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World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...e probability that a common disorder will at times afflict people with uncommon potential." However certain types of epilepsy especially when it involved the temporal lobe of the brain maybe connected to creative work such as composing, painting or writing. The temporal lobe seizures may also fire neurons...

Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones

...rls for the project. Anyway autism itself tends to afflict boys more than girls. "The study authors have uncovered a promising new lead in the quest to understand autism," said Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. "Future research will determine w...

Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study

...e loss of vision and even blindness that sometimes afflict premature babies, a new study has shown. When researchers gave tiny doses of omega-3 fatty acids -- found in wild salmon, sardines, anchovies and other coldwater oily fish -- to mice with the eye disease retinopathy, the loss of blood vessels whic...

Anxiety Disorders Show in Tiny Tots

Anxiety disorders seem to afflict humans very early, not sparing even tiny tots. Children as young as two are being treated for anxiety disorders in New South Wales in Australia. Anxiety disorders in children are far more prevalent than depression, figures released by Macquarie U...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...her types of hereditary disease. DMD is known to afflict one in 3,500 boys and is marked by weakness and muscle wasting. Children born with cystic fibrosis suffer digestion and respiratory problems and tend to die early. Both these conditions are caused by so-called "nonsense mutations" in the child's DNA ...

Drugs for Parkinson’s May Be Useful for Stroke-related Disabilit

...have untangled two similar disabilities that often afflict stroke patients, in the process// revealing that one may be treatable with drugs for Parkinson's disease. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that stroke damage in a brain region known as the putamen is stro...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

... eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The new study appears today (March 28) in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. The lead author of the study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher David Gamm, says the cells - formative brain cells that arise in early deve...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

... eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The lead author of the study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher David Gamm, says the cells - formative brain cells that arise in early development - show "some of the best rescue, functionally and anatomically" of any such work ...

'Cancer Prevention' - In Your Hands

...There are nearly 100 types of cancers, which could afflict any part of the body. The most common types of cancers are - Lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, colon cancer, and breast cancer. More than 7 million people die each year due to cancer with 70% of the deaths occurring in developing countries. ...

Osteoporosis Does Not Spare Men Either

...lem but that the bone-wasting disease can severely afflict them, too. Dr. Aliya A. Khan, a professor of clinical medicine, and a group of five Canadian experts have developed guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of osteoporosis in men. Their paper appears in the January 30 issue of the Ca...

Blame Myelin for Many Neuropsychiatric Disorders

...at myelin problems are implicated in diseases that afflict both young and old — from schizophrenia to Alzheimer’s. Now, in a report published in the journal Biological Psychiatry and available online, Bartzokis argues that the miles of myelin coating in our brain are the key “evolutionary change that defi...

Breast Cancer Patients Suffer From Psychological Problems

...mood disorders and related functional impairments, afflict up to one-third of breast cancer survivors for up to 20 years after treatment. However, little was previously known about the baseline psychological status of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. To help characterize pre-treatment psychological ...

Joint Effort: Striking ‘Bone’ Homie with Arthrits

..., technically called the synovial joints. This can afflict any joint, but peripheral joints, such as the hands, fingers and toes are more susceptible. RA is known to cause impairment in the functional ability, and can even cause irreversible damage to joints. Excruciating pain is the curse of the severely...

Anti-allergy vaccine based on 'hygiene hypothesis'

...on allergies like asthma, pollen and hayfever that afflict millions of people.// The ‘hygiene hypothesis’ suggests that allergies may occur indirectly due to too much cleanliness as it deprives the immune system of a proper training against germs that have lived with humans for millions of years. As a resu...

Pancreatic Cancer Surgery Successful in 80-Year-Olds

...xpected, Dr. Yeo says, and involve conditions that afflict many that age, such as heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. “The general aging population isn’t dying from pancreas disease,” he notes. “They are dying from other causes.” “If there is a mass that is resectable in the pancreas, chances ...

Survivors of Holocaust More Likely to Have Cancer

...er of the large intestine was nine times likely to afflict male survivors. 'The age at which Jewish people experienced the Holocaust was important', Micha Barchana of Israel's National Cancer Registry was quoted as saying by the New Scientist. 'Girls who were less than 10 years old during the war were tw...

Three-Day Bio-Tech Event Inaugurated

... affordable to the poor and focus on diseases that afflict the less developed world. 'There is something wrong with the model the West has adopted in drug development. That model must change. It is time that the West and MNCs realised that it must change.' Sibal told the meet, attended by delegations from I...

Micro vascular Disease Enabled with a Superior Test, Courtesy: Women’s Heart Progra

...ds to treat this disease. This disease is found to afflict women much more than men. “Only in recent years have physicians become aware of micro vascular disease - a dysfunction of the heart’s small arteries - as a significant problem for women,” explains Bairey Merz, who directs Cedars-Sinai’s new Women’s...

Did You Know That 50% Of Deaths Due To Cancer, Can be Prevented?

Cancer can afflict anyone, even the health conscious, but dying from cancer can certainly be avoided, according to a new study//. To make this happen, it would obviously warrant lifestyle changes; to name a few, -giving up smoking, adopting nutritious food habits, regu...

Trachoma cannot be obliterated with just one dose of antibiotic

...imately results in blindness. Trachoma is known to afflict an estimated 84 million people worldwide, and the poor in Africa seem to show a tendency to contract it. ...

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