Tag: sciences
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Factbox: Science’s ‘Breakthrough’ prize winners
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The following is a list of winners of the Breakthrough Prizes, worth $3 million each, announced on Sunday in Mountain View, California. Life Sciences: Karl Deisseroth, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the D.H. …
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What’s healthier than walking to work? Running to catch the bus: study
Taking the bus or train to work may be even healthier than walking, according to a new study published Sunday by the American Heart Association. “Bus/train commuters had even lower rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and overweight than the walkers or bikers,” according to a press release about the findings, which were presented at…
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Cytokinetics, Amgen drug shows promise in heart failure study
By Bill Berkrot ORLANDO (Reuters) – An experimental heart failure drug being developed by Cytokinetics Inc and Amgen Inc demonstrated several beneficial cardiac function effects in a midstage clinical trial, according to data presented on Sunday. The trial of 448 patients with chronic heart failure already receiving optimal care tested a twice-a-day oral version of…