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A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

...gan. The "holy grail" of gene therapy has been to find ways of getting genes into specific tissues, witho...researchers have been trying for about 12 years to find ways of getting red blood cells to produce more hemoglobin as a treatment for such diseases as sickl...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...life in long-term survivors of breast cancer. They find that these women, on the whole, have excellent levels of health and social wellbeing. The women also score well on sexual desire, body image, mental health and energy levels. The only drawback is that women who received adjuvant chemotherapy after ...

Sex exploitation connected to Schizophrenia

...cording to Crowe more research needs to be done to find out the true cause of schizophrenia. Fred tthought that childhood trauma can cause changes to the brain that affect its ability to handle stress. According to him some people are more likely to suffer from schizophrenia because of their genes....

Do gardening and be fit

...ds of exercise. The researchers were surprised to find that gardening had such a strong effect. "We hadn't expected yard work to be significant," said Dr Fenn. "But there's a lot of weight-bearing motion going on in the garden, digging holes, pulling weeds, pushing a mower."She speculated that being outd...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

...e research showed a link; other studies failing to find one. "We have always believed the drugs were safe, mainly because the original studies were flawed. They looked at only one population of women, those who were infertile. And we knew long before fertility drugs were being used that infertile women ...

Organs made from cloned embryos

...husetts. The ultimate goal of the research is to find replacement parts for worn out or damaged human organs, starting with cells from test-tube embryos that are genetic twins of the recipient. Researches hope eventually to construct new organs that are genetically identical to the recipient's own body....

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...rch Council, plan to undertake extensive trials to find out conclusively if this type of treatment can lessen asphyxia's serious effects. During the study, parents of more than 200 children suffering from asphyxia will be asked to allow their infants to take part in the trial. Half the children will have...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...t breast cancer are compared--have often failed to find fat intake a risk factor. Other research, he noted, is looking into dietary factors other than fat, such as the possible protective effect of the B vitamin folic acid, as well as whether exercise helps cut breast cancer risk. "The search for dietary...

Knee fat turns into cartilage

...ry to a joint or some other skeletal problem could find themselves with a ready repair material created from their own cells....

The brain wave

...ive neuroscientists, is part of a larger effort to find the neurological basis of social interaction, particularly empathy, a basic part of human nature that allows most, but no all people to care about others. A 3-year old feels empathy and will pat another child in the shoulder or comfort his mom when ...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...rchers at the University of Texas, and colleagues, find that seven hours is the optimum. People who sleep for eight hours or longer, or less than four hours a night, have a significantly increased death rate. Insomnia does not appear to be a risk, but those who took sleeping pills were more likely to di...

Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's

...ntia. It's an encouraging result, for everyone can find some mental activity that gives pleasure - now knowing that it may also protect them from dementia. What's not yet clear is just how mental stimulation protects the brain. It's also possible that a predisposition to Alzheimer's somehow leads to menta...

Anthrax vaccine produced

...s many side effects. Dr Bhatnagar was motivated to find a vaccine for anthrax following a major epidemic among animals in West Bengal seven years ago....

Winter months encourage binge eating

...ing is a significant symptom. In a new study, they find that the length of day can be significant, with lack of sunshine encouraging more eating. This appears to be a little different from the comfort eating that many of us might indulge in during the winter months. The researchers found that people who...

Gleevec gets hopeful results

...once a day. After 18 months, the researchers could find no visible sign of the genetic abnormality that causes the disease in 41% of the patients. That genetic flaw leads to the production of a protein that allows white cells in the blood and in the bone marrow to run out of control. Gleevec works by blo...

Periodontitis a common problem in patients with arthritis

...cal processes common to these diseases may help us find new ways to treat them with medications that modify the body's response to inflammation." Some dental professionals had speculated that people with arthritis have more periodontal disease because limited dexterity decreases oral hygiene. However, re...

Vitamin E decreases high blood pressure in kidney failure

...y failure. Researchers at the University of Texas, find that rats with impaired kidneys// and high blood pressure produce large amounts of damaging free radicals. This process, known as oxidative stress, now looks to play a key role in high blood pressure. In the latest study, they also show that giving ...

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

... health. Doctors surveyed almost 400 patients// to find if there was a link between health status and smoking habits. They classified them into four groups:current tobacco use only, history of alcohol problems only, both, or neither. The patients with both current tobacco use and past alcohol problems h...

Drugs may fog memory

...with frontal lobe damage caused by accidents often find difficulty concentrating and are more easily distracted, research shows....

Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

... 15-minute blood test allows doctors to accurately find out whether patients with severe shortness of breath are suffering from congestive heart failure. This test is the most significant improvement in the diagnosis of heart failure in the past 20 years. Tens of millions of people go to the emergency ro...

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