Diabetes UK’s Annual Professional Conference Is Drawing Closer

Diabetes UK’s Annual Professional Conference (APC) is coming to the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) in Liverpool from 3 to 5 March 2010.
The APC is the only event of its kind in the UK that is exclusively for healthcare professionals and scientists working in the area of diabetes.

Thinking Of The Past Or Future Causes Us To Sway Backward Or Forward

Although we can’t technically travel through time (yet), when we think of the past or the future we engage in a sort of mental time travel. This uniquely human ability to psychologically travel through time arguably sets us apart from other species. Researchers have recently looked at how mental time travel is represented in the [...]

Informative Method To Identify Biomarkers For Guiding Therapy Decisions

A randomized biomarker-stratified design, which uses the biomarker to guide analysis but not treatment assignment, provides a rigorous assessment of the utility of a potential biomarker for guiding therapy, according to a commentary published online January 14 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Cardiac Rehab Reduces Death For Elderly Heart Patients

Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease who attended more cardiac rehabilitation sessions had fewer heart attacks and were less likely to die within four years than those who went to rehab less, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Major Breakthrough May Pave The Way For Therapeutic Vaccines

It should be possible to use therapeutic vaccines to create both cheap and effective drugs for diseases like cancer and allergies. One problem in developing such vaccines has previously been the lack of adjuvants, substances that make vaccines more effective. However, there has now been a major breakthrough in this area. The study, led by [...]