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FDA Approves First Nucleic Acid Test to Screen for Additional Types of HIV in Donated Blood and Tissue By Bloodindex News Bureau	FDA Approves Drug for Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer By Bloodindex News Bureau
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the cobas TaqScreen MPX Test, the first nucleic acid test that screens for the presence of two divergent types of HIV in donated blood plasma and tissue. “With the MPX test, blood donor testing laboratories will be able to use nu...read more	The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the injectable drug degarelix, the first new drug in several years for prostate cancer. Degarelix is intended to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. It b...read more

New insight into Alzheimer’s disease By Bloodindex News Bureau	Safe new therapy for genetic heart disease By Bloodindex News Bureau
A new molecule important in a part of the memory that allows recognition of people has been identified by researchers This type of memory is impaired at an early stage during Alzheimer’s diseas...read more	A new clinical trial suggests that long-term use of candesartan, a drug currently used to treat hypertension, may significantly reduce the symptoms of genetic heart disease. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a genetic heart disease where the h...read more

Psychological symptoms and personality characteristics affect quality of life after stroke By Bloodindex News Bureau	Heart and stroke death rates down, some risk factors still too high By Bloodindex News Bureau
Anxiety, depression and fatigue may decrease long-term quality of life (QOL) for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) stroke survivors A subarachnoid hemorrhage occurs when a blood vessel on the brain’s surfa...read more	The age-adjusted death rates for coronary heart disease and stroke have each reached about a 30 percent reduction since 1999 The reductions in the coronary heart disease (30.7 percent) and stroke (29....read more

Music therapy helps relieve anxiety, emotions of cancer diagnosis By Bloodindex News Bureau	Research pinpoints how the drug modafinil enhances cognition By Bloodindex News Bureau
Music therapy helped me focus on something else other than the traumatic events of the cancer diagnosis, and just forget for an hour or so, to just go into a different world for a little bit Bigras is one of many patients at the University of Michigan Comprehensive ...read more	UC Davis researchers discover new mechanism for attentional control in the human brain A study by UC Davis researchers appearing today in the journal Science repo...read more