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Resolving Autism

... suffer from deficiencies in a part of their brain responsible for handling spatial memory. Studies on autistic individuals have shown they often demonstrate// deficits in higher-order thinking abilities, including impairments involving language, working memory, and voluntary response inhibition. These problems ...

An insight about Schizophrenia

...y observed that anomalies in the part of the brain responsible for face recognition may play a role in schizophrenia. Recent studies have linked facial// recognition to a part of the brain called the fusiform gyrus, located on lobes on both the left and right sides of the brain. This part of the brain helps us k...

Novel way to fight cancer

...l technique involves the body's T cells, which are responsible for finding and attacking foreign cells that have entered the body. In the experiment, the scientists extracted some of these cells from 15 patients suffering from the deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, then exposed them in the laboratory to a sma...

Treating acne with laser

...o treat acne by altering the biological mechanisms responsible for this common condition. Acne is a chronic inflammatory disease of the sebaceous hair follicles. Each follicle contains a tiny hair and multiple sebaceous glands. Under normal circumstances, sebum, the oily substance made by the sebaceous glands, ...

Drinking wine beneficial in dementia

...k of dementia." However, drinking beer monthly was responsible for an increase in the risk for dementia....

Renal problem increased

...entists were able to lower the levels of molecules responsible for the oxidative stress. “This study shows how free radicals and nitric oxide interact to produce oxidative stress and help cause these neurological dysfunctions,” said Dr Nick Vaziri, head of the research. “It also may provide a way to treat these ...

Protein in eye fights diseases

...utoimmune diseases by changing the immune response responsible for multiple sclerosis or for the onset of type 1 diabetes," says Taylor. Based on this study, the Schepens Eye Research Institute team was awarded a $330,000 grant by the Wadsworth Foundation to explore new therapies for multiple sclerosis....

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

...ed that this study will yield up some of the genes responsible for syndrome X. The search will be guided by the findings on the cholesterol absorption genes in the mouse study. New drugs and preventive approaches could then be developed from a better understanding of the genetics of heart disease....

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

... soy protein or isoflavone component was primarily responsible for the beneficial effects or if both act synergistically. HRT & Diabetes Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo recently published the results of a study indicating the r...

Fireflies help speed development of new drugs

...higan Health System who inserted the gene which is responsible for the firefly glow-producing molecule into mice with cancer. The researchers kept the molecule from producing the telltale glow until cells started to die in response to cancer treatment given to the mice. Researchers then used a highly sensitive ...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...might not be the only ingredient in coffee that is responsible for negative effects of coffee. Researchers involved 48 volunteers in the study who were heavy coffee drinkers (at least six cups each day) with no history of heart or gastrointestinal disease. All volunteers were given about 4 cups of filtered coff...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...t treated. They added that other factors were also responsible for progression of the disease, which included patients with higher eye pressure or who had the disease in both eyes or old age. Researchers concluded that each millimeter of mercury that was lowered was associated with a 10 percent decrease in the d...

New way to control hospital infection

...at urinary catheters are another menace, which are responsible for 40 percent of hospital-born infections. These catheters are used inappropriately between a third to a half of the days that a patient has a catheter and add to this, nearly 40 percent of doctors are unaware their patients have catheters. He said ...

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

...Francisco VA Medical Center found that ephedra was responsible for 62 per cent of all herbal-related reports made to poison control centres in the US. This fact further gathered importance as, in the same year, products containing ephedra accounted for less than 1 per cent of herbal supplement sales in the US. R...

Blindness can be stopped with drug for acne treatment

...n results from a defect in the ABCR gene, which is responsible for coding for a protein that removes all-trans-retinaldehyde, a vision byproduct, from retinal rods and cones. Rods and cones are supported by retinal-pigmented epithelium (RPE), a layer of cells near the retina. The accumulation of toxic pigments, ...

Curbing medication errors with new rules

...errors. Medication errors alone are believed to be responsible for as many as 7,000 deaths. These errors have been attributed to problems of medications with similar names, poor handwriting by doctors on prescriptions, or too many new drugs for doctors to remember as they go from patient to patient. A 1999 study...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

...n the BritishMedical Journal that fathers might be responsible for pregnancies that lastlonger than 42 weeks or 2...o say that theremay also be other factors that are responsible for the findings. ProfessorAndrew Calder, a consultant obstetrician at the University of Edinburgh, ...

Risk Of Schizophrenia due to Gene Variation

Researchers have found that two overlapping genes responsible for bipolar disorder. In previous study researcher...enia. This leads to the idea that the genes may be responsible for both disorders. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder th...

Missing Protein In Cancer Development

... controlling the entire cell cycle. The protein is responsible for transmission of genetic material from a parent cell to each of its daughter cells produced during cell division. If that transmission somehow gets disrupted, the resulting cells become mutant versions of the original cell. The researchers studied...

Hair loss - What happens behind ?

... that people are facing. Studies show many factors responsible for hair loss. Major trauma (physical or emotional), rapid weight loss, delivering a baby and having an under or overactive thyroid gland are a few of the conditions that speed up hair loss. However hair lost as a consequence of these conditions is r...

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