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Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...(HCC) a devastating complication of chronic liver disease and inflammation caused by risk factors such as hepatitis B and C viruses, or alcoholic liver disease makes up the majority of liver cancers in humans. Overall, men are three to five times more like...

Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight

... fully involved in the war against HIV/AIDS if the disease is to be defeated. "There aren't enough men who are taking enough responsibility to go for tests and live responsibly, and that kind of (behaviour) compromises the fight," Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, South Africa's Deputy President, told the closing s...

Combination of Tratuzumab and Chemotherapy Yields Better Results for Breast Cancer

...major survival benefit in women with an aggressive disease subtype. The level of effectiveness demonstrated by this analysis is largely unprecedented in the treatment of solid tumors, the authors say, and highlights the potential of implementing targeted agents with cytotoxic chemotherapy. More informati...

Prions Capacity can Be Aggrevated by Solid Particles

...tudy,the rogue proteins that cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) exhibit a dramatic increase in their infecti...nt because it may help explain how chronic wasting disease and scrapie persist in the environment and spread efficiently in animal populations. "We found a hu...

No Flu Outbreak Here , West Australians Told

...had triggered off panic. The state communicable disease control Paul van Buynder had said tests had established that the three children had died from a combination of influenza A and a bacterial infection. "Parents whose children have cold- or flu-like symptoms, including a cough and a fever, should see...

Parkinsons Disease Mechanism Identified

...ent pathway . In the vast majority of Parkinsons disease (PD) patients, the disorder arises not because of a genetic defect, but because some external insult triggers the death of dopamine-producing neurons. In both mice and human patients, the researchers have found evidence that neurons die because of ...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...ral population without pre-existing cardiovascular disease or diabetes , there are 3.2 million adults under t...ities.A new score for predicting the risk of heart disease gives a more accurate measure of how many UK adults are at risk of developing the disease and which...

Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

...in the brain are more likely to develop Alzheimers disease . Older adults showing signs of both conditions were seven-times more likely to develop Alzheimers than their peers. Alzheimers disease, a highly debilitating and ultimately fatal neurological disease, is already associated with other risk factors...

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...e potential to treat CDAD and reduce the number of disease recurrences, resulting in improved quality of life for the patient and significant savings to the healthcare system....

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...l dilemma remains over screening and testing for a disease for which there is no cure. A total of 161 people have died from variant CJD since the disease emerged in early 1990, including three people who received blood transfusions from donors who later ...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...otection against osteoporosis and fractures, heart disease and even Alzheimer's disease. In 2002, a large ... HRT to a slightly increased risk of stroke, heart disease and breast cancer. Current Recommendations For women who experience debilitating short-ter...

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

...osed new criteria for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as they feel that the existing criteria are...pportunity to reopen the discussion of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. The time is right to use the advanced technology at our disposal to improve the early, ac...

Afro- American Women Have More Aggressive Breast Cancer

...ucasian women, African American women die from the disease at a higher rate. The gap between death rates among African American and Caucasian women is increasing. Though access to healthcare is a strong factor contributing to disparities in cancer rates and outcomes between African Americans and Caucasians, ...

Delay in Cancer Diagnosis for Children

...er, the associations between symptoms and stage of disease may be actually a function of the type of cancer. ...uld, the authors surmise, could be that aggressive disease presents early and therefore, at more treatable stages. This review clearly underscores the signifi...

Boffins Identify Gene That can Protect Humans from Nephronopthisis

...mans from nephronopthisis (NPHP), a serious kidney disease . NPHP is a disease that causes kidney degeneration during childhood and kidney failure requiring organ transplantation....

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

.... India continues to give priority to its national disease control programs, which receive considerable funding from various bilateral and multilateral donor agencies. The various health and family welfare programs must share credit with the country's economic and social transformation, for the improvement...

30 Dead as Dengue Fever Epidemic Hits Myanmar: Report

...this year there have been about 3,000 cases of the disease and 30 deaths. This is much higher than the first ...e year, after the rainy season begins in June. The disease is especially dangerous in children and the elderly. Myanmar's health system has suffered from dec...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

Given its ability to detect a disease in its very early stage, consequently improving clinical outcomes, pharmacogenomic testing is slowly gaining greater acceptance across Europe . Furthermore, pharmacogenomic testing decreases the use of expensive therapies and invasive procedures, in ...

BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine

...s with CTCL of Stage IB through Stage IVA who have disease that is persistent, progressive or recurrent during or after treatment with at least three systemic therapies. The study's primary endpoint is to determine the objective response rate, defined as either complete response or partial cutaneous response...

Specific Protein is Instrumental in Myelination

... to enhance healthy brain development and/or brain disease repair in children and adults. The paper will be published in the August issue of Nature Neuroscience. By understanding the fundamental mechanisms of brain development, we get closer to finding clear instructions to repairing developmental brain di...

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