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Low-carb diets linked to atherosclerosis and impaired blood vessel growth
Even as low-carbohydrate/high-protein diets have proven successful at helping individuals rapidly lose weight, little is known about the diets' long-term effects on vascular health. Now, ...
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Read moreOpen wide and say 'zap'
A group of researchers in Australia and Taiwan has developed a new way to analyze the health of human teeth using lasers. As described in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreTransparent zebrafish a must-see model for atherosclerosis
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have done to laboratory zebrafish exactly what many people still do to themselves – added excess cholesterol to their diet. Bec...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists Develop New Tool To Improve Oral Hygiene
The toothbrush-sized product has a blue light at its tip, which, when shone around the mouth and viewed through yellow glasses with a red filter, allows plaque to be seen easily as a red glow. The dev...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAlzheimer's disease patients show improvement in trial of new drug
The drug, known as PBT2, counteracts the production and build-up of a protein called amyloid-beta that occurs in Alzheimer's disease. This protein, which can build up into a ‘plaque’, is believed...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStudy identifies toxic key to Alzheimer’s disease memory loss
The scientific findings published in the latest edition of Nature Medicine suggest a potential new target for the development of drug therapies to fight the irreversible and degenerative disease which...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew potential drug target for the treatment of atherosclerosis
Their findings, reported in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer a new and specific target for the development of drugs that specifically treat card...
Health and Medicine | Read moreForgetful mice show the way to treating Alzheimer’s
The accumulation of a phosphate-laden, soluble form of tau protein in an important memory center of ageing mice is associated with loss of nerve cell connections or synapses and deterioration of memor...
Health and Medicine | Read moreGenetic mutation found in peripheral artery disease
Dr. Brian Annex, professor of medicine and director of vascular medicine at Duke, says the study stemmed directly from his clinical experience. “Over and over, I’d see two patients show up at the same...
Life Sciences | Read moreAn Alzheimer's vaccine?
OMRF scientists immunized Alzheimer’s mice with a protein believed to play a key role in the disease-causing process. The mice who received the vaccination showed a significant reduction in the build-...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreResearch to shed new light on how statins benefit heart patients
Dr Sarah Calaghan from the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences has been awarded £80,000 from Heart Research UK to progress her preliminary evidence that statins are directly affecting the hear...
Medical Engineering | Read moreEstrogen therapy in younger postmenopausal women linked to less plaque in arteries
New results from a substudy of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Estrogen-Alone Trial show that younger postmenopausal women who take estrogen-alone hormone therapy have significantly less buil...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreRisk of death increases with combined heart and stroke prevention surgery
The study involved the review of hospital discharge data from 657,877 patients who had been admitted to U.S. hospitals for carotid endarterectomy or coronary bypass artery surgery from 1993 to 2002. ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreSugars in liver found to clear fats from the bloodstream
Although we try to reduce fat in our diet, our bodies use it for energy. But patients with elevated levels of fat in their bloodstream – nearly 10 percent of Americans – are more likely to develop art...
Life Sciences | Read moreCapture study shows safety of carotid stenting in 'real-world' setting
The largest-ever study of carotid stenting in high-surgical risk patients has shown that with proper education and training, community physicians are just as successful at using catheter-based techniq...
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