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Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...ionary method in rational drug design."It may have great applicability to improving the specificity of drug...ng to him, in addition, Sharpless' method may have great import in designing drugs to interact with proteins for which we presently have no good compounds. T...

Attempting Hypnosis for relaxation

...xation and deal with stress. Hypnotherapy can be a great way to break bad habits like smoking,// reduce stress and relieve pain. Its success depends upon why it is being used, and how readily the person can enter the altered awareness of the hypnotic state, say doctors at the Mayo Clinic. But most people c...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

... one of the papers. "While there is justifiably a great deal of interest in the broader applicability of a...ings do is send those researchers who have claimed great multipotentiality for adult stem cells back to the lab, to test whether the 'transdifferentiation' t...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...iabetes are associated with pancreatic cancer. The great majority, perhaps 90 percent, are the relatively common type 2 form with no association to cancer. The diabetes that is linked to cancer occurs in about one out of a hundred cases of late-onset diabetes. The cases used for the study came from the Roc...

The importance of vaccines

...entative strategy is uncertain, and there is not a great deal of enthusiasm about vaccine development among those who actually have the capability to develop and produce vaccines. The researchers attribute much of the problem to the lack of economic incentive for pharmaceutical companies to produce new va...

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...e apparent through normal visual skin exams. "The great thing is that computers have perfect memory. In the case of skin, memory is a crucial thing. No doctor can remember every type of skin lesion nor can they remember every person's spot and whether it has changed, but a computer can," Skladnev said. He...

New drug for hypertension

...product of their collaborative research, will be a great boon for the patients suffering from hypertension. Stating that Emcure is among the first few in the world to introduce this product, they said the company has been granted permission from Drug Controller General of India for the manufacture of bot...

Back pain treated with Opioids

...ent. The researchers acknowledge that there is a great deal of prejudice among the medical community and the public against the widespread use of opioids, even for cancer. The drugs have an 'illicit' image and it's often believed their use will lead to addiction. Yet they are powerful relievers of suffer...

Focussed treatment for Hodgkin's disease

...hy tissue from side effects. So IMRT seems to have great potential for improving the long-term outcome for survivors of Hodgkin's disease....

Protein in eye fights diseases

...ive in the mouse model, and we believe that it has great potential to work in other autoimmune diseases by changing the immune response responsible for multiple sclerosis or for the onset of type 1 diabetes," says Taylor. Based on this study, the Schepens Eye Research Institute team was awarded a $330,000 ...

High development costs hinder entry of cancer super drugs into the market

...rket and the decoding of the human genome// offers great promise to patients, as the therapy could become more specialized. However, all this comes with a heavy cost and cancer research experts warn that such breakthroughs may not lead to new treatment due to the cost. Pharmaceutical companies face formid...

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

...c thrombocytopenic purpura(TPP), which has offered great hope. TPP is a rare blood disease in which one// of the proteins in the blood clotting system is missing. This protein is a regulatory molecule and, without it, one of the other clotting proteins sticks to itself, often triggering heart attack or str...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...'s brain are very plastic, which means they have a great capacity to learn to compensate for the damage....

Antidepressant Helps Relieve Hot Flashes

...wer hot flashes, though the improvement was not as great as with the drug, which cut hot flashes to a median of 3.8 per day from 7.1 per day in women taking a relatively low daily dosage of 12.5 milligrams of Paxil. Paxil and other antidepressants known collectively as selective serotonin reuptake inhibi...

New Cure for Addiction?

...ntific proof exists. However, since the need is so great and the problem is so urgent, some scientists consider the project worth the risk. The exact ingredients remain a secret known only to a very few people. Its inventor, Tran Khoung Dan, believes in traditional medicines and is said to have cured his o...

Wearable Body Monitoring

...nges like clean water and immunizations have had a great impact, and,one belives that wearable body monitoring devices will be the next big change with significant behavioral improvements. Researchers are currently involved in a project to determine what effect a wearable monitoring device will have on h...

Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

... Hospital in London and a team of experts. Despite great strides in treatment, death due to childhood asthma has not dropped. Roughly 50 children in the U.K. and more than 200 in the U.S die each year from asthma. Dr. Roberts' team studied 19 children who required emergency ventilator treatment //for a lif...

HRT: A Difficult Decision

...r. The study found combination HRT puts women at a great risk. The study also reports an increase risk of death from breast cancer in women who used HRT compared to those who have not. Between 20 percent and 50 percent of all women between 45 and 70 years old are taking HRT. The current research was set u...

Alzheimer’s Continues to Ris

...making ability and cognitive function. It places a great financial burden on the health care system and that’s why the authors of this study say it is important to have an accurate picture of what lies ahead. They write, "Estimates of its occurrence and projections of future occurrence are essential for pu...

Hormone Replacement Therapy -- What to do?

...d then consider how severe their symptoms are, how great a fear they have of the risks, and how willing they are to make lifestyle changes. Doctors also say for those who choose not to use HRT, but who are suffering from symptoms of menopause, there are other options available and for milder symptoms the...

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