NEW ORLEANS -- A new three-drug combination has shown in a phase 1/2 clinical trial that it is a "highly effective regimen" in the treatment of patients newly…
Dec 5, 2009
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Dec 5, 2009
Case Western Reserve University researchers, from the School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition, discovered two new metabolic pathways by which products of lipid peroxidation and some drugs of abuse, known as 4-hydroxyacids, are metabolized.
Dec 4, 2009
Washington, December 4, 2009 -- The American College of Physicians (ACP) today sent a letter to Senate leaders sharing the College's views on key issues in H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Dec 4, 2009
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- According to an analysis of statewide data taken from 1998-2001, women in Oregon who made less than $50,000 a year were more than three…
Dec 4, 2009
(Boston)- Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products…
Dec 4, 2009
December 4 , 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.
Dec 3, 2009
The risk of having a potentially fatal blood clot after surgery is higher and lasts for longer than had previously been thought, concludes new research published on bmj.com today.
Dec 3, 2009
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- An international team of scientists has rescued visual function in laboratory rats with eye disease by using cells similar to stem cells.
Dec 3, 2009
More than two years after being evacuated following the 2007 killings of their mothers, mountain gorilla babies Ndakasi and Ndeze this week returned home to the Democratic Republic of Congo, moving into a new custom-built forest sanctuary.
Dec 3, 2009
Stimulating the growth of new neurons to replace those lost in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an intriguing therapeutic possibility. But will the factors that cause AD allow the new neurons to thrive and function normally?
Dec 3, 2009
Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne…
Dec 3, 2009
Personality characteristics play a major role in determining who succeeds in medical school, according to new research published in the November issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Dec 3, 2009
December 3 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- Breastfeeding a child may lower a woman?s risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and…
Dec 3, 2009
