New test for safer biomedical research results
In cancer research, as in most other biomedical sciences, they are playing a key role: living cells, kept in sterile plastic containers with red culture media populating incubators in laboratories around the world. But do researchers always know what is really living in their culture dishes? Under...Study Finds Weight-Loss Surgery Safer Than Thought
Death risk only 0.3 percent, chances of serious complications 4.3 percent,,,, WEDNESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) -- For those considering bariatric surgery to combat significant obesity, a new study suggests the risk of complications may be much lower than what has previously been rep...Smokeless tobacco safer than smoking
Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not appear to increase cancer risk. A large meta-analysis, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that snuff as used in Scandinavia has no discernible effect on the risk of various cancers. Products used in...Seven Tips for Safer Home Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that summer is in full swing, stories about home pool or hot tub tragedies are making headlines across the county. With millions enjoying their summers by swimming in backyard pools and relaxing in hot tubs, the need for h...New Anesthesia May Be Safer for Critically Ill
Lab tests of MOC-etomidate detected no sudden drops in blood pressure THURSDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- A new variation of a common general anesthesia has been developed that may be safer for some patients. Preclinical studies done on rats put under with MOC-etomidate, a chemi...Mass. General team develops potentially safer general anesthetic
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians has developed a new general anesthetic that may be safer for critically ill patients. In the August issue of Anesthesiology , they describe preclinical studies of the drug called MOC-etomidate a chemically altered version of an exiting a...Metabolic Solutions Development Company Announces Preliminary Results from Phase IIa Clinical Trial
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This release is available in Chinese . Researchers in Israel and Kenya have shown that the contribution of variable degrees of immune suppression, either due to existing chronic infections such as parasitemi...Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells
Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development ( http://dev.biologists.org/ ) a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells the stem cells that can give rise to every tissue of the body. Rapid deve...Queen's University Belfast plays leading role in Europe-wide tests for safer food
A top food scientist at Queen's University Belfast is playing a major role in a 4m European project to develop new techniques to detect chemical contaminants in food and animal feed. Professor Chris Elliott, Director of the Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use at Queen's, will lead a team of...Researchers create safer alternative to heparin
Troy, N.Y. Robert Linhardt has spent years stitching together minuscule carbohydrates to build a more pure and safer alternative to the commonly used and controversial blood thinner heparin. At the national conference of the American Chemical Society on August 17, 2008, Linhardt announced that h...Scientists discover how cigarette smoke causes cancer: Study points to new treatments, safer tobacco
Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. In a new research report published in the March 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal ( http://www.fasebj.org ), researchers from the...'Jumping genes' could make for safer gene delivery system
MADISON - To move a gene from point A to point B, scientists and gene therapists have two proven options: a virus, which can effectively ferry genes of interest into cells, and a plasmid, an engineered loop of DNA that can do the same thing, albeit usually only on a short-term basis. The catch ...Free Webinar on Safer Clinical Hand-Offs Offered by Compirion Healthcare
ELM GROVE, Wis., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With the number of hand-offs involved in the day-to-day operations of patient care, the potential for error due to the communication process is considered a high risk. A webinar, titled Safer Clinical Hand-Offs Now or Never: A Primary Strategy t...New Analysis Finds Bioidentical Hormones Safer Than Standard Hormone Replacement Therapy
Comprehensive review demonstrates bioidentical hormones are superior to synthetic HRT with greater cardiovascular benefits and reduced risk of breast cancer TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The most comprehensive analysis to date, published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, a lead...Developing a Safer and More Effective Way to Deliver Rabies Antibodies
INCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Celltrion, Inc., a South Korean biopharmaceutical company, have signed a Letter of Intent to permit joint research on the development of novel antibodies to protect people exposed to the rabie...BioLife Solutions Joins Prestigious Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative
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