Body Clocks Dictate The Beat Of Life
Body clocks determine whether people are early birds or late risers, "homebodies" or "party animals".
Intel Launches Online Community To Connect Family Carers And Nurses In The UK
With a goal to assist carers in the United Kingdom, Intel Corporation unveiled ConnectingForCare.co.uk, the first online community of its kind for family carers, community and district nurses, healthcare assistants, social care workers and others to share information and provide emotional support to one another, filling a void in today's healthcare system.
New Data Reveals Actemra Is The First And Only Biologic Drug To Show Superiority Over Current Standard Of Care In Rheumatoid Arthritis
The novel rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra (tocilizumab) has shown superiority over the current standard of care, methotrexate (MTX), by achieving a greater reduction of signs and symptoms (e.g. swollen and tender joints) at 6 months in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
International Osteoporosis Foundation Announces Three Orthopaedic Sessions At 2008 Congress
The International Osteoporosis Foundation has announced expanded opportunities for orthopaedic surgeons at the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis 2008, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from December 3-7 2008.
Interim Results For The Zilver R PTX trade; Clinical Study Show Promise For Improving The Treatment Of Blockages In The Femoropopliteal Artery
The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical's Zilver PTX™ Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (DES) in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has yielded positive interim results, trial investigators reported at the 2008 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting last week.
Guide For Evaluating Vaccine Safety Concerns
Almost 70% of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children do so because they believe vaccines may cause harm. Indeed vaccines have been blamed for causing asthma, autism, diabetes, and many other conditions--most of which have causes that are incompletely understood.
General Practice Is Good For Your Health, British Medical Association
As GPs from across the UK gathered in London for the Annual Conference of Local Medical Committees, Dr Dean Marshall, chairman of the BMA's Scottish General Practitioners Committee called on government to value general practice as the cornerstone of the modern NHS.
Research Explores 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
Florida Tech senior John Santiago, a biological sciences major, earned first place at the Tri-Beta National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a poster presentation about proteins in the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels and in heart muscle. The presentation was titled, "Modulation of Cardiovascular Gap Junction Proteins by Stress Catecholamines and Their Metabolites.
Mechanism Explains Link Between Apolipoprotein E And Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which apolipoprotein E, a molecule whose mutation is linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD), stimulates degradation of sticky amyloid beta (A) protein within the brain. The research, published by Cell Press in the June 12 issue of the journal Neuron, may lead to a powerful new therapy for this devastating disease.
MabThera rituximab Is More Effective In Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Than Switching Patients To A Second Anti-TNF
New data1 presented at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) annual meeting revealed that when rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients do not respond to a TNF inhibitor, a commonly used class of drugs in RA, it is more effective to treat them with MabThera (rituximab), than to use a second TNF inhibitor therapy.