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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world-wide explosion of overweight people has been called an epidemic. The inflammatory nature of obesity is widely recognized.
The world-wide explosion of overweight people has been called an epidemic. The inflammatory nature of obesity is widely recognized. Could it really be an epidemic involving an infectious agent? In this climate of concern over the increasing prevalence of overweight conditions in our society, investigators have focused on the possible role of oral bacteria as a potential direct contributor to ...
I am not a gamer. I don't spend hours of my time in front of a computer screen playing games because quite simply, I don't have the time. That is until this summer when I moved into my new house, everyone else buggered off back to their respective homes around the country and I stayed here with little else to do with my life. After craving some childhood memories to return to my adult life, I ...
Bisphenol A, a chemical widely used in plastics and known to cause reproductive problems in the offspring of pregnant mice exposed to it, also has been found to retard the growth of follicles of adult mice and hinder their production of steroid hormones, researchers report. Their study is the first to show that chronic exposure to low doses of BPA can impair the growth and function of adult ...
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.----Merck & Co., Inc. and Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced they have signed an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement for the development and commercialization of betrixaban, an investigational oral Factor Xa inhibitor anticoagulant currently in Phase II clinical development for the prevention of stroke in patients ...
Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine have co-invented a hands-off process for filling fullerenes with radio-active material. Fullerenes are hollow carbon molecules.
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What are medical isotopes?
OTTAWA — What are medical isotopes? They’re small quantities of radioactive liquid. The reactor at Chalk River, Ont., makes the isotope molybdenum-99. This is refined into technetium-99m, another medical isotope, which is then injected into patients.
Sanofi-Aventis is banking that its highly anticipated atrial fibrillation/flutter treatment Multaq will be a huge success. The path to approval has been ridden with a failed trial and a very long review process, but for Sanofi, the wait has been worth it.
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