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One of the defining characteristics of solid tumors is the development of a network of new blood vessels to nourish the rapidly reproducing malignant cells. Now, using a nanoparticle targeted to those new blood vessels, a joint academic-industrial research team, led by investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, has developed a way to construct a three-dimensional (3-D) map of tumor-induced angiogenesis and monitor the effects of drug therapies on those new blood vessels.

Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.On the spot, the 5-foot-6-inch, 240-pound lab researcher joined 'Vamos Por Un Million de Kilos' (Let's Lose a Million Kilos), a national campaign to get Mexicans to collectively trim about 2 million pounds.The project is one of several new efforts to fight obesity in Mexico, which is on track to catch up with the United States within a decade as one of the world's fattest countries, according to the Mexican government. Nearly half of Mexico's 110 million people are overweight, and the number of fat children has climbed 8 percent a year over the last decade.

AP - Abraham Leon was getting a checkup when he found out he had high blood pressure and was at risk of developing diabetes.

The process of developing and distributing vaccine is long and complicated, but efforts to speed it up are paying off.

Breastfeeding continues to be one of the primary routes of HIV transmission in the developing world. The World health Organization (WHO) estimates that 150,000 babies around the world are infected...

The National Institutes of health (NIH) has awarded Naren Vyavahare, Hunter Endowed Chair and professor of bioengineering at Clemson University, more than $1.5 million over four years to develop durable bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs). Aortic valves taken from pigs are used in thousands of human heart valve replacement surgeries annually, but they have a high rate of failure due to degeneration and calcification.

NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc said its partner GlaxoSmithKline decided to prematurely stop a mid-stage study of an osteoporosis drug that was being developed under a collaboration agreement between the firms, sending ...

New research claims that blood pressure drug Candesartan could cut the risk of people with diabetes developing retinopathy, a condition that can lead to blindness.The study found that people with Type 1 diabetes who were given the drug were almost a fifth less likely to develop the condition. Scientists tested the effects of the blood pressure drug on almost 2,000 patients.