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Asthma Attacks May Be Triggered By Inhalers

...d the interval between attacks, is one of its most characteristic features. Attacks appear to be at random, as a result of a whole range of external agents, such as common colds, fluctuations in the weather, and exposure to allergic triggers'. 'Our new study applies mathematical models which are commonly used in e...

Rising Rates of Whooping Cough in Idaho

...e cough, vomiting, difficulty in breathing and the characteristic high pitched “Whoop” (the sound that is heard during breathing in severe cases).All this will continue for a period of 10 weeks. People should not wait till they reach the final stages it will be advisable if they see a doctor immediately when they a...

Oxytocin Boosts Trust and Reduces Fear.

...ism. Autism is associated with social fear and the characteristic symptom is that the patient avoids looking at the others face. Researchers have also found that these autism patients have high activity of amygdale and hence fear facing other humans. Further research has to be done on the effect of oxytocin on...

Lack Of Estrogen In Brain Tissue Of Women Can Lead To Alzheimer's

...eed up the build up of ‘plaque’, which is a common characteristic of the disease. An analysis of the serum estrogen levels revealed lower levels of the hormone in both patients with Alzheimer’s and control subjects. Hence no correlation between the serum estrogen levels and the onset of the disease could be ident...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

...such a high degree of chromosomal instability is a characteristic of cancer cells. Further, the human Rev3L gene is located in a segment of chromosome 6 which is home for multiple tumor suppressor genes and a slew of human cancers, including a number of leukemias and lymphomas. This segment is associated with chrom...

Seroquel to Treat Depression In Case Of Bipolar Disorder

...ng from mental depression. Bipolar disorder is a characteristic mental imbalance in which the individual experienc...f mania and then immediately suffers from the lows characteristic of mental depression. The incidence of this disease is very low and is about 3-4 % among the adult...

New Generation Clinical Trials Could Save Time And Money, Improve Patient Care

...o continuous updating as information accrues. This characteristic makes it possible for medicine to build adaptive designs in clinical trials. Berry argues that the Bayesian approach is better for doctors, patients who participate in clinical trials and for patients who are waiting for new treatments to become a...

Methyl-DNA binding Proteins To Fight Cancer

...r 10 and 30 key genes that can also serve as tumor characteristic markers. This will save resources and time, sparing the need of analyzing the entire genomic profile. In cancer therapy, chimeric Kaiso protein could be created. The ordinary Kaiso protein (via DNA methylated binding) inhibits the work of cancer su...

Helicobacter pylori effectively killed by Sodium nitrite

... a fatal flaw that could help physicians clear the characteristic "goop" from the lungs of advanced cystic fibrosis patients. The reason for optimism, the researchers say, is that the same genetic change that turns Pseudomonas aeruginosa into a sticky, antibiotic-resistant killer also leaves it susceptible to de...

Air pollution increases asthma in Canada

...a, the United States and Mexico. The disease has characteristic features such as wheezing and chest pain. It is prevalent among the children in North America. Statistics show that about one million children in Canada have or have had asthma. Statistics taken in 2003 said that Canadian boys aged 8 to 11 wee suff...

PET Scans Could Predict Treatment Outcomes In Cancer

...sorbed more actively by tumor cells and it is this characteristic that could make it very useful in assessing the impact of treatment on cancer....

Novel Technique For Identification And Treatment Of Neurodegenerative Diseases

...iron causes such disorders or iron deposition is a characteristic symptom of the same. The new technique could accelerate research on the cause of such neurodegenerative disorders. Conventional methods used for identification of such iron particles rely on staining of tissue sections. The disadvantage of these me...

Functional Taste Cells Cultured In Vitro

...creases of intracellular calcium, another property characteristic of mature taste cells. Hakan Ozdener, MD, PhD said that the taste cell culture system provides new insight into the differentiation process of the basal cells into the functional taste cells. This study also suggests that induction of these cells d...

French Minister To Visit La Reunion Island To Monitor Chikungunya Epidemic

...wahili that means ‘stooped walk’. It refers to the characteristic posture of those afflicted with the disease. The island attracts lot of travelers form Europe and yields a good amount of revenue. Despite the high incidence of the disease, the health minister has stated that travelers can visit the island. Use o...

Inclination of North Carolina’s Elderly Population towards Home Remedie

...ind that ethnicity was the most important personal characteristic in predicting CAM use. African-Americans and Native Americans were 81% and 76 % respectively who used home remedies than whites....

Stem Cell Therapy For Heart Attack Found To Be Ineffective

...nts were diagnosed to have a ST-segment elevation, characteristic of acute myocardial infarction. The patients had undergone angioplasty and other similar percutaneous coronary intervention procedures for opening up a narrowed coronary artery. They were assigned to receive either G-CSF or a placebo for 5 days fol...

Humans in the bird flu net: suspects in Azerbaijan

...ng rapidly progressive acute pneumonia - a typical characteristic of H5N1 infection. Following these deaths a daily house-to-house investigation was initiated, conducted by four teams of hospital staff, searching for persons in the settlement with respiratory symptoms or fever. The search resulted in hospitalizat...

New Therapy For Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome

...eeks and made them hypersensitive -- in a way also characteristic of people suffering long-term effects of traumatic stress. In a study published in Science, the researchers said stress causes a shift in gene products -- called mRNAs -- by producing an unusual variant of the acetylcholinesterase or AChE protein....

Mass Spectrometry to Identify Viruses

... determine the mass of the particles. By targeting characteristic particles, or peptides, belonging to the viral coat protein, the virus can be correctly identified by matching the results to entries in genetic databases. In the Hopkins study, a stool sample treated with non-infectious virus-like particles, struc...

Transplantation Results in CJD Transfer

...y progressive dementia associated, myoclonus and a characteristic electroencephalographic pattern. // Although CJD appears to occur as a predominantly sporadic disorder it can also occur as a dominantly inherited or infective condition. CJD occurs worldwide with a roughly even incidence of between 0.5-1.0 cases pe...

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