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Discovery Familia Expands Its Health Content Offering

MIAMI, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mondays and Wednesdays are now health nights on Discovery Familia. The network has incorporated two nights of programming dedicated to physical and emotional health with a focus on problems with a disproportionate impact on the Hispanic community, among them heart disease, diabetes and obesity. The new format also includes the premiere of "Un minuto de salu...

Adult Acne Treatment, Probiotic Action Shares Insight on New Findings Between Probiotics and Heat Tolerance, and What It Means for Acne Sufferers

Recent studies done in Tasmania released information on a new connection between probiotics and increased stamina during physical activity. Adult acne treatment, Probiotic Action explains the new research. Miami, FL (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 A recent study from researchers in Tasmania tested the effects of probiotics on athletes to find that those who took probiotics were able to run for an additional...

Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB Bacteria

Vitamin C can kill drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture, according to a new, surprising discovery by experts at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The research, published in Nature Communications, in...

Zoloft Lawsuit Update: Judge in Multidistrict Litigation Schedules Status Conferences, Rottenstein Law Group LLP Reports

The firm is currently offering Zoloft lawsuit evaluations to individuals who allegedly suffered serious side effects from taking the drug. (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 The Rottenstein Law Group LLP, which represents clients with claims for injuries and birth defects allegedly caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressants (SSRIs) including Zoloft, notes that the judge in Zoloft multidis...

MUC5B gene variation improves survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Variation in the gene MUC5B among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was associated with improved survival, according to a study published online by JAMA. The study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the Amer...

Ascend Learning Delivers Grant to Beyond Batten Disease Foundation

Employee-driven initiative raises funds for organization focused on identifying and treating rare genetic diseases. Leawood, Kan. (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Ascend Learning announced it has delivered a $17,710 grant to Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF), an Austin, Texas based nonprofit focused on developing a test to identify and then treat rare chromosomal diseases. The grant was provided by Asc...

Latent Herpes Viruses Are Associated with Heart Disease According to PLoS One as Predicted by the Microcompetition Theory

A new study in PLoS One published in January, 2013 says that infection with latent Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) may lead to heart disease and heart attacks, (1) as predicted by Dr. Hanan Polansky in his Microcompetition Theory. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Everybody knows that high cholesterol can cause heart disease. Now, studies have shown that viruses can also cause atherosclerosis, the scie...

New York University Acquires 100th Leica Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope with White Light Laser for Morphogenetic Studies

The Leica TCS SP8 X provides total freedom of excitation and emission coupled with low laser power and high sensitivity The Department of Biology at New York University has been equipped with the 100th Leica TCS SP8 X, a state-of-the-art confocal laser scanning  microscope with a  white light laser. The system offers complete spectral freedom for fluorescence experiments. For live cell i...

How Many Binding Pockets Are There?

Just how many different small-molecule binding sites are there? That's the subject of this new paper in PNAS, from Jeffrey Skolnick and Mu Gao at Georgia Tech, which several people have sent along to me in the last couple of days. This question has...

Life Science Talent Shines at new UK Skills Awards. Apprentices, graduates, employers, providers and leaders in the spotlight on skills

250 guests gathered at London’s Grand Connaught Rooms to witness the inaugural UK Life Science Skills Awards, organised by Cogent, the strategic skills body for the science industries.The event, which took place on Thursday 16th May, saw 30...

Surgery Results In Some Benefits For Children With Sleep Apnea

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Removing the adenoids and tonsils with obstructive sleep apnea lead to measurable improvements in behavior, quality of life, and some symptoms, though no noticeable improvements in attention or executive functioning were detected, according to the results of a new randomized clinical trial. The findings of the Childhood Adenotonsillectomy...

LDM Global Enhances Forensic Data Collection Services with eCloudCollect

Denver, CO (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 LDM Global ( http://www.ldmglobal.com ) a leading international provider of legal discovery management services for law firms, corporations and government agencies announces that it recently partnered with Cumulus D...

Genomic Researchers Map Embryonic DNA and Histone Methylation Patterns

A recent paper compared DNA and histone methylation, the two molecular processes that regulate gene expression in the developing...

[Comment] From mice to man: chloride transport in leukoencephalopathy

In The Lancet Neurology, Christel Depienne and colleagues show that mutations in CLCN2—the gene encoding the chloride channel ClC-2—underlie a specific form of human leukoencephalopathy. This important work confirms in human beings what was previ...

Vitamin C kills drug-resistant TB bacteria in lab

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture.

Alchemia Limited Provides Company Update

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/22/13 -- Australian drug development company Alchemia Limited (ASX: ACL) today anounced the following updates regarding its marketed anticoagulant, fondaparinux; subsidary, Audeo's, HyACT platform; as well as its internal VAST drug discovery platform. Fondaparinux Profit Share Alchemia's international marketing partner Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited (...

Advance Made In Nanotech Gene Sequencing Technique

The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority. One promising technique involves reading DNA bases using changes in electrical current as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole....

Scientists identify marker for severe rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers in the US have identified specific proteins in the blood of people with an aggressive form of rheumatoid arthritis, a discovery that could pave the way for a new diagnostic test and novel treatments for the disease.A team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine conducted a series of experiments with an enzyme called peptidyl arginine deiminase 4, (PAD4), which is thought to trig...

The Norway spruce genome sequenced

(Umea University) Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) -- a species with huge economic and ecological importance -- and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The genome is complex and s...

More emphasis needed on recycling and reuse of Li-ion batteries

(American Chemical Society) The discovery of potential environmental and human health effects from disposal of millions of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries each year has led scientists to recommend stronger government policies to encourage recovery...

Study details genes that control whether tumors adapt or die when faced with p53 activating drugs

(University of Colorado Denver) When turned on, the gene p53 turns off cancer. However, when existing drugs boost p53, only a few tumors die -- the rest resist the challenge. A study published in the journal Cell Reports shows how: tumors that live e...

Researchers eliminate schizophrenia symptoms in an animal model

(Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University) Overexpression of a gene associated with schizophrenia causes classic symptoms of the disorder that are reversed when gene expression returns to normal, scientists report. They genetically en...

Taming suspect gene reverses schizophrenia-like abnormalities in mice

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Scientists have reversed behavioral and brain abnormalities in adult mice that resemble some features of schizophrenia, by restoring normal expression to a suspect gene that is over-expressed in humans with t...

Trigemina to Present at the 13th Annual Pain Therapeutics Conference in London

LONDON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trigemina, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of non-narcotic, nasally delivered, analgesic drug products, today announced that David C. Yeomans, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Founder, as well as the Director of Pain Research at Stanford University School of Medicine, will be giving two presentations today at the 13th A...

New Study Shows Effects of Medicinal Mushroom Extract on Pancreatic Cancer Cells

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Oncology found that Poria Triterpine Extract (PTE), a mixture of triterpines from Poria cocos, a medicinal mushroom used in traditional Asian medicine, suppress the proliferation of human pancreatic cancer cell lines. Pancreatic cancer has some of the poorest survival rates among...