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Sirtris' review of sirtuin therapeutics for diseases of aging in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Sirtris, a GSK company focused on discovering and developing small molecule drugs to treat diseases of aging such as Type 2 Diabetes, announced today that it published a new review article on the growing body of sirtuin research ...





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Heart and bone damage from low vitamin D tied to declines in sex hormones

Medicine & Health / Research

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins are reporting what is believed to be the first conclusive evidence in men that the long-term ill effects of vitamin D deficiency are amplified by lower levels of the key sex hormone estrogen, ...


Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease (w/ Video)

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Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity ...


Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for Combat

Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for Combat

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth received a federal grant to fund research examining brain performance enhancement in America’s fighting men and women through the use of state-of-the-art ...


New Way To Predict Drug Side Effects

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Predicting the side-effects of a drug is not simple task. The human body has more than 1,500 molecules that are known to be involved in various diseases, and often a drug designed to hit one of these targets will also hit ...


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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | 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 ...


Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases

Chemistry / Other

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

Drug companies and nonprofit organizations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called "neglected" diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat ...


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

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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.


Popular anti-platelet therapy reduces risk of cardiovascular events in men and women

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created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study, published in the November 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, adds to a growing body of research seeking to evaluate and understand possible sex differences associated with a ...


Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods'

Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods' (w/ Video)

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence - ice cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream ...


Study finds those with more difficult to treat forms of HCV are half as likely to get treated

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by Mount Sinai researchers has for the first time found that patients with more difficult to treat forms of hepatitis C are half as likely to initiate treatment for the disease, when compared to patients with ...



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