FDA approves VYTORIN, first and only to powerfully reduce LDL cholesterol through dual inhibition
...4 Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved VYTORIN TM (ezetimibe/simvastatin) for the treatment of high LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with primary hypercholesterolemia or mixed hyperlipidemia as adjunctive therapy to diet when die...Joslin Diabetes Center releases new low impact exercise video
...ld leader in diabetes research and care, announced today that it has released Keep Moving!...Keep Healthy with Diabetes, the first video designed by Joslin Diabetes Center specifically for people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Created by the Exercise Physiology Department at Joslin, the video offers low-...University of Pittsburgh medical center among first to implant heart assist device
...The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) today is discharging its first patient who was successfully implanted, on July 2, with the Heartmate XVE Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS). It was implanted as a permanent implant in lieu of a heart transplant, as opposed to the traditional use for thi...Researchers in UGA Vet School discover a mechanism that blocks replication of a retrovirus
...troviral life cycle. The findings were published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team was led by Massimo Palmarini, a virologist at UGA's College of Veterinary Medicine. Co-authors are Manuela Mura, Pablo Murcia and Marco Caporale of UGA; Thomas Spencer of Texas A&M Univ...Anxiety during pregnancy affects child behavior
... some of the strongest indirect evidence available today that a woman's anxiety during pregnancy may program some set point in the early developing brain of the fetus, thus enhancing the child's susceptibility for childhood disorders such as attention deficit, hyperactivity, acting-out and anxiety problems...New paper in Science introduces revolutionary new paradigm for fishery management
...4 ~ Seventeen of the world's top marine scientists today unveiled a plan that seeks to avert the collapse of fish populations by focusing on managing the entire ecosystem rather than one species at a time. The new management regime, coined "Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management," is detailed in the July 16 is...Argonne scientists determine structure of staph, anthrax enzyme
...ment for the infections. The research is published today in the journal Structure. It took the researchers 21 days to build the three dimensional model of sortase from the genome. Without the new technology available at Argonne's Structural Biology Center, including the Advanced Photon Source's powerful X-...Carnivore species are predicted to be at increased extinction risk from human population growth
Research published online today reveals that many of the world's carnivores are at greater risk of extinction than previously thought. Close to a quarter of the world's mammals are already at high risk of extinction. Any chance of reversing this trend depends on understanding what ...Institute for OneWorld Health receives Gates Foundation grant
...ofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., announced today it has received a $1.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support development of a vaccine for the prevention and treatment of malaria, including for infants and children in the developing world. Globally, more than 300 mil...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...ncement at the University of California, San Diego today awarded $300,000 to six projects. That brings total funding so far to more than $1.2 million in support of 31 projects led by faculty members of UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. The von Liebig Center fosters entrepreneurism education on the campu...$1.86 billion boost for UK science and innovation
... for science and innovation in the UK was unveiled today as the UK Government published its ten year invest...untry. We already have an excellent science base - today boosted by an additional $1.86bn (1bn) commitment. The Government must now work with universities, R...Chipmunks descended from ancestors that survived last ice age, scientists say
... majority of them living in Illinois and Wisconsin today descend from ancestors who survived the last North American ice age in what researchers believe were isolated pockets of forestland amid the cold tundra. The findings -- reported online this week (July 12-16) ahead of regular publication by the Proce...Warren Pharmaceuticals publishes results of preclinical evaluation
... treatments for devastating injuries and diseases, today announced the publication of a study showing the effectiveness of its compounds in a variety of neurologic injury and disease models. Working in collaboration with its partner, the Danish pharmaceutical company H. Lundbeck A/S, and collaborators at ...Water study yields a few surprises for New England
...ndings the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) announced today that are part of the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program study of the 23,000 square mile New England Coastal Basins during 1999-2001. The area includes western Maine, Eastern New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and most of Rhode Island (see i...Croatian skeletons reveal changing status of cancer in Europe across the centuries
...of Cancer Research (EACR-18) in Innsbruck, Austria today (6 July 2004), suggesting that the disease was very uncommon even in our recent ancestors, reinforcing the concept that cancer is a 'modern' disease and is largely a consequence of the greater longevity we are now experiencing. Dr. Slaus and his coll...Chemoradioimmunotherapy for advanced breast cancer: hope for the future?
...ing of the European Association of Cancer Research today (Tuesday 6 July 2004). Advanced breast cancer, with metastases to lung and bone, has a very poor prognosis and current treatment protocols for this stage of disease generally result in survival periods of less than two years. One of the reasons for t...New compound 'highly efficacious' at reducing human tumour growth
...ing of the European Association of Cancer Research today (Tuesday 6 July, 2004). Loss of cell cycle control (runaway growth) and tumour-induced angiogenesis (development of new blood vessels to supply the growing tumour with oxygen) are two major hallmarks of cancer. Loss of cell cycle control as a consequ...Climate may play role in lynx's hunting ability
...ity to move between regions." In a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, part of a series of papers already published, the team demonstrated that different snow conditions may, in fact, affect the dynamics of the Canadian lynx. In particular, surface hardness, as dete...Cancer gene MYC emerging as key research target
...article for Nature Reviews Cancer published online today and in the July print issue, McMahon's research team offers a reanalysis of several previous studies of MYC's binding to target genes. The unexpected discovery that MYC binds to a large percentage of genes without activating them calls into question ...Only 21 states offer newborn screening tests recommended by March of Dimes
...tests," Dr. Howse says. "I'm encouraged to report today that since this time last year, the number of states that test for the nine core metabolic disorders has risen from nine to 21." Currently, 21 states screen for the March of Dimes-recommended list of metabolic disorders: Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, ...