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Bacteria make the artificial blood vessels of the future
Dec 22, 2009 |
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The cellulose produced by bacteria could be used for artificial blood vessels in the future as it carries a lower risk of blood clots than the synthetic materials currently used for bypass operations, reveals ...
Newly discovered mechanism by which blood clots form
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Polyphosphate from blood platelets plays a key role in inflammation and the formation of blood clots, scientists from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown. The study, which is presented in the prestigious ...
More blood vessels in hormone-resistant prostate tumors
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Patients with advanced prostate cancer are often treated with hormones, but when the tumours start growing again they have more and different blood vessels, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University ...
Are patients losing sleep over blood pressure monitors?
Dec 17, 2009 |
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A widely used test for measuring nighttime blood pressure may interfere with patients' sleep, thus affecting the results of the test, reports a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Ne ...
Self-monitoring with blood glucose test strips inefficient use of health-care resources
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Routine self-monitoring of blood glucose levels by people with type 2 diabetes who are not taking insulin is an ineffective use of health resources as the modest benefits are outweighed by the significant cost of test strips, ...
Team makes breakthrough demonstration of pH-regulating protein
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Researchers have identified the protein mechanism that senses bicarbonate fluctuations and adjusts blood pH levels.
New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...
Study shows a key protein helps control blood pressure
Dec 23, 2009 |
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University of Iowa researchers have shown that a protein channel helps nerve sensors in blood vessels keep blood pressure in check. Without the protein channel, known as ASIC2, the sensors are unable to send the brain the ...
High-blood-pressure treatment for the over-80s too aggressive, warns expert
Dec 23, 2009 |
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People over 80 years are being treated too aggressively for high blood pressure, warns an expert in an editorial in BMJ Clinical Evidence this week.
Gas improves blood flow and organ status during minimally invasive surgery
Dec 14, 2009 |
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As good as laparoscopy is in preventing some of the stresses of open surgery on the body, it does have drawbacks, including reduced blood flow and organ dysfunction. Laparoscopy is a type of surgery in the abdomen done through ...
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