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Most Heart Patients Do Not Need Antibiotics Before Dental Procedures

...f an artificial patch to repair a congenital heart defect within the past six months and patients with a his...s such as ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The new recommendations apply to many dental procedures, includi...

Potential Lifesaver Drug Announced

...ns, between 5-15 per cent of cases are caused by a defect called a “nonsense mutation”. Genes are instruction manuals for cells to make proteins, but nonsense mutations in effect introduce a command halfway through that stops production. The kind of protein disrupted determines the nature of the disease. ...

Understanding of Schizophrenia Could Lead to New Treatment Options

...tive of mental illness. "We show that causing a defect in white matter is sufficient to cause biochemical and behavioral changes resembling those seen in neuropsychiatric disorders," says Corfas, the study's senior author. "I think this will provide a new way of thinking about the causes of, and possibly...

Master Regulatory Gene of Epithelial Stem Cells Identified

...commitment and differentiation," says McKeon. "The defect is simply running out of stem cells. When you run out of stem cells, you run out of those tissues as we have seen with the mice lacking the p63 gene." Having established that p63 was only important to the maintenance of stem cells, McKeon and his r...

New Hypertension Drug Wins FDA Approval

...lmonary arterial hypertension, liver injury, birth defect risks, death, heart failure, breath, rare disease,...hypertension. Because of liver injury and birth defect risks, the drug will be available through the Letairis Education and Access Program, a restricted di...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

...ical to sustaining life. A life-threatening birth defect known as congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), re...and that it is not limited to a single or specific defect in the diaphragm and is often accompanied by other major malformations, usually relating to the lung...

March of Dimes Praises Folic Acid Fortification

...es from being born with a disabling or fatal birth defect with such an easy means. There is no real basis to the suggestion made by some commentators today that folic acid fortification should be rolled back." There is no evidence that folic acid consumed through fortified foods causes any adverse effects...

Protein in Human Sperm may Hold Clues to Male Infertility

...ation in order to fertilize the egg. If you have a defect in this (protein), then fertilization capacity of the sperm will be impaired or reduced,' Chang said. 'For many people, they are infertile, but they don't know why, so diagnosis would be the immediate advantage,' Chan added. The findings of the s...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

...which introduced mandatory fortification have seen defect rates decline by up. The evidence has prompted the FSA board to agree to the measure after rejecting it five years ago. But critics argue that fortifying bread amounts to "mass medication", denies consumers choice and creates health problems be...

Memory Loss Linked to Cognitive Disorders

...itive disorders involve a specific, long-suspected defect in the connections between cortical neurons, Lynch said. Scientists also found that LTP structures encoding memory were defective in mouse models of Huntingtons disease. They discovered that these synaptic defects could be fully reversed through tr...

Low Test Scores Of Children Linked To Their Date Of Conception

...ects. "We actually found that every single birth defect category had a greater risk between April and July," Winchester said. "It suggests that with seasonal factors, something is conferring increased risk." And it is not just risk for birth defects; according to Winchester, the number two cause of infa...

Master Regulatory Gene of Epithelial Stem Cells Identified

...commitment and differentiation," says McKeon. "The defect is simply running out of stem cells. When you run out of stem cells, you run out of those tissues as we have seen with the mice lacking the p63 gene." Having established that p63 was only important to the maintenance of stem cells, McKeon and his r...

Osteoarthritis Facts and Causes

...but it is not known if FAI that is not caused by a defect can also lead to the condition. Recognizing that the Asian lifestyle requires a larger range of hip motion than the Western lifestyle, a new study examined FAI in Japanese patients with normal hips. Led by Mitsuyoshi Yamamura of Kyowakai Hospital i...

Benoits Son Suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a Rare Mental Disability

...hen he was on the road.' Fragile X Syndrome is a defect of the X chromosome which causes mild mental retardation. The disorder occurs more frequently and severely among males than females. This condition is the leading known familial cause of mental retardation in the United States. Language delays, beh...

Alteon Initiates Phase 2 Trial of ALT-2074 in Diabetes and Haptoglobin 2-2

...p2-2 increases the susceptibility of patients to a defect in their cholesterol metabolism, which may promote atherosclerosis, and to a weakness in their antioxidant defense, so essential to the human body when oxygen is less available (during a heart attack for example). Targeting a potent antioxidant dru...

New Innovation in Clubfoot Treatment

...ce that maintains correction for clubfoot, a birth defect in which the foot is turned in toward the body, has shown better compliance and fewer complications than the traditional brace used to treat the condition. Matthew B. Dobbs, M.D., associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the School of Medicine...

First Gene Linked to Scoliosis Identified

...es. It lays the groundwork for determining how a defect in the CHD7 gene, which is thought to play a criti...ound that patients with scoliosis very often had a defect in the gene's non-coding region, an indication that the error did not disrupt production of the CHD7...

It is Men, and Not Women, to Be Blamed for Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

...y, told IANS. "While 20 cases of the 35 showed a defect in the sperm plasma membrane and enzyme in the top of the sperm (Acrosome), 29 cases reported problems in the nuclear chromatin de-condensation." The new findings on sperm quality are greatly expected to help women who suffer from recurrent pregnan...

Food Council Makes Right Decision With Mandatory Folate Fortification

... since 2004 as a simple way to prevent neural tube defect in pregnancies. It is an inexpensive and highly effective way to reduce this severe birth defect, Dr Thomas said. ANZFRMC has taken an important step towards reducing the incidence of this life-threatening condition. The AMA welcomes the decision...

Study Finds Abdominal Fat Not the Prime Cause for Metabolic Syndrome

...ung, lean, insulin-resistant subjects had a marked defect in muscle glycogen synthesis and diverted much more of their ingested carbohydrate into liver fat production, the researchers said. The study demonstrated that insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, caused by decreased ability of muscle to make gly...

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