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Appetite-Controlling Hormone Leaves Obese People Still Hungry

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22 Aug 2013

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

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22 Aug 2013

Aging Gene Tied To Myeloma

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22 Aug 2013

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

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22 Aug 2013

Takeda announces publication of data from two vedolizumab Phase 3 studies for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited today announced that results from two Phase 3 studies evaluating vedolizumab, an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, were published in the August 22, 2013 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

22 Aug 2013

Orthopaedic foot and ankle MDs offer foot care tips for diabetics

If you're among the 18 million Americans who've been diagnosed with diabetes, you may know that foot care is extremely important. Nervous system impairment or neuropathy is a major complication of diabetes that can cause you to lose feeling in your feet. This means you may not know right away if you have hurt yourself, which could lead to infection.

22 Aug 2013

Low-cost intervention reduces transmission of lymphatic filariasis to undetectable levels

An international team of scientists have demonstrated that a simple, low-cost intervention holds the potential to eradicate a debilitating tropical disease that threatens nearly 1.4 billion people in more than six dozen countries.

22 Aug 2013

Assumption that uterine blood redistributed into maternal circulation after delivery challenged

In an examination comparing the effects of two drugs on blood pressure, pulse, heart rate and cardiac output in women having elective delivery by cesarean section, an old assumption that uterine blood is redistributed into the maternal circulation after delivery was challenged, according to a study in the September issue of Anesthesiology.

22 Aug 2013

In dynamic mind-body interaction, brain recruits cells from immune system to promote anxiety

New research shows that in a dynamic mind-body interaction during the interpretation of prolonged stress, cells from the immune system are recruited to the brain and promote symptoms of anxiety.

22 Aug 2013

Pazopanib drug shows improved quality of life and safety in metastatic kidney cancer patients

Two oral targeted drugs approved for metastatic kidney cancer worked equally well, but one proved superior in tolerability, according to results of a large international clinical trial led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

22 Aug 2013

Researchers examine important risk factors in increasing chances of heart attack

Researchers in India have carried out a data mining exercise to determine which are the most important risk factors in increasing the chances of an individual suffering a heart attack.

22 Aug 2013

UC Davis Health System develops new screening strategy for lethal stage of TB in Asia

More than 20,000 people in Pakistan are being tested for the potentially deadly stage of tuberculosis using a new strategy developed at UC Davis Health System to effectively detect the disease in children for the first time.

22 Aug 2013

Researchers report overall increase in use of tPA to dissolve clots blocking arteries

Use of the "clot-busting" drug tissue plasminogen activator to treat patients with strokes caused by a blockage of blood flow nearly doubled between 2003 and 2011.

22 Aug 2013

Research suggests restricting calories may improve success of cancer treatment

New research suggests that restricting calories for a defined period of time may improve the success of cancer treatment, offering valuable new data on how caloric intake may play a role in programmed cancer cell death and efficacy of targeted cancer therapies. Study results were published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

22 Aug 2013

Oramed starts patient recruitment in Israel for ORMD-0801 clinical trial for patients with T1DM

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today that it has initiated patient recruitment for a new clinical trial of its orally ingestible insulin capsule, ORMD-0801 for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus in Israel.

22 Aug 2013

Hypertension researcher receives Distinguished Scientist title from AHA

Kenneth Bernstein, MD, a Cedars-Sinai pathologist and scientific researcher known for expanding the understanding of a collection of proteins important in controlling blood pressure as well as heart and renal diseases, has been named a 2013 Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association.

21 Aug 2013

Researchers identify gene that contributes to development of acute myeloid leukemia

Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) have identified a gene that contributes to the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This pivotal finding follows 40 years of University of Chicago research that has slowly unraveled the genetic basis of leukemia.

21 Aug 2013

Children with gene amplification may require more aggressive treatment for ALL

A recent study by members of the Children's Oncology Group reports results of a large trial showing that children whose leukemia cells have amplification of a portion of chromosome 21 may require more aggressive treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) than children without this gene amplification.

21 Aug 2013

Implementation of large-scale hypertension program linked with doubling of hypertension control rates

Implementation of a large-scale hypertension program that included evidence-based guidelines and development and sharing of performance metrics was associated with a near-doubling of hypertension control between 2001 and 2009, compared to only modest improvements in state and national control rates, according to a study in the August 21 issue of JAMA.

21 Aug 2013

Researchers identify genome-wide locus for serious gastrointestinal condition in infants

Researchers have identified a new genome-wide significant locus (the place a gene occupies on a chromosome) for infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS), a serious gastrointestinal condition associated with gastrointestinal obstruction, according to a study in the August 21 issue of JAMA. Characteristics of this locus also suggest the possibility of an inverse relationship between levels of circulating cholesterol in neonates and IHPS risk.

21 Aug 2013

Blood News and Research

Appetite-Controlling Hormone Leaves Obese People Still Hungry

Mount Sinai, Exosome Partner On Body Fluid Molecular Diagnostics

Aging Gene Tied To Myeloma

Genenews Axes 60% Of Staff To Boost New JV

Takeda announces publication of data from two vedolizumab Phase 3 studies for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease

Orthopaedic foot and ankle MDs offer foot care tips for diabetics

Low-cost intervention reduces transmission of lymphatic filariasis to undetectable levels

Assumption that uterine blood redistributed into maternal circulation after delivery challenged

In dynamic mind-body interaction, brain recruits cells from immune system to promote anxiety

Pazopanib drug shows improved quality of life and safety in metastatic kidney cancer patients

Researchers examine important risk factors in increasing chances of heart attack

UC Davis Health System develops new screening strategy for lethal stage of TB in Asia

Researchers report overall increase in use of tPA to dissolve clots blocking arteries

Research suggests restricting calories may improve success of cancer treatment

Oramed starts patient recruitment in Israel for ORMD-0801 clinical trial for patients with T1DM

Hypertension researcher receives Distinguished Scientist title from AHA

Researchers identify gene that contributes to development of acute myeloid leukemia

Children with gene amplification may require more aggressive treatment for ALL

Implementation of large-scale hypertension program linked with doubling of hypertension control rates

Researchers identify genome-wide locus for serious gastrointestinal condition in infants

A New Approach to Preventing Bladder Cancer Recurrence

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

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