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New Gene Identification Help Asthma Treatments

...s known to contain an asthma-related gene that had until now gone unidentified.// Scientists say that the asthma variant of PHF11 is found to be most common in adults with severe asthma, but it may also be involved in milder asthma and even allergic eczema in children. The gene appears to regulate B cells ...

Spinal Cord Patients Walk Again

...e a typical person, Kirk's muscles stay stimulated until the device is deactivated, limiting how far he can go. What stops Kirk's muscles from going 200 feet or 500 feet is that they’re exhausted.He may not be riding motor cross anymore, but walking a set of stairs is a different type of excitement -- for ...

Herbal Remedy Risky for Cancer Patients

...d with caution or simply avoid taking black cohosh until we learn if there are ways to circumvent these adverse effects." Black cohosh is one of the most commonly used alternative supplements to treat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms. The herb is native to North America and is extracted from a p...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...f external cues instead of internal cues -- we eat until the plate's clean. If the plate has a lot less food on it, perhaps you'll be eating less," Researchers launched their study because experts don't fully understand how eating habits -- such as the timing and frequency of meals -- are tied to obesity.T...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...ollow-up information was available on the women up until 2000. By that time, researchers report 889 of the 17,000 women had died. Researchers looked at the cause of death and which contraceptive they used. The study reports there was no increased risk of death among the women who used the birth control pil...

Scientists push to lower hidden sodium in food

... everybody," Doctors says. "You don't want to wait until your blood pressure gets into the high range."...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

... back into the mother's uterus to develop normally until delivery.// IVF is usually the treatment of choice for a woman with blocked or absent fallopian tubes, through which the egg travels from the ovary to the uterus. "It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that huma...

Stress may Worsen Acne

...ce of acne, these claims have been unsubstantiated until now. Twenty-two university students participated in this study.Each participant had at least one academic examination within the time of the study.// Exam sessions are common sources of stress for students. Stress levels were recorded using the Perce...

Father of CPR dies at 79

...tional Resuscitation Research Center, which he ran until 1994. It later became the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research. Safar's work with CPR was just one aspect of his goal of creating a system of care from accident scene to operating room. Most recently, Safar was studying if cooling the body just a...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...h officially retired in 1973, but worked most days until recently. He mentored young scientists, corresponded and consulted with others, and worked on his biography, due out this fall under the title, "Good Chemistry: The Life and Times of Valium Inventor Leo Sternbach."Sternbach's credits include 241 pate...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...gsters suffering from it often don't have symptoms until it has advanced to the point of causing fractures or rickets, a bone-weakening disease that doctors think may be on the rise. vDoctors suspect that many otherwise healthy youngsters may have undetected deficiency. Those most likely to be diagnosed of...

A voice saving surgery

...going to talk again." That thought was just a wish until she met head and neck surgeon Randal Paniello, M.D. He says, "Communication is important to various degrees. It's important to everyone, but to some people, it's really important, and in her case, she's one of those." To give Hancock her voice back,...

The 'forgotten epidemic' killing millions

...e of multi-drug combinations based on artemisinin, until recently an extract from the "sweet wormwood" plant used in China for centuries but little known in the West. Some governments and Western donors have been hesitant to promote the treatment widely because of a lack of funds -- artemisinin is 10 time...

Reducing HIV Transmission

...ovudine given at labor onset and every three hours until delivery to the mother and twice daily to their infants for seven days. The current study followed the infants up to 18 months of age. Results showed the 8.2-percent reduction in HIV transmission that was seen for infants on nevirapine at six to eig...

Drugs said to Reduce HIV Transmission to Baby

...is generally given late in pregnancy and continued until early infancy. Researchers conducted a study to de...abies' mothers did not know they were HIV positive until the time of delivery. The study included 1,100 babies of African women in which the mother did not ...

Relief from Migraine

...ken at the first sign of pain, rather than waiting until pain is moderate to severe, as was the requirement of the original study. Previous research on the use of drugs known as serotonin agonists for the treatment of migraine have required patients to take the drugs only when their pain reached moderate ...

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...with a brain and that brain degenerated as we aged until we died, but now research has shown that there are many triggers that make parts of the brain regenerate themselves. One of those triggers may be linked to individuals fitness level.Cardiovascular exercise that's done over a longer period of time w...

Prevention of Rickets

...commend vitamin D supplements be given to children until the growth spurt that accompanies puberty is finished. Moderate sun exposure will also help....

Heart Attack Symptoms Different in Women

... needed to further explain their findings, however until then women need to be educated about possible symptoms that may be associated with heart disease, especially if they are at high risk....

Senate assures ban on smoking

...r's business with a last-minute flurry.// Working until nearly midnight, lawmakers also approved a sales tax "holiday" designed to spur shoppers to spend more, thereby pumping up the state's flagging economy, and approved $102 million in extra spending for the current fiscal year, much of it for social pr...

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