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Some Prescriptions Can Lead to Chronic Drug-Induced Liver Injury

...of liver injury. Samples of serum, urine, DNA, and peripheral lymphocytes were collected and stored at a central repository for future studies. Source-Newswise RM...

Nerve Conduction Studies Safe for Patients with Implanted Cardiac Devices

...CSs) are done to detect and evaluate damage to the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves that lead away from the brain and spinal cord and the smaller nerves that branch out from those nerves. Nerve conduction studies are often used to help diagnose nerve disorders, such as carpal tunnel synd...

Potential Link Between Celiac Disease and Cognitive Decline

... about celiac disease and neurological issues like peripheral neuropathy (nerve problems causing numbness or pain) or balance problems, but this degree of brain problem -- the cognitive decline we’ve found here -- has not been recognized before. I was not expecting there would be so many celiac disease patients...

Cuba Introduces New Device for Detecting Vascular Diseases

...cal device to facilitate the diagnosis of vascular peripheral diseases, said official sources.// The Cuban-made equipment, Digital ANGIODIN PD-3000 detects ailments like arrhythmia, arterial failure, erectile sexual dysfunction and micro and macro vessel failures at an early stage, Prensa Latina news agency r...

Limb amputations among Diabetics on a high

...gnsThe frequent culprit of diabetic amputations is peripheral arterial disease (PAD), in which plaque blocks foot or leg arteries, resulting in pain, development of ulcers and onset of limb loss. According to the American College of Cardiology, common symptoms of PAD are: · Discomfort, cramping or heaviness in ...

Metastasis Of Ocular Melanoma To Liver Can Now Be Calculated

...al field that usually involve blank spots in their peripheral vision. Most of the time, those symptoms won't mean there's an ocular melanoma, Harbour says, but they should be examined by an eye doctor. Unlike skin melanomas, these eye tumours don't seem to be related to ultraviolet light exposure, but Harbour...

Study States That CNS Could Regulate Arthritis

...ontrolling influence for the body and can regulate peripheral inflammation and immune responses." For many yea... then determined the influence of the treatment on peripheral arthritis. We observed that the p38 signal is turned on, or activated, in the central nervous syst...

Drugs Delivered Into CNS More Effective In Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis

...ts that p38 is activated in the CNS in response to peripheral pain, and on Firestein and colleagues' own finding that this is true in response to inflammation as well, the researchers blocked p38 with drugs directly delivered to the spinal cord of the arthritic rats. They found that the treated rats had substan...

Hearing May be affected by Certain Hormone Replacement Therapies

... state-of-the art hearing tests assessing both the peripheral (ear) and central (brain) auditory systems," to compare the effects of estrogen alone, estrogen plus progestin, and no HRT (control) on 124 postmenopausal women of ages 60 to 86 years. Of the 124 subjects, 30 were treated with estrogen alone, 32 wi...

Model of Internal Clocks Reveals How Jet Lag Disrupts the System

...oup of cells that transmit the information to more peripheral components. This hierarchy within the circadian...ifferent parts of the SCN, between the SCN and the peripheral clocks, and on the differing rhythms of the local clocks, she says. To explore the dynamics of the...

Two Chemical Compounds Restore Healthy Glucose Levels In Obese Mice

...NK activation and suppression of insulin action in peripheral tissues. Administration of TUDCA in a different set of ob/ob and wild-type mice normalized blood glucose levels within one week of treatment of the obese mice. TUDCA helped improve insulin response by reducing ER stress and suppressing JNK gene act...

People Under 60 At Risk Of Premature Peripheral Vascular Disease

...t people younger than 60 more at risk of premature peripheral vascular disease (PVD). The findings were based on the study done on nearly 2,500 people younger than 60 and a similar number of people over 60. Peripheral vascular disease is a narrowing of blood vessels that restricts blood flow. It mostly occ...

Hunger Mapping

...chanism underlying meal initiation under different peripheral and metabolic environments," they wrote. Source: EurekAlert...

Yoga to De-stress Indian Army Soldiers

... zonal hospitals and more specialist facilities in peripheral hospitals "so that soldiers and officers may be provided with proper medical care in their vicinity", the committee noted. The committee said all the training courses should be brought under the umbrella of AFMC. "Besides helping in having unifor...

Carotid Stenting Could Avert Depression In Stenosis

...osis and 102 age- and gender-matched controls with peripheral artery disease (PAD) scheduled to undergo lower-limb angioplasty, a surgical procedure. All patients were tested for depressive symptoms based on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). BDI scores of 10 or above indicate substantial depressive symptoms....

Mutation in the Envelope Gene May Be the Reason for the Development of HIV Linked Cognitive Decline

...as genetically different from those present in the peripheral blood. The patients suffered severe to moderate cognitive decline. The HIV in the brain showed the presence of a particular mutation in the HIV envelope gene. The study analysed about 18 HIV-positive subjects. The study results appear in the journ...

Genetic Mutation Implicated in Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

...ease is the most common hereditary disorder of the peripheral nervous system, leading to a weakening of the muscles in the lower legs, feet and hands as the nerves that run from the spinal cord to the muscles die off. The syndrome is extremely variable: some patients hardly notice it, while others become confin...

China Bans Illegal Stem Cell Collection, Transplantation

...hinese Ministry of Health said that the sources of peripheral blood stem cells or stem cells, must be legal, registered sources that can be traced. The regulations aim to strengthen the management of stem cell collection and medical security, the ministry said. The regulations also forbid disclosing stem cell ...

It may be possible to switch off acute pain

...sist, a master switch must be turned on inside the peripheral neurons, though until now the identity of this switch remained a mystery. Richard Ambron, Ph.D., professor of cell biology, and Ying-Ju Sung, Ph.D., assistant professor, both in the department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, have now discovered that the...

Scientists Coax Nerve Fibers to Regrow After Spinal Cord Injury

...rd,” says Schnaar. Surgical transplantation of a peripheral nerve to help nerve fiber growth from the spinal c...mprove spinal nerve regeneration into transplanted peripheral nerves, Schnaar and his research team at Hopkins are testing the same treatment to see whether it wi...

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