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Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

... more highly expressed in cancer cells. The enzyme makes it easier for cells to let go of their neighbours and spread. So there's a potential for blocking this enzyme, known as GnT-V, with drugs and this may form the basis of a new therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells. Test tube experiments do s...

New snoring cure

... tonsils, and the base of the tongue. Surgery that makes this tissue stiffer reduces the vibrations. // This has been done by surgery that creates scarring in the palate - but it's a very painful treatment. Surgeons at the University of California are trying a different approach - making the lesions with...

Have sex and stay young

...e than 10 years younger than the average adult who makes love twice a week, says consultant neuro-psycholog...om sex is a crucial factor in preserving youth. It makes us happy and produces chemicals telling us so," he claims.//Dr Weeks said loving couples make more o...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...potential for slowing the metabolic overdrive that makes patients waste away after severe burns and other major injuries. In a study, researchers at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, tried propranolol on 13 children with bad burns and left 12 untreated to compare. The drug, one of a class...

Collagen improves voice quality in Parkinsonism

... They injected collagen - one of the proteins that makes up bone and skin - into the vocal cords in the larynx. For 8 of the 10 patients, the procedure led to an improvement in voice quality that lasted for at least two months. In the other cases, the disease was probably too advanced for the injection to ...

More about HIV

... than they would have without treatment. This also makes it difficult to keep HIV infected patients on the strict regiment required for the drug to be as effective as it can be. Secondly, new, more virulent strains of HIV are beginning to emerge that are resistant to drugs that were effective only a few y...

Cirrhosis linked to genes

... and teams in several UK centres are studying what makes this group particularly vulnerable.// Dr West's team has identified an antibody response to alcohol consumption which is linked to polymorphisms - genetic variants found in at least 2% of the population. The response was found in half of those with...

FDA Approves New Arthritis Drug, Bextra

...renuous sports, obesity or aging. Pharmacia Corp. makes the drug, Bextra (valdecoxib), while drug giant Pfizer Inc. is helping to promote it. Bextra is a member of a class of anti-inflammatory drugs known as COX-2 inhibitors, which work by blocking// an enzyme called cyclooxygenase 2. These drugs are be...

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...ecially of the nerve cell membranes," he said. "It makes sense that if you have got a high or low level of cholestrol that might influence the way the nerve cells work." Dr Garland said impulsivity stimulated by low cholesterol levels could be responsible for many types of dangerous behavior....

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

...drugstores -- eases cold symptoms within a day and makes a runny nose completely clear up a day sooner than...But experts say there is little doubt the medicine makes people feel better sooner if their cold is caused by a rhinovirus, the most common culprit. The re...

Genes for Vision discovered

...nes. Of these, 241 had homologs in humans. “This makes photoreceptors the most well characterised cell type in the body,” said Cepko. The database provides a genetic lantern by which to see the goings on inside photoreceptors. Fro ex, by removing a gene, and hence its protein, we can understand how that ...

Hidden influenza virus protein found

... used a technique called immunofluorescence, which makes the molecule glow green, to show how much of it infected cells contained. “The cells we looked at just lit up.Researchers saw large amounts of this molecule in the mitochondria of flu infected cells, and we knew it was a real protein.It turns out tha...

Water regulation in humans

...er causing frequent urination and emaciation.Water makes up 70% of the human body, and while certain cells need to absorb water quickly, other cells are relatively impermeable to water. About a decade ago, Peter Agre, a professor from Hopkins stumbled upon an unknown protein lodged in the plasma membrane ...

Babies Need Vaccination

...inating them before they leave the hospital ``just makes good sense,'' Cooper said.Newborns can contract the virus from infected mothers' blood during childbirth, but vaccinating them soon afterward can prevent the disease from taking hold, said McMillan, a pediatrics professor at Johns Hopkins University....

Zinc may enhance growth in Young sickle cell patients

...ses red blood cells to become sickle-shaped, which makes it difficult// for the cells to pass through the bloodstream to deliver oxygen to the body's tissues. Young sickle cell patients who are having delays in their growth and maturation may benefit from supplemental zinc, a mineral essential for growth a...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

... that causes a rare bone disease in which the body makes too much bone, a finding that may lead to treatments for osteoporosis. According to Dr. Michael Levyn, director of the bone and mineral center at Hopkins University, the new finding will help bone researchers understand why the body loses the ability...

Scios Inc. targets drug giants in arthritis war

...early trials. But the size of the potential market makes it a prize that many big pharmaceuticals companies also covet. So far, Scios' prospects look good. The company's pill appears to inhibit an enzyme, known as the p38 kinase, which provokes inflammation. Scios' lead comes in part because an earlier tr...

Exercise lowers Risk of Ovarian Cancer

... for ovarian cancer are not very appropriate. That makes it all the more important to concentrate on strategies to prevent the disease. Now, according to a new study, there's something all women can do to lower their risk. Researchers studied nearly six hundred women to see if staying active affected the o...

Safeguarding anti-inflammatory users from ulcers

Abolishing a common stomach-dwelling bacterium makes the long-term use of anti-inflammatory drugs safer. Many people would benefit from chronic usage// of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and diclofenac. Not only do these drugs relieve the symptoms of arthritis, they also pro...

Air pollution may raise risk of lung cancer

...area exposes you to "fine particulate matter" that makes its way into your lungs when you breathe, increasi...s, including a lack of adequate follow-up. "What makes this study significant is that it involved hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the coun...

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