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Green Tea Extract With Additional Compound Could Be Effective For Body Weight Control And Type 2 Diabetes

Date: May-01-2013
Evidence has shown that green tea extract may be an effective herbal remedy useful for weight control and helping to regulate glucose in type 2 diabetes. In order to ascertain whether green tea truly has this potential, Jae-Hyung Park and his colleagues from the Keimyung University School of Medicine in the Republic of Korea conducted a study, now published in the Springer journal Naunyn-Schmedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology. The active constituents of green tea, which have been shown to inhibit intestinal glucose and lipid uptake, are a certain type of flavonoid called gallated catechins...

Researchers Unveil Technique For Easy Comparisons Of Proteins In Solution

Date: May-01-2013
A revolutionary X-ray analytical technique that enables researchers at a glance to identify structural similarities and differences between multiple proteins under a variety of conditions has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). As a demonstration, the researchers used this technique to gain valuable new insight into a protein that is a prime target for cancer chemotherapy...

Neurons In The Nose Could Be The Key To Early, Fast, And Accurate Diagnosis Of Schizophrenia

Date: May-01-2013
A debilitating mental illness, schizophrenia can be difficult to diagnose. Because physiological evidence confirming the disease can only be gathered from the brain during an autopsy, mental health professionals have had to rely on a battery of psychological evaluations to diagnose their patients. Now, Dr. Noam Shomron and Prof. Ruth Navon of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine, together with PhD student Eyal Mor from Dr. Shomron's lab and Prof...

Case Volume May Influence Mortality Rates For Acute Aortic Dissection Repair

Date: May-01-2013
Lower mortality rates observed among surgeons and institutions performing more operations Mortality rates among patients undergoing surgical repair of acute aortic dissection in the United States appear to be strongly associated with both institution and surgeon case volume, with lower mortality rates among surgeons and institutions annually performing more of the operations, according to a study published in the May 2013 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. An aortic dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta that allows blood to flow within the layers of the aorta...

36% Of Stroke Sufferers Do Not Call 911

Date: Apr-30-2013
Surprisingly one in three people who suffer from stroke don't go to hospital by ambulance, which is the fastest way to get there, according to a new study carried out by a team from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke Center in Los Angeles, and published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes...

Everyone Aged 15 To 65 Should Receive HIV Testing, New Guidelines Say

Date: Apr-30-2013
Clinicians are now recommended to screen all patients aged 15 to 65, and other teens or older adults who are at an elevated risk for HIV infection, according to new guidelines released today. The guidelines were part of the final recommendation statement on screening for HIV by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and were published online Monday, April 30th in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Additionally, they recommend that all pregnant women, even those in labor whose HIV status is unknown, be tested for HIV. Task Force member Douglas K. Owens, M.D., M.S...

Women Smokers Have Higher Colon Cancer Risk Than Men

Date: Apr-30-2013
Smoking increases the risk of developing colon cancer in both males and females, however, the risk is higher among women smokers, according to a new study. The research was conducted by a team of experts from the University of Tromsø in Norway and was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. The experts also found that the more and longer a woman smoked, the greater her risk for colon cancer. Inger Torhild Gram, M.D., Ph.D...

Schizophrenia May Be Diagnosed By Testing Nerve Cells From The Nose

Date: Apr-30-2013
Collecting neurons from the nose could be a fast way to test for schizophrenia, a debilitating mental illness that is often difficult to diagnose. This was the finding of a new study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel. A report on the study is due to be published in the July 2013 print issue of Neurobiology of Disease, a version of which is already available to view online. At present, schizophrenia can only be confirmed physiologically through sampling the brain during an autopsy...

St. Jude Medical Announces CE Mark And Launch Of First Quadripolar CRT Pacemaker

Date: Apr-30-2013
Allure Quadra elevates the standard for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Pacemakers St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced CE Mark approval and European launch of its Allure Quadra™ Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Pacemaker (CRT-P). The first-to-market quadripolar CRT-P system allows for increased implant efficiencies that result in fewer surgical revisions, and offers more pacing options to deliver higher success rates, as evidenced by robust clinical data...

P&G Increases ROI With KAM - Value Based Key Account Management Conference, 11 June 2013, London

Date: Apr-30-2013
April 1st saw a major change for Big Pharma decision-making in the UK transferred to the clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). With Pharma moving towards an account based model of selling CreateHealthcare produced a KAM success case study, which demonstrates clear ROI from P&G and Wal-Mart and key lessons for pharma. Wal- Mart accounts for 30% of P&G's US sales. P&G's brand accounts for a sizable amount of Wal-Mart sales - each side very much needs the other. �� Key points include: Hear how Wal Mart and P&G created partnership initiatives that created cost reduction for both sides...