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Overweight Adults Could Burn More Calories By Watching Less TV

Posted 17 December 2009 - 6:00pm by kevintilva
Overweight

US researchers conducting a randomized controlled trial found that adults weighing above the healthy range could burn more calories by watching less television: trial participants who cut their television viewing time in half were more active and on average burned an extra 120 more calories a day.

Nitric Oxide Beneficial In Septic Shock After All

Posted 16 December 2009 - 5:08pm by kevintilva
Nitric Oxide

Scientists at VIB and Ghent University in Flanders, Belgium have found an unexpected ally for the treatment of septic shock, the major cause of death in intensive care units.

World's Largest Ocular Research Center To Improve Quality Of Life For Blind And Visually Impaired

Posted 9 October 2009 - 6:52pm by kevintilva
Blind

Real-time biomedical studies of factors leading to vision impairment are now possible through the world's largest ocular research center at Lions Eye Institute for Transplant & Research. As the first research center in the world to be directly combined with an eye bank, the Ocular Research Center provides a repository of healthy and diseased ocular tissue for researchers from academic institutions, government organizations and the pharmaceutical industry.

In Thailand Clinical Study, HIV Vaccine Regimen Demonstrates Modest Preventive Effect

Posted 25 September 2009 - 5:50pm by kevintilva
Research

In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving more than 16,000 adult participants in Thailand. Following a final analysis of the trial data, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army, the trial sponsor, has announced that the prime-boost investigational vaccine regimen was safe and 31 percent effective in preventing HIV infection.

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