News tagged with liver blood

System to deliver organ transplant drug -- without harmful side effects

A new system for delivering a drug to organ transplant patients, which could avoid the risk of harmful side effects, is being developed by scientists at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists identify new class of antimalarial compounds

An international team led by scientists from the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) and The Scripps Research Institute has discovered a family of chemical compounds that could lead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists make human blood protein from rice

Scientists at a Chinese university said Monday they can use rice to make albumin, a protein found in human blood that is often used for treating burns, traumatic shock and liver disease.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Genome editing, a next step in genetic therapy, corrects hemophilia in animals

Using an innovative gene therapy technique called genome editing that hones in on the precise location of mutated DNA, scientists have treated the blood clotting disorder hemophilia in mice. This is the first time that genome ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Premature aging seen as issue for AIDS survivors

(AP) -- Having survived the first and worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when he was losing three friends to the disease in a day and undergoing every primitive, toxic treatment that then existed, Peter Greene ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Welsh girls to get morning-after pill for free

(AP) -- Women and girls as young as 13 in Wales can get the morning-after pill free without a prescription from pharmacies, beginning Friday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Fish oil-derived medication could prevent diabetes complications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Regular doses of a licensed medication derived from fish oil could be used to improve nerve damage and prevent the onset of some of the serious complications of diabetes such as amputation, blindness or heart ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

FDA urges consumers to avoid sexual-enhancement drinks

The Food and Drug Administration advised consumers on Thursday not to buy or use two drinks sold as supplements for sexual enhancement.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emerging drug class may enhance red blood cell production in anemic patients

By determining how corticosteroids act to promote red blood cell progenitor formation, Whitehead Institute researchers have identified a class of drugs that may be beneficial in anemias, including those resulting from trauma, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study upends thinking about how liver disease develops

In the latest of a series of related papers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Austria and elsewhere, present a new and more definitive explanation of how fibrotic ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Risk of death increases in IBD patients with hospital-acquired infections

Death and length of stay are increased among hospitalized inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients who develop hospital-acquired infections, according to a study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journa ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hormone's crucial role in 2 anemic blood disorders

A hormone made by the body may be a potential therapeutic tool for the treatment of two anemic blood disorders -- beta-thalassemia and hemochromatosis. The new research was led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'At-TRIB(1)-uting' a gene a new function in the liver

Specific, relatively uncommon variations at a region of human chromosome 8 have recently been linked to fat (lipid) levels in the blood that decrease an individual's risk of atherosclerosis (a disease of the major arterial ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Specialized blood vessels jumpstart and sustain liver regeneration

The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now Weill Cornell Medical College scientists have shed light on how the liver restores itself by demonstrating that endothelial cells ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Liver hormone is a cause of insulin resistance

Researchers have identified a hormone produced and secreted by the liver as a previously unknown cause of insulin resistance. The findings, in the November issue of Cell Metabolism, suggest a new target for the treatment of ins ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0