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Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes (AP)

Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...


New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...


Role of Statins in Reducing H1N1 Mortality Rates Studied

Medicine & Health / Research

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying statins, the class of drugs long associated with lowering cholesterol, as a way to reduce H1N1-related deaths.


Researchers to develop novel drug detection technology using software that acts like a robotic scientist

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn’t just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of each exposure.


Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine (AP)

Goldman Sachs, Citigroup got swine flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine ...


Can charcoal fight heart disease in kidney patients?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Charcoal may provide a new approach to managing the high rate of heart disease in patients with advanced kidney disease, according to preliminary research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual ...


Researchers develop innovative imaging system to study sudden cardiac arrest

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A research team at Vanderbilt University has developed an innovative optical system to simultaneously image electrical activity and metabolic properties in the same region of a heart, to study the complex mechanisms that ...


Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment's role in formation of new species

Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment's role in formation of new species

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that ...


Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups (AP)

Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It was bound to happen: Some people who aren't at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.


Study: Cholesterol drugs may improve flu survival

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves - cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor.



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