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AIDS Public Awareness Campaign Expands Following Report Of Rapidly Progressive HIV

State Health Commissioner Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., today announced the expansion of New York State's HIV/AIDS Public Awareness and Education campaign to help combat the potential spread of HIV and further protect New Yorkers from the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Novello said, "In light of recent reports of a drug-resistant, rapidly progressive strain of HIV in New York Ci...

Use of amino acid supplement following a heart attack provides no benefit, may be harmful

Use of the amino acid supplement L-arginine following a heart attack does not improve certain cardiac functions and measurements and may be associated with an increased risk of death, according to a study in the January 4 issue of JAMA. L-arginine is a widely available dietary supplement and is publicized as having benefits for patients with hypertension, angina, heart failure and sexual d...

Cell death following blood 'reflow' injury tracked to natural toxin

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered what they believe is the "smoking gun" responsible for most tissue and organ damage after a period of blood oxygen loss followed by a sudden restoration of blood oxygen flow. Working with mice, the Hopkins team found that the sudden oxygen bath triggered by restored blood flow causes cells to make a chemical so toxic it kills the cells. The wo...

High levels of blindness in southern Sudan following years of war

Surveys conducted in southern Sudan, after conflict there ended in 2004, found much higher levels of blindness than anticipated. The results, published in PLoS Medicine, have major implications for the provision of health services in the region. Sudan is the largest country in Africa and one of the poorest in the world. The southern region of the country is very remote and was devastated b...

PNAS study reveals why organs fail following massive trauma

Massive trauma, say from a sabertooth tiger attack, meant immediate death for the primitive human. Modern man is more likely to survive severe injury caused by a car crash, gunshot or fall thanks to high-tech emergency medicine. Unfortunately, the body does not know what to do when it survives an injury that would have been fatal until recently in human evolution. Nearly one third of the time, m...

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Transient Gene Expression Following Single and Double Exponential Decay Electroporation Pulses

James R. Wong, Ph.D. and Wei-Yu Lin, Bio-Rad Laboratories A double pulse format for electroporation of mammalian tissue culture cells gave lower transient expression than a single exponential decay pulse. Moreover, separate administration of the two components of the double pulse rev...

Merge execs step down following investigation

The stock market fallout that was predicted by company offi...
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Poultry Ordered Indoors Following Bird Flu Suspicion In Germany

Reports of positive bird flu infection in wild swans have been reported by Germany and Austria. In response to the H5N1 virus detection, // the German government has ordered that all domestic poultry be moved indoors. Four other European nations have reported outbreaks this week and the disease now appears unstoppable, at least among wild birds. The latest suspected infe...

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

England's loss to Argentina in a World Cup match in 1998 ending with a penalty shootout increased heart attack rates by 27 per cent. The fact that extreme stress and emotion// can cause a heart attack in vulnerable people is known to almost everyone.However, research carried out at the the time of a key football match between England and Argentina during the 1998 World Cup has provided further...

Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin

Smoking cessation has often been connected to gaining excess weight. It has been debated for long that this weight gain could be related to the hormone leptin, which regulates appetite and controls// weight. These arguments were based on assumptions that leptin levels were high during smoking periods, thus keeping weight down and after one stops smoking, the leptin levels plummet leading to weigh...

Anxiety following heart attacks not adequately managed

A new study by Ohio State University researchers has shown that patients whocomplain of anxiety after a heart attack are not being managed appropriately.The researchers who looked at an experience of 101 heart attack victims havefound that patients' own descriptions of anxiety after a heart attack and theway it is recorded and treated by their doctors do not match. In the group ofpartic...

Reducing Disabilities By Following A Healthy Diet

Consuming enough dairy products, fruits and vegetables in your daily diet may lower the risk of disability, shows a new study.// Researchers say the findings are important because the number of disabled elderly is expected to triple between 1985 and 2050. Obesity, lack of physical exercise, alcohol consumption, and smoking are modifiable risk factors for disability, but little is known a...

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Research Documents Scalable Production, Survival Following Engraftment and Positive Impact on Cardiac Function in Infarcted Rats for Geron's Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Therapeutic for Heart Failure

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 19, 2007 - GeronCorporation (Nasdaq: GERN) today reported that research documentingthe scalable production, survival following engraftment andpositive impact on cardiac function in infarcted rats was presentedtoday for GRNCM1, the company's human embryonic stem cell(hESC)-based therapeutic for heart failure, at the InternationalSociety for Stem Cell...

Auxilium Announces New Data That Show Total Testosterone Blood Levels Increase Significantly Following Switch from AndroGel(R) to Testim(R)

MALVERN, Pa., May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AuxiliumPharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that new data showimprovements in symptoms of decreased libido, energy levels anderectile function in 76 percent of hypogonadal men after switchingbrands of testosterone replacement gel therapy. Total testosteronelevels increased significantly in patients who switched toAuxilium's Testim(R)...

Inotek Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Animal Data from Study of PARP Inhibition as Potential Preventative of Brain Injury Following Stroke

BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 10, 2007 - InotekPharmaceuticals Corporation announced today the publication in thejournal Stroke of preclinical animal data showing that theadministration of a poly(ADP-Ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitorhas a large protective effect on the survival of certain braincells following a stroke. PARP is a nuclear enzyme that directs therepair of damaged DNA...

Portola Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Phase II Results for PRT054021 for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism Following Total Knee Replacement Surgery

Data to be Presented at the XXI Congress of the InternationalSociety on Thrombosis and Haemostasis SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 04, 2007 /PRNewswire/ --Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that it has receivedpositive results from EXPERT, a Phase II study of its oral FactorXa inhibitor, PRT054021, for the prevention of venousthromboembolism (VTE) following total knee replac...

IR BioSciences Announces Data Demonstrating Radilex Stimulation of Stem Cells Results in Hematopoietic Recovery Following Lethal Irradiation

Animal Data Shows Prolonged Survival AND Increased PlateletConcentrations SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 08, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --ImmuneRegen BioSciences, a wholly-owned subsidiary of IRBioSciences Holdings, Inc. announced today that ongoing analysis ofdata acquired from previously performed animal efficacy studies hasrevealed evidence that ImmuneRegen's developmental stage product,Ra...
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