Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago explain in the May 11 issue of Circulation Research how an enzyme acts on the heart’s pacemaker to slow the rapid beating of the heart’s “fight-or-flight” reaction to adrenaline.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with research teams from Pharmacia & Upjohn and Pfizer, have discovered precisely how the antibiotic linezolid inhibits bacterial growth.
Today, the Jeffrey Modell Foundation (JMF), together with Baxter Healthcare Corporation, celebrated the opening of the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at the University of California?San Francisco (UCSF).
A simple request, when placed in a certain context, has the potential to create conflict. This is epitomized in the phrase — “does he take sugar?” — an approach society has learned to avoid when speaking about a disabled person. New research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council seeks to better understand the ways in which people strive to avoid disagreement in everyday conversation.
Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY, TSX: SHQ) welcomes the news that Monday 25 June 2007 has been set as the start date of the Judicial Review in the High Court to challenge the decision by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to refuse NHS support of drugs for new patients with Alzheimer?s disease of mild severity.
Dr. Susan Chon, associate professor in the Department of Dermatology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, knows adults and teens alike benefit from the seasonal reminder to practice key skin cancer prevention strategies.
Coronary artery bypass surgery has been the preferred treatment for patients with a blockage in the left main coronary artery, the conduit that supplies blood to about two-thirds of the heart. However, in recent years this has been challenged by stent placement in this critical artery.
While drug-eluting stents are effective in keeping open diseased heart arteries, they should not be used for patients who need to have noncardiac surgery a short time after an interventional heart procedure. A presentation at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions in Orlando by cardiologists at Jefferson Medical College indicates that for these patients, bare metal stents provide a safer choice.
People with HIV who drop out of care do not live as long as those who remain under a doctor’s treatment, said Baylor College of Medicine and Veterans Affairs researchers in a report published in the June 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and available on line.
A ground-breaking Australian study involving UNSW has revealed alarming levels of malnutrition in the elderly, with close to 80 percent malnourished or at risk when first admitted to hospital.