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Blocked Brain Enzyme Decreases Appetite and Promotes Weight Loss
DURHAM, N.C. – Imagine being able to tone down appetite and promote weight loss, while improving the body's ability to handle blood sugar levels....
05/06/2008
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Financial Disclosure Lacking in Literature on Stents
DURHAM, NC – Most published research about coronary stents does not reveal information about authors' financial relationships that might bias their...
05/06/2008
Preference for Alcohol in Adolescence May Lead to Heavy Drinking
DURHAM, N.C. – Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy...
05/05/2008
People with Mentally Demanding Jobs Reap Cognitive Benefits into Retirement
DURHAM, NC – Doing a job that is intellectually demanding creates thinking abilities that pay dividends into retirement -- regardless of intelligence...
05/05/2008
Coalition to Transform Clinical Trials Names Executive Board
DURHAM, NC – The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a growing, broad-based coalition of organizations dedicated to modernizing the way...
05/05/2008
Proteins That Stop a Major Signaling Pathway Can Also Generate New Proteins
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University Medical Center researchers have recently discovered that a crucial communications pathway in cells not only stops...
04/24/2008
Duke Scientists Deconstruct Process of Bacterial Division
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide. This could lead to new antibiotic...
04/17/2008
Leading HIV Researchers to Collaborate on Vaccine Development
DURHAM, NC, and NEW YORK, NY – Two global research organizations dedicated to designing a vaccine against HIV – the International AIDS Vaccine...
04/15/2008
A Potential Sugar Fix for Tumors
DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a...
04/15/2008
Exercise May Lead to Faster Prostate Tumor Growth
DURHAM, N.C. -- Prostate tumors grew more quickly in mice who exercised than in those who did not, leading to speculation that exercise may increase...
04/13/2008
DURHAM, N.C. – Imagine being able to tone down appetite and promote weight loss, while improving the body's ability to handle blood sugar levels....
05/06/2008
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Financial Disclosure Lacking in Literature on Stents
DURHAM, NC – Most published research about coronary stents does not reveal information about authors' financial relationships that might bias their...
05/06/2008
Preference for Alcohol in Adolescence May Lead to Heavy Drinking
DURHAM, N.C. – Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have shown a connection between early drinking patterns and a tendency to be a heavy...
05/05/2008
People with Mentally Demanding Jobs Reap Cognitive Benefits into Retirement
DURHAM, NC – Doing a job that is intellectually demanding creates thinking abilities that pay dividends into retirement -- regardless of intelligence...
05/05/2008
Coalition to Transform Clinical Trials Names Executive Board
DURHAM, NC – The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a growing, broad-based coalition of organizations dedicated to modernizing the way...
05/05/2008
Proteins That Stop a Major Signaling Pathway Can Also Generate New Proteins
DURHAM, N.C. – Duke University Medical Center researchers have recently discovered that a crucial communications pathway in cells not only stops...
04/24/2008
Duke Scientists Deconstruct Process of Bacterial Division
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide. This could lead to new antibiotic...
04/17/2008
Leading HIV Researchers to Collaborate on Vaccine Development
DURHAM, NC, and NEW YORK, NY – Two global research organizations dedicated to designing a vaccine against HIV – the International AIDS Vaccine...
04/15/2008
A Potential Sugar Fix for Tumors
DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a...
04/15/2008
Exercise May Lead to Faster Prostate Tumor Growth
DURHAM, N.C. -- Prostate tumors grew more quickly in mice who exercised than in those who did not, leading to speculation that exercise may increase...
04/13/2008
