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Measuring The Health Of Human Genetic Material In Relation To A Patient's Age

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new technique featured in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) could lead to the development of a "genetic thermometer" that could assess a patient's health in relation to other individuals. The method developed by the laboratory of Dr. Gil Atzmon at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine measures telomere length, which serv...

Merck releases statement on FDA's Advisory Committee meeting about suvorexant

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today provided the following statement after the conclusion of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee meeting of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about suvorex...

hCGTreatments/Diet Doc hCG Diet & Weight Loss Plans Now Teach Patients How to Lose Weight Safely and Offer Alternative to Weight Loss Surgery Now Linked to Colon Cancer

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 With rates of obesity at an all time high, more and more people are searching for answers on how to lose weight. Advances in medicine and technology now offer people the option of going under the knife in an attempt...

Unique Ab Exercise, the Medicine Ball Chop, Released from BodyweightTorch.com

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013 With crowded gyms, bodyweight workouts and bodyweight training programs are becoming more popular. But according to Mike Whitfield, a bodyweight expert in the Atlanta, GA area, an inexpensive piece of equipment lik...

Direct Digital, LLC Names Dr. David Katz, M.D. As Chief Scientific Advisor

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Digital, LLC, one of the nation's leading health and wellness product development and marketing companies, is pleased to announce it has selected and partnered with world-renowned physician, Dr. David Katz. Dr. Katz will join the organization as its Chief Scientific and Medical Advisor. Direct Digital is the creator of such leading supplement br...

Cenix BioScience and Debiopharm Group Collaborate to Identify Predictive Biomarkers

LAUSANNE, Switzerland and DRESDEN, Germany, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cenix BioScience, a leading preclinical contract research provider and technology developer specialized in RNAi-, miRNA- and high content-driven pharmacology, and Debiopharm Group™ (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical group of companies with a focus on the development of prescription drugs that target u...

BioLife Solutions Announces Presentation at 8th World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress

BOTHELL, Wash. , May 23, 2013 /-  BioLife Solutions , Inc. (OTC:BLFS), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media for cells and tissues, and contract a...

Blue Stingray Digital Ad Agency Launches New Website for International Alternative Medicine Conference in St. Louis

St. Louis, MO, May 23, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Blue Stingray Digital Ad Agency is pleased to announce the launch of a fresh, appealing website showcasing the Eighth International Alternative Medicine Conference’s specifics in a functional, easy-to-navigate layout. Included on the home page is an overview of the event and links to the following: · Presenter biographies · Program events...

Will Arena's Belviq Be The Next Anti-Obesity Drug To Make The Cover Of Time Magazine?

ByReasonable Risk:In preparation for sales of the new anti-obesity drug Belviq on June 7th, Arena (ARNA) scheduled six events in six weeks including two post-launch. The launch will usher in a $65 million milestone payment from Eisai (ESALY.PK), more than many movies make and 16-times more than Vivus' (VVUS) first quarter's revenue. This may justify red-carpet treatment since evidence suggests Are...

Medicine in Denial: What Larry Weed Can Teach Us About Patient Empowerment

By Leslie Kernisan, MD [This post is the third and final part of a commentary on “Medicine in Denial,”(2011) by Dr. Lawrence Weed and Lincoln Weed. You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] It seems that Dr. Larry Weed is commonly referred to as...

Heart Condition Induced By Stress, Anxiety, Treated With Antidepressant

A drug commonly used to treat depression and anxiety may improve a stress-related heart condition in people with stable coronary heart disease, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. Compared with those receiving placebo, people who took the anti...

Addressing Mental Health Issues In HIV Care

The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Syvia Kaaya...

Paediatric Medicines Global Recommendations

Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decides on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, according to international exp...

Gene Expression Analysis Of Colorectal Cancer

A novel transcriptome-based classification of colon cancer that improves the current disease stratification based on clinicopathological variables and common DNA markers is presented in a study published in PLOS Medicine this week. (A transcriptome i...

BIOLASE to Present at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company 2013 Jaws & Paws Conference

IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/23/13 -- BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of dental lasers, announced today that Fred Furry, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in the Stifel, Nicolaus & Company 2013 Jaws & Paws Conference on Wednesday, May 29, at 1:05 pm Eastern Time. The conference is being held at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New Yor...

Using Anabolic Steroids May Affect Your Future Mental Health

There is a link between use of anabolic-androgenic steroids and reduced mental health later in life. This is the main conclusion of a new study on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of Gothenburg recently published in t...

Care At The End Of Life: Room For Improvement, Ideas For Change

The decision to limit life support in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) appears to be significantly influenced by physician practices and/or the culture of the hospital, suggests new findings from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicin...

Schools should provide students with daily physical activity, IOM recommends

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) A new report from the Institute of Medicine says schools should be responsible for helping pupils engage in at least 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate intensity activity during each school day.

Regenerating spinal cord fibers may be treatment for stroke-related disabilities

(Henry Ford Health System) A study by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital found "substantial evidence" that a regenerative process involving damaged nerve fibers in the spinal cord could hold the key to better functional recovery by most stroke victim...

The secret lives, and deaths, of neurons

(University of North Carolina Health Care) University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers uncover surprising insights about how nerve cells rewire themselves, shedding light on a process linked with neurodegenerative diseases and neurode...

UMN veterinary student awarded 2013 AMP/Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach!

(Americans For Medical Progress) Chris Thomson, a second year veterinary student at University of Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded the 2013 AMP/Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach. Chris' program will focus on s...

Supporters Carry on Cause of Golf Icon Ken Venturi at 23rd Annual Loma Linda University Proton Charity Invitational

More than 100 golfers participated in the tournament, held at The Club at Morningside in Rancho Mirage. The tournament is held every year and raises funds for use in proton research to treat cancer at the Loma Linda University Medical Center James M. Slater, M.D. Proton Treatment and Research Center. Rancho Mirage, California (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Friends and supporters celebrated the life of 1964...

The benefits of medicines outweigh the risks of treatment — says who?

Theo Raynor writes that pharmacists need to find ways of expressing risk-benefit ratios to patients in a way that they can understand so that they can make informed decisions I am going to start somewhere unexpected — in a high street pharmacy i...

Do not use paracetamol just to reduce fever, says NICE

Advice on the use of paracetamol and ibuprofen to treat feverish illness in children less than five years of age has been overhauled and the relationship between heart rate and fever in predicting serious illness highlighted, in an updated clinical...

Alexander Iain Munro Glen

Alexander Iain Munro was born in Govan and followed his father to study medicine at Glasgow University, where he met Evelyne Fisher, his future wife. Iain spent his national service with the frigate...