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Liposomal anthracycline-based chemotherapy effective for children with leukemia: Study

Treating pediatric leukemia patients with a liposomal formulation of anthracycline-based chemotherapy at a more intense-than-standard dose during initial treatment may result in high survival rates without causing any added heart toxicity, according...

Bochum's medics use autologous cord blood to treat infantile cerebral palsy

Bochum's medics have succeeded in treating cerebral palsy with autologous cord blood. Following a cardiac arrest with severe brain damage, a 2.5 year old boy had been in a persistent vegetative state - with minimal chances of survival. Just two month...

Still pricking your finger for blood glucose monitoring?

Those who must monitor blood glucose readings are still waiting for a new method that's safe, accurate and non-invasive.

Economic rewards have a positive effect on blood donations, say researchers

A team of researchers including Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis says the answer is an emphatic yes. Pointing to a large body of recent research that supports their argument, the three economists write in the May 24...

Delphinol Clinically Proven in the Mainenance of Glucose Balance

Bradenton, FL, May 24, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Overeating and lack of physical exercise is turning into a global pandemia with metabolic syndrome as a hallmark and type II diabetes representing the fastest growing disease. The present lifestyle makes it difficult to turn to healthier lifestyles that include improved dietary control and regular physical activity. In this context, polyphenols from berrie...

Aortic arch pulse wave velocity predicts disease of the vessels that supply blood to the brain

Aortic arch pulse wave velocity, a measure of arterial stiffness, is a strong independent predictor of disease of the vessels that supply blood to the brain, according to a new study published in the June issue the journal Radiology.

Alcohol Impairment Goes Beyond BAC Number

Drivers may think they have the green light to drive when their blood alcohol levels fall below the legal limit or the buzz wears off, but that's not the case, says a Purdue University expert. "It's more than just a number, and my advice is to not dr...

ACP issues recommendations for management of high blood glucose in hospitalized patients

High blood glucose is associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients, and use of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to control hyperglycemia is a common practice in hospitals. But the recent evidence does not show a consistent benefit and even s...

New data reinforces clinical importance of independent Alzheimer’s risk factor

Manchester, Birmingham & Oxford, UK May 2013 – Cytox Limited, a UK company developing diagnostic and prognostic services for Alzheimer’s disease, announces the publication of new data using its blood-based phenoTOR™ assay technology. The data...

Dietary Exposure To Certain Plastics May Play A Hidden Role In Epidemic Increases In Childhood Hypertension

Plastic additives known as phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) are odorless, colorless and just about everywhere: They turn up in flooring, plastic cups, beach balls, plastic wrap, intravenous tubing and - according to the Centers for Disease Control a...

New Mouse Model Helping To Keep Stem Cells Strong

When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells that can fight off illness. But repeated infections and inflammation can deplete these cell populations, pot...

Autoantibodies may form basis of lupus diagnostic test

Scientists believe a new diagnostic test for lupus could be developed by looking for the presence of certain antibodies in the blood.Antibodies are proteins manufactured by the immune system to help identify and neutralise bacteria, viruses and other foreign objects. However, autoantibodies cause tissue damage, as they are directed against the person's own proteins.Systemic lupus erythematosus...

Pharmaceutical Research: Angiopep-Conjugated Nanoparticles for Targeted Long-Term Gene Therapy of Parkinson’s Disease

Type: Original PaperPurposeTo prepare an angiopep-conjugated dendrigraft poly-L-lysine (DGL)-based gene delivery system and evaluate the neuroprotective effects in the rotenone-induced chronic model of Parkinson’s disease (PD).MethodsAngiopep was a...

Sangamo BioSciences, CIRM In Strategic Pact

To develop ZFP therapeutic for blood disease

Low Population Immunity Predicted If New Bird Flu Virus H7N9 Escalates Into A Human Pandemic

The level of immunity to the recently circulating H7N9 influenza virus in an urban and rural population in Vietnam is very low, according to the first population level study to examine human immunity to the virus, which was previously only found in b...

Packed red blood cell transfusion is an independent risk factor for necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants

Clinical characteristics of patients with resistant hypertension: the RESIST-POL study

Sir William Osler and the nature of essential hypertension

An examination of calibration intervals required for accurately tracking blood pressure using pulse transit time algorithms

A critical review of the evidence supporting aldosterone in the etiology and its blockade in the treatment of obesity-associated hypertension

Home blood pressure variability: a new target to monitor in chronic kidney disease patients with low eGFR?

SIRT1, heme oxygenase-1 and NO-mediated vasodilation in a human model of endogenous angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonism: implications for hypertension

Marijuana tied to better blood sugar control

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who had used marijuana in the past month had smaller waists and lower levels of insulin resistance - a diabetes precursor - than those who never tried the drug, in a new study.

Series B round brings $48.2mm to [Karyopharm]

[Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.] (nuclear transport modulators for cancer) plans to use the $48.2mm raised through a Series B round to fund clinical trials of its KPT330, a Phase I compound for advanced, relapsed, or refractory blood and solid tumors....

Skincare Market, Inc. Now Carries Skinceuticals Phloretin CF Antioxidant Protection Serum for Combination/Sensitive Skin

Skinceuticals Phloretin CF Serum corrects existing damage by stimulating the synthesis of essential proteins, fibers, and accelerating cell turnover. This item can be found at skincaremarket.net. Brea, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 Skincare Market, Inc. now carries Skinceuticals Phloretin CF; it is a broad-spectrum molecule which has amazing antioxidants that work well with skin. Targeted for people wi...