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Afghan Children Fall Victim to a Disfiguring Disease

...ake many months. That has given rise to one of the diseases many nicknames: saldana, or one-year sore. Though present in all Afghan cities, it is in Kabul's crowded neighborhoods that the disease has exploded and spread to hundreds of thousands of people. "When we have one case in a family, of course, it...

Red Cross renders emergency relief efficiently

...lso campaigned for prevention of blood transmitted diseases like HIV / AIDS. They have been organising VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTREs that provides opportunities to increase vocational skills and the earning opportunities of low-income groups and to raise the status of women socially and economically by makin...

British Scientists Discover New Protein to Treat Epilepsy and Schizophrenia

...ion between the cells could be one way of treating diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia. Researchers...the protein in the brain could the key to tackling diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia, the Bristol scientists think. There are 100 million nerve cell...

Children of Asylum Seekers Dont Get Adequate Medical Care in Australia

...deficiency which leads to rickets, some infectious diseases like tuberculosis and malaria, often early and easily treatable and they tend to be under-immunised, so they haven't had the same level of immunisation as Australian children have had," Zwi notes. At its annual conference in Melbourne today, the 9,...

Cataloging the Structural Variations in Human Genetics

...on dollar question is what is the genetic basis of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol levels? says Eichler. We know there is a genetic factor, but what is the role of single base pair changes versus structural changes? The project Eichler and his colleagues describe in their paper ...

Study Confirms Health Benefits of Whole Grains

...ists hypothesized that the higher rates of chronic diseases we have in the West, including heart disease, are due, in part, to a diet full of processed foods," Mellen said. "Subsequent studies have born that out especially with whole grains. Greater whole grain intake is associated with less obesity, diabete...

Swallowing The Bitter Pill-Oral Sex Linked To Oral Cancer

...ou absolutely can get serious sexually transmitted diseases through oral sex." HPV can be found in saliva, semen and urine, but has a particular affinity for the mucosal skin cells of the penis and vagina. Oral cancers linked to HPV have been on the rise in the United States since 1973, a trend that may b...

DNA Repair Proteins Monitored at Double-strand Break

...important medical implications for these and other diseases linked to disruption of double-strand break repair." The assay, developed by Elijahu Berkovich, Ph.D., in Kastans laboratory, demonstrates how key repair proteins, such as ATM, NBS1, XRCC4 and gamma-H2AX, interact to coordinate repair of double-str...

New Laser Offers Alternative to Surgery in Treating Voice Disorders

...s of Health estimates that 7.5 million people have diseases or disorders of the voice. Last year, the pulsed KTP laser was used to treat Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler at Massachusetts General Hospital when a blood vessel burst on his vocal cord in the middle of his band's North American tour. Specialis...

Researchers Discover How Antibiotic Inhibits Bacterial Growth

...nt bacteria. Skin infections, pneumonia, and other diseases can be treated with linezolid. It is marketed in the United States as Zyvox. Mankin and his colleagues managed not only to crosslink the drug to its target in the living cell, but to precisely characterize the mode of binding of the drug to the rib...

UCLA Researchers Discover Link Between Parkinsons and Narcolepsy

... for the sleep disorders associated with these two diseases and suggests that treatment of Parkinson's disease patients with hypocretin or hypocretin analogs may reverse these symptoms. More than 1 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and approximately 20 million worldwid...

HIV Survival Improves If Patients Stay in Care

...rdano, assistant professor of medicine infectious diseases at BCM and lead author of the report. "We know that adherence to medications is critically important," said Giordano. "Patients who have trouble taking their medicines regularly will do less well. But what about those people who aren't even seeing ...

Brickbats And Bouquets For U.S Prison Healthcare In-Charge

... in prison and protect California communities from diseases carried by inmates cycling in and out. Over time, Sillen says, taxpayers will get more for their dollar from a system that experts claim was so broken that it experienced an average of one inmate death per week, due to medical incompetence or negle...

7 Common Myths About Osteoporosis

...dney diseases, vitamin D deficiency, some hormonal diseases such as some thyroid disorders, Cushings syndrome, individuals who are treated with steroids for certain medical conditions, and certain types of cancer can contribute to osteoporosis, she says. 5. MYTH: Broken bones are the only way to tell if yo...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...other studies - could lead to better therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The findings are published in the May issue of the Archives of Neurology. But another expert, Dr. Moses Rodriguez, professor of neurology and immunology at the Mayo Clinic, said he was skeptical that the treat...

Now a Green Agenda for Mental Health

...ow levels of serotonin may not only play a role in diseases such as depression but also in conditions like panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, and eating disorders. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) block the ability of the nerve endings to bind and bre...

Modern Medicine Originated in Egypt, Not Greece

...Researchers further found evidence of treatment of diseases like colic with hyoscyamus, which is still used today, and of intestinal carminatives with cumin and coriander. Further evidence showed that musculo-skeletal disorders were treated with rubefacients to stimulate blood flow and poultices to warm and...

Higher Intake of Fish and Vitamin D Reduces the Risk of Age-related Macular Disease

... the development of blood vessel and nerve-related diseases of the retina, the authors write. For instance, DHA may protect the retina by influencing which genes turn on and off, while fatty acids overall may eventually form compounds that promote cell survival and proper blood vessel function, reduce inflamm...

Glucosamine-like Supplement Inhibits Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes

...tential of this therapeutic approach. Autoimmune diseases such as MS and type 1 diabetes mellitus result from poorly understood interactions between inherited genetic risk and environmental exposure. MS results in neurological dysfunction, while uncontrolled blood glucose in type 1 diabetes can lead to dama...

America on Brink of Allergy Crisis

...re, Dr. Moffitt said. Asthma and other allergic diseases have become more prevalent in the United States in recent years. They affect as many as 50 million people, or more than 20 percent of the population. The incidence of asthma alone has more than tripled over the past 25 years and currently affects mor...

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