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Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

...ould eventually lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Concerns centre on the safety of E211, known as sodium benzoate, a preservative used for decades by the 74bn global carbonated drinks industry. Sodium benzoate derives from benzoic acid. It occurs naturally in berries,...

Emory Participates in Study to Slow Progression of Parkinson's Disease

...he symptom progression of this disorder. PD is a degenerative disorder of the brain in which patients develop tremor, slowness of movements and stiffness of muscles. It affects at least one million people in the U.S. Currently, there are a number of effective treatments to mask the symptoms but none to slow the...

Risk of Parkinsons Increased by Exposure to Pesticide and Head Trauma

...onal risk factors for Parkinson's disease or other degenerative parkinsonian syndromes....

IDD Therapy Offers Non-Surgical Back Pain Relief

...echnology is ideal for herniated or bulging discs, degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, sciatica and acute or chronic back pain. IDD therapy is deployed via the Accu-SPINA System, and works to reshape the spine using computer technology to apply traction to spots causing lower back pain. The traction pro...

Mouse Model Points to Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease & Kidney Disorders

...ereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), a rare, degenerative muscle disease. In an unexpected finding, the research indicates that the approach also might benefit patients with certain kidney disorders. The scientists, led by Marjan Huizing, Ph.D., an associate investigator in NHGRIs Medical Genetics Branch,...

Test Drug Seen as Best Hope in Decades for Tackling Parkinson's

... protect your heart." Parkinson's is an incurable, degenerative disease of the central nervous system that causes uncontrollable shaking, along with impaired speech and movement. In approximately one third of cases it also results in dementia. Estimates of its prevalence vary between 0.1 and 0.3 percent of th...

Cancer Time Bomb Threatening Economic Infrastructure

...ey are living longer, we're seeing more cancer and degenerative diseases of the brain”, according toYou-Lin Qiao, a professor of cancer epidemiology at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing. Most of the people living in impoverished condition do not have access to health insurance. Leave alone insu...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...s of the joints. Osteoarthritis is also known as degenerative arthritis. Among the over 100 different types of arthritis conditions, osteoarthritis is the most common, affecting over 20 million people in the United States. Primary osteoarthritis is mostly related to aging. With aging, the water content of the...

Parkison’s Conquered Through Stem Cell Therap

...or secondary or supplementary treatment option for degenerative disorders", said Dr N.K Venkataramana, Director, Manipal Institute of Neurological Disorders. The hospital's regenerative medicine department was currently carrying out clinical trials in stem cell therapy in 15 spinal cord injury patients and was...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

... of Americans whose vision is slowly ebbing due to degenerative diseases of the eye, the lowly neural progenitor//...e been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The new study appears today (March...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

... of Americans whose vision is slowly ebbing due to degenerative diseases of the eyes,// will relieved to hear that...e been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The lead author of the study,...

Chinese Doctors Perform World’s First Disc Transplant

...0 operations a year are carried out in England for degenerative back problems. But current methods do not offer gu...ch transplants could be an effective treatment for degenerative disc disease." Yet Dr. Ruan admits it would be a "challenge" to extend the technique-to the lower...

NIH Announces Phase III Clinical Trial of Creatine for Parkinson's Disease

...tes across the United States and Canada. PD is a degenerative disorder of the brain in which patients develop symptoms such as progressive tremor, slowness of movements, and stiffness of muscles. It affects at least one million people in the United States. Although certain drugs, such as levodopa, can reduce th...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...em cells (hESCs) hold great promise for benefiting degenerative diseases. The study is the first to provide eviden...mation that typically occurs in the brains of most degenerative diseases, including Sandhoff's, and likely contributes to disease progression. "Our studies sugges...

Neck Pain Treatment Safer Without Significant Risk of Paralysis

...tions was due to aging of the spine. This includes degenerative changes such as osteoarthritis of the spine, bone spurs, disc degeneration and narrowing of the spinal canal. Additional alternative treatments for neck pain are physical therapy, traction, narcotic and non-narcotic pain medication and, in some cases...

Biologists Trace Cause Of Early Blindness To Tissue Defect

...deremia, an X chromosome-linked hereditary retinal degenerative disease that leads to blindness in an estimated one in every 100,000 people, beginning with severe loss of vision and night blindness as early as the pre-teen years and progressing to complete blindness by middle age. Using a line of mutant zebrafi...

Nonsurgical Thoracic Aorta Repair Has Much Less Risk of Paralysis Than Surgery

... had diseased aortas in the thoracic area, such as degenerative aneurysm, dissections, ulcer, and other pathology. In the second study, coming out of a major trauma center in Canada, all of the patients were healthy without an underlying disease, but had suffered a violent life-threatening injury to the thoracic ...

Prolactin Comes to the Aid of MS Sufferers

... finding could mean better treatments to solve the degenerative effects of the disease. The finding came to light after Canadian scientists drew a parallel between pregnant mice and virgin mice and the effects of prolactin on the formation of myelin. This has sparked hope amongst scientists about a possible r...

Stem Cell Research Lab Coming Up in Jaipur

...he stem cell research would also make treatment of degenerative diseases easier." The laboratory would provide a platform to the college faculty to understand the advances in research on diseases, he said. A special stem cell bank would also be created at the medical college. The department of gynaecology, th...

Effective Marketing of Multivitamins Essential

...roducts on nutrient adequacy as well as in chronic degenerative disease prevention. In this quest, the development of more and better surrogate markers of adverse effects will be critical. Dose-response assessments of safety are badly needed for updating recommended safe and tolerable Upper Intake Levels," he say...

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