Battling diabetes with beta cells
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Tel Aviv University replicates insulin-producing cells, providing new hope for diabetics.
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Archive for the ‘Medicine and related’ Category
Children’s calorie expenditure, heart rate increase during active video games
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
(JAMA and Archives Journals) Children burn more than four times as many calories per minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is also significantly higher with the active game, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adole
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New master switch found in the brain that regulates appetite and reproduction
Monday, September 1st, 2008
(Salk Institute) Body weight and fertility have long known to be related to each other -- women who are too thin, for example, can have trouble becoming pregnant. Now, a master switch has been found in the brain of mice that controls both, and researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studie
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Study points to potential new use for Viagra
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
(Queen's University) A "basic science" breakthrough by Queen's University researchers into regulating a single enzyme may lead to new drug therapies that will help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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CSHL scientists identify new drug target against virulent type of breast cancer
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
(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 cell
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Anti-cancer flower power
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Tel Aviv University researchers are combating cancer with a jasmine-based drug.
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Obesity in elderly a ticking time bomb for health services
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
(The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry) Research carried out at the Peninsula Medical School in the South West of England has discovered that obesity in later life does not make a substantial difference to risks of death among older people but that it is a major contributor to increased d
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Alexander technique offers long-term relief for back pain
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
(BMJ-British Medical Journal) Alexander technique lessons in combination with an exercise programme offer long-term effective treatment for chronic back pain, according to a study published on BMJ.com today.
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Making ‘good’ fat from muscle and vice versa
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) A surprise discovery -- that calorie-burning brown fat can be produced experimentally from muscle precursor cells in mice -- raises the prospect of new ways to fight obesity and overweight, report Dana-Farber scientists. They demonstrated that a previously known molec
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Low level cadmium exposure linked to lung disease
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
(University of Michigan) New research suggests that cadmium is one of the critical ingredients causing emphysema, and even low-level exposure attained through second-hand smoke and other means may also increase the chance of developing lung disease.
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