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Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

... fight incipient infections. They rarely appear in normal skin, but are produced in reaction to skin inflammation. Since atopic dermatitis patients are so frequently plagued by bacterial infections, Dr. Leung and his colleagues decided to investigate the potential role of the antimicrobial peptides in those...

Treating acne with laser

...s a tiny hair and multiple sebaceous glands. Under normal circumstances, sebum, the oily substance made by the sebaceous glands, travels up the hair follicle and out to the skin’s surface. However, with acne, sebum is trapped within the follicle and skin bacteria multiplies within the clogged pores. Acne d...

Physiotherapy helps amputation

... Weight transfer exercises etc. Patient can lead a normal life as before. There have been many celebreties l...ncer Ms.Sudha Chandran, and more who are leading a normal life after undergoing amputation....

Swelling increases stroke risk with high B.P.

...r times more likely to have a stroke than men with normal blood pressure and ISPs. When blood pressure was elevated, but ISPs normal, the risk was only 2.5 times that of healthy men. Clearly ISPs - and inflammation - are factors in determining stroke risk among those who have high blood pressure....

Associated therapy for multiple myeloma

...sues of the body. As the cancer grows, it destroys normal bone tissue, which causes pain and crowds out normal cell production. Multiple myeloma is the second most common blood cancer in the United States. It r...

Implication of virus in colon cancer

...t show how human cytomegalovirus (CMV) can disrupt normal cellular processes, leading to malignant growth, especially in the context of colon cancer. Then the researchers went on to test colon tumour samples for CMV. They looked at colorectal polyp tissue, adenocarcinoma (a type of colon cancer) and adjacen...

Hormone Imbalance may lead to prolonged fatigue

...with chronic fatigue were found to have lower than normal levels of ACTH, a hormone preceding cortisol in the HPA axis. This suggests a fruitful approach in the search for the cause of chronic fatigue. It may also explain why hydrocortisone causes some improvement - it may restore the balance to the HPA axi...

Associated scan for detecting ovarian cancer spread

...ey found that PET-CT could distinguish cancer from normal tissue in 100 per cent of cases, while PET was only able to do this in 52 per cent of cases. However, this is only a small study, so larger trials are needed before this new approach could be used routinely in women with ovarian cancer....

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...female sexual dysfunction" makes an illness out of normal changes in women's sexual feelings which may happen after childbirth or being with the same partner for many years. The article says that a group of researchers in close conjunction with pharma companies sponsoring meetings are defining a new catego...

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

... 10 people claimed that they have stopped enjoying normal leisure activities due to the severity of the back pain. Doctors say that people became inspired to take up gardening after watching TV and since they did not have a proper plan and adequate knowledge on how to lift weights properly or what types of...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...a. The year-long study started with monitoring the normal situation in the intensive care unit at St. James's University Hospital, which has had recurrent problems with acinetobacter infections, for the first six months. Researchers took samples from surfaces, patients and from the air to monitor bacteria l...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...same virus. The monkeys which would quickly die in normal conditions, were alive and did not get sick - at least for the 34-week study period, when they were given the vaccine treatment. Most vaccines make the immune system do one of two things: make antibodies or make germ-killing cells while the DC vacci...

More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure

... regardless of age and even if readings are in the normal range, could// have significant pay off in terms of reducing risk of strokes and heart attacks. The study which included a 13 year follow-up of the subjects showed that out of the 120,000 who died, 56,000 suffered fatal strokes, cases of deadly coro...

Depressed women show signs of earlier onset of Perimenopause

...or one year or longer compared to women who made a normal transition to menopause (around age 50). The new research study included 330 women with and 646 women without a history of major depression between the ages of 36 and 45 years old. None of the women enrolled in the study had gone through menopause y...

Lowering blood pressure beneficial for PAD patients

...eople with diabetes. The subjects, 483 of whom had normal blood pressure and 52 of whom had PAD, were given, either a placebo or a blood pressure lowering drug. In the first group, blood pressure went down to an average of 137/81 mm Hg and in the second the level was 128/75 mm Hg. The American Heart Associa...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...ble in the market. 14 children, aged 8 to 16, with normal growth and no abnormalities, consumed oats 25 days... year, one child had elevated blood readings but a normal biopsy. Also, after one year, one child who displayed blunted villi was determined to have been con...

Kidney function can be affected by lead exposure

... kidney disease in which there were some who had a normal body burden of// lead, while others were found to have an elevated level of lead. The subjects in the group were given either a placebo or chelation therapy - a method of removing lead. They found that those on chelation therapy had an improved glome...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

... they found that those with AH also had lower than normal bone density in the spine. This indicated that the mutations might be used as a marker for detecting osteoporosis at an early stage, when it can be more readily treated....

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...cule called AURORA-A which is found at higher than normal levels in up to half of breast and bowel tumors, a...re killed by the drug as non-engineered cells. In normal cell division, a cell can only divide if it has correctly shared out all its genes, ensuring each ne...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...ls for those that have reverted to type and become normal again. They hope that those genes switched off by ...s to be taken away from cancerous cells to make it normal again. Sir Paul Nurse, Chief Executive of Cancer Research, UK, on the other hand, added that the nex...

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