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Virtual blood allows pre-testingof drugs; © Universityof Pennsylvania
Having a virtual copy of a patient’s blood in a computer would be a boon to researchers and doctors. They could examine a simulated heart attack caused by blood clotting in a diseased coronary artery and see . . . → Read More: Large-scale Simulation of Human Blood
“This form of beta-amyloid, called pyroglutamylated (or pyroglu) beta-amyloid, is a real bad guy in Alzheimer’s disease,” said Doctor George Bloom of University of Virginia. “We have confirmed that it converts more abundant beta-amyloids into a form that is up to 100 times more toxic, making this a . . . → Read More: New Understanding of Alzheimer’s Trigger World Laughter Day: Laugh for your health! May, the 06th 2012, is World Laughter Day. On this occasion thousands of people meet in different cities across the world in order to laugh at that special day together. Laughter is not only fun – it’s healthy too! According to a U.S. study, laughter . . . → Read More: Laugh for your health!
US spending linked to higher prices and greater use of me-dical technology, not more doctor visits or hospital stays;© panthermedia.net /Erwin Wodicka
The U.S. spent nearly 8,000 Dollars per person in 2009 on health care services, while other countries in the study spent between one-third . . . → Read More: US Spends Far More for Health Care Than 12 Industrialised Nations
“We followed 1,664 COPD patients recruited from five pulmonary clinics in the United States and Spain for a median of 51 months,” said Doctor Miguel Divo of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “Among the 79 comorbidities we observed in these patients, 12 were significantly and independently associated with an . . . → Read More: Comorbidities Increase Risk of Mortality
Haemodialysis can be delivered through arteriovenous (AV) grafts, artificial vessels created to join an artery to a vein. Unfortunately, AV grafts are prone to congestion and clotting, causing disruptions to treatment and a need for surgical correction. Research suggests fish oil could prevent AV grafts from clotting and . . . → Read More: Fish Oil Capsule May Provide Kidney-related Benefits
The picture shows a cerebellumsample from a mouse afterglycogen accumulation; © IRB
These two animal models will allow scientists to address the genes involved in this harmful process and to find pharmacological solutions that allow disintegration of the accumulations or limitation of glycogen production. Advances . . . → Read More: Glycogen Accumulation in Neurons Causes Brain Damage
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The image share project includes the University of California, San Francisco, University of Chicago, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY. “The patient can arrange with . . . → Read More: Anywhere Access to Medical Images
At its core is a small plastic chip developed with nanotechnology that holds the key to determining whether a patient is resistant to cancer drugs or has diseases like malaria. The chip can also pinpoint infectious diseases in a herd of cattle. “We are basically replacing millions of . . . → Read More: Nano Nod for Lab on a Chip
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a disorder in which skin and mucous membranes, including the eye surface, react severely to a medication or infection. SJS causes painful skin blisters, and as the disease progress, the skin sloughs off as if the patient had been burned. A more severe form . . . → Read More: Foetal Membrane Transplantation Prevents Blindness
This image shows a construction ofa possible ring oligomer positionin the cell membrane after fournanoseconds of moleculardynamics simulations; © UCSD
The new results conflict with an older theory that insoluble intracellular fibrils called amyloids cause Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. Instead, the new findings . . . → Read More: Strong Support for Once-Marginalised Theory
“Breastfeeding for six months or longer is only free if a mother’s time is worth absolutely nothing,” said Doctor Mary C. Noonan of the University of Iowa. The study relies on a nationally representative sample of 1,313 first-time mothers in the United States, who were in their 20s . . . → Read More: Breastfeeding is not free
The pancreas is a gland organ inthe digestive and endocrinesystem; © panthermedia.net/Peter Lamb
The findings suggest that some of these altered metabolic pathways might be potential targets for future drugs to treat the deadly cancer. The investigators say that when they experimentally shut down the . . . → Read More: Pancreatic Tumours Depend on Oncogene Activity
Hospitalised patients are often warned of the possibility of venous thromboembolism, which include blood clots that can form in the veins and travel to the lungs. However these warnings have not necessarily been extended to the outpatient surgery population, says Doctor Christopher J. Pannucci. With more than 60 . . . → Read More: Outpatient Surgery Patients also at Risk
The study sheds light on what ishappening in the brain throughoutthe disease process; © TUM/Christine Grienberger
In addition to its well known, devastating effects on memory and learning, Alzheimer’s disease can also impair a person’s sense of smell or vision. Typically these changes in sensory . . . → Read More: Single-neuron Observations Mark Steps |
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