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UT Southwestern scientists discover leptin can also aid type 1 diabetics

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Endocrinologists and surgeons join forces to fight type 2 diabetes

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College) At the 1st World Congress for Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, prominent endocrinologists from around the world will convene in an exchange with leading surgeons about the role of surgery and other emerging new therapies for type 2 diabetes.

Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(American Society for Microbiology) The following are tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology: "New Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer May Minimize Viral Transmission, Including Norovirus"; "New Oral Vaccine May Protect Against Bubonic Plague"; and "Oral Administration of Lactobacillus from Breast Milk May Treat Common Infection in Lactating Mothers."

Troubled children hurt peers' test scores, behavior

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(University of California - Davis) Troubled children hurt their classmates' math and reading scores and worsen their behavior, University of California, Davis research shows.

Normalizing tumor vessels to improve cancer therapy

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Children's Hospital Boston) Leaky, twisted blood vessels in tumors often prevent chemotherapy drugs from reaching their target. Children's Hospital Boston researchers have found that tumor capillary cells, unlike their normal counterparts, are hyper-contractile and respond abnormally to physical and mechanical cues, producing irregularly-shaped capillaries and creating gaps between cells that caused vessel leakiness. A protein called Rho-associated kinase is the likely culprit; inhibiting its function normalized the tumor cells' mechanical responsiveness, as well as blood vessel architecture.

CU-Boulder, biotech firm team up on python project in search for human cardiac therapeutics

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(University of Colorado at Boulder) The University of Colorado at Boulder is teaming up with a Boulder biotechnology company to use pythons, which dramatically increase their heart size for a short time after swallowing prey, as models for new therapeutics to treat cardiac diseases.

Listen up!

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Temple University) Medical school students and residents are all ears this fall as they get ready to show off their heartbeat listening skills. The United States Medical Licensing Examination board has phased in an audio portion testing the ability to recognize and identify heart murmurs.

USP announces new tool to help prevent medication mix-ups due to look alike/sound alike drug names

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(US Pharmacopeia) The US Pharmacopeial Convention today announces a new drug safety tool designed to help patients, caregivers, pharmacists, physicians and others in avoiding medication errors that may occur because of drug names that look alike and/or sound alike. This "Drug Error Finder" is a searchable database of almost 1,500 commonly used drugs reported to be involved in medication mix-ups in the US health-care system since 2003.

Trends in prescription medication sharing among reproductive-aged women

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Borrowing and sharing of prescription medications is a serious medical and public health concern. A survey of nearly 7,500 women of reproductive age found that this is common practice among more than one-third of this population, according to a report published online ahead of print in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Disease Management journal changes name and expands focus to population health management

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Reflecting the expanding scope of chronic disease care and the impact of economic, social, cultural, and environmental factors on health care systems and practices, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance and publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc. have renamed the peer-reviewed journal of DMAA Population Health Management.

New hope for stroke patients

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Loyola University Health System) If a stroke patient doesn't get treatment within three hours, there's not much doctors can do to limit damage. But now researchers report a technique that potentially could restore functions to patients weeks or even months after a stroke. The technique involves jumpstarting the growth of nerve fibers to compensate for brain cells destroyed by the stoke.

Pitt scientists receive $3.6M to test vaccine against deadliest strain of avian flu

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Vaccine Research have been awarded $3.6 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct animal studies of vaccines designed to protect against the most common and deadliest strain of avian flu, H5N1. Recent outbreaks of H5N1 have prompted health officials to warn of its continued threat to global health and potential to trigger an avian flu pandemic.

Scientists aim for green production of medications via cell engineering

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Rice University) Bringing medications to the marketplace faster and at lower prices is the goal of an environmentally friendly production process being developed at Rice University.

Discovery opens door for drugs to fight bird flu, other influenza epidemics

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Rutgers University) Researchers at Rutgers and The University of Texas at Austin have reported a discovery that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the much-feared bird flu and other virulent strains of influenza. They have determined the three-dimensional structure of a site on an influenza A virus protein that binds to one of its human protein targets, thereby suppressing a person's natural defenses to the infection and paving the way for the virus to replicate efficiently.

Anti-cancer flower power

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Tel Aviv University researchers are combating cancer with a jasmine-based drug.

Hospice and palliative medicine specialty strives to prepare physicians for aging baby boomers

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine) The "Current Concepts in Palliative Care: Update and Review Course" offers a thorough update on current practice, clinical advancements, and research updates in palliative care from experts in the field while providing a comprehensive foundation for the board certification exam. "Hospice Medical Director Course" covers what a good hospice medical director does and needs to know. Physicians learn strategies to overcome the administrative, regulatory, and clinical challenges that medical directors face on a daily basis.

How 'secondary' sex characters can drive the origin of species

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Indiana University) The ostentatious, sometimes bizarre qualities that improve a creature's chances of finding a mate may also drive the reproductive separation of populations and the evolution of new species, say two Indiana University Bloomington biologists.

State's first single incision robotic kidney removal

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Henry Ford Health System) For the first time in Michigan, a diseased kidney has been surgically removed at Henry Ford Hospital using highly sophisticated 3-D robotics through a single incision.

Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Medical College of Georgia) The initial signs of fetal alcohol syndrome are slight but classic: facial malformations such as a flat and high upper lip, small eye openings and a short nose.Researchers want to know if those facial clues can help them figure out how much alcohol it takes during what point in development to cause these and other lifelong problems.

CSHL scientists identify new drug target against virulent type of breast cancer

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 00:00
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has published research identifying an enzyme called Brk as a target for future drugs to fight a virulent subset of cancers overexpressing a protein called ErbB2 -- also often called HER2 -- which drives tumor cells to proliferate unchecked. Brk, they report, helps these tumors become virulent and is also implicated in the process through which the tumors develop drug resistance to "targeted" therapies Herceptin and Lapatinib.


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