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Imperial College London stories: 7 news summaries

Higher Blood Pressure Kills 8,000 Black Americans a Year

Extent of deadly racial disparity surprises researchers


Nov 11, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 8,000 lives a year are being lost because blacks suffer from higher blood pressure than the white population, surprising new research has discovered. "We expected it to be big, but it was even larger than we anticipated," said a researcher of the racial disparity. Some 40%... More »

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African Americans • diet • blood pressure • exercise • Surgeon General • Imperial College London • high blood pressure • Annals of Family Medicine • Feinberg School of Medicine • Dr. David Satcher

 French Debut Fat-Burning Drug 

New drug tricks body into burning fat

Nov 5, 08 10:59 AM CST
(Newser) - French scientists have developed a drug that fools the body into burning fat even when on a high-fat diet, reports the BBC. The drug is a chemical cousin of resveratrol, a substance found in red wine and thought to combat heart disease. Higher doses of the compound completely prevented weight... More »

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Acomplia • resveratrol • Imperial College London • diet drug • University of Louis Pasteur • rimonabant • Robert Gordon University • SRT1720

Cops Probe 'Horrific' London Murder of French Students

Brits jolted by
brutal killings

Jul 4, 08 5:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scotland Yard detectives are investigating the "frenzied" murder of two French research students in their flat on a quiet London street, the BBC reports. The biochemistry students were tied up and stabbed a total of 243 times before being set alight. A man was seen running from the building... More »

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torture • London • murder • stabbing • arson • Imperial College London

 Fat Cell Numbers
 Don't Bulge: Study 

Fat cells remain stable throughout life

May 5, 08 7:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The number of fat cells is set for a lifetime in childhood, a new study indicates. The latest research into obesity reveals fundamental new insights into why some people become fat and why it is so hard for overweight people to keep excess pounds off—even after a successful diet,... More »

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obesity • Imperial College London • Karlolinksa Institute • fat cells • radioactive isotopes • Jaspal Kooner • British Heart Foundation • Pasteur Institute

Blood Pressure Drugs
Cut Elderly Death Rate

Study finds surprise major benefit of treating those over 80

Apr 1, 08 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Death rates, heart attacks, and strokes among people over 80 can be cut significantly by common blood pressure medication rarely given to older people, finds a new large-scale study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study found death rates among the elderly could be cut 21%... More »

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hypertension • heart attack • eldercare • Imperial College London • Hyvet • strokes • indapamide • perindopril • Help the Aged • National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence • geriatric medicine

Of Mice and Men, and a Cure for Colds

Researchers find a
way to infect rodents with rhinoviruses

Feb 4, 08 9:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have managed to give a mouse a cold. May not sound like a huge deal, but it is: One reason a cure for the common cold has been so elusive is that until now, only primates have been infected with rhinoviruses, which cause them. Now a team at Imperial... More »

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mice • common cold • rhinovirus • cold cure • Imperial College London

PhD Will,
PhD Will
Rock You

Queen guitarist, 60, submits astronomy thesis after 36 years

Aug 3, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Queen guitarist Brian May dropped his academic pursuits to tour the globe as a young rock star, but after 36 years he has finally handed in his PhD thesis, which he began researching in 1972. The 60-year-old aspiring astrophysicist delivered a 48,000-word study on "zodiacal dust clouds" to... More »

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music • London • Queen • Brian May • guitarist • rock and roll • guitar • thesis • astrophysics • PhD • Imperial College London

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