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Engineered Nanoparticles Promise To Improve Blood Cancer Treatment
Date: Jun-19-2012Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have engineered nanoparticles that show great promise for the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), an incurable cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. One of the difficulties doctors face in treating MM comes from the fact that cancer cells of this type start to develop resistance to the leading chemotherapeutic treatment, doxorubicin, when they adhere to tissue in bone marrow...
Natural Antioxidant Discovered That Can Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease
Date: Jun-19-2012University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have collaborated with the School of Public Health and discovered an enzyme that, when found at high levels and alongside low levels of HDL (good cholesterol), can dramatically reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The enzyme - glutathione peroxidase, or GPx3 - is a natural antioxidant that helps protect organisms from oxidant injury and helps the body naturally repair itself. Researchers have found that patients with high levels of good cholesterol, the GPx3 enzyme does not make a significant difference...
Prescription Warning Labels Often Ignored, Changes Needed For Public Safety
Date: Jun-19-2012Each year, an estimated 4 million Americans experience adverse reactions to prescription medications. Many of these reactions, ranging from mild rashes and drowsiness to hospitalization and death, could be avoided if warning labels were more effective, according to a Michigan State University study. When patients are handed a new prescription, few read the critical warning labels such as "do not consume alcohol while taking this medication" or "for external use only...
CardiAQ Offers New Hope For Cardiovascular Medicine
Date: Jun-19-2012Nearly 50% of patients suffering from a diseased mitral heart valve with severe, symptomatic regurgitation are denied open-heart surgery because it is considered too risky; in the future, Transcatheter Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVI) may offer new hope for these patients...
An Estimation Of Total Adult Human Biomass - The Weight Of Nations
Date: Jun-19-2012The world population is over seven billion and all of these people need feeding. However, the energy requirement of a species depends not only on numbers but on its average mass. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health has estimated the total mass of the human population, defined its distribution by region, and the proportion of this biomass due to the overweight and obesity. Up to half of all food eaten is burned up in physical activity. Increasing mass means higher energy requirements, because it takes more energy to move a heavy body...
How RNA Splicing Decisions Are Made
Date: Jun-19-2012Tiny, transient loops of genetic material, detected and studied by the hundreds for the first time at Brown University, are providing new insights into how the body transcribes DNA and splices (or missplices) those transcripts into the instructions needed for making proteins. The lasso-shaped genetic snippets - they are called lariats - that the Brown team reports studying in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology are byproducts of gene transcription...
Secret Love Cheats Pose A Greater Infection Risk Than Those In Open Sexual Relationships
Date: Jun-19-2012People who were sexually unfaithful without their partner's knowledge were less likely to practice safe sex than those who had other sexual relationships with their partner's consent. They were also more likely to be under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time of the encounter. In a study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers from the University of Michigan, USA, found that condom use for vaginal and anal sex was 27% and 35% lower in sexually unfaithful relationships and drug and alcohol use was 64% higher...
Do Testosterone And Growth Hormones Impact On Muscle Building? Study Says They Don't
Date: Jun-19-2012Exercise-related growth hormone and testosterone do not seem to impact on muscle growth after lifting weights, despite what many body culturists believe, researchers from McMaster University, Canada, reported on two separate studies in the Journal of Applied Physiology and the European Journal of Applied Physiology. The scientists added that bodybuilders are probably wasting their time and money by buying and consuming these products...
MESUPRON® Met Its Primary Objective Of Demonstrating Efficacy In The Proof Of Concept Phase II Breast Cancer Trial
Date: Jun-19-2012WILEX AG (ISIN DE0006614720 / WL6 / Frankfurt Stock Exchange) published data last week from its Phase II trial with its oral drug candidate MESUPRON® in first line treatment of patients with HER2-receptor negative metastatic breast cancer. The uPA inhibitor MESUPRON® (INN: Upamostat) was given in combination with the chemotherapeutic agent Capecitabine (Xeloda®, Hoffmann La Roche AG, Switzerland)...
Hidden Vitamin In Milk Yields Remarkable Health Benefits
Date: Jun-19-2012Weill Cornell Researchers Show Tiny Vitamin in Milk, in High Doses, Makes Mice Leaner, Faster and Stronger A novel form of vitamin B3 found in milk in small quantities produces remarkable health benefits in mice when high doses are administered, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and the Polytechnic School in Lausanne, Switzerland...
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