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The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that...

A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of medicine in Houston. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal The Lancet. 'More research is needed, but we are encouraged by the effect the drug Dimebon had on Alzheimer's patients' said Dr.

Nearly nine out of ten patients with type 2 diabetes achieved the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) HbA1c target of less than 7.5% with a repaglinide [PRANDIN®] and metformin treatment strategy says a new study review published in Clinical Therapeutics(1).

Recent studies have shown that bosentan therapy greatly improves the quality of life for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). According to a study in Respirology published by Wiley-Blackwell, treatments with oral Bosentan reduces resistance in blood flow - allowing the heart and lungs to work more efficiently and in turn, enables patients to increase exercise capacity and quality of life.

A study examining plastic surgery procedures performed in accredited outpatient facilities found that office-based surgery is as safe as surgery performed in hospitals. The study published in July's Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery® (PRS), the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), reviewed more than 1.1 million procedures and found the mortality rate to be significantly less than one percent or 0.002 percent.

(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) A study by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), in collaboration with the Instituto de Biología Molecular of CSIC, reveal a mechanism that controls the movement of cells in a tissue by regulating cell adhesion. This same mechanism may be defective in diseases such as cancer and metastasis, when tumour cells lose their adhesion to neighbouring cells and migrate through the organism. The results have been published in Nature Cell Biology.

(Uppsala University) The white horse is an icon for dignity which has had a huge impact on human culture across the world. An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University has now identified the mutation causing this spectacular trait and show that it can be traced back to an ancestor that lived thousands of years ago. The study is interesting for medical research since this mutation also enhance the risk for melanoma. The paper is published on July 20 on the Web site of Nature Genetics.