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Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

...ost common form of the disease is not fatal but it causes untold misery. Victims with scarring on their faces are stigmatized: children are excluded at school and girls often won't be able to find husbands. Long-neglected by the rich world, the disease is attracting a bit more attention in the West, if no...

Cancer Cells Reprogram Energy Needs To Grow And Spread

...t the loss of a single gene in kidney cancer cells causes them to stop making mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses of the cell that consume oxygen to generate energy. Instead, the cancer cells use the less efficient process of fermentation, which generates less energy but does not require oxygen. As a resu...

Brains White Matter: More Talkative Than Once Thought

...arried along the nerves, glutamate is released and causes electrical signals in the OPCs. A further microscopic hunt revealed that pools of glutamate were present in the nerve fibers wherever they touched OPCs. All of the nerve cells in the white matter that released glutamate within reach of OPCs, moreover...

Childhood Strokes Linked to Whiplash, Other Traumatic Injury

...is whiplash sustained during a car accident. Other causes include injuries from high-contact sports. Symptoms of neck trauma are neck pain on one side, accompanied by a one-sided headache, possibly with numbness and weakness on that side of the body. Contraceptives and other hormones also increase the risk ...

Aging Gracefully, With a Chronic Disease

...nvolves a malfunctioning of the immune system that causes inflammation in the lining of the joints. With time, the cartilage and bone are attacked and invaded, Fox says, to the point that the structure of the joint can be destroyed. This can lead to deformities and disabilities. Patients may develop infla...

Diabetes Drug Dramatically Boosts Potency of Platinum Chemotherapy

...skin and in mice that had received a chemical that causes them to develop colon cancer, explained Spiegelman, who is also a professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School. The experiments showed that the PPAR-gamma ligands suppressed the activity of metallothioneine genes, which are believed to trigg...

Study Evaluates the Incompetence of Blacks as Living Kidney Donors

...e differences may improve our understanding of the causes of low rates of living kidney donation among African-Americans, particularly regarding the social reasons," said Reeves-Daniel. "Is it lack of trust in the medical community, financial inability to get to doctors appointments for tests, concerns with...

First Ultrasound Thrombolysis in U.S. Performed at Emory University Hospital

...es a catheter that houses an ultrasound wire which causes fragmentation of the clot, while dripping clot busting medications are then delivered," says Dr. Chamsuddin." The catheter-based drug delivery system combines the use of targeted drug delivery catheters and the therapeutic benefits of a high freque...

Study Shows Continued Success for New HPV Vaccine Against Virus

...their lives," says Dr. Ault. "For most people, HPV causes no complications and goes away on its own. However, in some cases, if left untreated, certain high-risk types of HPV can lead to cervical cancer. "The goal of the study was to see if we could prevent precancerous cases and we were 98 percent effect...

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

...iggered by the break. "A lack of functioning ATM causes ataxia-teleangiectasia, a disease that causes a variety of debilitating problems, such as neurodegeneration, cancer and sensitivity to irradiation...

Risk of Lymphoma Increases With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

...er, M.D. "Since so much is still unknown about the causes of lymphoma, establishing which factors contribute... reduce its incidence and lessen mortality." HCV causes hepatitis, which is an inflammation of the liver. The HCV virus is carried through the blood and is ...

Study Offers Clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'

The causes of "broken heart syndrome" remain a mystery, but d...-term treatment. "Because we don't yet know what causes this phenomenon, we don't know what the best long-term management should include," he said. "As we g...

Worried of Acne? Cut Down Milk

Teenagers with acne - a common skin disease that causes pimples - may get a clear skin if they cut down their milk intake, a new study says. Many a spotty teenager has been told to lay off chips and chocolate if they want clear skin but a research carried out at Harvard School of Public Health showed t...

Protein Interactions Targets for Huntington Disease Therapy

...oteins that interact with the mutated protein that causes Huntingtons disease opens the door to developing treatments for the fatal neurodegenerative disorder, said a Baylor College of Medicine researcher who took part in the work that appears online today in the journal Public Library of Science Genetics....

UCLA Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinsons and Narcolepsy

...mage to the same small group of neurons whose loss causes narcolepsy. The findings suggest a different clini...ocultural underpinnings of normal behavior and the causes and consequences of neuropsychiatric disorders....

HIV Survival Improves If Patients Stay in Care

...against HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS) is keeping people alive, understanding the value of regular medical care is crucial," said Dr. Thomas Giordano, assistant professor of medicine infectious diseases at BCM and lead author of the report. "We know that adherence to medications ...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

...e most likely to be infected, return home. Mumps causes fever and swollen saliva glands, but it can also lead to serious illnesses such as meningitis and, in rare cases, sterility in men. The disease is spread through coughing, sneezing, sharing drinks and kissing. It can take up to seven days for symptom...

Estrogen is Important for Bone Health in Men as Well as Women

...mainly of the spine, hip and wrist. The underlying causes of osteoporosis are numerous, but in women, low estrogen levels after menopause have been considered an important factor. As for men - new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that low amounts of active estrog...

Vitamin D may Be Helpful to Curb Tuberculosis

...in D on the body's immunity to mycobacteria - that causes TB. During the study researchers took blood from all the participants and infected with mycobacteria. The group was then split into two with 64 given a dummy pill and the rest a 2.5mg dose of the Vitamin D. After six weeks, the blood was taken ...

Sunstroke Has Claimed Eight Lives So Far in Orissa in Two Months

...troke, but 21 deaths are due to other reasons. The causes behind the rest of the casualties are being probed, Sahu said. The temperature recorded Saturday was over 40 degrees in the western towns of Sambalpur, Bolangir and Sundergarh. But it was below 40 degrees Sunday, a meteorological department officia...

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