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Certain blood pressure medications may reduce risk of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

A Johns Hopkins-led analysis of data previously gathered on more than 3,000 elderly Americans strongly suggests that taking certain blood pressure medications to control blood pressure may reduce the risk of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.

17 Oct 2013

Imaxio Sells Genomics Division To Hybrigenics

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16 Oct 2013

Biotech CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

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16 Oct 2013

Pieris Inks Co-Development Alliance With Zydus For Protein Drugs

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16 Oct 2013

Astrazeneca To Use Wyss Institute’s Organs-On-Chips

AstraZeneca has taken a small step in reducing the need for traditional animal testing by signing on to evaluate Organs-on-Chips from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.

16 Oct 2013

CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

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16 Oct 2013

CEL-SCI, Ergomed To Co-Develop Head And Neck Cancer Candidate As Potential HPV Treatment

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16 Oct 2013

Deloitte announces upcoming release of PopulationMiner to improve access to patient care

Deloitte today is announcing the upcoming release of PopulationMiner, a real-world, data-analytics solution for gleaning insights and relationships among drugs and diseases across broad patient populations over time and spanning multiple therapeutic and clinical areas.

16 Oct 2013

First Edition: October 16, 2013

Today's headlines including stories detailing how certain health law provisions are factoring in to the continuing congressional budget stalemate.

16 Oct 2013

Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic patients less likely to experience metabolic syndrome remission

The impact of bariatric surgery on risk factors for cardiovascular disease depends on a variety of factors, including the type of surgery, sex of the patient, ethnic background, and pre-surgery body mass index, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published today in Annals of Surgery.

16 Oct 2013

Detroit Lions, Josephine Ford Cancer Institute to raise $15M for cancer research in metro Detroit

The Detroit Lions and Josephine Ford Cancer Institute, Michigan's largest provider of adult cancer care, have created a unique partnership with the goal to raise $15 million during the next three years for cancer research in metro Detroit.

16 Oct 2013

ESTEVE reports positive top line results from E-58425 phase II trial for acute pain

ESTEVE, a pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics for pain today announces positive top line results from its recently completed phase II trial, which was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of E-58425 in acute pain.

16 Oct 2013

New $1.9M research grant to support investigators to detect tumors in earliest stages of formation

The National Cancer Institute's new Provocative Questions research funding program has awarded a prestigious grant to researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University's Schools of Medicine and Engineering to study tumor detection at the earliest stages of growth.

16 Oct 2013

CU researchers explore why maximum heart rate decreases with age

Researchers at the University of Colorado have new insight into the age-old question of why maximum heart rate decreases with age. This decrease in maxHR not only limits the performance of aging athletes but it is also a leading cause for nursing home admittance for otherwise-healthy elderly individuals who no longer have the physical capacity required for independent living.

16 Oct 2013

Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals provide recommended guideline-based care for patients

Award-winning Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals are more likely than Primary Stroke Center certified hospitals to provide all the recommended guideline-based care for patients, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

16 Oct 2013

Study aims to identify age-related changes in metabolic pathways

Have you ever wondered why young children can eat bags of Halloween candy and feel fine the next day - compared to adults who experience all sorts of agony following the same junk food binge? Evolution and a gene called Foxo may be to blame. Working in fruit flies, scientists at the Buck Institute have identified a mechanism that helps the flies adapt to changes in diet when they're young; they've discovered that same mechanism gets misregulated as the flies age, disrupting metabolic homeostasis, or balance.

16 Oct 2013

BWH, Case Western awarded $7.7M NIH grant to establish NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource

A $7.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to Brigham and Women's Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will establish the NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource, a comprehensive, easily accessible and well-annotated national repository of sleep data.

16 Oct 2013

Ticagrelor drug may reduce risk of dying following heart attack

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered ground breaking clues as to how the pioneering heart drug ticagrelor might reduce the risk of dying following a heart attack, in comparison to previous standard treatments.

16 Oct 2013

Study reveals gap between verbal, visual working memories of children in rural poverty

Studies have long shown a difference in cognitive ability between high- and low-income children, but for the first time, scientists have found a difference between low-income children growing up in rural areas and those growing up in urban environments.

16 Oct 2013

Research News and Research

Certain blood pressure medications may reduce risk of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease

Imaxio Sells Genomics Division To Hybrigenics

Biotech CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

Jain Foundation Steps Up Efforts To Find Cure For Muscular Dystrophy

Pieris Inks Co-Development Alliance With Zydus For Protein Drugs

Astrazeneca To Use Wyss Institute’s Organs-On-Chips

CEO Faces Felony Charge Of Computer Trespass

CEL-SCI, Ergomed To Co-Develop Head And Neck Cancer Candidate As Potential HPV Treatment

Deloitte announces upcoming release of PopulationMiner to improve access to patient care

First Edition: October 16, 2013

Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic patients less likely to experience metabolic syndrome remission

Detroit Lions, Josephine Ford Cancer Institute to raise $15M for cancer research in metro Detroit

ESTEVE reports positive top line results from E-58425 phase II trial for acute pain

New $1.9M research grant to support investigators to detect tumors in earliest stages of formation

CU researchers explore why maximum heart rate decreases with age

Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals provide recommended guideline-based care for patients

Study aims to identify age-related changes in metabolic pathways

BWH, Case Western awarded $7.7M NIH grant to establish NHLBI National Sleep Research Resource

Ticagrelor drug may reduce risk of dying following heart attack

Study reveals gap between verbal, visual working memories of children in rural poverty

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