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Contemporary Drug-Eluting Stents and Vascular Response

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Current treatment strategies aimed at treating the consequences of coronary…

Does Race/Ethnicity Have a Role in a Link Between Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Metabolic Syndrome?

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a highly prevalent disease related to the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. A large body of evidence has suggested…

Cardiovascular Risk Factor Control in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and New Trial Evidence

The micro and macrovascular complications of Type 2 diabetes mellitus are influenced by several well described cardiovascular risk factors such as…

State-Of-The-Art Advances in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe and fatal muscle condition affecting young children. Without interventions, affected boys lose the ability…

The Liver Meeting 2016

The Liver Meeting 2016, held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, supported the…

Vaccine Developed for Bee Stings

A HIGHLY effective vaccine for European honeybee stings has been developed by researchers from Adelaide, South Australia; the success of this vaccine…

Interleukin-33 Found to Influence Allergy Sensitivity in Neonatal Lungs

A PROTEIN produced by white blood cells, interleukin-33 (IL-33), is a core driver of allergic sensitivity in the lungs of newborns according to the…

Are Mitochondria the Key to Cracking Parkinson’s Disease?

THE MITOCHONDRIA of dopamine-producing cells have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, with researchers finding that affected individuals have dopamine…

Glucose Deprivation in the Brain May Correlate with Cognitive Decline

MEMORY, reasoning, and learning are cognitive functions that use up half of all sugar present in the body. Recent research has associated a lack of…

Blood Test Could Predict Which Children Develop Tuberculosis

A BLOOD test commonly used to screen adults for tuberculosis (TB) could predict whether children infected with the TB bacteria are likely to go…