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Iron-moving malfunction may underlie neurodegenerative diseases, aging

Iron-moving malfunction may underlie neurodegenerative diseases, aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A glitch in the ability to move iron around in cells may underlie a disease known as Type IV mucolipidosis (ML4) and the suite of symptoms—mental retardation, poor vision and diminished motor abilities—that ...





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Baxter issues urgent recall of Heparin

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Baxter Healthcare has issued an urgent U.S. recall of nine lots of the injectable blood thinner heparin after reports of adverse patient reactions.


Maintaining aerobic fitness could delay biological aging by up to 12 years

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 10, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Maintaining aerobic fitness through middle age and beyond can delay biological ageing by up to 12 years and prolong independence during old age, concludes an analysis published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sp ...


Smokers putting their loved ones at risk of heart attacks

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

Researchers at University College London and St George's, University of London measured recent exposure to tobacco smoke in non-smoking middle-aged men taking part in the British Regional Heart Study by measuring the levels ...


First at-home test for vasectomized men proves to be safe, accurate

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created Nov 13, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a report now available online and scheduled to be the cover story of the December 2008 issue of the Journal of Urology, University of Virginia Health System researcher John C. Herr, PhD and his colleagues have confirmed the ac ...


Weekly and biweekly vitamin D2 prevents vitamin D deficiency

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Boston University School of Medicine researchers (BUSM) have found that 50,000 International Units (IU) of vitamin D2, given weekly for eight weeks, effectively treats vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D2 is a mainstay for the ...


Knock-out drugs: Narrow window for detection

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Drug-facilitated sexual crimes are increasing. The Bonn Institute for Forensic Medicine has recorded that the number of examinations on the use of intoxicants in sexual offences within their catchment area increased 10-fold ...


New prognostic indicator for patients with IPF

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

There may be a new way to predict mortality in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a devastating disease that slowly petrifies the lungs. Most patients live only three years after diagnosis on average; however, ...


PSA levels accurately predict prostate cancer risk in African-American men

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PSA levels appear to be more predictive of three year prostate cancer risk in African-American men compared with Caucasian men with a family history of prostate cancer, according to a paper published in Cancer Prevention Re ...


More convenient and helpful for colitis patients? An absorption enhancer may do

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created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Previous studies have shown the beneficial effect of rebamipide, a novel anti-ulcer drug, on experimental colitis. The permeabilities of rebamipide in different intestinal segments remained unknown.


Rifampin kinetics poor in children

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rifampin (RMP), a first-line antituberculosis drug, reaches serum concentrations well below suggested lower limits when a standard dose of 8-12mg/kg body weight is given to children. A pharmacokinetic study, published in ...



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