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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...pproximately 15 million people. To find out what causes Alzheimer’s -- plaques, tangles or both -- researc...n tau and amyloid, and it is that interaction that causes cognitive deficits,” he says. These Mayo mice are offered to any scientist studying Alzheimer’s dis...

Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study

...uggest that an enzyme secreted by the microbe that causes tuberculosis would make a promising target for new drugs to combat the deadly infectious disease. The Swiss team first identified the enzyme, protein kinase G (PknG), as a promising drug target back in 2004. At the time, they said that the prote...

Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...overed a virus believed to be carried by bats that causes serious respiratory illness in humans. Malaysian health authorities decided to name it "Melaka virus" after it infected a family of four in southern Malacca state in March last year. State officials objected, saying it was "an insult" and would h...

Electric Field Therapy to Zap Cancerous Tumours

...fering with cell division of cancerous cells which causes the cells to stop proliferating and die off instead of dividing and growing. The device was developed by a team of researchers led by Professor Yoram Palti at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The fields disrupt the movement of a cel...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...disease is rarely fatal. In livestock, brucellosis causes infertility and abortions. As bioterrorism agents,...ing Infectious Diseases (EID). Coxiella burnetii causes a flulike disease in humans that is rarely fatal, according to the CDC. It is called Q fever. 'Que...

Strange Sex Life of Mole-rats may Provide Clues About Human Infertility

...vulatory cycle, while in the non-breeding males it causes lower testosterone concentrations, and lower numbers of sperm. In most non-breeding males, sperm that are present are non-motile, Dr Faulkes added. The queen also appeared to exert control over breeding males, so their testosterone levels are kept ...

Egyptian Clerics Say Female Circumcision Un-Islamic

...the compelling evidence of the extensive damage it causes to women's bodies and minds," said the decree issued by the office of the mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa. The Egyptian government announced plans on Thursday to impose a total ban on female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris, but t...

Just One Cigarette can Cause Nicotine Addiction

...diction-related changes in the brain that nicotine causes are permanent and remain years after a smoker has quit, which is why an ex-smoker who relapses after many years of abstinence cannot keep the craving away by smoking one cigarette per month....

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...'s definition of an epidemic. The disease, which causes joint pain, high fever, nausea and a rash, is ende...uitoes now carry a different strain of dengue that causes more people to come down with the illness....

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...a substance in the body called nitric oxide, which causes the blood vessels to widen, making more room for the blood to flow and lowering blood pressure. Milk chocolate, white chocolate, or dark chocolate eaten with milk do not have the same benefits as plain dark chocolate. Our study, says the doctor, ...

Major Gene Link Seen to Childhood Asthma

...a is an inflammation of the bronchial airways that causes the airways to constrict, causing shortness of breath and wheeziness. The causes are complex, rooted in genetic susceptibility and in an allergic response to so-called environmental...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...he brain condition is not completely reliable, and causes specialists to wrongly tell people that they are suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). They insist that the new technique developed by them can detect people having fatal levels of abnormal proteins called prions, which kill off ...

Lab Tests Throw Up New Path for Parkinson's

...ein that, in rats, rescues brain cells whose death causes Parkinson's disease , the tragic degenerative diso...Saarma of the University of Finland. Parkinson's causes uncontrollable shaking, along with impaired speech and movement. In approximately one third of cases...

New "second-line" AIDS Drug Shows Promise in Trials

...nt of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS) -- to below 50 viruses per millilitre of blood. At the 24-week point in the two trials, 56 and 62 percent of patients in the etravirine group had achieved this goal, The Lancet paper says. Among the "placebo" group, the rate was 39 and 44 per...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...cientists and doctors long baffled by the multiple causes and brain processes for depression may now have a ...the circuit can help explain why there can be many causes and treatments of depression. "It also helps us understand conceptually how something that seems a...

New Asthma Gene Identified

...d Project to investigate genetic and environmental causes of asthma in the European Union. GABRIEL is coordinated by Professor William Cookson at Imperial College and Professor Erika von Mutius at the University of Munich...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...ould be a breakthrough in the understanding of the causes of the malignancies. Lead researcher at Sydney's University of New South Wales, Professor Andrew Grulich said the research looked at two groups -- those infected with HIV/AIDS and kidney transplant patients. "Immune suppression is really the only...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...aining portion of his or her finger, the tight fit causes it to depress a lever on the X-Finger, articulating the device in proportion to the pressure exerted. The precision mechanism guides the digit's movements to match those of adjacent fingers, creating an uncannily realistic prosthesis where it count...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

...atients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) - which causes a reduction in the blood supply to the heart, usually felt as angina - are given varying advice from doctors, health organisations and drug manufacturers about how to use the drugs (sublingual nitrate GTN sprays) prescribed to relieve the condition. ...

Ban on Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors

...d. There is also some evidence that hookah smoking causes chromosomal damage. When used for smoking tobacco, the hookah is included in the legislation that came into force in England on 1 July 2007 banning smoking in public places. The authors believe that including the hookah in the legislation is appr...

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