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Replacing hydrogen with deuterium increases stability, shelf life of fluorescent probes: Research

By swapping out one specific hydrogen atom for an isotope twice as heavy, researchers have increased the shelf life and detection ability of fluorescent probes that are essential to studying a variety of inflammatory diseases, including cancer and atherosclerosis. The probes detect and measure reactive oxygen species, which play an important role in disease processes.

21 Jul 2010

California companies are developing new medicines for diabetes: Report

Pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies based in California are researching and developing 58 new medicines for diabetes, a chronic disease that afflicts 220 million patients worldwide, including 23.6 million Americans, a new report shows.

21 Jul 2010

Deborah Heart and Lung Center adds two spokespersons to represent its specialty services

Deborah Heart and Lung Center, a specialty heart, lung, and vascular hospital in Browns Mills, NJ has announced two new former major league baseball player spokespersons, as the hospital enters into its second year partnership agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association.

21 Jul 2010

La Jolla Institute forms partnership to investigate potential new therapy for sickle cell disease

Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have joined forces with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis to investigate a potential new therapy for sickle cell disease, a severe and chronic illness affecting more than 70,000 Americans and several million people worldwide.

21 Jul 2010

Living with children has a negative influence on parents' ability to exercise: Study

A study conducted at the Montreal Heart Institute has shown unexpectedly that living with children is linked to a reduction in physical activity. Carried out with 756 participants and led by Dr. Simon L. Bacon, Associate Researcher at the MHI and Professor at Concordia University, the study assessed the impact of social networks on exercise, revealing that people with heart disease who live with children exercise less than those people who do not live with children.

21 Jul 2010

Genentech disappointed with FDA ODAC's recommendation against Avastin

Genentech, Inc., a member of the Roche Group, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) voted 12 to one that use of Avastin® (bevacizumab) in combination with paclitaxel for previously untreated (first-line) advanced HER2-negative breast cancer be removed from Avastin's U.S. label.

21 Jul 2010

JHM, All Children's Hospital sign letter of intent to integrate

Johns Hopkins Medicine and All Children's Hospital & Health System of St. Petersburg, Fla., have signed a letter of intent to integrate. After appropriate due diligence is completed sometime later this year, ACH will join the Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS) as a fully integrated member of JHM.

21 Jul 2010

GCSF administration can reduce side effects of cancer neurobastoma in children

Children given a hormone growth factor alongside chemotherapy for the aggressive cancer neuroblastoma are less likely to suffer a potentially deadly side-effect, according to a major international study published today (Tuesday) in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

21 Jul 2010

Active play is important for children’s physical activity

Active play makes a significant contribution to children’s physical activity and could play an important part in the health of future generations, a new study has found.

20 Jul 2010

World-first dialysis study set to reduce health costs

The results of a world-first controlled trial of dialysis start-time in patients with Stage V chronic kidney disease is set to have major impact on the cost and infrastructure of chronic kidney disease (CKD) treatment and dialysis services.

20 Jul 2010

KAI Pharmaceuticals completes enrollment in Phase 1 study of KAI-4169 for SHPT

KAI Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held drug discovery and development company, today announced the Company has completed enrollment in a Phase 1 study of KAI-4169, a novel pharmaceutical agent for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism, which is a frequent complication of end stage renal disease.

20 Jul 2010

ARUP enters partnership to offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test

deCODE genetics and ARUP Laboratories today announced a partnership through which ARUP will offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test to its clients nationwide.

20 Jul 2010

Fero Industries provides comments concerning FDA advisory panel recommendation on diabetes drug Avandia

Fero Industries, Inc. is pleased to provide these comments regarding the recent Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommendation concerning the GlaxoSmithKline PLC diabetes drug Avandia. The FDA advisory panel has recommended that the agency keep diabetes drug Avandia on the U.S. market despite data clearly showing an increased risk of a heart attack and that GSK covered up their own research that first identified the problem.

20 Jul 2010

Acorda Therapeutics awarded $1M C-TRIP grant to support research on GGF2

Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. today announced the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded a $1 million Cardiac Translational Research Implementation Program grant to support research on Glial Growth Factor 2, a novel investigational agent for the treatment of patients with heart failure under development at Acorda.

20 Jul 2010

Failure to seek help for ED could prevent detection of underlying cardiovascular disease

Research carried out by a visiting professor at the University of Hertfordshire has found that up to six million European men fail to seek help for Erectile Dysfunction (ED) which could result in underlying cardiovascular disease going undetected.

20 Jul 2010

European marine and algae oil omega-3 ingredient market to grow at 10% CAGR to reach $525.6M in 2013

The flood of scientific evidence on omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid/docosahexaenoic acid (EPA/DHA) has significantly buoyed the credibility of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) as vital functional ingredients. Heightened consumer awareness has had a telling effect on the healthy growth charts of the marine and algae oil omega-3 ingredients market.

20 Jul 2010

Heart patients living with children exercise less: Study

A study conducted at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) has shown unexpectedly that living with children is linked to a reduction in physical activity. Carried out with 756 participants and led by Dr. Simon L. Bacon, Associate Researcher at the MHI and Professor at Concordia University, the study assessed the impact of social networks on exercise, revealing that people with heart disease who live with children exercise less than those people who do not live with children.

20 Jul 2010

More than half of parents interested in using at-home personal genetic testing for their children: Poll

The latest results from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health show more than half of parents are interested in having their children checked for disease risks using at-home personal genetic testing kits.

20 Jul 2010

New approach to understand different cancer subtypes

An international team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists finds unique combinations of cells and mutations lie at the heart of cancer subgroup revealed for the first time in a pediatric brain tumor

20 Jul 2010

Scientists find major shortcomings in assessing CVD risk in HIV patients

At the same time that medical science has nearly eliminated AIDS deaths in patients treated for human immunodeficiency virus, two international meetings of HIV/AIDS scientists and patient advocates find major shortcomings in the design and analysis of studies used to assess cardiovascular disease risk in people with HIV with significant implications for improving medical care.

20 Jul 2010

Heart Disease News and Research

Latest Heart Disease News and Research

Replacing hydrogen with deuterium increases stability, shelf life of fluorescent probes: Research

California companies are developing new medicines for diabetes: Report

Deborah Heart and Lung Center adds two spokespersons to represent its specialty services

La Jolla Institute forms partnership to investigate potential new therapy for sickle cell disease

Living with children has a negative influence on parents' ability to exercise: Study

Genentech disappointed with FDA ODAC's recommendation against Avastin

JHM, All Children's Hospital sign letter of intent to integrate

GCSF administration can reduce side effects of cancer neurobastoma in children

Active play is important for children’s physical activity

World-first dialysis study set to reduce health costs

KAI Pharmaceuticals completes enrollment in Phase 1 study of KAI-4169 for SHPT

ARUP enters partnership to offer deCODE's DNA-based prostate cancer risk assessment test

Fero Industries provides comments concerning FDA advisory panel recommendation on diabetes drug Avandia

Acorda Therapeutics awarded $1M C-TRIP grant to support research on GGF2

Failure to seek help for ED could prevent detection of underlying cardiovascular disease

European marine and algae oil omega-3 ingredient market to grow at 10% CAGR to reach $525.6M in 2013

Heart patients living with children exercise less: Study

More than half of parents interested in using at-home personal genetic testing for their children: Poll

New approach to understand different cancer subtypes

Scientists find major shortcomings in assessing CVD risk in HIV patients

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