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Keep Active During Cold Weather Months
By Douglas H. Kirkpatrick, MD
President,
The American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists
Get more exercise. It’s one of the most common healthy life
recommendations that physicians give their patients—and for
good reason. Regular physical activity can reduce your risk of
heart disease, stroke, some cancers, Type II diabetes,
osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. It can
improve your ability to perform daily tasks, keep you mentally
sharp, and help you avoid injuries.
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Anti-Angiogenesis Drugs May
Foil Tumors by Building Up Blood Vessels, Not
Tearing Them Down, Moores UCSD Cancer Center Scientists
Find
Scientists have thought that
one way to foil a tumor from generating blood vessels to
feed its growth a process called angiogenesis was by
creating drugs aimed at stopping a key vessel
growth-promoting protein. But now the opposite seems to be
true.
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UC San Diego Medical Center
Offers Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
for Advanced Heart Failure
UC San Diego Medical Center is currently enrolling patients in
a Phase 2 clinical trial of an investigational drug for the
treatment of advanced heart failure. The Calcium Up-Regulation
by Percutaneous Administration of Gene Therapy in Cardiac
Disease, or CUPID, study is evaluating a new gene-based therapy
designed to stimulate production of an enzyme that enables the
heart to pump more effectively
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Little-Known Liver Disease in Obese Kids May Raise Heart
Disease Risk
UC
San
Diego
Researchers Caution Physicians and
Parents
Overweight
and obese children who have non-alcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD) are at much higher risk for heart disease
according to a study led by researchers
at University
of
California
, San
Diego School of Medicine (UCSD), Department of Pediatrics.
The study results, posted online today, will be published in
the July 2008 edition of Circulation: Journal of the
American Heart Association.
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New
Report Lists 44 Biotechnology Medicines
in Development in San
Diego Area
San Diego area companies are at
the forefront of applying biotechnology techniques to help
the nation combat an alarming rise in chronic diseases,
according to a recent report on the next generation of
experimental medicines.
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