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Cannibalistic Signals Help Mammalian Embryos Develop Normally

...ls that die during normal embryonic development is described in a study appearing online today in Cell. Mouse embryos lacking autophagy have cells that can’t make the chemical signals needed for their removal by healthy cells. If dead cells build up, it can result in abnormal development and inflammation and a...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

...eir implantable device, as did one patient who was described in the report. “Simply moving the person away from the anti-theft device may save their life,” Dr. Gimbel says. Though Gimbel’s report outlines only two cases of anti-theft devices causing implantable heart devices to malfunction, he asserts that...

Special Diets Necessary for Those Undergoing Chemotherapy

...d taste in the mouth were the most common symptoms described by participants in the recent study conducted by Dr. Wendy Wismer and Dr. Vickie Baracos. However, Wismer says that every patient with chemosensory dysfunction has unique symptoms, and a diet tailored to her needs would likely improve quality of life...

Gene Hunters at Johns Hopkins Close In On Lou Gehrig's Disease

...tory of the disease. In the Johns Hopkins study, described in the online version of Lancet Neurology this month, Traynor and his team scanned the entire genome of 276 adult male and female subjects with sporadic ALS and 271 adult male and female subjects with no history of neurological disease. Researcher...

Antibiotic Vancomycin May Trigger Dangerously Low Platelet Count

...ost cases,” Says Dr. Aster. “Three of the 29 cases described ended fatally. Serious bleeding appears to have contributed to these outcomes.” It is not widely recognized that vancomycin can cause thrombocytopenia. For that reason, the medication was continued in 15 of the 29 patients while other possible cau...

Spinal Cord Stimulation Pilot Study for Chronic Angina

... get as much oxygen as it needs. The pain is often described as a squeezing pain in the chest, shoulders, arms, neck, jaw or back and is sometimes described as feeling like indigestion. Angina is one of the most common symptoms of coronary artery disease wh...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

...porting privacy and security. The function list is described from a user perspective and enables consistent expression of EHR system functionality, while the conformance criteria serves as a reference for purchasers of EHR systems and vendors developing EHR software. “This new standard is a ‘superset’ of funct...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

... such as Parkinson’s disease. Berthod and his team described the method used to produce these neurons in a recent issue of the Journal of Cellular Physiology. The researchers used skin obtained from plastic surgery procedures. They subjected these skin samples to various treatments in order to extract neuron...

Novel Test Identifies Leukemia Patients Likely to Respond to New Therapy

...ature Medicine article, Dr. Melnick and colleagues described a peptide, which they dubbed BPI, that showed promise in treating B-cell lymphomas by specifically blocking the cancer-causing effects of the BCL6 protein. But until now, there has been no way to distinguish between diffuse large B cell lymphomas tha...

Human Genetic Code for ALS Identified

...tory of the disease. In the Johns Hopkins study, described in the online version of Lancet Neurology this month, Traynor and his team scanned the entire genome of 276 adult male and female subjects with sporadic ALS and 271 adult male and female subjects with no history of neurological disease. Researchers...

Computer Tool Helps Pinpoint Risky Gene Mutations

...d and validated a new computer tool. The system, described in the issue of Public Library of Science Computational Biology, evaluates 16 “predictive features” to help answer a critical question: Is a particular mutation a harmless variation or a genetic glitch that could set the stage for cancer? In blind bi...

Artificial Teeth Developed to Replace Missing Teeth

...her researchers at the Tokyo University of Science described how they took two kinds of cells -- mesenchymal an...ture as a normal tooth. Tsuji hopes his method - described as world first - could eventually be applied more widely. "We hope to collaborate with dentists and ...

Never-Betrayed Men Less Likely to Indulge in Child Sex Abuse

...ey heard short vignettes in which a male or female described an incident that occurred at age 9 years involving an adult figure. The victim in each case also reported whether the memory has always remained fresh, since the incident or if it was recently recalled. Females, including those who had and had n...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

...esearchers created a low-pitched, pulsing sound -- described as a “calming, pleasant tone” of 40 to 100 hertz o...ter about 90 seconds and provided what the patient described as a high-level of continued relief. Zeng’s patient programs the low-pitched sound through his coc...

Researchers Warn Against the Use Of Garlic To Treat Childhood Ailments

... garlic use, Vohra said. Adverse effects of garlic described in adult and pediatric studies were generally minor, with garlic's pungent smell on both the breath and body being the most commonly reported, but the most serious adverse effect of garlic was associated with topical use. Three pediatric studies repo...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

...ratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA). For each test described in the current study, scientists analyzed one or more of eight genes known to cause diseases of the retina. Of the 350 tests, 266 were performed to confirm a clinician’s diagnosis, by far the most common use of genetic testing for eye disease. Ano...

Smoking Increases Risk of HIV Acquisition

...ch link. The single study that did find a link was described by the investigators as being of “poorer quality.” Two studies did, however find a link between smoking and bacterial pneumonia, and one of these also found that smokers had an increased risk of developing AIDS-related dementia, but it also found tha...

Scientists Develop a Harmless Multi-Tasking Reovirus

...urgery Conference in Cambridge, U.K., in which she described a test tube experiment further supporting this claim. Fraser's presentation, titled "Reovirus as a Potentially Immunogenic as well as Cytotoxic Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer," reported how cells taken from a colorectal cancer liver meta...

13,000 Cases of Dengue Found in Brazil in January

...id on Wednesday. Health Minister Agenor Alvares described this figure as very high, nearly matching the 15,000 cases seen in the first 11 months of last year. Alvares said health authorities were adopting all possible measures to fight the disease, noting that "as soon as we knew about the situation in t...

‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd

...ngly gave guides on war rationing. The new guide described as a manual on healthy lifestyle choices does exactly that, according to the health minister. “Our new food guide contains more information than ever before to help Canadians make wise choices about the food they eat and how to stay healthy,” Mr. C...

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