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Resverlogix Corp. (“Resverlogix” or the “Company”) (TSX:RVX) announced that it has begun dosing patients in its US Phase 2 clinical trial lead by Cleveland Clinic. This trial will examine RVX-208, Resverlogix’s oral small molecule therapy for the treatment of atherosclerosis, in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). This study is chaired by Dr. Steven Nissen, MD, Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and the principal investigator is Dr. Stephen Nicholls, Medical Director of Intravascular Ultrasound at Cleveland Clinic…

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An overwhelming majority of people who have periodontal (gum) disease are also at high risk for diabetes and should be screened for diabetes, a New York University nursing-dental research team has found. The researchers also determined that half of those at risk had seen a dentist in the previous year, concluded that dentists should consider offering diabetes screenings in their offices, and described practical approaches to conducting diabetes screenings in dental offices. The study, led by Dr…

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A retrospective analysis of 1,234 Americans indicated a substantial underdiagnosis of obesity when Body Mass Index (BMI) was used compared to the Dual Engergy X-ray Absorptiometry (DEXA) scan. This analysis will be released on Friday, April 23, 2010 at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 19th Annual Meeting & Clinical Congress in Boston. To date, no large-scale comparison has been made between BMI and DEXA, a direct measure of percentage body fat…

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Although the ongoing Senate debate over health reform may seem at times to be unrelated to everyday life in New Hampshire, the bill’s passage or failure will have a profound impact on the health and well-being of many New Hampshire residents. A report from Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers, found that 91,000 people in New Hampshire will gain coverage by 2019 under the Senate health reform bill…

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An article published Online First and in the December edition of The Lancet Oncology reports that addition of capecitabine to a standard chemotherapy regimen for breast cancer improves recurrence-free survival. On the other hand, treatment with capecitabine is frequently discontinued because of increased adverse events.

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After years of planning, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are ready to begin enrolling participants in the National Children’s Study, which will examine the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and adult health. The National Institutes of Health-led study is the largest of its kind ever conducted in the U.S. The project, already under way in some states, ultimately will follow 100,000 participants from birth to age 21, tracking information on health issues including asthma, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity…

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One of the UK’s leading bariatric surgeons has expressed serious concern about the extremely poor levels of aftercare being provided to many weight loss surgery patients by private hospitals who offer ‘cut-price’ surgery both here and abroad. Consultant laparoscopic and bariatric* surgeon David Kerrigan, the Royal College of Surgeons’ representative who advised the government on the NICE obesity guidelines in use today, said the lack of follow up care provided by some hospitals was ’shocking’ and could put patients’ lives at risk…

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Foreign Policy/The Washington Post: The State Department is attempting to change how it handles mental health services for employees with high-stress jobs, “but there’s still a great deal of stigma attached to seeking this kind of help,” an internal report says. The State Department’s Office of Inspector General is calling on the department to “remove the stigma by issuing a high-level statement encouraging returning diplomats to use the mental health tools at their disposal.” Several programs and many mental health professionals wait for employees to take advantage of the programs…

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New research from the UK and Sweden suggests that men with prostate cancer have an increased risk of developing thromboembolisms or blood clots, particularly if they are undergoing hormone therapy; the researchers believe they are the first to find such a link and hope this results in increased monitoring of prostate cancer patients…

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What is the role of proteins called polycystins in patients with polycystic kidney disease? A team of researchers from CNRS and INSERM, led by Eric Honore from the Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IPMC, Universite de Nice Sophia Antipolis/CNRS) has elucidated the molecular and cellular mechanisms linked to polycystin malfunctions that cause this common hereditary disease.

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