Grants For 5 Team Collaboration On Research Into Aging
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Five research teams will get $400,000 each to collaborate on translational and multi-disciplinary research on aging as the first recipients of the Hartford/AFAR Collaborative Research Awards, an extension of the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Scholars Program. The announcement was made by the American...
Joint Initiative Receives Grant To Become input Coordinating Center For Newly Established Cardiothoracic Surgery Investigations Network
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The universal Center for Health Outcomes and Innovation Research (InCHOIR), a joint initiative of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the agency of Surgery at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, has received a $23 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...
New Molecular Pathway Shown In Bone Healing That Could Be Enhanced By Lithium Treatment
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Researchers have described a novel molecular pathway that may have a critical role in bone healing and have suggested that lithium, which affects that pathway, has the potential to improve fracture healing. [click link for full article]
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Africa’s Great Lakes Region Ministers Propose Joint Initiative To Address HIV/AIDS Among Member Nations
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Ministers from Africa’s Great Lakes region that week at a conference in Mombasa, Kenya, announced the creation of a joint intervention program to address HIV/AIDS among member nations, the East African Standard reports. [click link for full article]
Original post by Richard Sogn, MD
Nitrates and Nitrites
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Nitrates and Nitrites. Migraine triggers? What are they and what’s the difference?
Well now, that’s a tricky question. The two words are tossed around and confused with one another, and really the "layperson" may not need to know all the details. They are...
Genomics Study Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of strange Human Traits, Including Endurance Running
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Researchers from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, along with colleagues from Stanford University, report the results of a large-scale, genome-wide study to investigate gene copy number differences among ten primate species, including humans. The study provides an overview of genes...
New Jersey’s Health Care Liabilities For State, Local Government Retirees Total $69B, Study Shows
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New Jersey’s total health care liabilities for current and future public employees total $69 billion, according to a report by consulting firm Aon delivered to the State Health Benefits Program commission on Thursday, the [click link for full article]
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Providing Safe Play Spaces Helps Inner-City Kids Be increasingly Active
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Giving inner-city children a safe place to play could dramatically increase their level of physical activity and even cut down on the duration they spend watching television and playing video games. Researchers opened a schoolyard and provided attendants to ensure children’s safety. by the next...
Solving The Mystery Of Mammalian Ears
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A 30-year scientific debate by how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals appears to have been settled increasingly in favor of bouncing cell bodies rather than vibrating, hair-like cilia, according to investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.The finding could...
Patil Sworn In As India’s First Female President; Vows To Empower Women, Reduce Sex-Selective Abortion, Infant Mortality
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Pratibha Patil, who was sworn in as India’s first female president on Wednesday, said she would fight for women’s rights and called for an end to sex-selective abortion and infant mortality, AFP/Middle East Times reports (Roche, AFP/Middle East Times, 7/25). According to the [click link...
Diabetes control is now a virtual reality
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SugarStats makes it simple to virtually track, monitor and share key statistics to help manage your diabetes online. Here’s your chance to get rid of the annoying paper trail and replace it with high tech efficiency. You would anticipate such a brilliant view to cost boatloads. No sir —...
Diabetes
- Achieving Healthy Pregnancy Despite DiabetesAmong diabetic pregnant women, the most common problem when it comes to their baby’s health is the condition called “macrosomia” or having a baby with large body. This is because the blood of the mother with diabetes is interchanged with that of the baby inside the womb. As a result, the baby will produce insulin to be able to glucose and t […]
- Are You Suffering From Diabetes?People who are prone to diabetes—especially those who have the disease in their family’s history—should consider that there is a great possibility that they or their kids might inherit the illness. So, the best way to go about it is become very informed about the condition. The following are some the things that people who are prone to diabetes mus […]
- An Explanation of DiabetesIf you think that you are prone to diabetes, the first thing that you need to know is to understand what is the illness all about. Experts say that diabetes is a chronic disease, which develop among people who have the inability to utilize the glucose in their food to be used as energy. The illness develops when the accumulated glucose stays in the person […]