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Study Links Folic Acid Supplements to Asthma

A University of Adelaide study may have shed light on the rise in childhood asthma in developed countries like Australia in recent decades.

– University of Adelaide|11/3/2009 8:00 PM EST

Study Points to New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects of Already-existing Drugs

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs.

– University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine|11/3/2009 8:00 PM EST

Estrogen and Stroke Risk

New study shows that a long period of estrogen deprivation can lead to loss of sensitivity and protective effects in the brain and weaken areas normally resistant to stroke damage.

– American Physiological Society (APS)|11/2/2009 3:00 PM EST

Tiny Heart Pump Helps Treat the Sickest Patients

Cardiologists at the University of Illinois Medical Center are using a new heart pump that can be inserted without the need for surgery and allows them to treat high-risk patients with a procedure to unblock their heart arteries.

– University of Illinois at Chicago|11/3/2009 4:25 PM EST

Jefferson Researchers Receive $3.9 Million in Challenge Grants

Four researchers from Thomas Jefferson University have received $3.9 million in Challenge grant funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

– Thomas Jefferson University|11/3/2009 4:25 PM EST

Furman University Receives $2.5 Million DOE Grant for Geothermal Project

Furman University has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy that will allow the university to install an environmentally friendly geothermal heat pump system in a student housing complex. It is estimated the new system iwill save the university more than $2 million in energy costs over the next 20 years and substantially reduce its carbon footprint.

– Furman University|11/3/2009 4:20 PM EST

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