Researchers Patent Brain Damage Recovery Compound
Research 21 Feb 2012
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have designed, produced and patented a new chemical compound for the possible treatment of brain damage caused by stroke. The compound binds 1,000 times more effectively to the target protein in the brain than the potential drug currently being tested on stroke victims. The results of biological tests have just been published in the renowned journal PNAS. More than 140,000 people die each year from stroke in the United States. Stroke causes the brain to release large amounts of glutamate, an activating signal compound, all at once. This...
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Abbott Release Statement on AIM-HIGH Study
Final results were presented from the AIM-HIGH study, a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) study. The study was designed to test whether raising HDL "good" cholesterol by adding Niaspan to simvastatin would provide an additional 25 percent reduction in cardiovascular outcomes in patients with established cardiovascular...
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EHRA Urges Physicians to Gain Health Economics Knowledge
Even though the use of device therapies for the treatment of heart failure, heart rhythm disturbances and atrial fibrillation has increased enormously in Europe in recent years, there still remains a fear that economic policy, and not just evidence-based therapeutic benefit, will determine access to treatments, especially at this time of financial...
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Dr. Max Harry Weil, Pioneer in Critical Care, Dies at 84
Dr. Max Harry Weil, called the father of the critical care movement, died of prostate cancer at his home at age 84. The founder of the Weil Institute of Critical Care, he is credited with developing the first ICUs and introducing computerised patient monitors. "The things that we are doing right now are all because of him," said Dr....
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Researchers Patent Brain Damage Recovery Compound
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have designed, produced and patented a new chemical compound for the possible treatment of brain damage caused by stroke. The compound binds 1,000 times more effectively to the target protein in the brain than the potential drug currently being tested on stroke victims. The results of biological tests...
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CORDIS Launches EU Project Service for Researchers
The European Union has some of the world's best research facilities and most accomplished researchers. Harnessing their full potential will help turn novel ideas into jobs, green growth and social progress. To facilitate this, the European Commission finances, either wholly or partially, a wide range of individual research and technology...
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Finding Could Reduce Antibiotic Use in Critically Ill Patients
Measuring the levels of a natural body chemical may allow doctors to reduce the duration of antibiotic use and improve the health outcomes of critically ill patients. "Infection is a common and expensive complication of critical illness and we're trying to find ways to improve the outcomes of sick, elderly patients and, at the same time...
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Competition Heats Up: Top Eight Finalists Selected at IT @ Networking Awards 2012
Conference News 19 Jan 2012
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Innovative healthcare IT and medical technology solutions are one step closer to winning the coveted IT @ 2012 trophy and cash prize at the IT @ Networking Awards 2012.   Willy Heuschen, Secretary General of the European Association of Hospital Managers officially opened the event, welcoming contestants and delegates. Heuschen highlighted the increasing importance and relevance of healthcare IT and the great opportunity the IT @ Networking Awards is for decision-makers to learn about these solutions; to have access to their developers and users; and to ask questions and judge the...
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The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) Announces President and Vice-President
Dr. Josep M. Picas (Spain) and Mr. Miroslav Madjaric (Croatia) were named President and Vice-President of HITM at the annual board meeting of HITM on January 21, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium.   Dr. Josep M. Picas is the Chief Information Officer...
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New Statement on the Treatment of Pulmonary Fungal Infections
The American Thoracic Society has released a new official clinical policy statement on the treatment of fungal infections in adult pulmonary and critical care patients. The statement replaces ATS guidelines published in 1988, and takes into account...
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100,000 Lives Can Be Saved Per Year in Europe: The New ERC Guidelines on Resuscitation
About 500,000 people suffer a sudden cardiac arrest every year in Europe. It is very easy to help those hearts which are mostly too young to die. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by lay people increases survival rate by 2-3 times,...
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23rd Annual ESICM Congress
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine is organising its 23rd Annual Congress in Barcelona, Spain from Saturday 09 until Wednesday 13 October 2010. This Congress will be one of the major intensive care meetings taking place in...
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