Biologics valuable treatment option for patients with inflammatory bowel disease
... month’s issue of Gastroenterology , the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. IBD includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, both frequently disabling diseases that affect approximately one million people both in the U.S. and Europe. The conference examine...A new century of Alzheimer's disease research
...as the two forms of plaque (AB40 and AB42). In the journal Science, Michael Hutton, Ph.D., Dennis Dickson, M.D., Jada Lewis, Ph.D., Shu-Hui Yen, Ph.D., and Eileen McGowan, Ph.D., presented the mouse model, saying it is the best animal model possible to test therapies aimed at slowing down, or halting, neurod...Researchers Discover How Cancer Evades the Immune System
...earcher, whose findings have been published in the journal Cell. Dr. Epstein and his student Rebecca Sadun used real-time PCR (rtPCR), a high-speed gene amplification technique, to screen tumours to identify 14 pro-immunity genes (downplayed by tumours) and 11 anti-immunity genes (promoted by tumours). ...Insecticide-treated Bed Nets to Combat Malaria in Older Children and Adults
...ngs of the study were published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine....Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected
...se, according to an August 2005 article in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). Coxiella burnetii causes a flulike disease in humans that is rarely fatal, according to the CDC. It is called Q fever. 'Query fever' usually shortened to 'Q fever', was named by Dr John Derrick, who described ...Skin Rashes Signifies Longer Survival in Cancer Patients
...in the July 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, reports that for patients taking Tarceva who developed a moderate to severe rash, survival without progression of disease was 245 percent longer than in patients who had a mild rash or none at all. In ...Chronic Insomnia can Lead to Anxiety Disorders and Depression
... the study were published in the July issue of the journal SLEEP....Researchers Reveal Why Eyes See Things Changing Colour
...s. In the study, published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften, the researchers examined the remarkable two-tone colour of pumpkin seed oil by combining imaging and CIE (International Commission on Illumination) chromaticity coordinates. The study also explains why human vision perceives su...Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours
...ublished in the July 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research....Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials
...In the July 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, a team of National Cancer Institute researchers asks a fundamental question: are we looking at cancer vaccine trials the wrong way". In a review of five prostate cancer vaccine trials, NCI researchers...Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma
...blished online on Wednesday by the British science journal Nature, says. Twenty-four experts from Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Austria joined the DNA trawl, comparing samples from 994 children with asthma against those from 1,243 local children who did not have the disease. Asthmatic y...Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis
...School of Medicine report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. "We studied pediatricians and malpractice because while the medical malpractice issue is extremely stressful and gets a lot of press, and we all have heard numerous horror stories and anecdotes, there is little actual data reported, esp...Influenza Virus Samples of 1918
...enza researchers worldwide. In an article in the journal Antiviral Therapy, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, narrate the story of how scientists discovered samples of the 1918 strain in fixed autopsy tissues and in t...New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis
... the July 3, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers compared levels of antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid of 66 African Americans to 132 Caucasians with MS. The study found antibody levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of African Ameri...Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats
...he circuit, according to the study released on the journal Science's website. Karl Deisseroth, a professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said the circuit can help explain why there can be many causes and treatments of depression. "It also helps us understand conceptually ho......ntists , whose findings are published today in the journal Nature. In a genetic study of more than 2,000 children, scientists from the University of Michigan and colleagues from London, France and Germany found genetic markers that dramatically increase a child's risk for asthma. These markers are located...DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age
...erta and a co-author of the paper appearing in the journal Science. Sharp said the sample suggested that the temperature of the southern Greenland boreal forests 450,000 to 900,000 years ago was probably between 10C in summer and -17C in winter. The reduced glacier cover in that region also meant the gl...Organically Grown Food More Healthier
...ertilization. A recent review, published in the journal Nutrition Bulletin and authored by Claire Williamson from the British Nutrition Foundation, stated that the overall body of science does not support the view that organic food is more nutritious than conventionally grown food. "Organic farming rep...Role of MicroRNA in Cancer Suppression Identified
...company, announced today research published in the journal Molecular Cell by scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Rosetta Genomics . The findings suggest the potential for a specific, single microRNA (miR-34a) to be used as a drug candidate in cancer therapy to increase programmed cell-death...... results published today in the online open access journal BMC Public Health suggest that the acetaminophen (paracetamol) overdose rate in Calgary, Canada dropped by over 40% in the decade to 2004 , without a change to the smaller pack sizes that were credited with overdose reductions in the UK. young women...