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Blood Vessels
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Blood Vessels

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Blood Vessels Defined

A tube through which the blood circulates in the body. Blood vessels include a network of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins.

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Company fights own drug's release

Published August 28, 2008, 9:21 am, The Mercury

WASHINGTON - What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients $60 per treatment and the other $2,000?

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ThromboGenics Announces Half Year Results 2008

Published August 28, 2008, 9:04 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

ThromboGenics NV , a biotechnology company focused on innovative treatments for eye disease, vascular disease and cancer, is today issuing a business update and its financial results for the six month period ending June 30, 2008.

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Company won't help study probing cheaper eye drug

Published August 28, 2008, 7:39 am, CTV.ca

Genentech Inc. will not help a U.S. National Eye Institute blindness study comparing the effectiveness of Avastin, a cancer drug, and the more expensive eye drug, Lucentis.

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Variations Of Rare Lung Disease Examined

Published August 28, 2008, 7:37 am, Science Daily

Scientists are conducting a new research study that examines why symptoms of LAM are different in certain subgroups of people with the goal of finding more successful therapies.

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2 eye drugs from same company may be equally effective

Published August 28, 2008, 6:49 am, C-Health

What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence that two of its drugs are equally effective in treating a leading cause of blindness in the elderly, one costing patients C$63 per treatment and the other C$2,100?

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Justice For Thousands Facing Blindness

Published August 28, 2008, 6:16 am, Medical News Today

Guidance published yesterday by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) will save the sight of thousands affected by the UK's leading cause of blindness, says the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).

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Gene linked to eye disease

Published August 28, 2008, 6:14 am, San Diego Union-Tribune

LA JOLLA – An international team led by a UCSD eye researcher has found the first genetic link to dry age-related macular degeneration, the most common form of progressive blindness. A study by the team describes a genetic variant in about 66 percent of the population that appears to protect people from certain kinds of viral damage, a leading suspect in the development of the eye disease

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Possible Association Between High Levels Of Uric Acid And Hypertension

Published August 28, 2008, 6:13 am, Medical News Today

Reducing levels of uric acid in blood lowered blood pressure to normal in most teens in a study designed to investigate a possible link between blood pressure and the chemical, a waste product of the body's normal metabolism, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Chelsea's Droxidopa receives US FDA Fast Track status for NOH

Published August 28, 2008, 5:43 am, PharmaBiz

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to Chelsea Therapeutics International's Droxidopa for the treatment of symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH).

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US Pharmacies Now Supply ADHD Medication VYVANSE In 6 Dosage Strengths

Published August 28, 2008, 5:15 am, Medical News Today

Shire Limited (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, has announced that VYVANSE is now available in U.S. pharmacies nationwide in three additional dosage strengths, bringing the total number to six: 20 mg, 30 mg, 40 mg, 50 mg, 60 mg, and 70 mg. The expanded VYVANSE dosing options will allow physicians to individualize treatment for each patient.

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  • Read these Facts about the Magnificent Body God Gave You!: I got the following information from the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago website. It is very fascinating stuff and reminds me of how great God is. It is totally amazing at how complex God made you and me. How can thousands of blood vessels all work together in perfect order for the heart to beat correctly 24 hours a day? We are wonderfully and magnificently made, and no man could have ever been smart enough to do that. Only the one true Living God could have done it. He made the world and everything in it perfectly.

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  • Cardio Cocktail: Melt the Plaque in Your Arteries: Ingested as a nutritious drink, it contains l-arginine, the main ingredient determined by a Nobel Peace Prize researcher that can increase nitric oxide in the body to "melt away" plaque in the arteries and make them smooth and strong like Teflon.

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