(University of California - Los Angeles) UCLA researchers have discovered that vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression run in families.
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(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Amy Heimberger, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, in recognition for her research on the central nervous system’s immune biology, tumor evasion of immune detection and immunotherapeutic [...]
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(American Physical Therapy Association) New research out of the University of Pittsburgh indicates that patients’ perceptions of their own health and balance have an impact on how much they walk. The study was originally published in Physical Therapy, the scientific journal of the American Physical Therapy Association.
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Alfuzosin, a drug commonly prescribed for men with chronic prostatitis, a painful disorder of the prostate and surrounding pelvic area, failed to significantly reduce symptoms in recently diagnosed men who had not been previously treated with this drug, according to a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases [...]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Mozobil (plerixafor), a drug that helps increase the number of blood stem cells for bone marrow transplantation in patients with certain forms of blood cancer.
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VistaGen Therapeutics and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell patents for the development and commercialization of stem cell-based research tools.
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It’s as simple as A, T, G, C. Northwestern University scientists have exploited the Watson-Crick base pairing of DNA to provide a defensive tool that could be used to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteria — one of the world’s most pressing public health problems.
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The German Cancer Society has worked out new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma - a disease with unfavorable prognosis.
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The study, which appears in the December 18 online version of Cell Stem Cell and the January 2009 print edition of the journal, provides proof of principle that alternative sources of stem cells can be created.
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Patients receiving drug eluting stents (DES) - stents coated with medication to prevent narrowing of the artery - as part of an angioplasty had better outcomes one year later than patients with bare metal stents, according to a new study to be published in CMAJ.
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