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Link between athleticism and neurological disease

...r was cut short by it. Oddly, researchers have now discovered a link between being athletic and developing ALS, as well as motor neurone disease, which is a related condition. The team, at the Neurological Institute, New York, studied 200 patients with motor neurone disease, and 152 with other neurological pr...

Useful Cancer drug stops tumour blood supply

...xas, through research on Wilson's disease, // have discovered a compound, known as tetrathiomolybdate (TM) that could fight cancer by lowering copper levels. Researchers found that copper plays a previously unexpected role in promoting blood supply - angiogenesis - to a tumour. Much other research is currently...

Bacterial discovery may help CF patients

Microbiologists from Australian and Danish have discovered a way to prevent or disturb the formation of bacterial colonies, which they believe may bring a string of benefits from preventing lung infections in cystic fibrosis sufferers to cleaner contact lenses.// The discovery, by scientists at the Universit...

A new discovery about Acetaminophen

...searchers at Brigham University in the US have now discovered a new COX enzyme, COX-3, which appears to be the target of acetaminophen. This explains why the drug is a good painkiller, even though it has very little effect on COX-1 or COX-2. The study may help scientists discover even more useful painkillers in...

A new discovery about Acetaminophen

...searchers at Brigham University in the US have now discovered a new COX enzyme, COX-3, which appears to be the target of acetaminophen. This explains why the drug is a good painkiller, even though it has very little effect on COX-1 or COX-2. The study may help scientists discover even more useful painkillers in...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...gs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959 and have since been shown to help shrink solid tumors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in about 20 percent of patients. In this study, researchers from...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...gs called chloroethylnitrosoureas. They were first discovered in 1959 and have since been shown to help shrink solid tumors, including cancerous brain tumors. Studies in adults with brain tumors showed fotemustine was at least partially effective in about 20 percent of patients. In this study, researchers from...

Longer airway in males increases sleep disorder risk

...nd researchers in the US now believe they may have discovered the underlying reason. They have studied the anatomic and physiologic differences in the upper airway region between men and women. This has enabled them build an airway model that reveals the mechanical properties of the upper airway. They find that...

Protein in eye fights diseases

...or author of the study. Taylor and his colleagues discovered that the alpha-MSH plays a significant role with the T cells. In autoimmune diseases, the conventional T cells perceive a part of the body as foreign and attack it. When the MSH protein was injected into the mice, the T cells changed and did not atta...

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

... high fat diet is bad for you. But little has been discovered about why some people absorb a lot more of the cholesterol in their diet than others. Researchers at Rockefeller University have been working with genetically modified mice to discover the genes for cholesterol absorption. They have narrowed their ...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...-term complications. Researchers in Spain have now discovered that medication commonly used to treat seizures may help patients suffering from RLS. Researchers studied 24 patients who were given either a placebo or the medication gabapentin for a six-week period. Physical and neurological examinations were don...

Testing for blood sugar levels made easier

...However, researchers from University of Texas have discovered a new non-invasive test, using optical coherence tomography, which will end the pain of pricking for diabetes patients. Optical Coherence Tomography uses advanced photonics and fiber optics to obtain images of tissues. It uses infrared light waves t...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

... histories from 17 families with the syndrome, has discovered that changes in a gene called connexin 43 are to blame for the disorder. Researchers have expressed astonishment at the delay in linking a connexin gene to the disorder which affects so many body systems as connexin 43 and related genes are present ...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

...eatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) have discovered that drugs or molecules used to inhibit myostatin - a protein that inhibits muscle growth - might prove to be the anticipated// answer. MDA grantee Kathryn Wagner of John Hopkins University showed in a new study, published online, that muscle mass a...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

...noxide - normally considered a deadly poison. They discovered that the carbon monoxide spared much of the vessel damage associated with transplantation and angioplasty in the pre-treated rats. The researchers claim that the carbon monoxide blocks white cells of the immune system from infiltrating the damaged ar...

Asmanex Twisthaler launched by Schering-Plough for treatment of asthma

...haled corticosteroid mometasone furoate, which was discovered and developed by Schering-Plough Research Institute. The product employs a state-of-the-art, inhalation-driven device that does not use a propellant, thus eliminating the need for hand-breath coordination. Asmanex Twisthaler represents a major new ...

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...journal, Cancer Cell reported that scientists have discovered why some tumors respond less well to drug treatment as compared to others. Researchers have found that high levels of a specific molecule within cancer cells seem to block the effect of drugs such as Taxol, which are used to treat a number of cancers...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...ified as taking place in the nematode worm. It was discovered that the worm used tiny pieces of double-stranded RNA to switch off rogue genes that would otherwise harm it. Subsequently, researchers found that synthetically produced RNA sequences could be used to target genes in human cells. Using this discovery...

Ways to whiter teeth!

...d then, destroyed them! However, dentists have now discovered many easy and ingenuous ways of maintaining teeth// white without suffering any devastating losses. Tooth discolouration is caused due to staining of the tooth enamel by highly-coloured compounds called tannins and polyphenols, which are found in fo...

Treatment for cholesterol-related illnesses likely with the discovery of receptor in mice

...f mice that protects them from toxins. Researchers discovered the receptor during a study of cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX), a rare and often fatal disorder caused by excessive cholesterol metabolites. They said that Pregnane X receptor (PXR)// is present in humans but does not recognise or eliminate all ...

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