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Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

...racterized by ocular discomfort, pain, itching and intense photophobia, which severely debilitates the patients. This rare disease affects mostly children and young adults living in warm climates worldwide. In this orphan disease, it was shown that both symptoms and signs of disease improved in patients rece...

Louisiana Residents Warned Against Brown Recluse Spiders

...he most common symptoms of a widow spider bite are intense pain, rigid abdominal muscles, muscle cramping, malaise, sweating, nausea and high blood pressure. If untreated, symptoms usually last 3-5 days. Other experts say that the bite of the brown recluse spider can result in a painful, deep wound that ta...

New Laser Offers Alternative to Surgery in Treating Voice Disorders

...logy (ENT) at Emory School of Medicine. "But the intense heat from some surgical tools and tissue removal from surgical excision can leave the voice damaged. Because the pulsed KTP laser is designed to work with more delicate tissue, it is a better option for many patients." While the laser can be used w...

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

... particularly dangerous as it often takes place in intense and infrequent bursts. Studies have shown that this type of sun exposure greatly increases your risk of melanoma. "Some people are more likely than others to get skin cancer. They tend to have one or more of the following: fair skin, red or fair ha...

Extinction Risk of Grazing Animals Depends on Reproductive Speed

... bison was nearly wiped out in just a few years of intense hunting pressure, with relatively slight habitat change, compared to the white-tailed deer that continued to grow in large numbers despite hunting and suburban sprawl. The bison nurses its young for 283 days on average; the deer just 80, said Pric...

Trauma Exposure can Affect Brain Function Several Years After Event

...d, those who reported 9/11 as their worst and most intense trauma experienced in their life time also had more brain activity when viewing the fearful faces. Our findings suggest that there may be long-term neurobiological correlates of trauma exposure, even in people who appear resilient. Since these eff...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...a mechanism that mediates how the body experiences intense stimuli temperature, in this case that can cause pain. As such, the receptor known as menthol receptor TRPM8 -- provides a target for studying acute and chronic pain, as can result from inflammatory or nerve injury, the researchers say, and a po...

Sleepwalking to sex during sleep, a new disorder detected

...leep. Narcolepsy severe tiredness known to cause intense hallucinations of rape and sexual assault when pat...ileptic seizures during sleep that have brought on intense orgasms, grabbing of partners and violent masturbation. 78 cases of Kleine-Levin syndrome, which c...

Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring

... to damage from radiation, mutagenic chemicals and intense industrial air particulate pollution. While the researchers did not specifically study the protein-coding regions of DNA where genes reside, Yauk notes that previous studies correlate mutations in non-coding regions with those in coding regions, and ...

Doctors Stress on Cardiac Emergency Units to Save Lives

.... "It is a must that every chest pain or in fact intense pain in any part of the upper body, be it the arms, tooth, jaw, neck or stomach, be treated equally seriously because if not heart attack it might be a symptom of another fatal disease," said Satyajit Bose, a consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon....

Breakthrough for Treatment of Fatal Heart Condition

...es, as hypertrophic hearts are unable to cope with intense physical activity. Dr Oois study is the first to identify the mechanism behind specific changes in protein levels that impact upon cardiac cell size. Levels of two proteins, known as ANP and BNP, are naturally higher in fetal hearts and the hearts ...

Cynosure Introduces Higher Power Smartlipo(TM) LaserBodySculpting Workstation

...e, pulsed dye, Nd:YAG and diode lasers, as well as intense pulsed light. Cynosure was founded in 1991....

Overuse of Popular Console can Cause 'Wiiitis' in Gamers

...a searing pain in his right shoulder, following an intense game of tennis on his Wii for several hours the night before. "If a player gets too engrossed, he may 'play tennis' for many hours," wrote Bonis, a physician with Spain's Biomedical Informatics Research Group. "Unlike in the real sport, physical st...

Dengue Sweeping Across Southeast Asia

...often describe the onset of high fever, nausea and intense joint pain. There is no real treatment, apart from rest and rehydration, and in severe cases it can be fatal. "There is no medicine to cure dengue fever, so the only treatment is to have a lot of electrolytes," says Noranita Badrun, a Kuala Lumpur ...

Iron Clothes to Lower Blood Sugar Levels

...ot replace the recommended 30 minutes of medium to intense exercise a day with less strenuous activities. Chronically high blood glucose concentrations or hyperglycemia are recognised as a precursor of type 2 diabetes and are associated with an elevated risk of heart attacks and strokes. The study is p...

The Dreaded Disease Tuberculosis Raises Its Ugly Head

...in his right lung and TB was suspected. Only after intense test it was realized that the TB was drug resistance. But Speaker was not aware of it till late. Until a few weeks ago, many Americans had never heard of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. But Speaker got plenty of press as he was ...

Indo-American Develops Model Linking Human Activity to Climate Change

...en be able to determine whether there will be more intense storms, hurricanes or floods, and this information could perhaps be used as an early warning tool or to help develop policies, he said. He believes the methodology will have widespread use. In addition to water resources, hydrologic sciences, c...

Obesity Pill Zimulti Increases Depression, Suicidal Thoughts

...he drug to target the brain receptors that trigger intense hunger after marijuana use....

Hormone Therapy An Alternative to Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

... research and treatment of ovarian cancer. Despite intense scientific research over the past 20 years, there have been few new leads in our understanding of how this disease operates. But this study suggests that the addition of hormone therapy to our treatment strategy could extend and improve the lives of ...

Mood Swings and Late Nights are Signs That Your Teenage Kid is in Love

...ated that they were in love, and were experiencing intense romantic love, while the rest 47 were in a longer-...he researchers found that teens in the early-stage intense romantic love were more prone to mood swings, both in the morning and evening, as well as getting le...

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