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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...neration, an age-related affliction that gradually destroys central vision, is a scourge of old age, robbing people of the ability to read, recognize faces and live independently. The finding that the brain cells protected the cells in the eye was a surprise, according to Raymond D. Lund, an author of the ...

Educational Video Increases Knowledge but Not Behavior

...d by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which destroys the tiny center of the retina known as the macula. It is the leading cause of (legal) blindness among European-descended people older than 65 years. Without assistive devices and adaptive behaviors, sufferers of AMD are often unable to perform daily ...

Socialization may Help to Avoid Alzheimer’

...r's is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person's memory and ability to reason and make judgments. David Bennett and other researchers from the Rush University Medical Center studied 823 people in and around Chicago with an average age of about 80, none of who had dementia at the start ...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...nfants. The accumulation of lipids in brain tissue destroys the brain cells instrumental in controlling and coordinating body movement and results in inexorable deterioration of the brain and spinal cord. Children suffering with Sandhoff rarely see their sixth birthday. Sandhoff mice are similarly affected. T...

Protein Blockade For HIV Infection

...ke a virus vacuum cleaner which captures HIV 1 and destroys them. HIV infection occurs when there is an increased level of HIV or when the langerin activity is weak. This clearly explains why HIV is very difficult to contract. Geijtenbeek said this research opens up the possibilities of increasing langerin ...

Outpatient Treatment Kills Benign Bone Tumors Nonsurgically With Heat

...or a benign bone tumor called osteoid osteoma both destroys the tumor// and eliminates debilitating pain. The ...al technique — radiofrequency ablation — heats and destroys the nerve endings in the tumor that were causing pain. It also preserves the patient’s healthy bone,...

Specially Treated Prawns for Seafood Allergy Sufferers

...ctive amino acid residues. Subsequent heating then destroys the exposed residues. 'Radiation and heat seems to be a promising method for reducing the immunoreactivity' say the researchers. Samuel Lehrer of Tulane University in New Orleans, USA, is already working on removing allergens from prawns using gene...

Max Planck Researchers Incorporate Odorant Receptors into Artificial Membranes

...ilising the latter using detergents. However, this destroys the natural folding structure of the protein membranes, which is precisely what makes the proteins so special. "We quickly realized how difficult it is to isolate such membrane proteins. Neither we, nor other research groups, were able to work with t...

Growth Factors Given With Chemotherapy may Increase Risk of Blood Diseases

...d cell that helps control infections. Chemotherapy destroys these cells, and it is difficult for the body to quickly replace them. However, there is some concern that these growth factors may keep cells alive that have been mutated by chemotherapy. Ordinarily, certain cell processes would recognize such da...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...tive disease that develops between ages 10 and 68; destroys nerve cells in the part of the brain that controls movements; causes loss of coordination in walking, speaking, writing and swallowing; and puts some patients in wheelchairs. Earlier research showed beta spectrin makes red blood cells flexible so t...

Virus may Be the Cause of Mad Cow

...pongiform encephalopathy, is a cattle disease that destroys brain tissue by causing abnormal tangles of protein fibers and creating microscopic holes in the brain. It is part of a family of slow-developing brain diseases, including scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Human infection in...

Anaesthetics may Cause Brain Disorder in Elderly

...mer's, a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person's memory and ability to reason and make judgments, said Mandal. "I work on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and dementia with Lewy body disease using the NMR scan and brain imaging. I do not know in particular what anaesthetics are used in India....

Low-Dose Steroids Reduce Joint Damage From Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys healthy joint tissue. The hands and feet are frequently affected, and as the disease progresses it can cause pain, swelling, deformity and disability. The steroids studied in the review are known as glucocorticoids and include the well-known anti-i...

Statins Aid Survival in Lung Patients, Say Experts

...shortness of breath and difficulty breathing as it destroys the lungs. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates COPD will become the third-biggest killer illness worldwide by 2020. It afflicts people over 40 who have been smoking for many years. It contributes to other illnesses such as pneumonia, he...

Scientists Unravel Superbug That Kills in 24 Hours

...ause necrotising pneumonia, a disease that rapidly destroys lung tissue and is lethal in 75 per cent of cases. In 2004 it killed Richard Campbell-Smith, an 18-year-old Royal Marine, who died after scratching his legs on gorse during a training exercise in Devon. An outbreak last month at Norfolk and Norwic...

South Asians, Don’t Blame Your Genes Anymor

... traditional way of cooking or over cooking, which destroys nutrients and are prone to stress caused by difficulties in adapting.VSays one of the lead researchers, physician Salim Yusuf of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada: I think South Asian immigrants who have come to Nort...

New Gene to Help in Understanding Alzheimer’s Diseas

...with Alzheimer's, an incurable disease that slowly destroys the patient's brain and always ends in death. The prevalence of the disease ,which is the top cause of dementia,is expected to double over the next 25 years as the population ages. The discovery of this genetic risk factor is definitely an advance...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...ed lepers still bear the scars of the disease that destroys the skin, peripheral nerves and mucous membranes, resulting in the loss of fingers, toes and limbs and damage to eyes. Fu Pochu used to work as a nurse at Nam Lang Hospital in Hong Kong. After a leg injury, she was given artificial hipbones in an o...

Safer ICU’s: Cheap, Simple, “Low-Tech” Steps Wrk

...improve patient safety,” says Pronovost. “Our data destroys this myth by showing that profound improvements can be made with minimum cost and effort, as long as clinical teams are committed to improving safety and willing to diligently observe relatively simple safety measures.” Nationwide, an estimated 80...

Young Women Beware Of LAM

... muscle-like cell proliferation, which invades and destroys the tissues of the lung by forming cysts, eventually obstructing the flow of air and leading to lung collapse and failure. Solving the puzzle…Globally, researchers tackled the first step, finding out what caused the cell proliferation and identifyi...

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