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Gene Target For Tuberculosis Identified

...ergistic partners and appear to accelerate disease progression when they occur together. Tuberculosis is a very common disease, affecting about one-third of the world’s population. Of the estimated two billion people infected, only 5%-10% actually develop tuberculosis disease in their lifetime. The other 90%-95...

Chocolate To Combat Cancer: So Indulge!

... compound pentameric procyanidin inhibits cancer's progression by targeting and deactivating the proteins involved in the proliferation of malignant cells (vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 537-46).Biting into the bar of chocolates is anyone’s delight. Chocolate with its various forms is a darling of one and all. Some time bac...

Diabetic Amputation May Reduce If Free Screenings Are There

...on’s risk of having a heart attack and stroke. The progression of PAD results in death for about one-third of patients. Screening is essential because one-third of diabetics have peripheral arterial disease, but most do not present classic symptoms—and by the time they do notice they have a problem, they are ...

Study holds promise for new way to fight HIV

...recognized mechanism that underlies slower disease progression in long-term nonprogressors. Lastly, the data suggest that protecting A3G from viral attack may be an important new way to treat AIDS and other viral infections....

Increase Cereal Fibre To Combat Atherosclerosis

... and vegetables, and refined grain products on the progression of existing coronary artery disease in women was t...saturated fat, cholesterol, and alcohol. Slower progression of stenosis was also observed in those with high intakes of cereal fibre or whole grain products. Th...

Role Of Estrogen In Breast-Cancer

...R, it can promote the associated proliferation and progression of breast cancer, as the balance of co-activators and co-repressors involved in normal gene transcription is altered. The findings may have sweeping implications. For one, the mechanisms at play could explain at least some of the mixed results seen...

Weight loss accomplished by high carbohydrate, vegan diet

... A low fat, primarily vegan diet may also slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to latest study reports. The simplicity of a vegan diet appeals to people who are busy with work and family. This accounts for the better acceptability and the shorter transition time of 3 weeks or less. ...

Active Lifestyle Helps To Slowdown Illness In Alzheimer's Patients

...ation are among things that can help slow down the progression of Alzheimer's, as has been found in a study of th...nt goes through the agonising stage of knowing the progression of the illness. After this, it is the caregiver who faces the agony of seeing a loved one gradually ...

Better Research Rats To Help In Learning About Hypertension

...hers found that estrogen depletion exacerbates the progression of diastolic dysfunction. Scientists have long known that estrogen helps protect heart vessels from atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty deposits that can cause heart attacks. This research suggests that it may also protect heart function. The rese...

Pomegranates Found To Slow Prostate Cancer Progression

...amatic characterized by significantly lower cancer progression in mice receiving the higher pomegranate dose. Furthermore, blood tests revealed decreased levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a marker commonly used to monitor prostate cancer....

Breast Cancer Protein MSF Linked To Disease Severity

...w protein which may be responsible for the disease progression in breast cancer patients//. The new protein which is known as MSF protein is produced in high quantity in patients with breast cancer and the amount of protein produced may be responsible for the severity of disease progression. They have identifi...

Prostate cancer recurrence attributed to obesity and rate of weight gain

...f diagnosis with other measures of prostate cancer progression could enhance the predictive value of tools used to determine the risk each patient has for recurrence of prostate cancer. Keeping this in mind, it would be beneficial if men only become more conscious about their weight and participate in weight r...

Dietary pattern of Soy consumption among women at risk for breast cancer

...erstanding the role of diet in the development and progression of cancer has increased the awareness// among the medical fraternity about the importance of a healthy diet to avert the same. Soy is being touted as the next wonder food that can perform miracles for health including preventing cancer. A new study...

“Provenge”, Dendritic cell vaccine for Prostate Cancr

...says. This may mean that survival, and not time to progression is a better measure of efficacy for cancer vaccines, Berger suggests. Source: Nature Medcine...

Depression May Be A Risk Factor For Cancer Initiation

...a potential role in the initiation, promotion, and progression of cancer. One of the base modifications due to oxidative stress is 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG). It has been reported that this oxidative DNA damage indicates both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, and has been considered to be useful in estimati...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

...d some chemicals, poses risks for the induction or progression of cancer during embryonic and childhood development. Ionizing radiation given at large doses is one of the few known risk factors for childhood leukemia and brain cancer. Radio and television broadcasts, mobile phones and base stations, and other co...

BCG vaccine for both Protection and treatment of Tuberculosis

...ion is poorly understood. It is thought to prevent progression of infection to active TB but whether it protects against the acquisition of infection itself has not been investigated in humans. The most frequent source of infection being the human excretes from the respiratory tract, which has large number of tu...

Curcumin found to halt spread of breast cancer in mice

... The nontoxic natural substance not only repelled progression of the disease to the lungs, but also appeared to reverse the effects of paclitaxel, a commonly prescribed chemotherapy for breast cancer. There exists a possibility that the long-term use of the drug can trigger spread of the disease over a long per...

Sexes differ in response to burnout on the job and depression

...sses, which plays a key role in the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease and other inflammatory-linked illness. Women who experience job burnout and men who experience depression were found to have increased levels of two inflammation biomarkers – fibrinogen and C-reactive protein (CRP). Both o...

Development of kidney disease in adults with pre-diabetes

...lp direct therapeutic interventions to prevent the progression of kidney disease. Recently, researchers, writing in the October issue of Diabetes Care sought to examine the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults with pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes in the general population, using t...

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