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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) honored its new grant recipients at the Grants Reception and Dinner at the AACR Annual Meeting 2016, which was held in New Orleans April 16-20.
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Washington, DC - An experimental malaria vaccine protected a small number of healthy, malaria-naïve adults in the United States from infection for more than one year after immunization, according to results from a Phase 1 trial described in the May 9th issue of Nature Medicine. The vaccine, known as the PfSPZ Vaccine, was developed and produced by Sanaria Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, with support from several Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
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Baltimore, Maryland - When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at risk, doctors currently implant a small defibrillator to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, costly electrical implant that is not without health risks of its own?
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Rochester, Minnesota - “Is my child being bullied?” “Is my child a bully?” “What can I do to help? “What can my child do to help?” “How can I help my child?” “Who can help my child?”
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Rochester, Minnesota - When you have prediabetes, it means your blood sugar level is higher than normal, but it is not high enough to reach the level of diabetes. For someone in your situation, medication is rarely needed. Lifestyle changes, such as improving your diet, exercising more or losing weight, often can lower blood sugar to a healthier level and help prevent diabetes.
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reconsidering its definition for which foods should be labeled “healthy.”
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