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Penn Researchers Discover Virus Linked to Canine Cancer

Now a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Penn's Perelman School of Medicine has the first evidence that…

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Lifestyle Changes Yield Modest Weight Loss for Obese Patients

The research is published March 12 in Archives of Internal Medicine.Obesity treatments are not widely available in the U.S. primary care setting, particularly…

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Antidepressant Shows Potential in Cancer Treatment Research

Team leader Arthur Zelent, Ph.D., and colleagues at the ICR have been working to unlock the potential of retinoids to treat other patients with AML. In a paper…

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Discovery could reduce chemo's side effects

“Knowing the structure and properties of the transporter molecule may be the key to changing the way that some chemotherapies, for example, could work in the…

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New Drug Target Discovered for Kidney Disease at Mount Sinai

Led by John Cijiang He, MD, PhD, Professor of Nephrology and Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics; and Avi Ma'ayan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology…

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Cost-Effective Innovations in Personalized Cancer Therapies

Now researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have identified new ways of doing just that, allowing more patients to benefit from this…

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Genetic Marker Enhances Diagnosis and Treatment of Food Allergies

The scientists, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, report in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology that they have pinpointed a…

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Infection control certification associated with lower MRSA infection rates

A team of researchers from the Columbia University School of Nursing surveyed infection prevention and control departments of 203 acute care hospitals in…

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Osteoarthritis Summit delineates shortcomings of research and path forward

Currently, validated pharmacologic interventions do not exist for effectively eliminating pain and restoring function during progression of osteoarthritis, a…

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Reduce Unnecessary Imaging Tests: Evidence-Based Solutions

Imaging has been identified as one of the key drivers of increased healthcare costs. A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School…

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Study pinpoints effects of different doses of an ADHD drug; Finds higher doses may harm learning

The results parallel a 1977 finding that a low dose of the drug boosted cognitive performance of children with ADHD, but a higher dose that reduced their…

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New Pig Model Offers Hope for Eye Disease Treatment

The pig model was developed by researchers in the University of Louisville Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and at the National Swine Resource and…

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Healthy Ageing Starts in the Womb: Insights from EU Research

In this 3 million Euro EU-funded project, neurologists at the Jena University Hospital, together with molecular biologists, psychologists, physiologists, and…

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HIV/AIDS Vaccine Offers Long-Term Protection in Primates

Scientists at Emory University and GeoVax Labs, Inc. developed a vaccine that has protected nonhuman primates against multiple exposures to simian…

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Metformin Halts Atherosclerosis in HIV Patients: New Findings

Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV. In a presentation…

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Researchers Pursue Promising New Approach in the Treatment of Liver Cancer

Despite the prevalence of this disease, until now there has been no effective, systemic treatment. Thanks to a team of researchers in Boston University’s…

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