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As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ongoing efforts to ensure that heparin for patients remains safe, the government today seized 11 lots of heparin from Celsus Laboratories Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The five lots of Heparin Sodium Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) and six lots of Heparin Lithium were seized at the FDA's request by U.S. Marshals.

The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) thanks the citizens of California for taking the time to consider and vote on Proposition 2. Now that it's passed, extra care-and the advice of veterinarians and animal welfare scientists-must be employed to ensure its implementation doesn't hurt the animals it's intended to help.

Some people know more about their neighbors than they would like to. Whether the other tenants are just now listening to music, watching television, having visitors, vacuum cleaning or washing clothes - its not possible to not overhear these things, because sound finds its own way. Only the best possible insulation of the walls helps here.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- people with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease dramatically lowered their chances of dying or having a heart attack if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found....

Immune cells known as eosinophils have a central role in causing asthma.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator? Don't keep your iPod earbuds in your shirt pocket or draped around your neck - even when they're disconnected. A study finds that some headphones can interfere with heart devices if held very close to them....

A fix for the economy must address ecological threats, a top international scientific meeting here has urged. Human society is moving dangerously beyond the planet's natural limits in a striking parallel to the financial debt crisis. "We're running the planet like a subprime loan," Dr. Johan Rockström of the Stockholm Resilience Centre said.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Vitamins C and E - pills taken by millions of Americans - do nothing to prevent heart disease in men, one of the largest and longest studies of these supplements has found....

Role of TLR9 in hepatic stellate cells and experimental liver fibrosis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Nov 14;376(2):271-6 Authors: Gäbele E, Mühlbauer M, Dorn C, Weiss TS, Froh M, Schnabl B, Wiest R, Schölmerich J, Obermeier F, Hellerbrand C Accumulating evidence indicates that bacteria and bacterial products promote hepatic fibrogenesis. The activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSC) plays a central role in hepatic fibrosis. Here, we demonstrate that HSC express toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), a pattern recognition receptor that is activated by CpG motifs present specifically in bacterial DNA. Upon CpG stimulation human as well as murine HSC isolated from wild-type (TLR9+/+) mice express increased levels of the profibrogenic chemokine monocyte chemotactic protei... MedWorm Sponsored Message: Find out how you can get your message across here by sponsoring this MedWorm news feed.

A polarized localization of amino acid/carnitine transporter B(0,+) (ATB(0,+)) in the blood-brain barrier. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Nov 14;376(2):267-70 Authors: Czeredys M, Mysiorek C, Kulikova N, Samluk Ł, Berezowski V, Cecchelli R, Nałecz KA Brain capillary endothelial cells control the uptake and efflux from the brain of many hydrophilic compounds due to highly specialized transporters often localized in a polarized way. Localization of Na(+)- and Cl(-)-dependent amino acid and carnitine transporter B(0,+) (ATB(0,+)) was studied in a co-culture of bovine brain capillary endothelial cells (BBCEC) grown on filters above astrocytes (an in vitro blood-brain barrier model). Immunoblotting and three-dimensional immunocytochemistry analysis with anti-B(0,+)anti...