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Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

...rson Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology. It may take around one to two years to complete U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements for a Phase I trial, he says. In a study, the researchers loaded the VISA system with a mutant version of a gene named BiK, which expresses a protein that natu...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

...t subjects. In fact, the palatability of sucrose may even help dieters stick to their eating plans. As part of a 12-week programme, 69 overweight women (average age 41 years; average body mass index [BMI] 32 kg/m2) were given advice on either diet, physical activity or both. A fourth group acting as ...

Brits Need to Change Lifestyle to Have a Greener Future: Report

...ng such a drastic cut in emissions is possible and may be the only way to tackle climate change. "What we are saying is that we need a huge programme, a bit like the US space project in the Sixties. When that was launched it was known to be a huge target, but the driving force to make it work was ther...

Smoking Linked to Lower Parkinson's Disease Risk

...ible mechanisms: chemical or biochemical processes may exist by which substances contained in cigarette smoke such as nicotine or carbon monoxide exert a protective effect and promote survival of dopaminergic neurons; or cigarette smoke alters the activity of metabolic enzymes or competes with other subs...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

...light switches. By practicing such tasks, patients may begin to relearn how to extend and flex the arm, r...important to patients who also cannot walk and who may otherwise have to rely on a mouth stick to move their wheelchairs, Dr. Estores added. Veterans Adm...

Scientists Find New Way to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

...put bacteria on birth control , the technique that may help stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes. ...of the drugs are now underway. "Our discoveries may lead to the ability to selectively kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria in patients, and to halt the s...

A Balanced Diet can Keep Asthma, Wheezing at Bay in Teens

Teens, especially those who smoke, may be at an increased risk of respiratory symptoms such as asthma it they forego a healthy and balanced diet . The finding comes from a study by a group of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Health Canada, Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...

FDA Says Tomatoes Unlikely to Cut Cancer Risk

... lowering the risk of some cancers. "Although it may be premature to espouse increased consumption of tomato sauce or lycopene for prostate cancer provention, this area of research remains promising," Giovannucci said. The FDA undertook the review of 145 studies after a coalition of tomato-growers an...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...re a neutral part of our genome. If anything, they may be mildly negative since long repeat sequences can be unstable or get inserted inside genes and disrupt them," said Katsanis. The researchers believe they have uncovered a possible reason why these potentially damaging but mostly neutral bits of DN...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...med, regular assessment of vision in older persons may lead to early detection, facilitating treatments that could reduce the impact of visual impairment," they added. The report is published in the July issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...does not appear to prevent type 2 diabetes, and it may increase risk of the disease. However, our underst...um seems to offer few benefits and at high levels, may be deadly. Dr. Guallar said that most people have adequate selenium in their diet. "Moreover, ...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...sease will progress. "These scanning techniques may be helpful in determining what treatments work and what don't," he said....

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

... The new study suggests that electrical signaling may have been shaped in part by sexual selection, the evolutionary process responsible for many animals' elaborate decorative features and courtship behaviors....

Two In One Drug For Smokers And Drinkers

... for addiction and that varenicline and such drugs may find more immediate use in treating diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's....

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

...al of Sports Medicine now claims that the opposite may be true. Ice baths have become a most fashionable...ling, isometric strength and function, and in fact may make more athletes sore the next day. In fact it was found that there was no difference in physic...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...amilies are particularly susceptible to cancer and may benefit from early detection or other risk reduction strategies. People concerned about a family history of cancer, or those who have been diagnosed with colon cancer before age 50 or after having two or more relatives diagnosed with the disease, sho...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...ns, however, that There are several reasons why we may have inadvertently created the opposite effect wit...ntial quantities of folic acid into the foodstream may have facilitated the transformation of benign growths into cancers, or small cancers into larger one...

Reduction in Drug Costs

...troduced than before, though this small difference may have been due to chance. The fact that three-quarters of patients were still not getting thiazides indicates how hard it is to change what doctors prescribe. CONTACT:Atle FretheimNorwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health ServicesNorway+47 23 25 50 ...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...t attack, the authors write. One reason for this may be the reputation component of the rankings, which accounts for one-third of the overall ranking score and is based on cardiologists opinions of hospitals that provide the best treatment, the authors speculate. Citations by cardiologists likely fa...

Insights into Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

...t that disruption of homotetramers into homodimers may be sufficient to abrogate the transformation abili... that dysregulated sumoylation induced by PML/RARA may contribute to altered gene expression and APL pathogenesis," explains Dr. de The. Taken together, ...

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