Compliance Essential In Osteoporosis Treatment Women who do not comply with treatment instructions for osteoporosis or who do not respond to treatment are more likely to suffer further fractures, which seriously affects their quality of life.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCQ's Carey Discusses Mental Health Parity Bill; Medicare Advantage Marketing Regulations; House, Senate Budget Resolutions Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ
HealthBeat, discusses House approval of mental
health parity legislation, insurers' request for Medicare Advantage marketing regulations, and House and Senate approval of fiscal year 2009 budget resolutions in this week's "
Health on the Hill from kaisernetwork.org and CQ.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDiscovery Opens The Way To Clinical Development Of The First Safe Clot Busting Agent For Treating Heart Attacks And Strokes A team of researchers at Oregon
Health & Science University and Washington University in St. Louis have described for the first time the mechanism that gives a mutant enzyme molecule that they have engineered - and patented - the potential to become a breakthrough drug for treating heart attacks and strokes.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNovel Regulator Of Chromosome Function Characterized At Workman Lab The Stowers Institute's Workman Lab has shed new light on a novel histone acetyltransferase protein complex called ATAC. Acetyltransferases are enzymes that introduce a new acetyl functional group into histone proteins, a process by which all chromosome functions are controlled.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBlurring Boundaries Between The Real And The Virtual Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum "sensed" the other, their motions became correlated, and the two began swinging as one.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comRoll Call Examines Prospects For Health Care Legislation This Year In Congress As presidential candidates debate their
health care proposals, Congress is "unlikely to pass any major
health bill," this year preferring instead "a bite-sized approach," Roll Call reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCardium's Corgentin Preclinical Program Shows High Levels Of Targeting To Acutely Ischemic Heart Muscle Following Intracoronary Infusion Cardium Therapeutics announced positive findings from its preclinical study being conducted by researchers at Emory University, which demonstrated highly efficient uptake of DNA-based vectors within acutely ischemic myocardium (heart muscle lacking sufficient blood flow as a result of blockage of the coronary arteries).
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