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Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis

UTMB scientists offer strongest evidence yet that infectious misformed proteins cause mad cow disease and other mysterious brain disorders Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have produced the strongest proof yet that the mysterious and devastating brain diseases known as "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSEs) are transmitted by an infecti...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

You just can't tell where you might find love these days. A team led by a neuroscientist, an anthropologist and a social psychologist found love-related neurophysiological systems inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine. They detected quantifiable love responses in the brains of 17 young men and women who each described themselves as being newly and madly in love. The multidisciplinary...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

Catch an athlete with clear potential early in his career, study his physiology over an incredibly eventful seven years including victory in the Tour de France, and you might uncover some incredibly important, indeed amazing facts about what training and dedication can accomplish. What Edward F. Coyle of the University of Texas-Austin found out about Lance Armstrong was that from 1992-1999...

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle

A major conservation effort, led by Dr Brendan Godley of the University of Exeter, has just got underway to help protect endangered leatherback turtles which nest in Gabon, West Africa. The region is thought to be the animals' last global stronghold, as pacific populations dwindle precariously. It's hoped the project, to tag and track the animals, will uncover their migratory secrets and p...

Secrets of the sea yield stronger artificial bone

The next generation of artificial bone may rely on a few secrets from the sea. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the way seawater freezes to develop a porous, scaffolding-like material that is four times stronger than material currently used in synthetic bone. Although still in the investigational stages, var...

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Lance Armstrong and the future of cancer care

As many people know, survivors of cancer are much more common today. A recent National Center for Health Sta...

UW's Waisman Center seeing strong demand for biomanufacturing facility time

In its very low-technology manner, the whiteboard indicates the success of the facility, which is a...

Midwest holds strong position in worldwide diagnostics business

To put diagnostics into perspective, Steve B...

Entrepreneurship grant will build strong foundation

, justified or otherwise, is that its academic and research fruit falls close to the tree. It has world-class scientists and well-developed mechanisms for turning their best ideas into products or services, but most of that commercialization takes place within a half-ho...

Corporate control begins with a strong board

Question: What is the most important corporate co...

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Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

An English expert says that certain over-the-counter pain killers should carry warnings that they can increase the risk of miscarriage. The comments follow a study by Danish reseacher Gunnar Lauge Nielsen and colleagues published in this week's British Medical Journal which studied the effect on women of taking strong non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like indomethacin (ibuprofen)....

Avoid stress to have strong babies

Stress and anxiety during pregnancy could cause women to have smaller babies, researchers have discovered. They believe the effect is caused by reduced blood flow through the arteries that feed the uterus. Doctors from the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London studied 200 expectant mothers. They found pregnant women who were more anxious or stressed had "significantly a...

Women's strong sense of smell

Researchers suggest that women's ability to smell better is due to the boding of the hormone, estrogen.A US study shows that women who are of procreative age are far better in sensing the fragrance than men do. Tim Jacobs, Professor of Physiology at Cardiff University, said: "Some studies have shown that during ovulation, there's a surge of oestrogen which increases sensitivity.// The...

Breast cancer in younger women strongly linked to family history

A recent study by researchers at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, UK, has shown that family history of the disease is an important factor in women under 30 with breast cancer. A survey of a group of 99 women under 30 who had been diagnosed with breast cancer showed that a third of them had a strong history of either breast or ovarian cancer or both. Among those with a family history of cancer, 44...

Stronger Backing for Drug-Coated Stents

New research proves drug-coated stents effectively combat death, heart attack and repeat procedures in the real world.// A new study from researchers in the Netherlands indicates that patients in clinical trials of drug-coated stents represented a very select group of the total population. This new study takes a closer look at the effects of drug-coated stents on real-world patients, pa...

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Stronger Irrigation/Aspiration Cannula

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Strong Curved Maryland (7-8mm)

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Reaction to Avandia Warnings Stronger Among Internists Than Endocrinologists, According to Study by GfK Market Measures

EAST HANOVER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 11, 2007 - Since the May2007 release of a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) reportthat Avandia users are 43 percent more likely to suffer a heartattack and 67 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular causesthan non-users of Avandia, it is no surprise that physicians intendto switch many type 2 diabetes patients from Avandia to therapiesbelie...

Hypertension Vaccine CYT006-AngQb Achieves Strong Blood Pressure Reduction During Important Early Morning Period When Most Adverse Cardiovascular Events Occur

- Blood pressure reduction achieved at 8 am versus placebo: - 25/ - 13 mm Hg (systolic / diastolic, p - Blood pressure reduction dependent on vaccine dose and inducedantiangiotensin II antibody levels - Detailed results presented today at the Seventeenth EuropeanMeeting on Hypertension in Milan, Italy SCHLIEREN (Zurich), Switzerland and MILAN, Ita...

Senate Passes Drug-Safety Reforms to Prevent Future Vioxx-type Disasters; House Urged to Act on Strong Drug Safety Bill

First significant drug safety measure in 45 years; focus moves toHouse WASHINGTON, May 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Senatetoday overwhelmingly passed significant prescription drug safetyreforms to give the Food and Drug Administration more power to dealwith unsafe medicines on the market, moving the issue of drugsafety to the House, where a strong bill has been introduced buth...

Ties Between Physicians and Drug Companies Still Too Strong: the Prescription Project Offers Solutions to Prevent Conflicts of Interest

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 26, 2007 - A new study published todayin the New England Journal of Medicine ("A National Survey ofPhysician-Industry Relationships") on the extent of doctor andpharmaceutical company relationships, highlights the need forprofession-wide and public policy reforms promoted by ThePrescription Project. The article concludes that the existing,voluntary PhRMA (Pharma...

Cleveland BioLabs Protectan CBLB502 Demonstrates Strong Survival Benefits as Mitigator Against Radiation-Induced Damage in Study

Chief Scientist to Present Results at 2007 American Association forCancer Research Annual Meeting CLEVELAND, April 09, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClevelandBioLabs, Inc. , announced today the results of its study ofProtectan CBLB502's efficacy as a mitigator of bothgastrointestinal (GI) and hematopoietic (bone marrow/bloodproduction) radiation-induced damage in non-human primates. The...

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