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A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...rson could be offered an aspirin-like pill to keep those proteins in check. That is the future a visionar...SAIDs in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s or in those with the disease would be difficult. Long-term use of high-dose NSAIDs can cause stomach ulcers, kid...

Structure of TB Enzyme Points the Way to New Drugs: Study

...the new drugs by targeting different pathways than those used by existing antibiotics should side-step various problems with these drugs, specifically their inability to destroy the bacteria in its dormant form, which is one of the reasons that resistance has emerged. The study appears in the Proceedings...

First Baby Born from Eggs Matured and Frozen in the Lab

...fit women with cancers, such as breast cancer, and those undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), where the..., who might be expected to make up the majority of those wishing to preserve their fertility using this method," Holzer added. Holzer suggested that health...

Inability to Recognize Familiar Smells Could Signal Alzheimers

... percent more likely to develop the condition than those who scored above average," the authors of the study wrote. "The findings suggest that olfactory dysfunction can be an early manifestation of Alzheimer's disease." However, "the neurological bases of age-associated olfactory dysfunction are uncert...

Impaired Odour Identification Predicts Cognitive Decline for the Elderly

...per cent more likely to develop the condition than those who scored above average. Dr. Wilson says that the association between cognitive impairment and reduction in odour identification did not change even when it was considered that factors like stroke and smoking habits might have influenced the resu...

One-third of Adults Have Had Some Form of Alcohol Use Disorder During Their Lifetimes

...Native Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower incomes. Current alcohol abuse was more...alcohol dependence manifested less disability than those with drug dependence and anxiety disorders, but their disability was comparable with that among resp...

Blood Protein may Hold Key to Why Healthy People Get Heart Attacks

...rt disease have linked elevated levels of MPO with those at highest risk for a heart attack. As part of ...healthy throughout the follow-up period, selecting those of the same gender and similar ages and enrolment times. Researchers found that the average blood...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...eportedly tested HIV positive. The victims were those villagers, who had gone out of their village to nearby cities in search of work, only to return with the deadly virus. The remote village fraught with poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and underdevelopment has been shocked into disbelief, after 35...

Acute Mountain Sickness may Lead to Pulmonary or Cerebral Edema

...untain sickness (AMS), which affects about half of those ascending to heights over 3,000m, may lead to lif...ether there is an actual increased awareness among those who actually climb to these altitudes, and if this awareness is accompanied by a decrease in the pre...

Rosehips may Be an Effective Alternative for Rheumatoid Arthritis

..., activity levels improved by 20 to 25 percent for those taking LitoZin. The number of joints causing them pain and discomfort fell by 40 percent, but did not change for patients treated conventionally without the rose-hip supplement. Generally, the overall tenderness of painful joints was significantly ...

Bird Flu in Asia Still High Risk Says WHO Official

...ntact with dying chickens," he said. Asked about those who transport their fighting cocks illegally acros...rd flu to humans remains very rare, and limited to those in frequent contact with infected poultry. But the WHO believes a potential human pandemic cannot be...

Alcohol Abuse, Addiction Hits 3 of 10 Americans

... Center in New York found that 17.8 percent of all those questioned reported having experienced alcohol abu...Native Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower incomes," the study's authors wrote in a summary of the study, which is published in the ...

Draft National Policy on Sight-saving Drugs unacceptable

...lated macular degeneration, restricting its use to those in whom both eyes are affected and then to the better seeing eye. Final guidance is due in September. DTB says: We believe that policies that dictate that patients must go blind in one eye before being given treatment for the other are unacceptab...

Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

...ther substantiate this and other studies including those we are doing for neurological diseases using umbilical cord stem cells." In 2006, Beike Biotechnology completed two studies involving eight patients with ALS. Two papers were published in the Journal of Zhenghou University of Medical Science. The f...

UK Army Personnel Involved in Iraqi Invasion Not at Risk from Depleted Uranium

...the findings showed that levels were very close to those that would be expected from absorption of naturally occurring uranium. In cases where higher levels were found, these were within the normal range for naturally occurring uranium, when re-analyzed. The findings should help to allay fears about th...

Drinking Problem Plagues 30% Americans

...he Archives of general Psychiatry indicate many of those persons never received treatment. People aged 30 to 44 showed the highest rate of abuse, and men were more than twice as likely as women to report struggling with a drinking problem. People with alcohol use disorder (AUD) only 24.1 percent of p...

Maxygen Initiates Phase IIa Clinical Trial of MAXY-G34 in Breast Cancer Patients

...icer of Maxygen. "With MAXY-G34, we hope to expand those options and improve the outcome for many chemotherapy patients. During this first Phase II trial we will begin to learn more about how our drug might play a role in the large, undifferentiated GCSF market." The Phase IIa trial, which will be conduc...

Wet Weather Heralds the Mosquito Menace

... WNV disease reported, including 100 deaths. Among those with severe illness due to West Nile virus, case-fatality rates range from 3% to 15% and are highest among the elderly. Less than 1% of people who become infected with West Nile virus will develop severe illness -- most people who get infected do not...

Accused 13yr Old Admits to Stabbing Her Brother

...friend she wished they were dead. If I didnt say those things, it wouldnt have happened, said the girl, believed to be the youngest person in Canadian history to testify in her own defense to a triple homicide. She was angry because her parents grounded her and took away her computer privileges in an a...

Translating Structure into Function

...tes that mimicked unstable intermediate molecules those that exist only briefly as the catalyst turns the substrate into a new molecule. Because these intermediates are unstable, scientists have until now been unable to test their fit to the enzymes active site. Once the scientists had predicted the s...

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