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OIE and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Reinforce Collaboration
2015-03-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The meetings with Dr Frieden, CDC Director, and senior staff representatives provided the opportunity to reaffirm several key topics of common interest in order to pursue and strengthen efficient cooperation between the two organisations.
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Apple ResearchKit Brings Disease Research to the iPhone
2015-03-10 02:02:25| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
The software should make it easier for researchers to recruit participants for large-scale studies, and access a more representative sample of the population.
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The Connection Between Inflammation And Cardiovascular Disease
2015-03-09 12:02:57| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
By Mark Johnson, M.S. Senior Director of Surgery Heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in developed nations. Classically, cardiovascular disease (CVD) was thought to be a buildup of fat on the arterial wall that eventually blocks blood flow, leading to a heart attack or stroke. However, the process also involves inflammatory responses that impact the endothelial cell lining of the arteries. The source of this inflammation includes infectious agents, e.g., herpes viruses and Chlamydia pneumonia, as well as smoking, hyperglycemia, oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and sheer stress on the vessel wall as a result of hypertension.
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The Role Of Swine As Preclinical Models For Cardiovascular Disease
2015-03-09 11:59:54| drugdiscoveryonline Home Page
By Mark Johnson, M.S. Senior Director of Surgery Classically, pharma, biotech, and device researchers have relied on rodent models to discover and validate disease targets and mechanisms, as well as for the preclinical development of therapeutics. However, the biology of rodents often fails to accurately predict outcomes in patients – perhaps not surprisingly, as mice are not simply miniature people, but have differences in immune function, lifespan, hematological function, regenerative capacity, and environment (sterile and controlled versus complex and dirty). This lack of translational validity has contributed, in part, to the high failure rate for drug development, particularly in the expensive clinical stage. The use of models in larger animals can help address some of these differences between rodents and human, particularly in cardiovascular disease.
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Lifestyle intervention program at workplace reduces risk factors for diabetes, heart disease
2015-03-09 06:53:49| Chemicals - Topix.net
A healthy lifestyle intervention program administered at the workplace and developed by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health significantly reduces risk factors for diabetes and heart disease, according to a study reported in the March issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine . The program was well-received by participants at Bayer Corp., who lost weight and increased the amount of physical activity they got each day, when compared with a control group in the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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