Many health-minded individuals understand that eating fried or overcooked foods is unhealthy due to the chemical transition of normally stable fats to trans fats that have been shown to dramatically increase heart attack risk. Researchers ...
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Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) is the technical term for a type of fat (fatty acid) with two or more (poly) double bonds (unsaturated). They exist in many different forms, varying in chain length, degree of unsaturation, and rotation ...
Italy-based Gentium and Link Healthcare announced that defibrotide has been designated as an orphan drug for the treatment of hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD). The sponsor of Defibrotide is Link Healthcare, Gentium's exclusive ...
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Signum Dermalogix, a biopharmaceutical company, has announced that the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) awarded the company a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant totaling ...
A mysterious fever that has popped up in Chennai, India, has left doctors puzzled as they try to figure out how to treat it. Doctors say tests for various infectious diseases come up negative for patients with the fever, so it has been ...
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Princeton University can import a vaccine not yet authorized for use in the United States to halt a meningitis outbreak, federal officials said Friday. Seven students at the Ivy League institution in New Jersey have been diagnosed with ...
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Treating the elderly didn't drive the U.S. increase in healthcare cost from 2000; 91 percent was from professional services, drugs and devices, researchers say. Dr. Hamilton Moses III of the Alerion Institute in North Garden, Va., and the ...
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The World Health Organization said it is targeting 22 million children in the Middle East for polio vaccination after 13 cases of polio were confirmed in Syria. In a joint resolution, all countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region ...
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Those with HIV are living normal lifespans and their doctors should aim on preventive care for heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis, U.S. researchers say. The Human Immunodeficiency Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases ...
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Corgenix Medical, a developer of diagnostic test kits, has filed pre-market notification with the US Food and Drug Administration under Section 510(k) of the US Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for its hyaluronic acid (HA) enzyme-linked ...
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There is a lot of controversy in nutrition and it often seems like people can’t agree on anything. But there are a few exceptions to this. Here are the top 10 nutrition facts that everyone actually agrees on (well, almost ...
In January, when the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a meta-analysis of 100 studies that probed the relationship between body mass index and mortality — studies that found slightly overweight people have ...
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Nuvilex, an international biotechnology company providing cell and gene therapy solutions for the treatment of diseases, has acquired the exclusive worldwide rights to use the cellulose-based live-cell encapsulation technology for the ...
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U.S. researchers began an early stage clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent genital herpes disease by removing two key proteins so the virus cannot multiply. Principal investigator Dr. Lesia K. Dropulic of the National Institute of ...
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More and more consumers and corporations are touting the benefits of "local" foods, often described as "sustainable," "healthy," or "natural." According to the trade publication, Sustainable Food News, "local" as a marketing claim, has ...
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