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Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic disorder that causes inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues, a new study suggests. While previous studies have suggested that hormonal factors play a part in the development of RA, the new study found that breast feeding for 13 or more months w...

Rare Womens Lung Disease May Yield Insights Into Common Diseases

...rous sclerosis gene, which triggers TSC, a genetic disorder that causes tumors to form in many different organs, including the brain, eyes, heart, kidney, skin and lungs, plays a role in the cause of LAM. Her current work involves looking into the role female hormones play in the growth and metastasis of LAM ...

Parkinsons Disease Protein Pathway Identified

...the disease. Parkinson disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system resulting from the loss of neurons in the brain that produce dopamine. This lowering of dopamine leads to decreased stimulation of the brain's motor cortex. Although scientists have not known the exact cause of the los...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...suffers from inflammatory bowel disease, a seizure disorder and chronic eye inflammations that have left her 90 percent blind. She was pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair because arthritis has left her unsteady on her feet, her mother testified. But the theory that vaccines caused all this pain and suff...

Etanercept Reduces Psoriasis

...e events. Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disorder , usually requires long-term therapy, according to background information in the article. 'Serum and affected tissue levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are elevated in patients with psoriasis compared with levels in uninvolved skin of patients wit...

US Concerned About Mental Health of Diplomats in Iraq, Afghanistan

...or mentioning concerns about post-traumatic stress disorder "by having their medical or security clearances suspended," Kashkett added....

Protein Pathway Involved in Parkinson Disease Development Identified

...evelopment . Parkinson disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system resulting from the loss of neurons in the brain that produce dopamine. This lowering of dopamine leads to decreased stimulation of the brain's motor cortex. Although scientists have not known the exact cause of the los...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

UK-The eating disorder figures among seem to soar out of proportion, acco..." It has also been seen that anorexia, an eating disorder which is usually seen among the girls is fast gaining grounds among the boys too. Hospital figures...

Mental Health of Children on the Decline

...d that one in ten children now has a mental health disorder to a clinically significant level. The research says that More than a million children have mental health problems, a doubling of the number in a generation. Emotional problems and conduct disorders have become twice as common since the 1930s The N...

Kelly Clarkson Reveals Bulimic Past

... the singer said that she suffered from the eating disorder after she tried to lose weight for a role in a play. "I thought...If I came back and I'm cuter and thinner...then I'll get the role," Us Weekly quoted Clarkson, as saying. However, one of Clarkson's guy pals discovered that she was bulimic, after...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...sible for people with a less common subtype of the disorder -- one that until now was unidentified and had an ...rchers tested 95 patients with Charcot Marie Tooth disorder of unknown cause. In four patients, they found mutations of FIG4, the same gene implicated in the di...

Urate Reduces the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

...arkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive nerve disorder associated with destruction of brain cells produci...g with co-author Michael Schwarzschild, a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues at the Parkinson Study Group, a collabo...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...deo game addiction be added as a formal diagnostic disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV). Since the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is responsible for additions to the DSM-IV, its members will have their own vote, once the vote passes the AMA. Khan also rec...

High Urate Levels in Blood Linked to Reduced Parkinson's Risk

...arkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive nerve disorder associated with destruction of brain cells produci... of the study and Michael Schwarzschild a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital then followed up on this clue and accessed the database...

Autism Could Be Related to Higher Level of Growth Hormones

... knows what causes autism, a complex developmental disorder that includes problems with social interaction and communication. Symptoms range from mild awkwardness seen in Asperger's syndrome, to severe disability and mental retardation. A recent CDC survey found that 1 in every 150 U.S. children has autism ...

Gene Therapy for Parkinsons Disease

... Jersey-based company. Parkinson's is a movement disorder caused by a progressive depletion of the brain chemical dopamine in the substantia nigra. These dopamine-containing cells control movement. When 70 to 80 percent of these cells are destroyed, a person develops the first symptoms of disease: tremors, ...

US Trying Hard to Provide Proper Treatment for Wounded Soldiers

...social workers to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues. No one knows what the ultimate cost will be. Harvard University economist Linda Bilmes estimates the lifetime health-care tab for these troops will be $250 billion to $650 billion a wide range but a huge sum no matter how you sli...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...ual abuse on alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in women, says Dr. Ducci. She and her colleagues analyzed DNA samples from a group of American Indian women living in a community in which rates of alcoholism and ASPD are about six times higher than the average rates among all U.S. women. C...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...roposed video game addiction be listed as a mental disorder in the American Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, a guide used by the American Psychiatric Association in diagnosing mental illness. Such a move would ease the path for insurance coverage of video game addiction. But even bef...

Gene Therapy Awakens the Brain Despite Blindness from Birth

...me mutation causes a blindness causing eye-retinal disorder in humans called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). When the researchers performed gene therapy on canines by introducing a working copy of RPE65 into their retina, the eye functions were restored in them. However, it was unclear whether the brains ...

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