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Blood Sugar Kept In Control By Novel Protein

... identified can help in the treatment of metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes. The protein has already shown promising results by extending lifespan in yeast, worms and flies // and is known to keep blood sugar under control in mice. Experiments have demonstrated that mice with an excess of the protein...

Arthiritis: Brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables offer protection

The risk of developing inflammatory disorders like rheumatoid arthritis may be reduced by eating more brightly-coloured fruits and vegetables like oranges, carrots and sweetcorn. // Vitamin C and the pigment beta-cryptoxanthin, both of which are found in brightly-coloured fruit and veg, may act...

All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy

...ent injuries and illnesses such as musculoskeletal disorders (35%) followed by cuts and bruises (25%). Previous studies have already explored relationship of working hours to heart disease, fatigue, stress, depression, chronic infections, diabetes, general health complaints and death. Taking into consideratio...

How balanced are you? Need Help!!!

...he study, which, included nine people with balance disorders and normal controls revealed significant improveme...ed that the device will enable people with balance disorders manage their condition themselves. It has also been proposed to make the device much smaller and mor...

Features Of The Brain Affect Asthma And Other Stress Related Disorders

...d that specific brain circuits are responsible for disorders that are affected by stress, like asthma. The study, which appears in the latest online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, // reveals a functional link between emotion processing centers in the brain and certain physiologic...

Marijuana-Derived Drug Promises Hope In Treating Bladder Infection

...nd bladder over activity in hypersensitive bladder disorders such as interstitial cystitis (IC). However, the study has been conducted only on animal models. IP 751 is a potent anti-inflammatory and a powerful analgesic, although the mechanisms by which it works are unknown. IP 751 was injected into rat mo...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

...l these may be also associated with other learning disorders like dyslexia. // While their friends enjoy the ...ontribute to understanding the origins of learning disorders – the genetic causes and their neural consequences, opined the scientists of the study. Source: New...

Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry for speedy diagnosis of Brain disorders

...between different brain infections and other brain disorders such as tumours. This means patients often have to undergo invasive and dangerous brain surgery to diagnose their illness before treatment with antibiotics can begin. Using standard hospital MRI equipment, clinicians can now use a technique called ...

Polycystic Ovary In Women May Raise Liver Disease

...c disorder that is associated with serious medical disorders such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and stroke. Source: Newswise...

Leading Biotech Companies Are Interested In Acquisition Of Smaller Companies

...ounds, which Idun is developing for broad range of disorders including liver diseases, cancer and inflammation. Given the uncertainties around the availability of future financing and overall costs of drug development, “Conversation for potentially important products often get to the obvious point of consider...

Genetic Eye Disorder Can Have Other Implications

... the world. Researchers had been studying genetic disorders that interfere with peoples’ ability to move their eyes horizontally (left or right). Collaborators in Saudi Arabia alerted them to patients they’d been seeing who had not only restricted horizontal eye movement, but also deafness and motor impairmen...

Skin cancer linked to usage of Drug Azathioprine in organ transplants

...thritis, inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune disorders is found to increase the incidence of skin cancer ... Azathioprine is used for treatment of auto immune disorders such as Lupus erythematous which involves multiple organs such as lungs, kidneys and joints, the dos...

Enhanced Gene Therapy Outcomes Following Latest Revolution And Refinement

...ates of metastatic or spreading tumors. Autoimmune disorders or those with inflammation are other potential areas where the approach would be helpful. "Our work is an important contribution to the maturation of the field of gene therapy because ultimately treating cancers by gene therapy depends on scientists...

Children With ADHD May Just Be Sleepy

...nd attention-deficit children diagnosed with sleep disorders to have breathing irregularities and limb movements treated, to enforce good sleeping habits and avoid giving them caffeinated drinks at night. Only if these steps do not work, they say, should parents consider medication for ADHD. Source: Newswise ...

Younger People More Susceptible To Gum Disease

...y such infections can lead to similar inflammatory disorders in other parts of the body, thereby leading to heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and obstetric complications. Investigators studied data gathered from 400 people and analyzed how wisdom teeth change in condition over time. One quarter of the peo...

Wrinkle reduction cream has offered insights into working of nervous system

...r an improved understanding regarding neurological disorders and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the same. There is no doubt that understanding this process will lead to novel research to tackle neuronal diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. It could also be important for future trea...

Protection against Alzheimer’s could be as simple as drinking green te

...els free radicals and antioxidants in degenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s have been well established follow...ct relationship would mean that treatment for such disorders can be made very simple and affordable by a mere supplementation of antioxidants. Green tea consist...

Down syndrome simulated in animal model after successful chromosome transplantation

...eing given to genetic mechanisms underlying common disorders and a huge amount of resources allocated to resear...d of genetics, the successful treatment of genetic disorders seems a reachable goal in the future....

Cell molecules behind neuro degenerative diseases

...mine, a building block of protein structure. These disorders are collectively known as polyglutamine diseases. Along with Huntington’s, these diseases include spinobulbar muscular atrophy; spinocerebellar ataxia types 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 17; and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy, or Haw River Syndrome. Scie...

New Hereditary Bone Joint Disorder Identified

...n were suffering from the disorder. Degenerative disorders of the hips was found in all the three children’s and in their factors causing exposure of the cartilage leading to bubbling and tearing off by which the bones are exposed at an early age, the father of the 3 children’s had pain in the hip and knees ...

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