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New Cause of Chronic Liver Disease Identified in HIV-positive Patients

... associated with cryptogenic liver disease. HIV itself is also considered as a cause, particularly as the infection has been associated with pulmonary hypertension. They speculate that the virus might have a similar effect on the liver. HIV can also increase the chance of thrombosis, and they suggest tha...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...uscle, by mobilizing muscle stem cells, can repair itself after injury. The team discovered that excessive TGF-beta blocks muscle regeneration and repair. "The simplest things can injure muscle," explains Cohn, an assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at Hopkins. "Running a mile down the street ca...

Research on Vaccine Against Ebola Virus

...ola virus by developing a vaccine. This would lend itself to the benefit of certain human communities who hunt monkeys to consume their flesh. JYT...

Proactive Measures for Diabetes at Edmonton

...d. If diabetes is not treated, it could manifest itself as blindness, kidney failure, amputation of limbs etc. Hence at an early stage, management of this disease becomes easy. As high glucose levels are the indicators of this disease, doctors, chemists and nurses could advise such people to adopt an exe...

Vasan Group to Open Eight Specialty Eye Hospitals

... look for reliable eye care in their neighbourhood itself and end up going to small clinics, where they are not sure about the quality," explained A.M. Arun, Vasan Group's chairperson. The Vasan chain includes nine state-of-the-art facilities in Trichirapally, Salem, Erode, Cochin, Trivandrum, Calicut, Ko...

Drawing Parallels to H5N1 Virus and a 1918 Flu Virus

...action //wherein the defense mechanism of the body itself proved counter productive to the person affected. American researchers reconstructed this virus in a laboratory condition on seven macaque monkeys. The lungs of the monkeys were damaged within a week. A rush of body fluids and the immune cells led ...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

.... Giuseppe Del Priore. But while the public finds itself once again caught up in the ethical dilemma of whether such surgeries should be allowed, transplant experts say that developing the surgery into a reliable technique could take years — if ever. AN...

Link Between Family Size and Stomach Cancer Found

...eveloping. Since the bacterium has already adapted itself to a genetically related person, namely the older sibling, it has a 'head start' in the younger child, whose immune system is less well defended. This sets the stage for a more virulent, better adapted bacterial population than would occur otherwise ...

Relationship Between Delirium and Dementia

...07, looks at their interface, asking: Can delirium itself lead to the development of a cognitive disorder? Do delirium and dementia represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease, rather than two separate conditions? “I have been studying delirium for 20 years,” says Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH, a ger...

Can Prunes Reverse Bone Loss After Menopause?

...tions for osteoporosis." While eating the fruit itself is the best way to benefit from potent, concentrated plant-based chemicals such as polyphenols, supplemental forms are useful when fruit isn't consistently available or consumed in sufficient amounts, Arjmandi said. And when it comes to plums and app...

Gonorrhea and Male Bladder Cancer-Ties That Bound

...complete emptying of the bladder. The inflammation itself or the associated symptoms could be contributing to the development of bladder cancer ANN...

Beyond Bifocals: Wavefront Technology Benefits Patients With Presbyopia

...ision. Wavefront-optimized lenses correct the lens itself so that when light passes through on the way to the eye, less distortion occurs. The result is sharper vision and more generously sized viewing areas at near, intermediate, and distance.” Dr. McDonald said wavefront-optimized lens technology represe...

MRI of the Ankle Changes Patient Treatment And Improves Diagnosis

...ambridge University Hospitals in England. “This is itself is significant, but more significant is the fact that before an MRI was done, 65 of the 91 patients were scheduled to undergo surgery. After an MRI was done, nine of those patients were treated nonsurgically,” Dr. Bearcroft said. Dr. Bearcroft and h...

And You Thought the Inner Cities Were Healthier…

...for the NHS is that this group could be presenting itself with poor health at a relatively young age. It looks like we have got a set of attitudes to food that look fairly entrenched in terms of fast food and high levels of fat. The NHS is already overburdened, but this is nothing compared to the time bomb ...

Lifestyles Cause Concern To Welsh Health Officials

...HS is that this [second] group could be presenting itself with poor health at a relatively young age." He said these deprived urban areas would soon replace communities of South Wales. "It looks like we have got a set of attitudes to food that look fairly entrenched in terms of fast food and high levels...

Simple Steps to Safe Guard Patients from Bloodstream Infections in ICU

...ssels that terminates close to or within the heart itself to administer treatment. They are often the cause of over 28,000 deaths annually in the U.S. This catapults the medical costs incurred by the health care system. Billions are lost each year. Simple steps to prevent blood stream infections can cut th...

Paying Attention Sets Off Symphony of Cell Synchronization

...roduce stronger brain activity, as if the stimulus itself was stronger. That would mean that paying attention might make something appear more intense, and possibly distort its actual appearance. In the Northwestern study, EEG measures of brain activity were used to show precisely how attention alters bra...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...ceptable, and we now have zero tolerance. The team itself creates a social pressure of excellence for patient safety.” In an editorial commenting on a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Wenzel, together with Michael B. Edmond, M.D., acting chair in the Division of Infectious Dise...

Once-Diabetic Heart/Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Recipient Enjoys Life (And Eating Again)

...g and distributing company in Long Beach. “That in itself is quite a statement. When I was a teenager, I hoped there would someday be a cure for diabetes, but I never thought my cure would happen this way. Back then, we never imagined that pancreas transplants were possible.”Some aspects of instantly becomi...

Medical Teams Are Key to Patient Safety

...ceptable, and we now have zero tolerance. The team itself creates a social pressure of excellence for patient safety.” In an editorial commenting on a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Wenzel, together with Michael B. Edmond, M.D., acting chair in the Division of Infectious Di...

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