Growth Molecule
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- Growth Molecule
- Effects f Vitamin D And Skin’s Physiology Examined
- Alternative treatment method offers effective way to treat Crohn’s…
- Digital Healthcare’s Retasure now in South Texas
- the Sunshine Vitamin
Growth Molecule
Economic Times – Feb 24, 2008
Under her leadership Piramal Enterprises has madesignificant progress in research for discovering and patenting new NCEschemical process development for discovering new drug delivery systems clinicalresearch for planning clinical trials pathology labs new drug protocols andpharmacokinetics labs setting up of a business R&D programme and contractresearch and technology partnerships with some of the leading companies in theworld. In an exclusive interview Dr Piramal speaks about thechallenges facing the drug discovery ventures and her company?s newcollaboration with the department of biotechnology under the public-privatepartnership programme launched by the Union science and technology ministry. Excerpts: NPIL de-merged its NCEresearch unit into a separate company in August last year. Please explain therationale behind the move and the developments made sofar. The dynamics of NCE and R&D operations are differentand investment in NCE research calls for a sharper focus longer time horizonand higher risk appetite.
Effects f Vitamin D And Skin’s Physiology Examined
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Feb 24, 2008
After one week there was a 50 percent increase in 25 (H)D levels that continued to increase over a period of five weeks to -150 percent above baseline levels. The blood levels of 25 (H)D plateaued after five weeks and were sustained out to seven weeks. "Vitamin D deficiency is common in both children and adults worldwide" said Michael Holick PhD MD director of the General Clinical Research Center and professor of medicine physiology and biophysics at BUSM and senior author of this study. "Exposure to lamps that emit UVB radiation is an excellent source for producing vitamin D3 in the skin and is especially efficacious in patients with fat malabsortion syndromes. "It has been observed that living at higher latitudes and being more prone to vitamin D deficiency markedly increases risk of many deadly cancers including cancer of the colon prostate breast and esophagus according to Holick who is also director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic and the vitamin D Skin and Bone Research Laboratory at Boston University Medical Center. Living at higher latitudes also increase the risk of having hypertension type I diabetes multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases including tuberculosis and influenza. According to researchers most experts now agree that a minimum of 1000 IU of vitamin D3 per day is necessary to maintain circulating concentrations of 25(H)D.
Alternative treatment method offers effective way to treat Crohn’s…
News-Medical.net – Feb 24, 2008
64 patients received the conventional step-up treatment and 65 the combined immune-suppressing method (top-down). 60% of the top-down subjects were symptom-free by the 26th week of the study compared to only 36% of the step-up subjects. “This study is a milestone in the management of Crohn’s disease” said lead author Dr. Geert D’Haens of the Imelda GI Clinical Research Centre at the Imelda Hospital in Bonheiden Belgium. “It does not look at the effects of single drug intervention but at strategies to alter the natural history of this chronic destructive condition. All ‘classic’ paradigms for the management of Crohn’s disease need to be questioned. The impact of the study goes beyond Crohn’s disease.
Digital Healthcare’s Retasure now in South Texas
Carolina Newswire – Carolina Newswire (press release) – Feb 24, 2008
Campbell MD FACS FICS will lead the new reading facility which has locations in Alice Aransas Pass Beeville Brownsville Corpus Christi Eagle Pass Harlingen Kingsville McAllen and Rio Grande City. The addition of South Texas Retina Consultants with state-licensed and board certified ophthalmologists will enable South Texas primary care providers and endocrinologists to provide sight-saving services to their diabetic patients. Campbell and his team of physicians on board expands the reach of our diabetic services offering to South Texas residents” said Scott Sanner Senior Vice President for Digital Healthcare’s North American perations. Campbell’s extensive retinal experience and training will be a tremendous benefit for all Retasure patients.
the Sunshine Vitamin
Providence Journal (subscription) – Feb 24, 2008
Greater strength and better balance have been found in older people with high blood levels of vitamin D. In animal studies vitamin D has strikingly reduced tumor growth and a large number of observational studies in people have linked low vitamin D levels to an increased risk of cancer including cancers of the breast rectum ovary prostate stomach bladder esophagus kidney lung pancreas and uterus as well as Hodgkin’s lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Researchers at Creighton University in maha conducted a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial (the most reliable form of clinical research) among 1179 community-living healthy post-menopausal women. They reported last year in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that over the course of four years those taking calcium and 1100 IU of vitamin D3 each day developed about 80 percent fewer cancers than those who took just calcium or a placebo. Vitamin D seems to dampen an overactive immune system. The incidence of autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis has been linked to low levels of vitamin D. A study published Dec.
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