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Background:We recently showed that PI3K/akt and JAK/STAT pathways play different roles in retinal ganglion cell (RGC) surviving after optic nerve (ON) injury and intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation, and autoimmune background modulates responses of macrophages and RGCs to ON injury and IOP elevation. In this study we investigated whether autoimmune background influences PI3K/akt and JAK/STAT functions following IOP elevation in Fischer 344 (F344) and Lewis rats that are of different autoimmune profiles. IOP elevation was performed at 110mmHg for 2 hours. Pathway inhibitors were applied intravitreally to block respective pathway signal transduction.

UH Med School Recieves $3 Million DonationKGMB9, HI - 12 hours agoThe generous gift will help enhance the medical school's role in Bio-science for the state and increase class sizes to create more doctors.

Through advanced digital imaging technologies, Eastman Kodak Company will support attendees' security, athletes' health, and photojournalists' images at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Kodak is the Official Imaging Sponsor of the Olympic Games, taking place Aug. 8-24.

BOTOX® is an important medicine that over the last 15 years of clinical use has helped millions of patients with serious medical conditions worldwide.

The United Nations Foundation announced that it will provide 10,000 anti-malarial bed nets to families living in temporary camps on the border of Thailand and Burma. The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, joined by Executive Director of the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign, Elizabeth McKee Gore, delivered life saving nets to Dr.

Integrating efforts to control malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is an inexpensive and effective solution to reduce the incidence of deadly tropical anemia in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new analysis published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Scientists have made great strides in understanding how the thymus functions, including the timing, regulation, and mechanism of the process of negative selection, according to an article released on August 4, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Biology.

UroToday.com - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common benign tumor in the aging male. The Symptoms associated with BPH, termed LUTS can be bothersome enough to significantly impact the life of men and their families. While the gold standard for BPH treatment is TURP, over the past 20 years effective medical treatment has been developed.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced a pilot program to test options for beneficiaries with Original Medicare to maintain their health records electronically.

UroToday.com - Chemotherapy is effective in both locally advanced and metastatic bladder cancer. Two randomized trials have demonstrated that preoperative administration of Methotrexate, Vinblastine, Adriamycin, Cisplatin (MVAC) or Cisplatin, Methotrexte,Vinblastine (CMV) improve survival in patients with muscle invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.

A weather alert service run by the UK's Meteorological Office that forecasts when weather is likely to be bad for COPD patients and alerts them to take simple precautions, has achieved a 20 per cent drop in COPD hospital admissions in areas that use the scheme.

UroToday.com - In the age of minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy has been associated with a substantial increase in operative costs without a significant improvement in outcomes to date. As a result, there has been renewed interest in one of the original approaches to prostate cancer.

UroToday.com - Any urologist dealing with incontinence in the female patient must deal with pelvic organ prolapse. At a minimum the urologist must evaluate the patient for prolapse and make an appropriate referral to either another urologist or a gynecologist for management.

A study of quarter of a million patients has shows that epidural anaesthesia / analgesia* (EA) is safe for patients undergoing intermediate to high-risk surgery other than cardiac surgery. However people given EA have only a very slightly increased survival compared with those who do not.

The Irish Medicines Formulary (IMF), Edition 4, has now been published and distributed to registered GPs in fulltime practice in Ireland. Since it was first published in February 2007, IMF continues to grow to meet the needs of Irish healthcare professionals. A major innovation in Edition 4 is the inclusion of Illness Definitions.

Next generation anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents have shown superiority over the current market leaders in clinical studies and are to challenge them before generics. The Business Intelligence firm La Merie S.L.

UroToday.com - Overactive Bladder (OAB) is a disease defined by its symptoms, consisting of urgency with or without urge incontinence, frequency and nocturia.1 OAB is a very common problem with an estimated 16 - 33 million sufferers in the US.2 The standard treatment of OAB is a combination of behavioral and pharmacologic treatments.

Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN) announced the enrollment of the first patient in a clinical trial of its telomerase inhibitor drug, GRN163L, in locally recurrent or metastatic breast cancer.