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New Research Discovers Link Between Smoking And Brain Damage
New research which suggests a direct link between smoking and brain damage will be published in the July issue of the Journal of Neurochemistry. Researchers, led by Debapriya Ghosh and Dr Anirban Basu from the Indian National Brain Research Center (NBRC), have found that a compound in tobacco provokes white blood cells in the central nervous system to attack healthy cells, leading to severe neurological damage.

Acucela's Novel Visual Cycle Modulator Demonstrates Promise As A Treatment For Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Acucela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing new treatments for blinding eye diseases, announced today that data on the company"s novel visual cycle modulator, ACU-4429, a potential oral treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), will be featured at the Aegean Retina XI Meeting being held in Crete, Greece from July 3 to 5, 2009. Dry AMD is a leading cause of vision loss in people over the age of 50, yet there are no therapies currently approved to treat this condition.
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Methane-Producing Molecule Can Also Repair DNA
The Archaea are single-celled organisms and a domain unto themselves, quite apart from the so called eukaryotes, being bacteria and higher organisms. Many species live under extreme conditions, and carry out unique biochemical processes shared neither with bacteria nor with eukaryotes. Methanogenic archaeans, for example, can produce methane gas out of carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The underlying chemical reaction, a reduction, involves the cofactor known as F0 or F420 which is the tiny molecule deazaflavin. It has previously been found only in methanogenic bacteria, and has accordingly been considered the signature molecule for those species. A research group working with Professor Thomas Carell, however, has now shown that this cofactor is also common in eukaryotes, where it performs an entirely different function: deazaflavin is involved in DNA repair processes. (PNAS Early Edition online, 1 July 2009)
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July 30th: America's Nurses, Doctors, Seniors Celebrate Medicare's 44th Birthday And Toast The "Uniquely American" Healthcare Solution

Healthcare Advocates Will Present Congressmembers with "Happy Birthday Medicare" Cakes-And a Plea to Improve and Expand the Beloved Program What The former personal physician to President Obama will lead more than one thousand nurses, doctors, seniors, and healthcare advocates July 30th in marking the birthday of Medicare, and toasting the success of a "uniquely American" healthcare solution. Similar events are occurring at the district offices of senators and representatives across the country. The healthcare advocates will celebrate in Upper Senate Park, and then fan out across Capitol Hill with birthday cakes to make the point that we already have a unique American solution to our healthcare crisis, Medicare, which should be improved and expanded to all Americans. That elegant solution-called the "single-payer model"-is succeeding around the world and is being sponsored in Congress by Rep. John Conyers (HR676) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (S703), with a companion amendment to HR3200 offered by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, that would allow experimentation with state-based single-payer systems. Who Sponsored by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare, including the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, Physicians for a National Health Program, Progressive Democrats of America, and Healthcare Now. When Thursday, July 30th, 1 p.m. Where Upper Senate Park, Constitution Ave. b/w Delaware and New Jersey Aves, Washington, D.C. Why "We know how to provide healthcare in this country and we know how to fix our healthcare crisis. We"re celebrating Medicare"s birthday because it is the unique American solution to our healthcare problems-and we"re going to take the opportunity to remind Congress of this," said Geri Jenkins, RN, co-President of the National Nurse Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association. "Unfortunately, the debate in Congress, and much of the delivery of medicine in this nation, has been hijacked by the health insurance industry, and its army of lobbyists, who don"t care about patients, and only care about maximizing corporate profits. Only a recommitment to Medicare can change that." Concurring press conferences happening in other states: Thursday, July 30th, 11 a.m. - Upper Senate Park, Constitution Ave. b/w Delaware and New Jersey Aves, Washington, D.C. - Rep. Grijalva"s office 810 E. 22nd St. - Tucson, AZ - 450 Golden Gave Ave, San Francisco, CA - 4401 Santa Anita Ave - El Monte, CA - Rep. Hastings" office 2701 W. Oakland Park Blvd.,Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Rep. Titus" office, 8215 S. Eastern Ave. - Las Vegas, NV - Sen. McCaskill"s office, 5850-a Del Mar Blvd. - St. Louis, MO California Nurses Association


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