New Target Discovered To Treat Epileptic Seizures Following Brain Trauma Or Stroke New therapies for some forms of epilepsy may soon be possible, thanks to a discovery made by a team of University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal
Health Research Institute neuroscience researchers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTwo Spaniards Among World's Ten Most Productive Scientists In The Field Of Reproductive Biology A bibilometric study has been carried out to evaluate the scientific activity of international researchers and institutions specialising in reproductive biology. The results reveal that two Spanish scientists, Antonio Pellicer y Carlos Simón, are among the ten most productive scientists in this field worldwide.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPiece Of Large-Scale Gene Silencing Mystery Solved By Researchers, Opening The "X-Files" Of Biology A team led by Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has made a breakthrough in understanding the phenomenon of nucleolar dominance, the silencing of an entire parental set of ribosomal RNA genes in a hybrid plant or animal.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Data Suggest CIMZIA(R) (Certolizumab Pegol) Active in Treating Moderate to Severe Crohn's Patients With Fistulizing Disease Data presented this week by UCB at Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2008, the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Clinical & Research Conference, demonstrated more than half (53.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comStatement From The ESC Regarding The Ongoing CT-scan Vs. Invasive Angiography Debate Noninvasive imaging such as CT angiography is complementary to invasive angiography they do not directly compete with each other Recent media reports based on a new study published in the New England Journal of
Medicine (27 November 2008 issue) have announced that "noninvasive CT scans cannot replace imaging of coronary artery blockages by conventional invasive angiography".
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFacial Injury The Focus Of US Department Of Defense Award To Further New Dummy Design And Development Wake Forest University's School of Biomedical Engineering and Science's Center for Injury Biomechanics has received the Army Modeling and Simulation Award for 2008. The Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army and Director of the Army presented the award for research that could ultimately help save eyesight and reduce morbidity and mortality associated with facial injury.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGenVec Announces Multiple Presentations At The American Society Of Tropical Medicine And Hygiene Meeting GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC) announced that the company will present on GenVec's malaria vaccine program at the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 57th Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, LA on December 7-11, 2008. Two presentations, highlighting research conducted in this program, will be given by GenVec scientists.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMammograms Might Detect Cancers That Would Regress When women in four Norwegian countries began regular mammography every two years, breast cancer rates increased significantly, and this suggests that the mammography may have be detecting cancers that might have spontaneously regressed, according to an article released on November 24, 2008 in the Archives of Internal
Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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