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Through an innovative drug screening process designed to find compounds that target cellular energy metabolism, a team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital found that the drug Meclizine has the potential to revolutionze the way doctors treat strokes and heart attacks...
...This is the first time nutrient sensitized screening has been used to identify drug targets in human cells,” said Vishal M. Gohil, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-lead author of the study. “People never thought it was possible to do this approach on the scale...
...While this research could be useful for patients at higher risk for ischemia, we still need to nail down how exactly this drug is causing cells to rewire their metabolism,” Sheth said. “Our findings are very exciting, but so far we have only done animal trials and remain cautiously optimistic about applications in humans...
...local families until they find their feet, it's been a fragile relationship. Many are competing for jobs with the Rohingya, who are often willing to work for less than Bangladeshis. Others worry that armed extremist gangs are radicalizing the youth of this marginalised, leaderless community, and suspicions of drug smuggling and an increase in petty crime in the camps have been recorded in the local press. With a new round of elections slated for later this year in Burma, locals are increasingly concerned that another exodus from its neighbor state may ensue and the situation in Bangladesh might further...
...insecurity in the region? Two reasons are terrorists and drug smugglers, who have been attracted to West Africa by its weak governments and whose presence has weakened them further. First, the region has become a staging ground for operations by militant Islamists calling themselves al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a group largely made up of Algerian fighters who fled south in the late 1990s after losing a decade-long war against the government. AQIM specializes in the kidnapping - and occasional execution - of foreigners, something that prompted the Paris-Dakar rally to move to South America...