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Napo Participation In Call To Action To Prevent Deaths From Diarrheal Diseases In Children Under Five Years Of Age
Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Napo") is proud to announce that the Company is part of the Call to Action led by PATH, UNICEF, and WHO to raise the visibility of diarrheal disease and solutions to address it. The Call to Action includes the invitation to "invest in the research and development of new effective, appropriate and affordable prevention and treatment options for diarrheal disease."
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Arizona Heart Institute Enrolls First Patient In Anaconda(TM) Investigational Study For The Treatment Of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Surgeons from Arizona Heart Institute performed the first procedure in the U.S. Anaconda Phase II Study using the Vascutek Anaconda Stent Graft System, an investigational, minimally invasive treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
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Making Lettuce More Colourful And Healthier
Salad dressing aside, a pile of spinach has more nutritional value than a wedge of iceberg lettuce. That"s because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thought to have a variety of health benefits. Now a team of plant physiologists has developed a way to make lettuce darker and redder - and therefore healthier - using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
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Less Than One Drop Of Blood Needed By New Device To Detect Heart Disease

Testing people for heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities in Boston. In a research report published online in The FASEB Journal, they describe how this device can measure and collect a type of cells needed to build vascular tissue, called endothelial progenitor cells, using only 200 microliters of blood. The development is also significant because it allows scientists to collect these cells much more easily than current techniques allow, bringing laboratory-created tissue for vascular bypass surgeries another step closer to reality. "This simple device is a promising tool for the pediatric and adult population in detecting, diagnosing, monitoring, and providing the option of treating cardiovascular disease by utilizing a small quantity of blood," said lead researcher Shashi K. Murthy of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. To collect the cells, the device works similar to Velcro™ or a magnet. Specifically, the inside is coated with antibodies that only bind to endothelial progenitor cells. Blood flows through the device through a funnel-like opening (except the blood enters through the narrow end and exits through the wide end), passes over the antibodies, and endothelial progenitor cells are "picked up" in the process. In addition to allowing researchers to collect cells from a very small amount of blood, the device"s design also provides researchers with a new model to study the effects that blood flow in the body has on cell binding (like clots form in arteries). "Most immediately, this is could be a new tool to assess cardiovascular health that cuts the amount of blood needed down to a pin prick. Its compact size might make it an excellent tool for use in developing countries where access to medical laboratories does not exist," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "In addition, this moves much closer to a future where new blood vessels, veins and arteries for transplants no longer need to be grafted from patient"s bodies. The amount of pain and recovery times for bypass surgeries would be reduced significantly." Cody Mooneyhan Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology


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