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Gene Found for Rare Disorder May Reveal New Pathway in Mental Retardation

...fied two genes that contribute to Cornelia deLange syndrome (CdLS), a multisystem genetic disease that affects an estimated one in 10,000 children. The disease varies from milder to more severe forms, but classically includes mental retardation, impaired growth, heart defects, feeding problems, deformed upper...

Growth Factors Given With Chemotherapy may Increase Risk of Blood Diseases

...about the risk of a disease called myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), in which the bone marrow—which produces blood cells—does not function normally. Indeed, some studies have hinted that cancer patients who receive growth factors with chemotherapy may have an increased risk of these two diseases. Dawn Hershm...

Increased Mental Disorders In Children

... Danish Psychiatric Registry reveals that Tourette syndrome has more than doubled between the years 1990-95 and hypokinetic disorder is almost tripled at age five between 1992 and 1999. A research conducted in 2005 hints that autism has been understood well and diagnosed well. When a screening study was con...

Condition That Causes Irregular Periods Can Lead to Fertility Problems

...sociated with PCOS 1. Women with polycystic ovary syndrome often experience irregular or infrequent menstrual cycles. 2. Many women with PCOS have excess hair growth on their faces, chests or abdomens. 3. PCOS can lead to fertility problems. 4. Women with PCOS have an increased risk of diabetes; 30 per...

NO Linked With Increased Survival in ALI/ARDS

...te lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), showed that higher levels of// nitric oxide (NO) in patient urine were strongly associated with improved survival. It also showed more ventilator-free days, and decreased rates of organ failure in ALI/ARDS patients. The results appear in ...

Young People Who Died Suddenly, Inexplicably Had Genetic Heart Defects

...e of two abnormal heart rhythm conditions: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). Both syndromes can declare their presence silently and catastrophically with a sudden death episode as the first symptom. Because they leave no structural or physical clues, the...

New Cause of Chronic Liver Disease Identified in HIV-positive Patients

...rare, but potentially fatal, liver disease. The syndrome involves the build-up of pressure in the portal vein, which connects the intestines with the liver and can cause bleeding into the stomach. Writing in the January 11th edition of the journal AIDS, the French investigators suggest that nodular regener...

Common BP Drug Treats Muscular Dystrophy

...sting// in genetically engineered mice with Marfan syndrome and also prevents muscle degeneration in mice with... to the aortic defect, children with severe Marfan syndrome often have very small, weak muscles, and adults with Marfan often can't gain muscle mass despite ade...

Aspirin Saves Life Even in Cancer Patients

...gh. "In the non-cancer patient with acute coronary syndrome anywhere in the United States, an expected seven-day mortality is less than 1 percent," he says. There were parallel findings for those patients in either group who were treated with beta-blockers, which block the heart's use of adrenalin. The prot...

Researchers Explore the Effect of Engineered Immune Cells on HIV

... involved in triggering the human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV). Scientists have realized there is one stumbling block to this goal- which is to make headways towards the development of an effective transport system, equipped to deliver therapeutic payloads to specific cells. As challenging as the problem...

Birth Defects, an Important Reason Behind Infant Death, Study Reveals

... most common were - hypospadias, cleft lip, Down’s syndrome and pulmonary valve stenosis. Hospital care for the birth defect- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome was found to be the most expensive. This is a condition, where the baby is born with small or no lef...

Big Brother to the Rescue

..., in November 2003. X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome has affected around 100 males worldwide. Life expectancy is very low in those diagnosed with this. The disorder causes the immune system to respond abnormally to some viral infections and the only cure is bone marrow transplant. While women can...

Is Growth Hormone – a Key to Longevity

...e effects, including swollen joints, carpel tunnel syndrome and diabetes. Their findings were published in Tuesday`s edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians. Many people will do almost anything to try to stave off aging - one of the...

Early Risers are Born That Way, Not Made

...y early is dubbed as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS). Scientists now, publishing their result in the journal Cell, have identified how the gene mutation causes this condition. According to them, replacement of one amino acid from among hundreds found in a protein can result in irregular slee...

A New Therapy for CFS

...rt Lauderdale on Jan. 11 and 12. Chronic fatigue syndrome has baffled doctors and researchers for decades, because aside from debilitating fatigue, it lacks consistent symptoms. Although many genetic, infectious, psychiatric and environmental factors have been proposed as possible causes, none has been nail...

Down’s Syndrome Test - Advised in All Pregnancie

...e first trimester, the risk of a fetus having Down syndrome or other chromosomal defects. Until now, testing for the common birth defect hinged on whether the woman was older or younger than 35. This change has promised to decrease unnecessary amnios while also detecting Down Syndrome in moms who otherwise ...

Soda and Juice Drinks Could Make Kids Obese

...s already showed high risk of developing metabolic syndrome - a cluster of ominous risk factors that indicate ...re at or near the danger level for three metabolic syndrome risk factors -- big waistline, high blood pressure, and a low level of good HDL cholesterol. Their...

First Potential Treatment for Dengue

...ted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Dengue shock syndrome is a fatal shock associated// with severe blood loss, though there may or may not be any hemorrhage. The pathology of this disease is unknown thus there is no treatment or vaccine available. The only prevention is vector control. This context brough...

HIV Treatments Improve Health, but Nutritional Issues Remain

...and colleagues examined the incidence of metabolic syndrome and existing micronutrient deficiencies among part...V may be at risk for zinc deficiency. Metabolic syndrome is defined as having three or more of the following medical conditions; low levels of high-density l...

Clues to Allay Aging

...is Afghan boy suffered from a rare premature aging syndrome called progeria. The doctors that treated this boy in Germany had communicated with Jan Hoeiimakers that the Afghan boy oversensitive to sun rays and had a peculiar shriveled and aged appearance from the age of 10. Apart from this, he also had hearin...

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