Three leading scientific and health policy organizations have launched a global drive for signatories to the Vienna Declaration, a statement seeking to improve community health and safety by calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies…
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AABB, America’s Blood Centers (ABC) and the American Red Cross strongly support the use of rational, scientifically-based deferral periods that are applied fairly and consistently among blood donors who engage in similar risk activities…
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Imagine an exceedingly complex circuit board. Wires often split — seemingly at random — and connect in strange and unexpected ways. This is how Princeton University researchers developing a new method for studying brain connectivity see the brain…
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Complication rates for vaginal and C-section deliveries can vary widely from one hospital to the next according to a study released by HealthGrades, the leading independent health care ratings organization. The study found that best-performing hospitals had, on average, 51% fewer maternal complications among women who had vaginal births, when compared to […]
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX), widely used by lung specialists, helps manage heart disease, particularly in those with chronic heart failure, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement. View the Scientific Statement CPX is a non-invasive and objective method to evaluate heart and lung function…
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Cancer occurs when human cells move and multiply inappropriately. Within cells, a process called phosphorylation serves as an on/off switch for a number of cellular processes that can be involved in cancer, including metabolism, transcription, configuration, movement, cell death and differentiation…
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Using new technology that allows scientists to monitor how individual cells react in the complex system of cell signaling, Stanford University researchers have uncovered a much larger spectrum of differences between each cell than ever seen before. Cells don’t all act in a uniform fashion, as was previously thought…
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In the first ever published estimate of the percentage and number of cancer survivors who live with their minor children, a team led by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researcher found that millions of cancer survivors are parenting young children, highlighting a group of survivors with very special needs…
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Nick Van Erp, active in soccer since elementary school and lacrosse since junior high, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during a spring lacrosse game his freshman year of high school. His injury, caused by stepping into a pothole and hyper-extending his knee, required surgical repair, ending his season prematurely and the remainder […]
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Kane Biotech Inc. (TSX VENTURE:KNE), a biotechnology company engaged in the development of products that prevent and disperse microbial biofilms, is pleased to announce the invention of biotech plants producing DispersinB® antibiofilm enzyme. This provides a proof of concept for developing bacterial disease resistant agricultural crops of economic importance…
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