Ambulatory Health Care

MicroRNAs hold promise for treating diseases in blood vessels

physorg.com
2 hrs ago 3 related
 

A newly discovered mechanism controls whether muscle cells in blood vessels hasten the development of both atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, according to an article published online today in the journal Nature.

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Researchers highlight new direction for drug discovery

physorg.com
27 mins ago 1 related
 

In a discovery that rebuffs conventional scientific thinking, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered a novel way to block the activity of the fusion protein responsible for Ewing's sarcoma, a...

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How health care "rationing" is done under today's for-profit system

correntewire.com
7 hrs ago 1 related
 

Uwe Reinhardt : Let me remind rationing-phobes what they would find in the huge body of research literature and media reports on our health system, should they ever trouble themselves to read it: Read more…

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Scientists find molecule that regulates heart size by using zebrafish screening model

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2 hrs ago 2 related
 

Using zebrafish, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have identified and described an enzyme inhibitor that allows them to increase the number of cardiac progenitor cells and therefore influence the size of the...

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Payment disclosures: 'Compliance in name only'

startribune.com
2 hrs ago 1 related
 

A Minnesota law requiring drugmakers to report payments to medical practitioners is generating data that is incomplete, inconsistent and hard to search. Every spring, they trickle in: reports from dozens of drug companies...

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From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS

wtop.com
3 hrs ago 16 related
 

In this May 11, 2009 photo, Dormeuz Valdes a patient with HIV/AIDS, lies in a bed while receiving treatment at a hospital in Petit Riviere, Haiti. Much of the credit went to two pioneering nonprofit groups, Boston-based...

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People want new programs, but are wary of 'Big Government' (McClatchy Newspapers)

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10 hrs ago 1 related
 

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Whether it's over health care, climate change or most other big Washington battles this year, Congress keeps debating the same underlying issue — is the federal government getting too big and...

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Into that good night

correntewire.com
4 hrs ago
 

Annals of American health care, up close and personal edition, Part 1 My Aunt Betty died last week. It was no surprise to us. She was 87, and her body had been breaking down for some years now. The last three months were the...

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Targeting cancer cells

startribune.com
2 hrs ago
 

A small Washington County company is working toward what could be a breakthrough: a drug that kills only cancer cells. The result is IGF Oncology, a startup in the Washington County city of Birchwood that's developing a drug...

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#news #asheville Mission to be campus for UNC med school

citizen-times.com
3 hrs ago 3 related
 

ASHEVILLE Starting Monday, Asheville and Mission Hospital will officially become the Asheville Campus of the UNC School of Medicine, training four students during the last two years of their medical school experience. These...

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