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Stem cell therapy may offer hope for acute lung injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have shown that adult stem cells from bone marrow can prevent acute lung injury in a mouse model of the disease.


Researcher identifies new target to prevent fatal flu lung complication

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research led by Dr. Jay Kolls, Professor and Chairman of Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has identified a therapeutic target for acute lung injury resulting in acute respiratory distress syndrome, a highly ...


Acute respiratory disease poses significantly greater risk for black Americans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury, or ALI, as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The study also revealed that black patients ...


Gene associated with reduced mortality from acute lung injury

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Denver have discovered a gene that is associated with improved survival among patients with acute lung injury. Acute lung injury (ALI) is often caused by ...





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Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. ...


GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

GE Scientists Developing Wearable RFID Sensors to Detect Airborne Chemical Agents

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric, today announced a $2 million award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to develop wearable RFID sensors ...


Reflux esophagitis due to immune reaction, not acute acid burn

Reflux esophagitis due to immune reaction, not acute acid burn

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Contrary to current thinking, a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) might not develop as a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus, UT Southwestern Medical Center ...


Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of ...


Inhibition of GRK2 is protective against acute cardiac stress injuries

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inhibition of a protein known to contribute to heart failure also appears to be protective of the heart in more acute cardiac stress injury, namely ischemia reperfusion, according to two studies conducted at the Center for ...


Antioxidant found in vegetables has implications for treating cystic fibrosis

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that a dietary antioxidant found in such vegetables as broccoli and cauliflower protects cells from damage caused by chemicals generated during the ...


Mechanical ventilation for patients with lung damage don't always work as planned

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As more Canadians are diagnosed with H1N1 influenza infection, some will be admitted to hospital. The most severely affected may be treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) and placed on a mechanical ventilator to help them ...


Researchers 'notch' a victory toward new kind of cancer drug

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have devised an innovative way to disarm a key protein considered to be "undruggable," meaning that all previous efforts to develop a drug against it have failed. Their discovery, published in ...


Researchers mobilizing global resources to test new treatments for severe H1N1 infection

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.


Ventilation treatment in prone position for ARDS does not provide significant survival benefit

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Despite a current suggestion that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome be positioned lying face down while receiving mechanical ventilation, study results indicate that this positioning does not significantly ...



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