News tagged with factor viii


Premature babies have altered sensory responses in later life

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Premature infants who need intensive care or surgery are less sensitive to thermal (hot and cold) sensations later in life, according to research conducted at UCL (University College London). The study, published in the journal ...


Redesigned protein accelerates blood clotting

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have made several, subtle changes in the structure of a key protein, dramatically increasing its ability to drive blood clotting, according to a study published in a December edition of the Journal of Thrombosis an ...





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British panel knew of HIV risks in 1983

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 26, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Documents show a British government panel knew of the HIV risk from imported blood products as early as 1983.


Research highlights need to address hemophilia in developing world

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

When modern medicine finds a way to treat a medical condition, people often think that the problem is solved. But we also have to find ways to get that treatment into the hands of those who need it. For example, new research ...


Technique may help stem cells generate solid organs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cells can thrive in segments of well-vascularized tissue temporarily removed from laboratory animals, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Once the cells have nestled into the tissue's nooks ...


NIST Team Demystifies Utility of Power Factor Correction Devices

Physicists Demystify Utility of Power Factor Correction Devices

Technology / Energy

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've seen an Internet ad for capacitor-type power factor correction devices, you might be led to believe that using one can save you money on your residential electricity bill. However, ...


Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Researchers revise long-held theory of fruit-fly development

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

For decades, science texts have told a simple and straightforward story about a particular protein—a transcription factor—that helps the embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, pattern tissues in a m ...


Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for Lou Gehrig's disease

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

While previous studies have indicated a "probable" connection between smoking and ALS, a new study published in the Nov. 17, 2009 issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, states that s ...


Asthma a significant risk factor for complications in children with H1N1

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created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study on pediatric H1N1 influenza admissions has found that asthma is a significant risk factor for severe disease in children with pandemic H1N1 compared with the seasonal flu. The study, led by researchers from The ...


Gene Therapy Hastens Healing Process in Chronic Leg Ulcers

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic wounds, including venous leg ulcers which are caused by poor circulation in the veins of the legs, are difficult and expensive to treat. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ...


Burning coal worse for climate than clearing rain forests

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Deforestation has had a big influence on the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the past three centuries, but its impact is tapering off relatively. Nowadays, the burning of fossil fuels is a more crucial factor. ...


Targeted therapy prolongs life in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lapatinib plus trastuzumab are significantly better than lapatinib alone in extending the lives of breast cancer patients whose tumors are HER2-positive, according to Kimberly Blackwell, M.D., associate professor of medicine ...



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