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Naturally Occurring Enzyme Can Break Down Key Part of Alzheimer's Plaques

...ytes. MMP-9 is already well-known because of its links to cancer metastases, vascular disease, arthritis and other pathologies. Scientists called the new link to Alzheimer's encouraging, noting that previously identified enzymes only degrade a smaller, nonaggregated component of Alzheimer's plaques. "W...

35 dead in suicide attack on Pakistan army base

...g 80 people and alleging they were terrorists with links to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in neighbouring Afghanistan. But the fiercely independent and staunchly Islamist tribes of Bajaur rejected the charge, claiming the dead were all local students, aged 7 to 21, except for their pro-Taliban principal, who w...

Poor diabetics: bitter times and worse times with no sweet respite

... from diabetes today and closely disseminates the links between diabetes which develops later in life(type2) and the socio economic deficiency across UK. Its appalling to note that Britain’s poorer communities are 2.5 times more likely to develop diabetes (Type 2) and 3.5 times more likely to develop m...

Tobacco Smugglers are Helping Terrorists: WHO

..."We know that international drug cartels have some links with terrorists but now proofs are emerging of illegal tobacco smugglers' links with terrorist outfits. Security agencies in the European Union (EU) have made considerable progress...

Preserving Fertility for Child Cancer Patients

...gists must inform themselves of the options, forge links with paediatric endocrinologists and reproductive medicine specialists, define at-risk patients by consensus, and commit to participating in research in this area.” Sorce-AMI SRM...

Pregnant Women With Placental Infection Have Doubled Risk of Recurrence

...k for chorioamnionitis. Scientists have also found links between other immune-related genes and chorioamnionitis. Source-Newswie SRM...

Good Sleep Could Make You Slim

...y of Chicago, Illinois, both of which showed clear links between metabolic changes and sleep deprivation. In the first study, healthy young men were observed during a 16-day sleep trial. For three of those days the men had eight-hour periods of sleep; for the next six days they slept for just four hours;...

Chemical Firms are Secretly Paying Scientists

... that cleared vinyl chloride for having any cancer links except cancer of the liver. The news papers said that Doll’s colleuges are disagreeing to these allegations which might be done to discredit Doll, and one of them said that Doll was honest with his work with the Chemical industry and generously dona...

Protein ‘Fingerprint’ in Spinal Fluid Could Spot Alzheimer’s Disese

...rom this analysis proved to be proteins with known links to the pathological mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Relkin. For example, some of the biomarkers are associated with proteins that clog the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Others molecules were linked to inflammation, also a part of Alzheim...

Inhaled Particles Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...udes new research on other particles with possible links to cancer, such as titanium dioxide. One paper looks at how inhaled particles affect levels of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory substances in the lungs, which might help to explain how particles lead to the development of lung cancer. Another...

Link Between Nanoparticles and Kidney Stones

...here is a growing body of scientific evidence that links calcification to the presence of nanosized particles, particles so small that some scientists question whether a nanoparticle can live and if so, play a viable role in the development of kidney stones. The presence of proteins, RNA and DNA does not...

New Study Links Western Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures

...volving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. States like Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and South Dakota all had an increased prevalence of ...

Uric Acid Levels (High-Normal) Associated With Cognitive Impairment in the Elderly

...other situations. The authors are also researching links between uric acid and vascular damage in the brain and attempting to dissect which aspects of uric acid and its production help or hurt the nervous system. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

Binge Drinkers on the Rise

...he study published in Pediatrics journal has shown links between binge drinking and other socially undesirable and risky activities like unsafe sex, multiple partner sex, drug abuse, suicidal tendencies, fights and other violent behaviors. Binge drinking is associated with many health problems, including...

Fast-Multiplying Lawsuits Can Stymie Medical Science, Authors Warn

...cantly slow or halt science's ability to establish links between neurological illness and environmental //factors produced by industry, a team of scientists and lawyers warns in the journal Neurology. The authors caution that litigation's effects could seriously impair efforts to identify compounds that c...

The Risk of Death from Prostate Cancer More in Obese Men

...h higher prostate cancer mortality," significantly links "adiposity to prostate cancer progression leading to death," conclude the authors. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Excess Weight and Adult Weight Gain Increase Risk of Prostate Cancer Death

...h higher prostate cancer mortality,” significantly links “adiposity to prostate cancer progression leading to death,” conclude the authors. Source-American Cancer Society<BRSRM...

Gambling to Be Taken as a Serious Addiction, Warns BMA

...ning anyone under 18 from using them. The report links gambling with other juvenile delinquent behavior and cautions that truancy could be explained by involvement in gambling. The report has also strongly recommended that GPs be given training to recognize gamblers who are seriously addicted as wel...

Link Found Between Periodontal Disease and Pancreatic Cancer

...r in pancreatic cancer is cigarette smoking; other links have been made to obesity, diabetes type 2 and insulin resistance. In a new study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that periodontal disease was associated with an increased risk of canc...

High-fibre Diets can Bust Breast Cancer

...has been inconsistent.” The strongest protective links were seen with cereal foods like whole wheat pasta, and bread, muesli, and high fibre fruits. AN...

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