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Anemia may more than triple your risk of dying after a stroke

Being anemic could more than triple your risk of dying within a year after having a stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012.

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical use

Scientists are reporting a key advance in efforts to develop a handheld device that could revolutionize the complete blood cell count (CBC), one of the most frequently performed blood tests used to diagnose ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surprise finding redraws 'map' of blood cell production

A study of the cells that respond to crises in the blood system has yielded a few surprises, redrawing the 'map' of how blood cells are made in the body.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cutting off the oxygen supply to serious diseases

A new family of proteins which regulate the human body's 'hypoxic response' to low levels of oxygen has been discovered by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary, University of London and The University of Nottingham.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Notre Dame researchers report fundamental malaria discovery

A team of researchers led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of the University of Notre Dame's Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases has made a fundamental discovery in understanding how malaria parasites cause deadly ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Duration of RBC storage does not affect short-term pulmonary, immunologic, or coagulation status

There is no difference in early measures of pulmonary function, immunologic status or coagulation status after fresh versus standard issue single-unit red blood cell (RBC) transfusion, according to a new study from the Mayo ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New drug labels for kidney disease patients -- what do they mean?

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommended that clinicians be more conservative when they prescribe chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with drugs that treat red blood cell deficiencies. But the drug ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemists unlock potential target for drug development

A receptor found on blood platelets whose importance as a potential pharmaceutical target has long been questioned may in fact be fruitful in drug testing, according to new research from Michigan State University ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genetic and mechanistic basis for rotor syndrome uncovered

The main symptom of Rotor syndrome is jaundice caused by a buildup of a substance known as conjugated bilirubin. Bilirubin is a yellow substance generated in large quantities when the body recycles red blood cells. It is ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Moderate red wine drinking may help cut women's breast cancer risk, study shows

Drinking red wine in moderation may reduce one of the risk factors for breast cancer, providing a natural weapon to combat a major cause of death among U.S. women, new research from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers make less carcinogenic cigarette

(Medical Xpress) -- Though emphasizing that quitting is the best remedy to combat health problems for smokers, Cornell researchers have found a way to make cigarettes less toxic.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fixing common blood disorder would make kidney transplants more successful

Correcting anemia, a red blood cell deficiency, can preserve kidney function in many kidney transplant recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New candidate vaccine neutralizes all tested strains of malaria parasite

A new candidate malaria vaccine with the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite has been developed by a team led by scientists at the University of Oxford. The results of this new ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No higher risk of acute leukaemia in close relatives

(Medical Xpress) -- Parents, siblings and children of patients with the most common form of acute leukemia do not run a higher risk of developing the disease as was once believed, according to a new study from the Swedish ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast