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New DNA Tests Advances Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Diseases

...re accurate and rapid diagnosis. Lysosomal storage diseases are a group of more than 40 inherited and potentia...bout these inherited diseases. Lysosomal storage diseases are difficult to identify because symptoms often mimic those of more common diseases, and symptoms m...

'Star Trek'-type Scanning may Help Reveal Genetic Activity of Tumors

...se imaging to directly reveal multiple features of diseases that will make it much easier to carry out personalized medicine, where you are making diagnoses and treatment decisions based exactly on what is happening in a person," Nature magazine quoted senior co-author Dr. Howard Chang, Assistant Professor of...

Men With Chronic Gum Disease at Higher Risk of Tongue Cancer

... cavities (alveoli), an established measure of the diseases history and progression. "The mean [average] alveolar bone loss was significantly higher in cancer cases compared with controls (4.21 vs. 2.74 millimetres)," the authors wrote. "After adjusting for the effects of age, smoking status and the numbe...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...lling at least 56 people and exposing thousands to diseases like cancer. Shimatsu says the only way to avert potential disaster in the Himalayas is for the international community to start afresh the search for radiation detectors, the cost of which should be borne by the countries responsible. He also fear...

Majority of Europeans in Favor of Smoking Ban in Public Places

...g kills 80,000 people each year. Smoking-related diseases cost EU countries up to 130 billion euros ($168 billion) each year, or up to 1.4 percent of GDP....

WHO Plans Global Campaign Against Alcohol Abuse

...f all traffic accidents. Alcohol consumption and diseases related to drink are twice as high in Europe compared with the average worldwide. It was responsible for 55,000 deaths in young people aged 15 to 29 in 1999. The WHO plans to launch a worldwide drive to curb alcohol consumption in 2009....

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Renews Goal To Reverse Spread of HIV by 2015

... services. Ban also said providing treatment for diseases associated with HIV, such as tuberculosis, and researching vaccines and microbicides are necessary to reduce the spread of the virus. Ban added that meeting U.N. targets "means mustering the political will to address the factors that drive the epidem...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...more and more people live with immune disorders or diseases that hamper their ability to make blood, the demand for blood also escalates. Letting gay men give blood could help bolster the supply. But, incredibly, despite ongoing shortages of blood that can and do cost lives, and no artificial substitute on...

Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...ther the amount of research conducted on neglected diseases affecting the poor. "For years, it was thought that heart disease was a concern of affluent countries. But, today, nearly 80 percent of all deaths due to heart disease occur in the developing world," says Sandeep Kishore, an MD-PhD student at Weill...

Most Parents in U.S. Not in Favor of HPV Vaccine Mandates

...ffective means to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as mumps, measles, polio, whooping cough and chicken pox, they have become increasingly controversial and the HPV vaccine, which also is licensed for females ages 13 to 26 and girls as young as 9, is no exception. In the case of the HPV vacci...

Adult Down Syndrome Clinic Opened at UAB

... into adulthood, and have the same risks for adult diseases as the rest of the population. Childrens hospitals, pediatricians and our medical system have done such a wonderful job in caring for children with Down Syndrome that many are now living into their 40s, 50s or more, said clinic director Edward J. Lo...

Indian President Urges Doctors to Help Rural Patients

...l patients a year, the president advised, a lot of diseases could be taken care of. Kalam also told doctors to make full use of technology to provide the best and cost-effective treatment. The president also addressed a special convocation of Kurukshetra University where he extolled Haryana as the land n...

New Insights into Chronic Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

...arthritis, lupus, and other inflammatory rheumatic diseases are associated with a high rate of death from heart disease. One explanation is a greater susceptibility to atherosclerosis. Although atherosclerosis is linked to inflammation in healthy individuals as well, the mechanism of inflammation and the rea...

ECP may Be Effective in Treating Crohn's Disease

... system, which may be important in immune-mediated diseases such as Crohns. In contrast, most patients with inflammatory bowel disease are currently treated with medicines that suppress the immune system. Unlike ECP, those medications can have many serious side effects. The 28 patient trial studied the saf...

Domestic Violence in Australia Leads to Number of Suicides

...an Nicola Roxon said the report showed preventable diseases "remain a huge threat to our nation's health". "In 11 years, John Howard has failed to turn this around - and in fact, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has doubled since 1996," Ms Roxon said. Health Minister Tony Abbott said the Government had a...

Global Heartbeat Control Suggests Therapy for Beating Heart Failure

... function might offer a novel approach to managing diseases of the heart muscle, according to the researchers. "The heart is a simple pumping organ," said Vincent Giguere of McGill University in Montreal. "What it needs is energy, which it gets from different fuelsglucose or fatty acidsdepending on their av...

Soft Drink Additive Could Cause Cell Damage

...ly lead to cirrhosis of the liver and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's. Concerns centre on the safe...tion very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative di...

Brain Cells Activity: New Treatment Target for Psychiatric Diseases

...also provide new treatment targets for psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and neurological disorders such as epilepsy, researchers say. The genes are both associated with schizophrenia, a disease that affects about 1 percent of the population, but the exact role of malfunctioning neuregulin-1 signal...

WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public

...of people who have never smoked die each year from diseases caused by breathing smoke from other people's cigarettes," he added. "The solution is simple: 100 percent smoke-free environments." "What isn't so simple is overcoming tobacco industry untruths about smoke-free policies," he lamented. With "Smoke...

Nervous Systems of Insects may Offer Clues on Neurodegenerative Diseases

...may be able to better understand neurodegenerative diseases in humans. Currently, her lab is involved in two c...re efficiently and understanding neurodegenerative diseases such as epilepsy and memory loss. Proteins in higher organisms, from fruit flies to humans, which ...

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