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Fatty liver associated with metabolic problems

New findings from nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest that it's not whether body fat is stored in the belly that affects metabolic risk factors for diabetes, high blood triglycerides and cardiovascular disease, but whether it collects in the liver.

25 Aug 2009

IGC scientist receives a total grant of 1.6 million euro to conduct research on neurological mechanisms

Rui Costa, principal investigator of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), in Portugal, is one of only 219 recipients of the prestigious European Research Council Starting grants, out of 2503 applicants for the 2009 edition of this flagship award scheme. The grant, totalling close to 1.6 million euro, for a period of five years, will allow Rui Costa's young research team to pursue their research into the neurological mechanisms underlying goal-directed decision making behaviour, versus habit-based responses.

25 Aug 2009

National dialysis treatment program under fire; criticized as too costly, risky

Kidney dialysis treatment in the U.S. is costly and has high death rates, but it doesn't have to be that way, USA Today reports: "The vast majority of the more than 350,000 Americans on dialysis are treated in centers, where three treatments a week, three or four hours each, is the norm — not because it's optimal but because that's the way it has been done for nearly four decades.

25 Aug 2009

UCLA finds link between high cholesterol and osteoporosis

A new UCLA study sheds light on the link between high cholesterol and osteoporosis and identifies a new way that the body's immune cells play a role in bone loss

25 Aug 2009

INSERM researchers engineer a chimeric protein that improves stem cell engraftment

Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, show that TAT-Tpr-Met, a cell permeable form of the hepatocyte growth factor receptor can increase the number of hepatic stem cells integrated into the liver of the mouse.

24 Aug 2009

Health Fair 11 to offer free or low-cost health screenings

Visitors attending the Minnesota State Fair will find some great health deals when they stop by Health Fair 11 at the Fair. More than a dozen organizations will offer free or low-cost health screenings. Among the screenings are: cholesterol testing (non-fasting), diabetes screening (glucose -- non-fasting), blood pressure checks, blood typing, hearing and vision assessments, bone density and body fat measurements, and weight readings.

24 Aug 2009

Increased testosterone levels boost appetite and career choices in women

The battle of the sexes rages on, this time from the trading floor. While there has long been debate about the social and biological differences between men and women, new research by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the University of Chicago's Department of Comparative Human Development explores how the hormone testosterone plays an important role in gender differences in financial risk aversion and career choice.

24 Aug 2009

Health reform fact checks fall short on dispelling angry myths

A fact check of a dozen often-repeated claims by politicos and interest groups finds that the truth appears "to be taking a vacation," CQ Politics reports. Of the 12 claims, CQ concludes that only one is true, six are misleading and five are downright false.

24 Aug 2009

Bioniche Life Sciences update on Phase III clinical program for evaluating Urocidin

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc., a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today provided an update on its Phase III clinical program evaluating Urocidin(TM) in the treatment of bladder cancer.

24 Aug 2009

Patients suffering from functional and degenerative mitral regurgitation treated using the MitraClip system

Evalve, Inc., the leader in the development of devices for the percutaneous repair of cardiac valves, today announced treatment of the first group of patients with the MitraClip(R) system at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna, Stockholm, Sweden.

24 Aug 2009

Concussions could result in permanent brain impairment

Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for centuries whether concussions involve structural damage to brain tissue or whether physiological changes that merely impair the way brain cells function, explain this loss.

24 Aug 2009

UAB researchers and information technology specialists win the caBIG- 2009 Deployment Award

A team of researchers and information technology specialists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center has won the caBIG- 2009 Deployment Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

24 Aug 2009

The Center for Health Value Innovation to support the National Diabetes Goal

The Center for Health Value Innovation, the nation’s premier information exchange for value-based design, today joined with other non-profits, healthcare provider groups, universities, government officials, and corporations to fully support the National Diabetes Goal (NDG) which aims to increase awareness and improve the management of type 2 Diabetes to the 45 percent of Americans at risk.

24 Aug 2009

Health care profiles: Kennedy, Daschle and Kratovil

News reports this weekend explored some prominent personalities in health reform, as well as a new one. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., continues to battle brain cancer at home, but his illness has taken on symbolic proportions in the debate.

24 Aug 2009

Advanced Instruments' next-generation website facilitates easy retrieval of product and application information

Advanced Instruments has introduced a next-generation Web site that dramatically enhances the customer's online business experience when purchasing osmometers, cryoscopes, and microbiological laboratory instruments.

24 Aug 2009

Rhode Island Hospital to identify a model for integrating screening and brief interventions for alcohol misuse

There are an estimated 7.6 million alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits each year in the country. A first step in identifying an alcohol problem is screening all ED patients utilizing two well-researched screening tests.

24 Aug 2009

Boston Software Systems to host a webinar on uses and advantages of hospital workflow automation

Boston Software Systems, the leader in workflow automation technology to the healthcare market, today announced Thom Blackwell, product manager, will host a Webinar with several McKesson users on the uses and advantages of workflow automation on August 27. The Webinar is titled “Harness the Benefits of Automation in the McKesson Environment.”

24 Aug 2009

People with high diastolic blood pressure more likely to have cognitive impairment

High blood pressure is linked to memory problems in people over 45, according to research published in the August 25, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

24 Aug 2009

Study reveals that people over 60 and people with chronic diseases are most vulnerable to heat waves

People over the age of 60 are the most vulnerable to heat waves, with 82% to 92% more deaths than average occurring in this age group. Risks for heat-related illness or injury - such as heat stroke, heat exhaustion and heat cramps - are also heightened in people with obesity, heart disease, diabetes and respiratory conditions as these decrease the body's ability to adapt to temperature changes.

24 Aug 2009

Encorium releases second-quarter 2009 results

Encorium Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENCO), a full service multinational contract research organization (CRO) that provides design, development, and management capabilities for clinical trials and patient registries to many of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009.

24 Aug 2009

Medical News

Fatty liver associated with metabolic problems

IGC scientist receives a total grant of 1.6 million euro to conduct research on neurological mechanisms

National dialysis treatment program under fire; criticized as too costly, risky

UCLA finds link between high cholesterol and osteoporosis

INSERM researchers engineer a chimeric protein that improves stem cell engraftment

Health Fair 11 to offer free or low-cost health screenings

Increased testosterone levels boost appetite and career choices in women

Health reform fact checks fall short on dispelling angry myths

Bioniche Life Sciences update on Phase III clinical program for evaluating Urocidin

Patients suffering from functional and degenerative mitral regurgitation treated using the MitraClip system

Concussions could result in permanent brain impairment

UAB researchers and information technology specialists win the caBIG- 2009 Deployment Award

The Center for Health Value Innovation to support the National Diabetes Goal

Health care profiles: Kennedy, Daschle and Kratovil

Advanced Instruments' next-generation website facilitates easy retrieval of product and application information

Rhode Island Hospital to identify a model for integrating screening and brief interventions for alcohol misuse

Boston Software Systems to host a webinar on uses and advantages of hospital workflow automation

People with high diastolic blood pressure more likely to have cognitive impairment

Study reveals that people over 60 and people with chronic diseases are most vulnerable to heat waves

Encorium releases second-quarter 2009 results

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