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British Scientists Discover New Protein to Treat Epilepsy and Schizophrenia

...y transmit information that control brain function via proteins called receptors. These processes are believed to be the basis of learning and memory. In a healthy brain, synapses can modify how efficiently they work, by increasing or decreasing the amount of information transmitted. Having too much ...

Risk of Lymphoma Increases With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

... to person through the exchange of bodily fluids - via shared needles, open wounds, and sexual contact, among other means. HCV is also known to cause cirrhosis and liver cancer. "Although the risk of developing lymphomas is small, our research suggests that screening of HCV-infected individuals could i...

Holy Grail Of Dermatologists On The Verge Of Discovery

...rtunity for mammals to generate new hair follicles via wnt proteins. Wounding, they report, triggers new hair-producing follicles to form. This was a claim that was first made half a century ago after experiment on rabbits but which was written off as unconvincing. The new work shows the effect is real...

Study Implicates Protein as a Trigger of Advanced Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...rger scientists. The kinase activates the receptor via phosphorylation by adding a phosphate group to this protein molecule. "This biochemical action converts a prostate cell that would need an androgen signal for its growth to one that is independent of the androgen signal," said senior study co-auth...

Late Clamping of Umbilical Cord may Reduce Anemia in Children

... fetus not only receives melatonin from the mother via the umbilical vein because it crosses the placental barrier, but also that it is produced in stressful situations such as during labor, says de Paco Matallana. Thus, high melatonin concentrations in the umbilical cord, together with the arterial and ...

Natural-Birth Centers In U.S Pulling Down The Shutters

...Bethesda birth center and her 2-month-old daughter via a midwife at her Takoma Park home. For a relatively small but devoted group of women, the idea of giving birth in a hospital with a physician conjures up unwelcome images of being strapped to machines, talked out of natural childbirth or talked int...

Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

...communities. "HIV can be transmitted to the baby via breastfeeding. But for infants in developing countries where infant mortality is already so high from diarrhea and other illnesses, they can't afford to lose the antibodies, other anti-infective agents and the optimal nutrition found in breast milk. ...

Effectiveness of Hormone Therapy During Menopause

...er a natural, human form of estrogen, administered via an arm patch, has more benefit and less negative effect than the commonly used oral form of estrogen that is synthesized in the laboratory from animal sources. Researchers also hope to find that with younger women, the natural form of estrogen thera...

Combo Therapy may Be Highly Beneficial in Asthma Control

...rograms (mcg); budesonide pMDI 160 mcg; formoterol via dry-powder inhaler (DPI) 4.5 mcg; budesonide pMDI 160 mcg + formoterol DPI 4.5 mcg in separate inhalers; or placebo, each bid. HRQL was assessed using the standardised Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire [AQLQ(S)], a validated survey that measure...

Online Education Program Better Source of Information for Patients

... of the five heart conditions, who were identified via a nationally representative telephone survey, (controls). There were 1,039 users, 389 registrants and 1,564 controls. Users and registrants were younger (average age 53.9 and 55.9 years) versus controls (average age 64.4). Nearly half of users and ...

Genome of Botulism Bacterium Revealed

...time. Occasionally it gets into a living animal, via contaminated food or open wounds, leading to infant botulism or wound botulism, both of which are serious human infections. The host can be quickly overpowered and, in some cases, killed by the toxin, and C. botulinum has a new food source. "Althou...

Aerobic Exercise Helps Maintain Muscle in Elderly: Research

... muscle in each of the volunteers, while supplying via the femoral artery a concentration of insulin similar to that released after a typical meal. They also took three small muscle tissue samples from each subject. Tracer techniques enabled the scientists to track amino acids (the building blocks of m...

IDD Therapy Offers Non-Surgical Back Pain Relief

...te or chronic back pain. IDD therapy is deployed via the Accu-SPINA System, and works to reshape the spine using computer technology to apply traction to spots causing lower back pain. The traction provides a negative pressure that allows fluid, blood and nutrients into the affected discs that cause pa...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...ountry would bring. 'The disease is communicated via airborne droplets. It has no color, odor or heat content that would alert you to avoid breathing. For example, an effective infection with anthrax requires between 8,000-10,000 particles. TB infection only requires an inoculum of 2-3 particles,' expl...

First-Ever Robotic Pancreatectomy Performed at UIC

...c system made it almost easier than doing the case via a large incision with the open technique." Oberholzer said the robotic surgery allowed him to carefully preserve the spleen, which is usually removed during a pancreatectomy. Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery provides a level of dexteri...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...rated, with few side effects, despite its delivery via an injection into the penis. Although the primary goal of the study was to determine its safety, it also showed the therapy improved erectile function in some of the men. Dr Melman said: 'This is an exciting field of research because current treatm...

China Repudiates Warning on Its Toothpaste

...erin. Forty-six barrels of the toxic syrup arrived via a poison pipeline stretching halfway around the world. Through shipping records and interviews with government officials, The New York Times traced this pipeline from the Panamanian port of Coln, back through trading companies in Barcelona, Spain, an...

Neural Basis of Anxiety: Newer Insights

... The new insights gained into serotonin signalling via the receptor 1A and the role of the hippocampus in fear behaviour in mice promise to shed light on the neural basis of anxiety disorders and open up new avenues for therapies....

Amrubicin Shows Encouraging Results for Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

...ndomized 2:1 to receive either Amrubicin (40 mg/m2 via 5- min.infusion daily x 3 days) or topotecan (1.5 mg/m2 via 30-min. infusion daily x 5 days), both starting on Day 1 of a 21-day cycle. Response data from 24 ...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...hree. The subjects received pramlintide or placebo via subcutaneous injection 15 minutes prior to each meal: breakfast, lunch and dinner. They continued their assigned regimen during a 5-week outpatient period (days 5-41) but reported for brief visits to the research unit on days 17 and 31. They returned...

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