Academics work to help stressed-out cats
...-Moore, the Nestl Purina senior lecturer in feline medicine at the University of Edinburgh Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, explained: "Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) is a group of diseases of the bladder, most commonly seen in pedigree, middle-aged, overweight male cats which take littl...New Italian research links migraine and endometriosis
...rsday 28 October) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1] , has found evidence that women with endometriosis[2] are at higher risk of having migraine. A team from the University of Genoa in Italy studied 133 women with endometriosis and a control group of 166 women, and found t...UCLA and Univ. of Utah researchers identify how a hormone regulates iron
...e study's principal investigators and professor of medicine and pathology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "We knew that ferroportin is necessary to help release iron into the bloodstream, but didn't know that hepcidin directly regulates this activity." Ganz adds that too much hepcidin present ...Research to explore revolutionary gene sequencing: Threading the molecular needle
... could make the long-dreamt-of era of true genetic medicine possible with extremely rapid, accurate and low cost sequencing of single DNA molecules. However, a number of significant technical hurdles still need to be overcome before the idea can be considered a usable technology. With the goal of ove...VYTORIN (TM) superior again to Lipitor at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol
...in). VYTORIN is a prescription medicine and should not be taken by people who are hypersen...ffects, patients should talk to their doctor about medicine or food they should avoid while taking VYTORIN. In three placebo-controlled, 12-week trials, the in...Human embryonic stem cells promising for replacement of blood supply
...s," said Dan Kaufman, M.D., assistant professor of medicine in the division of hematology, oncology and lead researcher. "We can envision blood therapies completely compatible with the patient, such as use of embryonic stem cells to make red blood cells for platelets used in blood transfusions, or a source of...Joslin Diabetes Center awards 1st Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship
...goal is to reach into alternate fields of science, medicine and engineering to introduce new ideas and technologies to diabetes research," said George L. King, M.D., Director of Research at Joslin Diabetes Center, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and chairman of the Fellowship selection proces...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...ior author of the study and assistant professor of medicine and genetics at UNC's School of Medicine. "We all know people that we consider to be a young 65, and we believe they won't demonstrate as much p16INK4a or ARF expression as others of the same age." In addition to ident...Virginia Tech, TIGR sign memorandum for new alliance
...ch, said, "The presence of a college of veterinary medicine and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute provides the university with the unique opportunity to undertake comparative approaches to systems of disease and health across multiple species. Building on those capabilities, Virginia Tech has made commitm...Young adults who maintain their weight have lower risk factor levels for heart disease
...investigator and assistant professor of preventive medicine and of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "Weight stabilization may be easier to achi...Reassuring findings from first study on sperm donor identification
A study published in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction[1] (Thursday 11 November), should help allay fears that removing anonymity from sperm donors might lead to problems for the children or for their biological fathers. In the world's first study to examine the feelings and ex...MicroRNA study points to novel path for treating diabetes
...aborations with experimentalists in biology and in medicine have been key to reducing his computational discoveries to practice, thus enabling important discoveries for human health. This approach is very much in the spirit of the genomics initiative of NYU and at the heart of NYU's Center for Comparative Fu...Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research focuses on early mechanisms
...cs, and Dawn Lowe, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, both at the University of Minnesota; and Chris Ward, assistant professor of biomedical science at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. "The goal is to find the mechanisms in the muscle cell by which Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy...UCSD researchers find effective treatment for unusual fever syndrom caused by cold exposure
...al M. Hoffman, M.D., a UCSD assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics, and the lead author of the study in Lancet. "On a scientific level, the investigation of uncommon disorders such as FCAS can provide important insights into the mechanisms of more common diseases. For example, inflammation has been s...UCLA scientists uncork fountain of youth for HIV-fighting cells
...ontology and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "So the telomeres of a 40-year-old person infected with HIV resemble those of a healthy 90-year-old person." Most scientists agree that telomeres evolved to avert the rampant cell growth that often lea...Sperm enzyme is essential for male fertility, study shows
...the NIEHS; Dr. Donna Bunch, assistant professor of medicine at UNC; Lillian Strader, research technician at the EPA; Dr. Sally Perreault, chief, gamete and early embryo biology branch at the EPA; and Dr. Edward M. Eddy, who heads the gamete biology section at the NIEHS....Nuclear imaging offers possibility for early detection of patients with coronary heart disease
...an three years, could establish a role for nuclear medicine as a noninvasive imaging tool for atherosclerosis, providing both functional and anatomical information. The results of the study, one of the first of its kind, are detailed in "Evaluation of 18F-FDG Uptake and Arterial Wall Calcifications Using 18F-...GlaxoSmithKline awards $250,000 in research grants for research on drug therapies for HIV/AIDS
...r; and Michael Saag, M.D., associated professor of medicine and director of the AIDS Outpatient Clinic, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since the Drug Discovery and Development Research Grant program was initiated in 2001, GSK has awarded $1.5 million to further the development of inventive tre...Community living causes bacteria to diversify
...deep Singh, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine and microbiology in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the study's principal investigator. Previous work has shown that living in groups gives the bacteria properties they do not have as individuals, including increased toler...... Miguel Villalona, associate professor of internal medicine in the Ohio State University College of Medicine a... Gregory Otterson, associate professor of internal medicine in the OSU College of Medicine and Public Health and co-author of the study. Wenrui Duan, the lead a...