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New Genetic Clue to Type 1 Diabetes

...ording to the latest probe into the causes of this disease . Three variants of a gene called KIAA0350 were spotted as risk factors in a genetic profiling of 563 patients with Type 1 diabetes, which were compared to 1,146 healthy people, says the study, published online Sunday by Nature. Type 1 diabetes o...

Rats Back on the Menu in Southern China

...d animals including rats amid fear that the deadly disease could be contracted from contaminated meat. Although the scientific community is not in agreement over whether certain animals can spread the disease, vendors in China are no longer allowed to sell wild animals. After its emergence in Guangdong p...

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

.... While the study looks at the response to Lyme disease vaccination, its authors suggest the research also...urvey of 705 adults, who lived in areas where Lyme disease is common, just after the vaccine became available. Eighteen months later, they re-interviewed parti...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

... Among the most important of all human infectious disease agents, strep is responsible for a wide range of d...relatively benign pathogen into a potential deadly disease agent. A gene present on the bacteriophage acquired by the M1T1 strep encodes an enzyme that allows...

Dengue Fever in Singapore Likely to Increase: Minister

...e of Asia's cleanest. Dengue -- a flu-like viral disease spread by the bite of infected mosquitoes -- is traditionally associated with poorer tropical countries. Infection leads to a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

..., who were selected to provide a balanced range of disease severity. Apnea was defined as complete cessation of airflow for more than 10 seconds. Hypopnea was defined as a greater than 30 percent reduction of airflow. After baseline data were established for each patient while undergoing TNI at 0, 10 and 20...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...ed corticosteroids to control exacerbations of the disease , but a new study finds that the anti-inflammatory drugs increase the chances that these patients will be hospitalized for pneumonia. In a large cohort of patients with COPD, we found that current inhaled corticosteroid use was associated with a si...

Curry Ingredient Kills Plaque Leading to Alzheimer's

...n San Diego. Using blood samples from Alzheimers disease patients they found that bisdemethoxycurcumin boos...t into the role of the immune system in Alzheimers disease and points to a new treatment approach. Researchers say that it may be possible to test a patient...

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

...orders that increases one's risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. All the men filled in a food questi...ers have almost double the risk of coronary artery disease and four times the risk of diabetes than those without. They are also almost 50 percent more likely ...

Many Sceptical of Healing Hand Treatment Practiced in Europe

...ioners' assertions that in cases of acute coronary disease it can be used instead of conventional medicine. This is the key problem with Reiki: Practitioners give the impression that they can heal their patients, said Hertel. According to German law, the only healing treatments allowed in Germany are those ...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

...of the arteries, which in turn could lead to heart disease and stroke. Led by Barbara Hoffmann, the study claims to be the first to actually show a relationship between long-term traffic exposure and coronary atherosclerosis. According to Hoffmann, living close to busy traffic, which is a major source o...

Flavonoids In Orange Juice Make It A Healthy Drink, Despite The Sugar

...velopment of many chronic diseases, includingheart disease and stroke as well as diabetes. "Many major diseases are associated with oxidative stress andinflammation in the arterial wall, so the search for foods that areleast likely to cause these conditions must be pursued," said PareshDandona, M.D., Ph...

Patients Not Complying With Their Dermatologic Problem

...or addressing many of the difficult-to-manage skin disease dilemmas seen in dermatology, Feldman said. By addressing adherence, we can achieve better success for patients with psoriasis and other chronic skin diseases. Feldman says he has had personal experience with patient noncompliance. He had acne and ...

Memory Problem in Older Women Lead to Restless Nights

... cause, such as brain changes seen with Alzheimers disease or other dementias that could increase risk of both memory loss and sleep problems, said Yaffe. Another reason could be that women with memory problems may also have anxiety or depression that could affect their sleep. While we attempted to adjust ...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...savvy officials re-conceptualize menstruation as a disease in need of treatment, bleeding women may well be in for a lot of confusion- to stop or not to?...

Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...oportionately high rates of permanent chronic lung disease following a lower respiratory tract infection.Contact for research: Dr. Tom Kovesi, Pediatric Resp irologist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. contact Julie Leblanc, CHEO Sr. Communications Advisor; 613 737-7600, ext. 3586, JLeblanc@cheo.on...

Study Finds Abdominal Fat Not the Prime Cause for Metabolic Syndrome

...orders that increase one's risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. However, the study conducted by a team of researchers led by Gerald I. Shulman and Kitt Falk Petersen at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Yale University School of Medicin, found otherwise. Insulin resistance is a condition i...

Colitis More Common in Hospitalized Patients

...death. Treatment for life-threatening forms of the disease usually involves colectomy, or removal of all or p...ited States.Heightened awareness of the increasing disease burden of C. difficile colitis is an important first step in controlling the public health ramificat...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

...e south and central districts of the state and the disease is now spreading to the northern districts as well...hs. The other tourist destinations affected by the disease are the districts of Kottayam, Ernakulam, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram. For those who wait for th...

Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma Shows Steady Increase

...issue of Archives of Dermatology. The rates of the disease vary by race, sex and geographic area. Cutaneous...mation in the article. The nationwide rates of the disease were last documented in 1992. Vincent D. Criscione, A.B., and Martin A. Weinstock, M.D., Ph.D., of ...

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