Penn researcher, Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD, winner of the AAOS Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Louis J. Soslowsky, Ph.D. Fairhill professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and professor of Bioengineering, director of the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was named the 2010 winner of the Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery....
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Panel questions 'VBAC bans,' advocates expanded delivery options for women
(NIH/National Institutes of Health, Office of Disease Prevention) An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans. The panel affirmed that a trial of labor is a reasonable option for many women with a prior cesarean delivery. But many women are not offered this option....
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New drug candidate reduces blood lipids
(Karolinska Institutet) A thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. This according to a clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, amongst other centers, published today in the top-ranking scientific periodical the New England Journal of Medicine....
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The American Association of Anatomists approves guidelines for body donation programs
(American Association of Anatomists) The Board of Directors of the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) has approved a set of guidelines to govern programs accepting the donation of bodies for education and biomedical research. The guidelines cover the minimum requirements that should be met by any Willed Body Program....
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Gastric bypass surgery increases risk of kidney stones
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Patients who undergo gastric bypass surgery experience changes in their urine composition that increase their risk of developing kidney stones, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators suggests....
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Harvard School of Public Health unveils comprehensive, public online library of firearms research
(Harvard School of Public Health) A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles more accessible to reporters, law enforcement, public health officials, policymakers and the general public....
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Research points to way to improve heart treatment
(University of Iowa) Current drugs used to treat heart failure and irregular heartbeat have limited effectiveness and have side effects. New basic science findings from a University of Iowa and Vanderbilt University study suggest a way that treatments could potentially be refined so that they work better and target only key heart-related mechanisms....
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Movement disorder symptoms are lessened by an antibiotic
(The Company of Biologists) Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to University of Alabama scientists co-authoring a paper publishing March 10 in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms....
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Fifty years of the 'light fantastic:' Laser advances spark scientific progress
(American Chemical Society) Fifty years after the first laser sparked a technological revolution, the "light fantastic" continues to impact people's daily lives -- by playing DVDs, speeding Internet connections, and performing intricate surgery. As the golden anniversary of the announcement of the first laser approaches on July 7th, Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine, takes a special look at the past, present, and exciting future of this amazing invention....
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Fewer platelets could be used for some cancer and bone-marrow transplantation patients
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new research involving UT Southwestern Medical Center and 28 other medical institutions....
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Leonardo's anatomical sketches fascinate modern-day anatomist
(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of human anatomy are a true source of inspiration to Ron Philo, Ph.D., who teaches anatomy to bioscience students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Philo and Martin Clayton of the Print Room at Windsor Castle, England, have co-authored an art catalog of the medieval sketches....
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Nitric oxide-releasing wrap for donor organs and cloth for therapeutic socks
(American Chemical Society) Scientists in Texas are reporting development of a first-of-its-kind cloth that releases nitric oxide gas -- an advance toward making therapeutic socks for people with diabetes and a wrap to help preserve organs harvested for transplantation. The study is in ACS' Chemistry of Materials, a bi-weekly journal....
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Novel stroke treatment passes safety stage of UCI-led clinical trial
(University of California - Irvine) A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the UC Irvine neurologist who led the effort....
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Physicians click their way to better prescriptions
(Springer) Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic prescriptions can dramatically reduce prescribing errors -- up to seven-fold. Their study of the benefits of e-prescribing in primary care practices appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer....
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Research findings expected to ease treatment of low neutrophil counts in cancer patients
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) New research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators may change neutropenia treatment for all childhood cancer patients....
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Breast cancer drug fulvestrant appears more effective in the presence of CK8 and CK18
(Indiana University) Women's responsiveness to the second-line breast cancer drug fulvestrant may depend on whether the cancer cells are expressing two key proteins, Indiana University Bloomington scientists report in this month's Cancer Biology & Therapy....
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Genomatix gives a hand in the analysis of Wayne State's sequencing projects
(Genomatix Software GmbH) The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at the Wayne State University School of Medicine installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix Genome Analyzer last year at their labs in order to support the analysis of NextGen Sequencing data. Professor Stephen Krawetz , Director of Translational Reproductive Systems is utilizing the Genomatix systems to help analyze the cis and epigenetic elements that control many reproductive events, including cell-fate....
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LSUHSC researcher finds first inherited prostate cancer genetic mutation in African-American men
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Shahriar Koochekpour, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, led research that has discovered, for the first time, a genetic mutation in African-American men with a family history of prostate cancer who are at increased risk for the disease. Dr. Koochekpour identified an inheritable genetic defect in the receptor for the male hormone, androgen (testosterone), that may contribute to the development of prostate cancer and its progression....
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Risk for patients in the intensive care unit clearly reduced
(University Hospital Heidelberg) To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it is difficult to keep track of the variety of possible side effects and interactions. The team headed by Dr. Thilo Bertsche, director of the cooperation unit for clinical pharmacy at Heidelberg University Hospital, has now shown that physicians can reduce serious events resulting from drug interactions by about half with the help of the "AiDKlinik" drug information system....
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Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female
(University of Edinburgh) A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries -- why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other -- has been solved by researchers.The research, which involved studying rare naturally occurring chickens with white (male) plumage on one side and brown (female) plumage on the other, sheds new light on the sexual development of birds....
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