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Massachusetts To Restore Immigrant Health Care, Colorado Medicaid List Grows, Obama In North Carolina
Massachusetts lawmakers will vote today to provide $40 million to restore health care coverage for legal immigrants.
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Yale And Tsinghua University To Develop Healthcare Leadership In China
As part of its continuing engagement in global health issues, Yale University"s Global Health Leadership Institute is partnering with Tsinghua University to launch a four-year leadership development program in healthcare management for women in China. The effort is part of the 10,000 Women initiative, a program launched by Goldman Sachs to provide business and management education to women around the world. The program is based on research from Goldman Sachs, the World Bank, and others which found that investments in women can lead to significant economic and social returns.
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Enzyme Involved In Inflammatory Bowel Disease Discovered At Penn State College Of Medicine
Researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, working with biochemists, geneticists and clinicians at the University of Bern, Switzerland and in the United Kingdom, have discovered an enzyme that has a key role in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The team, co-led by Judith Bond, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State College of Medicine, and Daniel Lottaz, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at the University of Bern, Switzerland, could potentially lead to therapies to help the half-a-million Americans affected by ulcerative colitis and Crohn"s disease, collectively referred to as IBD.
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High Blood Pressure May Be Programmed In The Womb

A scientific study has found further evidence that high blood pressure in adulthood is pre-programmed in the womb. Researchers from the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton who carried out tests of 278 elderly people found those with high levels of aldosterone in their blood - a hormone which increases blood pressure - also had a low birth weight. High blood pressure and low birth weight have previously been linked to high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the bloodstream, but this is the first study to look specifically at levels of aldosterone. The findings suggest that levels of cortisol and aldosterone are closely linked, with production of both likely to be controlled by the same hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system. The researchers believe the results suggest that early conditions in the womb which retard fetal growth also program the level of aldosterone production by the HPA system. Aldosterone and its role in heart disease is the focus of a number of studies at the MRC Cardiovascular Research Group at Glasgow. Professor John Connell, a senior researcher and Professor of Endocrinology at the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, who leads the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cardiovascular Research Group, said: "This study tells us that aldosterone is regulated by long-term factors that operate throughout the lifespan; it is an important mechanism for regulation of high blood pressure and may explain why some are more pre-disposed to it than others. This data also highlights aldosterone as a therapeutic target in treating high blood pressure." The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and the Medical Research Council and is published in the June edition of the journal "Hypertension". Nexxus, Scotland


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