New Pharmacological Effect Of Jianpi Huoxue Decoction

Professor Yi-Yang Hu and his colleagues confirmed that Jianpi Huoxue decoction (JHD) reduced the cytokine expression induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and inhibited some targets in LPS-activated Kupffer cell signal pathway. This may provide new insight on the mechanism of JHD on alcoholic liver injury.

Potential Remedies To Obesity And Its Health Threats Revealed By New Research

Researchers unveiled data during this week's Digestive Disease Week (DDW ) outlining improved bariatric surgery options and studies that offer new insight into the related toll on the body created by obesity, which causes many individuals to develop cancers of the esophagus and pancreas.

How Are Pancreatic Stellate Cells Activated?

Supernants of cultured human pancreatic cancer cell line SW1990 could stimulate the proliferation of cultured human pancreatic stellate cells (PSCs), and this stimulation is partly via GAL-3 in the supernants which was expressed and secreted by SW1990 cells.

Hurricanes Took A Two Year Break, But You Shouldn't Take A Break From Preparedness

There's no guarantee that this hurricane season will be as quiet for the United States as the past two seasons and America needs to be ready. Fewer than expected U.S. landfalls over the past two years may have lulled some people into a false sense of security but we do know that being prepared can save lives and property during a disaster.

News From The Journal Of Neuroscience

1. Compound Fusion at Ribbon SynapsesGary Matthews and Peter SterlingHow ribbon synapses in photoreceptors and retinal bipolar cells can release vesicles extremely rapidly has long been a mystery. Diffusion of undocked vesicles to the plasma membrane is too slow to account for the speed of release.

COPD Patients Benefit More From Pulmonary Rehab In Earlier Stages

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are in their final years of survival do not get the same benefits from pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) as patients who have more years left to live - regardless of their age, complicating illnesses or lung function, according to new researc

New Patient Satisfaction Study With Budesonide Formoterol Combination Therapy

A new open-label study evaluated patient satisfaction with budesonide/formoterol combination therapy and fluticasone/salmeterol combination therapy, as measured by the Asthma Treatment Satisfaction Measure (ATSM).1 Patients participating in the study were ages 18 years and older with moderate to severe asthma and had been previously treated with inhaled corticosteroids.

New Analysis Of REMICADE For UC In Patients With Recent Disease Onset Or Long-Standing Disease

Data from a new analysis of the Active Ulcerative Colitis Trials (ACT 1 and ACT 2) showed that at week 8, more than 60 percent of patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) receiving REMICADE (infliximab) achieved clinical response regardless of disease duration (less than three years versus at least three years).

Positive Results Of Clinical Studies For Aclidinium Bromide, A Novel Long-Acting Anticholinergic For The Treatment For COPD

Laboratorios Almirall, S.A. and Forest Laboratories, Inc. presented results from four clinical trials assessing the efficacy and safety of aclidinium bromide, an investigational treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Data from four preclinical studies further describing the properties of aclidinium were also presented at the meeting.

Washington Post Series Examines Childhood Obesity

An "epidemic of obesity" is "compromising the lives of millions of American children" and is "expected to add billions of dollars to the U.S. health care bill, " the Washington Post reports. The article is part of a weeklong Post series, titled "Young Lives At Risk: Our Overweight Children, " that is examining the causes of childhood obesity, its impact and possible ways to rectify the situation.