Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week articles from December 2004

Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week archives from December 2004

Practical treatments of obesity reviewed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review practical treatments of obesity in a recent issue of Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde. "At present no firm conclusions can be drawn on the potential efficacy and benefits of...

Long-term high-protein diet reduces fat without major side effects.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A long-term high-protein diet markedly reduces adipose tissue without major side effects in Wistar male rats. "Although there is a considerable interest of high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets to...

Obesity increases risk of erectile dysfunction.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Obesity increases the risk of erectile dysfunction. According to a study from Finland, "We estimated the incidence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in a population-based sample during 5-year follow-up...

Human gene map for performance and fitness phenotypes reviewed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers provide an update of the human gene map for performance and health-related fitness phenotypes in a recent issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. "This review presents the...

Physical activity in middle age cuts risk of early death.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study gives people in their 50s and 60s another reason to get off the couch and be physically active - especially if they have conditions or habits that endanger their hearts, like diabetes, high...

Idaho slips a spot nationally in health rating.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The health of Idaho's citizens slipped a spot this year because of increasing obesity and a surge in the death rate, but the state's standing nationally remained comparatively high despite the decline...

Minnesota is nation's healthiest state; Connecticut is No. 8.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minnesota is the nation's healthiest state, while Louisiana is the least healthy, a ranking it has held for 14 of the last 15 years of a national survey, officials said. The annual report sponsored...

Obesity and infant deaths propel Mississippi to unhealthy ranking.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Obesity and infant mortality rates are two factors in a recent national study that placed Mississippi as one of the nation's unhealthiest states. Mississippi had the highest infant mortality rate in...

Oklahoma ranks low but improves in national health study.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oklahoma placed No. 40 in a national health ranking of states, with a lack of medical insurance and a high rate of deaths from cardiovascular disease continuing to pose problems for the state. ...

South Dakota loses ground in state health rankings.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Increased rates of obesity, traffic fatalities and childhood poverty helped push South Dakota down four spots to 19th in a national ranking of healthy states. The state's year-to-year drop in...

Southern states ranked last in national health report.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Southern states, long plagued with poverty and healthcare challenges, occupied 11 of the 12 worst spots on a ranking of states' health released November 8, 2004. In addition, the "America's Health"...

New web site offers information on metabolic fingerprint measurement.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HealtheTech, Inc., (HETC) announced the launch of its new consumer web site at www.metabolicfingerprint.com. This new site provides easy access to thousands of measurement facilities across the...

DHEA may help decrease abdominal fat in elderly.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Preliminary research indicates that the dietary supplement DHEA could play a role in reducing abdominal fat in elderly men and women with age-related decreases in DHEA levels, according to a new study....

Gut microbes can open gates in fat cells.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The microorganisms that normally live in the gut can increase body fat, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They found that gut microbes can open the "gates" fat...

New diet drug helps people lose weight and keep it off, study.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The biggest test yet of an experimental pill that promises to help people lose weight and stop smoking found that it helped people not only lose weight but also keep it off for 2 years, longer than any...

Weight gain found to be harder on the heart than maintaining higher weight.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gaining 15 pounds or more over several years puts people at greater jeopardy of developing risk factors for heart disease than maintaining a stable weight - even a stable weight that is considered...

Quantitative trait loci determine lipids and obesity in inbred mice.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have identified quantitative trait loci that determine plasma lipids and obesity in C57BL/6J and 129S1/SvlmJ inbred mice. "The plasma lipid concentrations and obesity of C57BL/6J (B6)...

Impact of obesity on quality of life in Taiwan investigated.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have investigated the impact of obesity on quality of life in Taiwan. According to recent research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Little is known about the impact of...

Identical twins differ in spontaneous eating behavior.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have analyzed intrapair differences in the spontaneous eating behavior and attitudes of free-living monozygotic twins. According to a study from the United States, "Heredity has been...

Melanin-concentrating hormone-1 receptor antagonists reduce obesity.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Melanin-concentrating hormone-1 receptor antagonists show promise for the treatment of obesity. According to a study from the United States, "The compelling genetic and pharmacological evidence...

Deletion of phospholipid scramblase 3 disrupts normal adipocyte function.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Deletion of phospholipid scramblase 3 disrupts normal adipocyte function. "The phospholipid scramblases (PLSCR1 to PLSCR4) are a structurally and functionally unique class of proteins, which are...

PKC-theta knockout mice protected from fat-induced insulin resistance.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PKC-theta knockout mice are protected from fat-induced insulin resistance. "Insulin resistance plays a primary role in the development of type 2 diabetes and may be related to alterations in fat...

Skeletal muscle FOXO1 transgenic mice have impaired glycemic control.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Skeletal muscle FOXO1 transgenic mice have less skeletal muscle mass, down-regulated slow twitch fiber genes, and impaired glycemic control. "FOXO1, a member of the FOXO forkhead type transcription...

Uncontrolled diabetes increases ghrelin-induced feeding.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Uncontrolled diabetes increases plasma ghrelin concentrations and ghrelin-induced feeding. "Plasma levels of the orexigenic hormone, ghrelin, decrease rapidly on nutrient ingestion and yet are...

Arkansas teachers can give kids candy despite obesity battle.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arkansas teachers have been told they can continue to reward students with candy, despite a state battle against childhood obesity in schools. The Pulaski County School District had told elementary...

Providers in Brazil following guidelines for management of HIV patients.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Providers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are following national guidelines for the management of HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy. According to recent research from the United States and...

Model of perinatal transmission of SHIV in macaques developed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have developed a model of the perinatal transmission of SHIV-SF162P3 in Macaca nemestrina. "We developed a SHIV/macaque model of transmission from infected dams to their infants. Ten...

AIDS protection dependent on persistence of vaccine virus.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Protection against late-onset AIDS in macaques prophylactically immunized with a live simian HIV vaccine was dependent on persistence of the vaccine virus. According to published research from the...

Avoiding deceptive imprinting in AIDS vaccine development reviewed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists outline methods to avoid deceptive imprinting of the immune response to HIV-1 infection in vaccine development in a recent issue of International Reviews of Immunology. According to a...

HIV-1 Tat protein modulates generation of cytotoxic T cell epitopes.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 Tat protein modulates the generation of cytotoxic T cell epitopes by modifying proteasome composition and enzymatic activity. According to a study from Italy, "Tat, the trans activation...

HIV-1 Tat vaccine protects against SHIV89.6P replication in monkeys.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 Tat vaccinated cynomolgus monkeys were protected against SHIV89.6P replication. According to a study from Italy, "Vaccination with a biologically active Tat protein or tat DNA contained...

HIV-1 gp120 and immune network reviewed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review HIV-1 gp120 and the immune network in a recent issue of International Reviews of Immunology. According to a study from Yugoslavia and the United Kingdom, "It has been...

Inflammatory stimuli increase neutrophil binding of HIV.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Activation by inflammatory stimuli increases neutrophil binding of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and subsequent infection of lymphocytes. According to recent research from the United States,...

Pseudoviruses encoding gag induces HIV gag-specific mucosal immunity.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oral immunization with papillomavirus pseudoviruses encoding gag induced HIV-1 gag-specific mucosal immunity. "Mucosal surfaces are the primary portals for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...

Recombination property of HIV-1 gp120 gene reported.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report the recombination properties of the HIV-1 gp120 gene in a recent issue of International Reviews of Immunology. According to a study from Yugoslavia, "Using a chimeric primer...

Retroviral vectors used to analyze SIV/HIV-specific T cell responses.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have used retroviral vectors for the analysis of SIV/HIV-specific CD8 T cell responses. "CD8+ T cell responses and particularly cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) activity are critical...

nef-deleted SHIV protects against pathogenic virus infection.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A nef-deleted simian and human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) protected against pathogenic virus infection. According to published research from Japan, "To clarify the involvement of primitive...

High-dose melphalan and ASCT improves quality of life of AL amyloidosis patients.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High-dose melphalan and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation improves the quality of life of AL amyloidosis patients. According to a study from the United States, "Treatment of AL...

Study looks at how low-income women deal with abortion in Mexican society.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Mexico have identified strategies used by low-income women in their country to deal with the stigma attached to abortion there. Study subjects were "lowest income Mexican women...

U.S. FDA approves Evoclin for treating acne.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Connetics Corp. (CNCT), a specialty-pharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes dermatology products, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Evoclin...

Hebrew SeniorLife opens new medical acute care unit at Roslindale facility.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hebrew SeniorLife has opened a 23-bed Medical Acute Care Unit (MACU) at its Roslindale facility to provide extended medical and rehabilitative care for seniors with complex medical conditions or...

Advances in ALL treatment may lead to elimination of irradiation.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improved risk classification for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), coupled with more intensive intrathecal chemotherapy for high risk patients and the use of a drug called dexamethasone,...

AML samples with FLT3/ITD mutations preferentially killed by FLT3 inhibition.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pediatric acute myelogenous leukemia samples with FLT3/ITD mutations are preferentially killed by FLT3 inhibition. According to recent research from the United States, "Pediatric acute myelogenous...

Idarubicin and busulfan feasible for elderly AML patients undergoing ASCT.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Continuous infusion of idarubicin and oral busulfan is feasible for elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing autologous stem cell transplantation. According to recent research from...

Problem gambling is a serious health issue.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Problem gambling is a health issue that needs to be taken seriously by all within the medical profession, argues a researcher. The United Kingdom is just about to undergo one of the most radical...

Researchers develop new ways to predict number of drug users.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A team of researchers has developed a new method of predicting the number of drug users in the population by looking at the number of recorded overdose deaths among drug users. In research...

DMPA use associated with bone density deficit in young adult women.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study of the affect of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate on bone mineral density confirms findings of some previous studies and refutes others. "Previous studies of the injectable...

Interferon alfa causes vitiligo and psoriasis in a patient with hepatitis B.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interferon alfa causes vitiligo and psoriasis in a patient with hepatitis B. According to a study from Turkey, "well-known cutaneous side effects of interferon (IFN)-alfa therapy include dry skin,...

Trial aims for safer drug prescribing for institutionalized elderly.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care is the first long-term care facility in Canada, and one of the first in North America, to take a major leap forward in the use of health information technology to...

Easter Seals offers resources, tips on providing care for aging people.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- This holiday season, many Americans will visit with an aging parent or other loved one over the age of 65. Adult children may notice slight changes in their parent's lives from previous visits, signs...

Researchers identify molecular markers of cellular aging.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center may have made a crucial discovery in the understanding of cellular aging. In a study...

HealthPro Plus room air purifier chosen as Consumers Digest Best Buy.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IQAir North America announced that their HealthPro Plus room air purifier has been chosen as a Consumers Digest Best Buy. The HealthPro Plus is featured in the December 2004 issue of Consumers...

Drinking alcohol increases energy intake in human subjects.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Drinking alcohol increases energy intake in human subjects. "The effects of alcohol on food and energy intake in human subjects have been the subject of a number of controlled studies recently....

PPARalpha protects the liver from alcohol-induced injury.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- PPARalpha protects the liver from alcohol-induced injury. According to recent research from Japan, "the mechanisms underlying alcoholic liver disease are not completely understood, but lipid...

New brain cells develop during alcohol abstinence.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill scientists have reported - for the first time - a burst in new brain cell development during abstinence from chronic alcohol consumption. The UNC...

"Outgrown" a peanut allergy? Eat more peanuts!
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Children who outgrow peanut allergy have a slight chance of recurrence, but researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center report that the risk is much lower in children who frequently eat peanuts...

Company gets IRB approval for phase III clinical trials for PreHistin.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cobalis Corp. (CLSC), a pharmaceutical company specializing in the development of antiallergy medications, announced that they have received approval from institutional review board (IRB) IntegReview,...

Neurogenic mechanisms in bronchial inflammatory diseases reviewed.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The neurogenic mechanisms in bronchial inflammatory diseases have been reviewed. "Neurogenic inflammation encompasses the release of neuropeptides from airway nerves leading to inflammatory...

During active memory, carriers of AD gene think differently from noncarriers.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sophisticated brain imaging techniques show that when storing and accessing memories, individuals who carry a genetic variant linked to a heightened risk of Alzheimer disease "activate" brain functions...

Beta-sheet breaker peptide prevents Alzheimer's memory impairments.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A beta-sheet breaker peptide prevents A-beta-induced spatial memory impairments with partial reduction of amyloid deposits. "Current evidence supports the notion that beta-amyloid deposits or...

Biotechnology company receives royalty payment for Alzheimer product.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neurobiological Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:NTII) announced that it had received a royalty payment of $694,000 from Merz Pharmaceuticals for sales in the second quarter of 2004 of Memantine for the...

Complications of Alzheimer vaccination in nonhuman primates modeled.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have modeled hemorrhagic and encephalitic complications of Alzheimer amyloid-beta vaccination in nonhuman primates. "The potential of amyloid-beta (A-beta) immunization as a...

Neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million grant to improve Alzheimer vaccine.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine neuroscientists have been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant to improve the safety and effectiveness of an Alzheimer vaccine in a mouse model. ...

Pharma company files amendment for urine NTP test kit.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ:NYMX) announced that it has filed an amendment to its premarket approval application (PMA) for the company's urine NTP test kit with the U.S. Food and Drug...

Administration of TTR-amyloid fibrils may not explain genetic anticipation.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Deposition of transthyretin amyloid is not accelerated by the same amyloid in vivo. According to recent research from Japan, "Acceleration of amyloid deposition by administration of amyloid fibrils...

Aranesp trial launched to evaluate impact of treating anemia on cardiovascular risks.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Amgen, Inc., (AMGN) has initiated a landmark trial to evaluate the impact of treating anemia on cardiovascular outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and type 2 diabetes. TREAT...

Effects of noxious stimulation during sevoflurane anesthesia characterized.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The effects of noxious stimulation during sevoflurane anesthesia have been characterized using a novel technique. "In 21 patients given sevoflurane anesthesia," anesthesiologists in Sweden...

Propofol doesn't disrupt lidocaine metabolism during epidural anesthesia.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Propofol doesn't disrupt lidocaine metabolism during epidural anesthesia. According to recent research from Japan, "[p]ropofol is sometimes used in combination with epidural anesthesia with...

Volatile anesthetics cause blood flow-dependent changes in renal NO levels.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Volatile anesthetics cause blood flow-dependent changes in renal NO levels. Scientists in Japan "previously demonstrated that intrarenal nitric oxide (NO) levels and renal blood flow are reduced...

Depression may trigger silent ischemia in women with new-onset angina.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with recently diagnosed coronary heart disease are often depressed, but is the depression a consequence of, or a contributor to, disease severity? In a new study, 139 women who had new-onset...

Endothelin-1 may contribute to I/R-induced muscle damage.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Endothelin-1 (ET-1) appears to contribute to ischemia/reperfusion-induced muscle damage. "Tourniquet-induced ischemia is often used in orthopedic and reconstructive procedures," surgeons in England...

Primary endothelial cells show differential responses to hypoxia.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary endothelial cells show differential responses to hypoxia. According to recent research from Sweden, "changes in the local environment, such as reduced oxygen tension (hypoxia), elicit...

Venous occlusion plethysmography grossly underestimated blood flow.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have compared plethysmography with and without venous occlusion for measuring forearm blood flow. "Limb blood flow is widely used as an indicator of the human vascular properties. There...

Endovascular stenting lowers risk of restenosis in intracranial VBA.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Endovascular stenting lowers the risk of restenosis in the intracranial vertebrobasilar artery (VBA). "Percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTA) has been used in the treatment of critical...

Alpha-synuclein induction produces Parkinson disease features in rodents.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alpha-synuclein induction produces Parkinson disease features in rodents. "To elucidate the role of alpha-synuclein in the pathogenesis of Parkinson disease, both human alpha-synuclein transgenic...

Chronotropic incompetence to exercise indicates anorexia nervosa.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chronotropic incompetence to exercise separates low body weight from established anorexia nervosa. According to a study from France, "Chronotropic incompetence (CI), characterized by an attenuated...

Company gets $877.5 million U.S. government contract to supply anthrax vaccine.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen, Inc. (VXGN) announced that the U.S. government has awarded the company an $877.5 million contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilian defense. The contract, the first...

Plasmid DNA vaccine protects against aerosolized anthrax spores.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A cationic lipid-formulated plasmid DNA vaccine confers sustained antibody-mediated protection against aerosolized anthrax spores. According to a study from the United States, "DNA vaccines provide...

Vaccine protects cheetah and black rhinoceros against anthrax.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have developed a vaccine that protects cheetahs and rhinoceroses against anthrax. According to a study from England, Namibia, and the United States, "Institution of a policy of...

Efficacy of heparin-coated angiographic catheters compared.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The influence of coating method on the efficacy of heparin-coated angiographic catheters has been determined. In a recent study, radiologists in South Korea "evaluated in vivo anti-thrombogenic...

Inhaled CO has anti-inflammatory effects against ventilator-induced lung injury.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Inhaled carbon monoxide has antiinflammatory effects against ventilator-induced lung injury. "Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care...

Antibiotics use alliance report reveals urgency of drug resistance worldwide.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new report released at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology describes the ominous presence of disease-causing micro-organisms resistant to today's front-line drugs. "Shadow...

Study finds reduction in antibiotic overprescribing to limit growth of drug market.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Decision Resources, Inc., has found that pressure from expert panels, payers, and public health officials to reduce antibiotic overprescribing will limit growth of the acute exacerbations of chronic...

Trial information presented on treatement for intra-abdominal infections.
December 4, 2004... 2004 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), recently presented exciting new phase III data about its investigational antibiotic, tigecycline, based on a clinical trial in patients with...