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Gift Yourself A Healthy Heart

...ight headedness. All these patients suffer from an abnormal heart rhythm caused by drinking too much alcohol -- a condition called "Holiday Heart." "Usually the patient experiences palpitations accompanied by a sensation of light-headedness. When the patients come into the ER, we learn they've usually s...

Run Amok Enzyme Causes Same Problems in Both Humans and Fruit Flies

...levels in several human cancers has been linked to abnormal tumor growth in fruit flies//, a discovery that provides a new model for understanding the link between stem cell biology and cancer, according to researchers. Using fluorescent staining and laser-scanning microscopy, the eight-member research team ...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Offered to School Girls

...ransmitted sexually and can cause genital warts or abnormal cell changes in the cervix. It is reported by centers for Diseases Control and Prevention that more than 20 million Americans are infected with HPV and nearly 6.2 million people will get the new infection next year. SRI...

Can Defective Babies Be Made To Order?

...'t heard of the technology being used to select an abnormal embryo until the survey. "It's total nonsense," Hughes said. "It couldn't possibly be 3% of the clinics" doing PGD for this purpose "because we work with them all." He said his clinic wouldn't do the procedure if asked. "To create a child with ...

Novel Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

... after reaches the brain cells and gets affixed to abnormal l protein deposits that are described as a charact... after reaches the brain cells and gets affixed to abnormal l protein deposits that are described as a characteristic of Alzheimer's. It also affixes to another...

Olive Oil Emulsions Prevent Cardiac Bypass Surgery

... between the ages of 60 and 80. These patients had abnormal arteries that were oddly shaped or winding or had particularly tight blockages--and could not be stented. After failed conventional attempts to insert stents, the Jefferson physicians were able to place the lubricated stents successfully in 17 (85 pe...

'Clumping' Protein Linked to Return of Ovarian Cancer

...e high// levels of a binding protein that triggers abnormal growth and slows down cell death, both hallmarks of malignancy. “Now there’s the possibility that testing for NAC-1 protein in cancer tissue removed during surgery might identify women most at risk for recurrence and guide doctors and patients to g...

Researchers Create Genetically-Matched Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation

...t genes that have been linked with malignancies or abnormal tissue growth. “Right now this technique is useful for basic research, but we are hopeful that parthenogenetic cells might prove useful for therapies,” Daley says. “Our cells produce normal tissues in mice, and there is a report in the clinical lit...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...or I (IGF-I), produce a range of effects including abnormal enlargement of the extremities, soft-tissue swelling, joint and spine conditions, protrusion of the jaws, and high blood sugar levels even when fasting. Patients often suffer from such complications as heart and valve disorders, high blood pressure a...

Team Discovers a Gene That Causes Familial Pancreatic Cancer

...lp them find the genes that were over-expressed in abnormal pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue. “We finally found what we had so doggedly pursued -- a gene that was expressed 21 times more than any other,” said Brentnall. “This gene, Palladin, was mutated in Family X and appeared to cause the fatal inherit...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

...leimyomatosis (LAM). The disease causes extensive, abnormal smooth muscle-like cell proliferation, which invad...ential treatment utilizing a medication to inhibit abnormal growth. This treatment is now in a clinical trial. As many as 250,000 women may be suffering from ...

Vulnerability to Ear Infections Lessened by Breast Feeding

...was known that ear infections may be caused due to abnormal genes, scientists had not been able to pinpoint which defective genes caused this abnormality. These genes seemed to have a strange complex relationship with environmental factors like smoking and breastfeeding and also with specific infectious agent...

Two-Slice-Touch Rule

...eniscus as 'torn' if there is one MR image with an abnormal finding. The authors of the study reviewed the medical records of 174 patients who had knee MR exams then correlated the MR results with knee arthroscopy to determine accuracy when diagnosing menisci as: 'torn', 'possibly torn', or 'intact'. 'This ...

Does Treatment of Fibroids Guarantee Fertility ?

Women choose to bear the inconvenience of abnormal vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain caused by growth of fibroids in the uterus and fore-go treatment due to fear of losing// fertility as the available treatments do not guarantee fertility. A study conducted by physicians at Thomas Jefferson Univer...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

...areas. Also, children of exposed parents showed abnormal growth in their upper bodies that were disproportionately smaller than their lower bodies. "The problem in the second generation due to gas exposure is one that will affect tens of thousands, and potentially many more in the future, and it needs to...

Treating Obesity Vital for Public Health, Physicians Say

...k factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and abnormal levels of glucose (sugar) and fats in the blood. Authors Lewis Johnson, M.D., and Ruth Weinstock, M.D., Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., say physicians and public institutions must work in tandem to curb the obesity epidem...

Hope For Bedwetting Children

... enuresis-related polyuria to be largely due to an abnormal nocturnal renal handling of solutes and in particular, sodium,” the authors wrote. While the study suggests that sodium is the main culprit among this subpopulation of enuretic children, there is much still to be done to understand how the process wo...

Link Between Huntington’s and Abnormal Cholesterol Levels in Brain Establishe

... move forward. The Mayo researchers observed the abnormal accumulation of cholesterol in cultured neuronal cells in the laboratory and in the brains of animal models. They found that this happens only when the mutant Huntington’s protein is expressed together with the molecule, caveolin-1. Caveolin-1 is the...

Young and Obese People Heading for Heart Trouble

...scular illness, like high blood pressure, obesity, abnormal blood sugar levels and cholesterol levels are seen more frequently among younger people. The authors Ruth Weinstock, M.D., Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University and Lewis Johnson, M.D., feel that this problem can be dealt with only if public heal...

Parkinson's Mutation Stunts Neurons

...caused by mutated LRRK2 also includes formation of abnormal deposits, or "inclusions," in the neurons. Similar...th of dopamine-producing neurons and production of abnormal inclusions. Finally, when they introduced the mutant LRRK2 into embryonic rat brain, they saw a redu...

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