Tobacco smoking is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer, which is an unusually malignant form of the disease. Since it is common for people who take snus…
Aliskiren (Tekturna, Rasilez) is the first of a new class of orally active antihypertensive drugs that works by inhibiting renin. A review of six large-scale…
After studying the relationship of this molecule with this disease, the experts believe that cardiotrophin 1 is useful for preventing or controlling the…
A doctoral thesis carried out at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada [http://www.ugr.es]) by…
The heart-assist devices also significantly improved the cardiac function in many other heart failure patients. “This suggests that, while the devices alone…
A review of young leukemia patients over the past decade has shown that the absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), a measure of normal immune cells found on every…
In a commentary in the May 9, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists at the National Institutes of Health discuss why…
According to research published in the April AANA Journal of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, the intravenous administration of life-saving…
In many forms of cancer the growth of tumors and their capacity to spread is stimulated by a number of CAAX proteins. This has led to intensive research into…
In November 2004, California voters approved $3 billion over 10 years for public funding of stem cell research through the CIRM. In their policy paper in PLoS…
The scientists, from Imperial College London, hope that their findings will help the development of new therapies to stop the immune system from rejecting…
The drugs that researchers believe are protective are part of a class known as ACE inhibitors – specifically those types that reach the brain and may help…
For the study, PET scans were performed on the brains of 13 elderly men and women with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 14 elderly people without memory…
Most Americans are familiar with the popular city rankings of the fattest cities, the fittest cities, the most livable cities and the most expensive cities….
In a small study, the scientists found that the immune cells in a majority of people with this deadly skin cancer fail to respond properly to a molecule called…
The study is the first investigation of glaucoma-therapy use in the U.S. to utilize longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of Medicare…
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