My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
“100 percent of animals injected with PolySTAT survived a typically-lethal injury to the femoral artery” Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 IMAGE: A 3-D rendering of fibrin forming a blood clot, with PolySTAT…
“The rising cost of health care is unsustainable” Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 Find 400 percent difference between least, most expensive treatments University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences How much…
Chinese-Made Flooring Protests Gather Steam (CN) - Lumber Liquidators faces a slew of class actions across the country accusing it of falsely advertising Chinese-made flooring that emits illegal levels…
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 Karolinska Institutet It has long been known that people with blood type O are protected from dying of severe malaria. In a study published in Nature Medicine,…
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 Tel Aviv University researcher finds an autoimmune process plays major role in triggering neurological disorder American Friends of Tel Aviv University Narcoleptics suffer from bouts of sleepiness…
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 Stalled drug trials provide information that needs to be shared Lots of potentially useful medical information is getting lost. McGill researchers discovered this when they looked into…
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 Scientists find tests used to identify new hormone were flawed DURHAM, N.C. -- The discovery of the "exercise hormone" irisin three years ago and more than 170…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2XMwFrcI-U] * Endocrine Society's 97th annual meeting in San Diego. 06 MAR 2015 BPA harms dental enamel in young animals, mimicking human tooth defect A tooth enamel abnormality in…
Public Release: 6-Mar-2015 The Endocrine Society San Diego, CA--Exposure to low doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals early in life can alter gene expression in the liver as well as liver function,…
Public Release: 6-Mar-2015 The Endocrine Society San Diego, CA -- A tooth enamel abnormality in children, molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH), may result from exposure to the industrial chemical bisphenol A…
Two doses of onion extract, 400 and 600 mg/kg/day, strongly reduced fasting blood sugar levels in diabetic rats by 50 percent and 35 percent 6-Mar-2015 The Endocrine Society San Diego,…
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 San Diego, CA--Prenatal exposure to low doses of the environmental contaminants polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, change the developing brain in an area involved in metabolism, and some…
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY San Diego, CA--Exposure during pregnancy to a combination of fire retardant chemicals and phthalate chemicals--both present in the average home--can contribute to autistic-like behaviors…
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOLS OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES PITTSBURGH, March 5, 2015 - Exposure to hormone-altering chemicals called phthalates - which are found in many plastics, foods…
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 Chemicals contribute to health conditions including lowered IQ, male infertility, diabetes, obesity THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY SAN DIEGO, CA and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM-A new economic analysis found exposure to…
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL Older brains may be more similar to younger brains than previously thought. In a new paper published in Human Brain Mapping,…
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2013 Oct;70(4):309-16. doi: 10.1111/aji.12151. Epub 2013 Jul 31. Human papilloma virus vaccine and primary ovarian failure: another facet of the autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. Colafrancesco…
Public Release: 4-Mar-2015 Separate study reveals cardiologists may not be equipped to counsel on heart health diets American College of Cardiology WASHINGTON (March 4, 2015) -- Adults who closely followed…
Public Release: 4-Mar-2015 Even after adjustment for confounding factors Diabetologia New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that use of…
Study suggests this therapy may provide added benefits to standard care American College of Cardiology WASHINGTON (March 4, 2015) -- Taking omega-3 fatty acids appeared to lower inflammation and…
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