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Obama Uses Popularity To Make Case For Health Reform In Wisconsin
President Obama used his popularity Thursday at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisc., in an effort to help make the case to Americans that a health care system overhaul needs to happen this year, Time reports.
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Serum Bile Acid Profiling For Inflammatory Bowel Disease Characterization
Based on serum bank material, BA profiling was applied in IBD patients and healthy controls which showed that most but not all BA species were decreased to a different extent in CD and UC. BA decreases were highly pronounced in CD patients with surgical interventions in the gut. On the other hand, UC patients with additional liver and gallbladder diseases showed clearly increased levels of those BAs that are synthesized directly in the liver (primary BAs), or subsequently modified by intestinal bacteria (secondary BAs). Furthermore, a marked decrease in the toxic BA lithocholic acid (LCA) was found together with a marked increase in its physiological detoxification product, hyodeoxycholic acid (HDCA), irrespective of the IBD phenotype or clinical manifestation, which showed accelerated detoxification activity in IBD patients. Thus, serum BA profiling might serve as an additional diagnostic tool for IBD characterization and differentiation. In combination with expression profiles of nuclear pregnane X receptor (PXR)-regulated genes, it might allow us to estimate the BA detoxification potential of IBD patients.
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Calling Everyone With Type 2 Diabetes, UK
Diabetes UK is looking for people with Type 2 diabetes to answer a quick and easy online survey about your experiences of hypoglycaemia ("hypos").
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Secondary Prevention: Aspirin Combined With Dipyridamole Just As Effective As Clopidogrel; Endarterectomy Safer Than Angioplasty

In the area of secondary prevention as well - guarding against renewed events in patients who already suffered from a stroke or a TIA - Professor Ferro points to important new research: "In this patient population, the direct comparison between Clopidogrel and the combination of aspirin with extended release Dipyridamole did not reveal any difference between both strategies." Both approaches have proven to be slightly more effective than aspirin alone. Another important strategy for secondary prevention is carotid surgery, which reduces the risk of recurrent disabling stroke or death in patients with severe carotid artery stenosis. "Several trials have compared surgery and stenting," Professor Ferro notes. "They revealed a significantly higher risk of any stroke or death within 30 days after stenting." European Neurological Society


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