditions are right, managers and fishers don't have to wait for a bleaching event- preventative gear bans are a good idea, particularly in areas that are highly susceptible to the impacts of bleaching," says co-author Dr Nick Graham. "And our new...Help for climate-stressed corals
...tions that depend on it." Dr Cinner says "Of course, where the conditions are right, managers and fishers don't have to wait for a bleaching event- preventative gear bans are a good idea, particularly in areas that are highly susceptible to the impacts of bleaching," says co-author Dr Nick Graham. "And our new...Embryology study offers clues to birth defects
...providing a more complete understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in normal limb development, these findings may lead to new therapeutic or preventative measures to combat congenital limb defects, such as Holt-Oram syndrome, a birth defect characterized by upper limb and heart defects. ...Environmental cleaning intervention reduces transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms in ICUs
... at the University of California at Irvine. "Although the risk of acquiring MRSA and VRE is already low, this study suggests that there are additional preventative measures that hospitals can take to reduce the risk of transmission from one patient to another." The retrospective study of more than 13,000 hos...Scientists unlock the secrets of C. difficile's protective shell
...the defeat of infection. In addition, the research team behind today's study say that understanding the S-layer could be the key to developing a preventative vaccine for C. difficile . This is because the protein outer-shell of the pathogen is 'seen' and recognised as dangerous by the human immune system, ...Impaired energy metabolism linked with initiation of plaques in Alzheimer's brain
...des new information about generation of damaging amyloid β (Aβ) plaques within the AD brain and underscores the importance of developing new preventative and disease-modifying therapies for AD, especially those aimed at interrupting pathological Aβ-production. AD, the leading cause of dementia i...The genetic heart of the lipids
...ition, as we become better at identifying those individuals who are at most at risk of these diseases, we should be able to target our therapeutic and preventative efforts more efficiently, perhaps focusing on changing lifestyles in those most likely to benefit". ...Kiwa Bio-Tech Joint Venture to Produce Preventative for Avian Flu
Kiwa Bio-Tech & Hebei Huaxing Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd form Hebei Kiwa Huaxing Bio-Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. BEIJING and CLAREMONT, Calif., May 27 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kiwa Bio-Tech Products Group Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KWBT) announced entry into a contra...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Provides Clinical Studies Update
...two main areas of focus for our HIV/AIDS vaccine - preventative and therapeutic," stated Robert McNally, Ph.D., Ch...results of the early Phase 1 clinical work for the preventative version of the vaccine have allowed the company to...A approval, in the first quarter of 2010." preventative Clinical Trials - Phase 2a The...Novel method predicts impact of a covert anthrax release
...putational Biology , predicts where the most critically affected areas will be following the release of this highly pathogenic agent, which may enable preventative treatment of individuals at risk and protection from the disease. Previously published methods can estimate the date and scale of anthrax release ...CEL-SCI Corporation Releases Letter to Shareholders
...ecisely why we are aggressively pursuing development of the therapeutic and preventative vaccine approaches that our scientists have pioneered. With the world heal...d those of the current strains. We believe the therapeutic and longer-term preventative vaccine approaches we are investigating could address these critical needs....Sinovac Begins the Production of Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine
...protect the public. We are very pleased to offer our expertise in supplying preventative vaccines to the national and local authorities as they focus on controlling...Premier, Li Keqiang, and his delegation, Li Keqiang emphasized the need for preventative vaccines and praised Sinovac for its efforts towards infectious disease pre...Novel method predicts impact of a covert anthrax release
...putational Biology , predicts where the most critically affected areas will be following the release of this highly pathogenic agent, which may enable preventative treatment of individuals at risk and protection from the disease. Previously published methods can estimate the date and scale of anthrax release ...Roche Venture Fund, Enterprise Ireland Commit EUR3.3 M to Opsona Series B Financing
...sona Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, today announced that Ro...cs - Opsona is a drug development company, focused on novel therapeutic and preventative approaches to autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded...