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New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...ic prostate cancer.// The vaccine uses the men's own dendritic cells, extracted white blood cells (WBC) that activate the immune system by impeding substances that trigger an immune attack. These dendritic cells contain genetic information or RNA, a derivative of DNA, from a substance secreted by the p...

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...than letting him out of the back door, and do your own yard work, rather than pay a gardener....

Knee fat turns into cartilage

...ment// or repair tissue is created from a person's own cells. Central to this is the ability of stem cell...es with a ready repair material created from their own cells....

Delirium linked to death

...e considered a significant, serious problem in its own right and as a marker of serious risk of mortality. The detection of delirium should prompt efforts to identify and treat underlying medical problems....

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...essential in Alzheimer's disease into blocking its own debilitating action.// A team led by Nobel laureat...es the so-called "click reaction" that creates its own worst enemy -- its most potent inhibitor. "Think of this as a Trojan Horse approach for battling dis...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...ording to Polley, they are letting the body do its own bone-grafting, who pioneered the technique with a colleague at Chicago's Rush Craniofacial Center. About 3,000 children a year are born with severe craniofacial defects such as Apert's syndrome, which struck Alyssa, and similar disorders. Their bone...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

... the immune system goes awry and attacks patients' own cartilage. It typically strikes between ages 25 and 50. Liver damage is not the only Arava concern, Wolfe said. FDA records show more reports of lymphoma, high blood pressure and a life-threatening autoimmune disorder called Stevens-Johnson syndrome...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

... new heart, liver or brain tissue for people whose own organs are damaged, allowing the body to repair itself. Realization of such potential is many years down the road, if ever, scientists cautioned. "There are those who have been expecting a 'quick fix' with stem cells, and these folks will indeed get ...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...er a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. After the ...orillas) are the only species that recognise their own faces in a mirror," says Keenan, who began researching self-awareness as a graduate student. "It has...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

... there is also the view that it's a disease in its own right. A new clue comes from the now-famous Nun ...ntia. It may, in some cases, be a condition in its own right. But it should not be seen as a normal part of the aging process....

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...wever, infecting patients with viruses carries its own risks, and liposome production is less efficient. The new technique involves taking the long strands of DNA and "scrunching" them up into a more compact package. This tiny ball, 25 nanometres across - 25 millionths of a millimetre - is much smalle...

A promising treatment for wart removal

Depending upon the body's own ability to get rid of warts, a researchers at the ...ates the body to fight and destroy warts using its own defences. Warts are caused by a viral infection. Sometimes they go away by themselves without trea...

Care for footwear not required diabetic patients

...ecial shoes of two types, while a third wore their own shoes. Foot ulcer rates after two years were equally low in all three groups. The researchers suggest that it's not the footwear, but the quality of foot care that makes the difference in diabetes....

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...ctly to adults who wanted to produce more of their own stem cells, but researchers may soon be able to ad... are unlikely to reject cells that come from their own bodies. And it is not yet known how to coax embryonic stem cells into desired mature cell types. Th...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...rvational studies, in which women decided on their own whether to go on HRT after menopause, have suggested that the treatment cuts risk of heart attacks and stroke. But some scientists speculated that women who opt for HRT might tend to be healthier, tilting those studies in the treatment's favor. That ...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

...advantages of this procedure were use of patient's own tissue from the healthy eye to treat the diseased one avoiding the risk rejection, which is generally the case with cadaveric tissue....

Heart patients should play Golf

...pacity. Then they played nine holes, pulling their own golf cart and wearing portable devices to assess their oxygen uptake. On average, those with heart disease worked at 57 per cent of the capacity, while healthy men worked at only 40 per cent (and needed to supplement the golf with something a little ...

Special proteins to fight TB identified

...eat-shock proteins would make it vulnerable to our own natural immunity, enabling us to clear the infection. This research assumes importance because of the fact that tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease in the world. But the sad part is that a third of the world's populatio...

Heart attack risk starts at 20

...hood when you become a responsible person for your own health," Stein said. The guidelines also try to point out that "it's not just one thing, it's a combination of things" that culminate to cause heart disease. Other recommendations to prevent heart attack and stroke include maintaining a healthy over...

Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

...revelation of his homosexuality, and the patient's own "strict religious convictions" had led him to abstain from sex and other behaviors he thought inappropriate, the researchers report. The good news, according to Guilleminault's team, is that the abnormal sexual behavior was "eliminated" in most pati...

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