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Diabetes Defined
A disease often caused when the pancreas fails to produce insulin, thereby preventing sugar from getting to the body's cells and depriving them of energy
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Bio-Quant adds new board member
Published October 6, 2008, 6:19 pm, San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News
Bio-Quant Inc., a biotech contract research organization (CRO) in San Diego, announced the addition of Dr. Roberto Crea, one of the scientific co-founders of Genetech, to the board of directors.
Researchers discover that SLC2A9 is a high-capacity urate transporter in humans
Published October 6, 2008, 5:12 pm, EurekAlert!
An international team of researchers from the William Harvey Research Institute at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry with Chris Cheeseman at the University of Alberta in Canada and Kelle Moley at the University of Washington in USA, have shown that the SLC2A9 gene, which encodes a glucose transporter, is also a high-capacity urate transporter, and thus possibly a new drug ...
Health news in brief: Outdoor pools pose asthma risk
Published October 6, 2008, 4:54 pm, The New Straits Times
A study has found that outdoor pools can increase the risk of a child becoming asthmatic. SWIMMING in outdoor chlorinated pools appears to increase the odds a child will develop asthma. In outdoor pools, harmful vapour remain on the surface and do not drift away.
Health news in brief: Outdoor pools pose asthma risk
Published October 6, 2008, 4:52 pm, The New Straits Times
A study has found that outdoor pools can increase the risk of a child becoming asthmatic.
How To Choose A Diet That Works
Published October 6, 2008, 3:00 pm, Forbes
There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all diet. How you pick one can have as much of an impact as the diet itself.
Orexigen(R) Therapeutics Reviews Significant Data Regarding Its Obesity Product Candidates
Published October 6, 2008, 12:45 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of obesity and other central nervous system-related disorders, today announced that the company reviewed in an oral presentation at The Obesity Society Annual Scientific Meeting that the investigational drug, Empatic , demonstrated up to 15% reduction in body weight of healthy obese people who completed 48-weeks ...
Battelle Expands Partnerships With Universities to Support the National Children's Study
Published October 6, 2008, 12:05 pm, PR Newswire via Yahoo! News
Battelle has partnered with multiple University primes and been selected as a subcontractor to participate and expand its role in the National Institutes of Health's comprehensive study on the interaction of genes and the environment on children's health.
TAK-390MR Demonstrated Higher Healing Rates Compared to Lansoprazole as the Severity of Erosive Esophagitis Grade ...
Published October 6, 2008, 10:23 am, Newswise
Combined results from two Phase 3 studies presented at the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting (ACG) in Orlando, Fla., demonstrated that TAK-390MR resulted in higher healing rates than lansoprazole among patients with more severe grades of erosive esophagitis (EE). TAK-390MR combines dexlansoprazole with a Dual Delayed Release (DDR) formulation, designed to provide two ...
Metabolic Syndrome Ups Colorectal Cancer Risk
Published October 6, 2008, 10:22 am, Newswise
In a large U.S. population-based study presented at the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, metabolic syndrome patients had a 75 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer compared to those without metabolic syndrome.
Charles Drew University Receives $15 Million Endowment Grant to Expand Its Research Capacity for Benefit of ...
Published October 6, 2008, 10:00 am, GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6, 2008 -- Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science has been awarded a major $15 million endowment grant that will significantly expand its medical research infrastructure and capacity from the National Institutes of Health, through its National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities , it was announced today by Dr.
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- New diabetes drug doing well in phase 3 drug trial | News-Leader.co m | Springfield News-Leader: One of a new class of diabetes drugs has done well in a trial conducted to help bring it to market, researchers report. Advertisement The drug, liraglutide, is a laboratory-mad e version of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone produced by the body. Several members of the GLP-1 family are in clinical trials, and one already has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration . In a phase 3 trial, usually the last kind done before marketing approval is sought, liraglutide had greater benefits against type 2 diabetes, the kind that generally develops in the adult years, than a now-standard medication, glimepiride, said a report in the Sept. 25 online issue of The Lancet.
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