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Air Pollution and Clogged Arteries: New Research Insights

Findings published in the open access journal, Genome Biology, show how the fats that clog arteries work together with air pollution particles, triggering the…

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Polar Expeditions: Insights on Mental Health Benefits

Dr Lawrence Palinkas, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA and Dr Peter Suedfeld, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, did a review of…

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New Health Research Building Opens for Fungal Infection Studies

The new four storey, building, situated on the College Lane Campus, which will be officially opened on Thursday (26th) by Ian Pearson MP, Minister of State for…

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UB Scientist Unveils Novel Iron-Copper Alliance Discovery

Iron is the workhorse of trace minerals. An essential component of red blood cells, disruption of iron levels in the body will result in a myriad of serious…

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Investigating the causes of Parkinson’s disease

Dr Lynn Bedford, of the School of Biomedical Sciences, will lead a five-year study after receiving an award from the PDS under its Career Development Awards…

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Improving Brain Cancer Treatment for Children: New Study Insights

In the search for better ways of treating children with brain cancer the study, carried out by the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group at The University of…

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Blood Transfusions: No Cancer Risk in Donated Blood

Before donated blood can be used in a clinical setting, it must go through a rigorous battery of tests to ensure that no diseases are passed between the donor…

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Early recognition of Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease is one of the most widespread neurodegenerative diseases. It develops as a result of injuries of 60 to 80 percent of neurons in a single…

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Breakthrough Double Vaccine Boosts Immunity Against HIV

The Novosibirsk researchers have developed a vaccine that is able to cause both humoral and cellular immunity, it means that under the influence of this…

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Korean Mummies Reveal New Clues for Hepatitis B Research

This is the first time that samples of hepatitis B have ever been found on a mummified body. When the virus was discovered in the liver of a 500 year old…

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New Protocol Boosts Survival for Infants with Leukemia

ALL in infants aged younger than 12 months is both rare and biologically different from ALL in older children. Although the cure rate in children with ALL has…

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New Method Enhances Early Disease Diagnosis by Purdue-IU Researchers

Daniel Raftery, a Purdue professor of analytical and physical chemistry, and his collaborators used a simple chemical reaction to improve the ability to detect…

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Low Hospital Staff Levels Linked to Higher Infection Rates

Stéphane Hugonnet and colleagues from the University of Geneva Hospitals, Switzerland, investigated the number of patients admitted to the ICU who developed…

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Simvastatin: New Insights for Heart and Brain Health

Statins are cholesterol-lowering drugs used by those with heart disease. The new findings suggest that simvastatin is associated with a lower incidence of…

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Long-Term Antiretroviral Therapy Restores CD4 Counts in HIV

However an accompanying Comment cautions the findings are only applicable to patients having periods of maximum virological suppression, and thus have limited…

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Computers Excel in Dosage Testing for Thrombosis Drugs

Increasing evidence of the value of these anticoagulant drugs in a wide range of clinical disorders such as abnormal heart rhythm, or atrial fibrillation, has…

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