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Positive Animal Study on MYO-VAD, Promise for Treatment of Heart Failure

...d heart attack 22% of men and 46% of women will be disabled with heart failure, according to the American Heart Association. This devastating disease currently has no cure and affects an estimated 5,000,000 Americans each year. According to Jeffrey Helfer, President of Biophan’s Cardiovascular Division, “th...

'Picture-To-Speech' Projects Help Disabled Speak

...h as $1,500. Eighty percent of the intellectually disabled have difficulty articulating words, Mahaindra said, adding he hopes to have 300 Singaporeans equipped with the PDAs by 2009. The development effort has received a $92,300 grant from the South Korean electronic giant Samsung. Source-IANS...

Brain-Damaged Girl Frozen in Time to Remain Child-Sized Forever

This is a story about a disabled nine-year-old girl, Ashley X, who will never grow ... be the first time that the growth of a profoundly disabled person has been deliberately inhibited, and the ethics surrounding the treatment for disabled childr...

Social Care for Elders to Be Limited

... indicate it will rise by 53%. The number of young disabled people is also increasing. Between 1975 and 2002 it rose by 62%. To cope with this, two-thirds of councils only offer support to those with substantial needs. Says Age Concern’s (a charity for elders) director general Gordon Lishman "This is a d...

Humble Cold to Combat Cancer

...ge, the study will be using uncoated adenovirus or disabled viruses, in order to make them less pathogenic. The team hopes to understand the safety in treatment of humans, and the dose required. Says Dr Richard Sullivan of the research’s fund sponsor Cancer,"Whilst this approach is still at an early stage o...

Global Goal to Reduce Measles Deaths in Children Surpassed

...ainst measles, which has long killed, sickened and disabled our children. Our determination is stronger than ever to make measles history by further strengthening our measles control activities, working in concert with our international partners and setting aside resources.” A strategy to reduce measles mor...

New Ideas on Developing Thought-Controlled Artificial Limbs

...ther ways. "Whether it is a prosthetic device or a disabled body function, the mind could regain control," says Smith. To create the interface, the team used a newly developed process of stretch growth of nerve fibers called axons, previously pioneered in Smith's lab. Two adjacent plates of neurons are grow...

Gene Behind Lincoln’s Diseas

...versity of Utah study found that when the gene was disabled in tiny nematode worms, their nerve cells literally broke. The discovery may provide a new explanation for spinocerebellar ataxia type 5 (SCA5), a disease previously tied to a human version of the gene and identified in 11 generations of U.S. Presi...

New Rebate a Win For Intellectually Disabled

Intellectually disabled Australians will soon enjoy better access to quality health services, thanks to a new Medicare rebate created// at the AMA’s urging, AMA President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said. “As a group, people with an intellectual disability have some of the wors...

Robotic Therapy Helps Restore Hand Use After Stroke

...n in their hands and wrists and were rated as less disabled on a standard occupational therapy assessment tool called the Fugl-Meyer score. “Assessing changes in before-and-after scores within each subject, these were highly significant gains after three weeks of therapy,” Cramer said. The UCI team is now...

Generic Biologics – U.S Panel Hearing Draws Mixed Response

...e and Medicaid insurance programs for the elderly, disabled and poor, also stands to save millions of dollars. While different politic parties support diverse views, Sen. Mike Enzi, Wyoming Republican advises caution, ' Any time we start legislating on complex scientific issues and don't know all the fact...

Light-activated Compound May Be of Help for Epileptics in Future

...that adding the fluorescent tag to the steroid had disabled it. "Normally, the steroid keeps the cell quiet in the face of stimuli that would otherwise cause it to fire," Mennerick says. "That's why drugs like barbiturates and Valium, which act on the same receptor as the steroid, are sedatives—they quiet t...

Gene Therapy To The Aid Of Cystic Fibrosis.

...wick. Her current technique of using vector in the disabled version of HIV to avert it from expressing as any disease has shown positive results. This has helped in the effective delivery of genetic material to the lungs of adult mice. Gene therapy techniques are also reported to have benefits in treating s...

Learning Disabilities If Undetected Early Proves Costly Later

...h kids. According to him, many parents of learning disabled children are not able to afford learning aids or services intended for such children. The study also suggests training courses for teachers on detecting and teaching children with learning disabilities. This study, called Putting A Face On Learning...

Inquiry into Past NHS Treatment Disaster

...peer Lord Alf Morris, Britain's first minister for disabled people and the present president of the all-party parliamentary group on hemophilia, has been leading the campaign on the patients' behalf. Hemophilia is a disorder where the blood takes longer time to clot due to the absence or limited amount of o...

Ireland’s ‘Forgotten’ Patients To Be Given Better Cre

...nd does not in any way meet the needs of this very disabled group of patients.” There are 15 large institutions catering for mental health patients. Currently, 1,683 patients have been in hospital for more than one year, and another 1,077 for more than five years. "The numbers of long stay patients are ...

New Technology Reveals Proteins Responsible for Diseases

...membrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR), which, when disabled by mutation, causes cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease that results in progressive disability and early death. Another important ABC protein is the Multidrug Resistance Protein (MRP), which normally removes drug metabolites and toxins from cells i...

WHO Concerned About Growing Two-wheeler Deaths in Asia

... Millions more people are injured and often remain disabled for life. In low and medium-income countries, victims are often pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists and users of public transport. A motorcycle is also a family vehicle, with children routinely transported as passengers. Helmets are rarely us...

Mentally Ill Patients - Victims Of Assault By Their Caregivers

...s.” The unit houses up to a dozen intellectually disabled people who have been before the courts. They are said to pose a danger to themselves as well as to society. "We're talking about people who have been placed under court orders and who are with an organization that is charged in law with their rehab...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...bladder cancer was what happened when Chang's team disabled the androgen receptor in mice. While their normal counterparts with the androgen receptor got significant levels of bladder cancer when exposed to a carcinogen – 92 percent of the males and 42 percent of the females – not a single mouse whose androge...

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