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Hypertension and cholesterol medications present in water released into the St. Lawrence River

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A study conducted by Université de Montréal researchers on downstream and upstream water from the Montreal wastewater treatment plant has revealed the presence of chemotherapy products and certain hypertension ...


The drug treatment of heart failure is influenced by the gender of the patient and of the physician

Medicine & Health / Other

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

While the treatment of heart failure has improved over the past two decades, a new study reported in the European Journal of Heart Failure finds that "the use of evidence-based treatments appears to be imbalanced according to the ...


Drug-resistant tuberculosis rife in China

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are re ...


Protection from the own immune system

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Some 80,000 people in Germany suffer from multiple sclerosis – their immune system attacks and destroys healthy nerve tissue. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg ...


Garlic chemical tablet treats diabetes I and II orally

Chemistry /

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (31) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug based on a chemical found in garlic can treat diabetes types I and II when taken as a tablet, a study in the new Royal Society of Chemistry journal Metallomics says.


Bed net usage increases, but 90 million African children still exposed to malaria

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs) to protect children from malaria has risen six-fold in the past seven years, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust. Despite this success, however, 90 million children ...