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Feeling depressed? You may be at higher risk of STROKE

...plained. "People need to understand that our study opens the possibility that depression may be an additional risk factor pending further investigation," Jonas said. "It is not appropriate for physicians to screen for depression (at this time) because we don't know the exact relationship between stroke and...

PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GENE DISCOVERED

...hts for determining the molecular basis of PPH and opens new avenues of study for understanding the fundamental nature of both familial and sporadic PPH. PPH is a rare lung disorder which is usually fatal. It affects primarily women of child bearing age, although it is known to also affect men and people...

New hope on the Horizon for People Wishing to Quit Smoking

...stitute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), says, "This research opens up an exciting new avenue of treatment that can help smokers substantially reduce their exposure to tobacco smoke while they overcome the addiction to nicotine that makes it so hard to quit."...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...g told of their involvement in those mishaps. This opens up a Pandora’s box on medical ethics and the matter assumes monstrous proportions if the unwitting error happens to be a fatal one. Two types of products — insulin and the anticoagulants heparin and warfarin — were most often linked to medication err...

Action of nerve cells

...rotransmitters.Thus, the UNC-13 protein unfolds or opens the syntaxin protein so it can aid the release of neurotransmitter from one nerve cell to another. When a human or other animal has any sensation- from feeling pain to hearing a sound or remembering something millions of neurons are sending signals...

Gene clue to antibiotics

...es that are involved in antibiotic synthesis. This opens up the way to the discovery of many new antibiotics. Streptomyces also makes potential anti-cancer drugs, and immune-suppressants. Incidentally Streptomyces is also quite similar to the microbe that causes tuberculosis. So this research may reveal ...

Decision making made easier

...ecision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed patients, and more rational treatment decisions. If the tool were available over the Internet, costs would be minimal. The main issue of concern is to ensure that the quality of material on the videodisc is of the highest ...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

...reating brain cells out of bone marrow cells which opens up the possibility of grafts for Parkinson's disease. At the Peterson Medical College scientists grew stem cells from adult bone marrow in a finely-tuned cocktail of growth factors and other chemicals and found they could get them to convert into neu...

A way to calm the heart rhythm

...volved, in part, as a calming practice, which both opens the mind and benefits the heart and lungs in the long run....

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...t in ovarian cancer than previously realised. This opens the door to new therapies for this hard-to-treat cancer - drugs which restore BRCA1 function, for example....

Nose plug-switch that stops smelling

... is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and closes as the neuron becomes desensitised to that smell. By measuring the signals from these odour receptors cells in genitically engineered mice, one research team showed that mice lacking CNGA4 could sense odours but...

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...hich causes the disease.//The presence of the gene opens up opportunities for the use of azole drugs which are already available for ht etreatment of fungal infections. These treatments such as in Canestan and Diflucan are central to antifungal treatments of patinets suffering infections such as Canadida ...

Vitamin E decreases high blood pressure in kidney failure

...ere impaired in the kidney-damaged rats. The study opens up the exciting possibility that you might be able to treat high blood pressure and even kidney failure in humans with antioxidant therapy....

Nose plug: switch that stops smelling

... is really a channel in the neurons’ membrane that opens when an odour is presented and closes as the neuron becomes desensitised to that smell.By measuring the signals from these odour receptors cells in genitically engineered mice, one research team showed that mice lacking CNGA4 could sense odours but c...

Attacking therapy with electricity

...s only millionths of a second, but when applied it opens up microscopic pores in the cell membrane so that drug molecules can enter into the cell. When the pulse is stopped, the holes close up again so the drug stays inside. Research so far has applied electroporation to cancer chemotherapy, the delivery...

How brain works

...rotransmitters.Thus, the UNC-13 protein unfolds or opens the syntaxin protein so it can aid the release of neurotransmitter from one nerve cell to another. When a human or other animal has any sensation- from feeling pain to hearing a sound or remembering something millions of neurons are sending signals...

Nightlights could ward diabetic blindness

...ith type 2 diabetes and eight healthy controls. It opens up the possibility that some kind of transmission of light through closed eyelids, during sleep, could protect the retina from damage by reducing the oxygen requirements of the rod cells.....

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...ells in the part of the brain affected by HD. This opens up the possibility of a cure for not just HD, but also other neurodegenerative disorders, like Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. A related compound, known as ursodeoxycholic acid is already approved for the treatment of liver disease. But...

Gene block keeps mice from increasing weight

...ans would under the same conditions. The discovery opens the way to a better understanding of diet, obesity and diabetes - and the complex relationship between them. It may even lead to a new treatment for obesity and new approaches for preventing the development of diabetes....

Useful device makes spinal surgery safer

...pproved by the Food and Drug Administration, which opens the door to its more widespread use among the population....

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