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Exposure to volcanic mineral associated with increased mesothelioma incidence in Turkey

...mineral called erionite was associated with a high incidence of a type of cancer called mesothelioma, according...n standardized to the world population, the annual incidence of pleural mesothelioma in the two exposed villages was 200 and 700 cases per 100,000 people annuall...

Therapeutic prospects beyond Vioxx

...-2 ?Vioxx, Bextra, and Celebrex ?with an increased incidence of heart attack and stroke, there has been intense interest in understanding the mechanism involved. Clarification of this issue offers the prospect of conserving the clinical benefit of these drugs for patients with arthritis, while managing the ris...

Molecular mechanism may explain how fevers spark seizures

...inherited epilepsies. These patients have a higher incidence of developing epilepsy. "There's a huge incidence of febrile seizures, so even though only a small percentage -- 2 to 4 percent -- progress to epileps...

Avian flu transmission to humans may be higher than thought

...ic of HPAI in poultry are consistent with a higher incidence of HPAI among humans than has been recognized previously. The results suggest that the symptoms most often are relatively mild and that close contact is needed for transmission to humans," the authors conclude. ...

Variation in bitter-taste receptor gene increases risk for alcoholism

...percent had this variation. Although the increased incidence of the variant means a larger percentage of Africa...essarily mean African Americans will have a higher incidence of alcoholism. The difference in the TAS2R16 gene is only one of several genetic and environmental f...

Alzheimer's found to be mostly genetic

...ible preventive or delaying factors, such as a low incidence of inflammatory disease or a work environment with a high degree of human interaction. The sample for the study consisted of all participants in the Swedish Twin Registry aged 65 or older in 1998 - the year the study began -- for a total of 11,884 t...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...isk of acquiring HIV. This study will also assess incidence of genital gonorrhea and chlamydia. CONRAD is a cooperating agency of USAID committed to improving reproductive health by expanding the contraceptive choices of women and men and by helping to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexuall...

Statins have neutral effect on risk of cancer

...cations called statins do not appear to reduce the incidence of cancer or cancer deaths, according to a meta-an...olled trials of statins with data on either cancer incidence (n = 20 studies) or cancer death (n = 22 studies). "In our current meta-analysis, statins did n...

New vaccine for condition that kills 500,000 children a year

...e bowel obstruction was so rare, and the increased incidence was so small, the only way to evaluate the safety ...ants who received the vaccine actually had a lower incidence of intussusception: 12 cases among vaccine recipients and 15 among those who received a placebo. No ...

New Research Shows Artificial Light at Night Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth in Laboratory Mice

...explanation for the epidemic rise in breast cancer incidence in industrialized countries like the United States. The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, agencies of the federal National Institutes of Health, provided funding to researchers at the Bassett Rese...

Radiotherapy advance points way to noninvasive brain cancer treatment

With an equal rate of incidence and mortality-the number of those who get it, and the number of those who die from it-Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a brain cancer death sentence. Of the approximately 12,000 people who are diagnosed with GBM annually in the U.S., half will die w...

Inflammation and drugs to control this activity studied in a variety of tumors sites

...s Vioxx and Celebrex between 1999 and 2004 and the incidence of breast cancer. They compared 323 breast cancer ...rs would have a significant effect in reducing the incidence of breast cancer," he said. A number of studies have shown that people who regularly take non-ster...

Researches discover gene critical for protection against septic-shock-induced death

...s for the next generation of sepsis therapies. The incidence of sepsis in the United States ranges from 400,000 to 750,000 cases per year. Mortality due to sepsis is around 30 percent and increases with age from 10 percent in children to 40 percent in the elderly. Mortality is 50 percent or greater in patients...

Trial success for diabetic nerve therapy

...e-two clinical trials start later this year." The incidence of diabetes, a condition in which the amount of glucose in the blood is too high, is increasing dramatically with the World Health Organisation estimating that some 300 million people worldwide could be affected by 2025. The causes of diabetic neuro...

UGA study explains peaks and troughs of dengue epidemics

...s, but they've never been quite sure why. With the incidence and range of the potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness increasing, understanding the factors that influence these epidemics has never been more important. A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia suggests that a brief period of c...

New understanding of COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes could revise classification of pain meds

...lebrex, which are now associated with an increased incidence of heart attack and stroke. Researchers looked at mice that were genetically modified so that their COX-2 was inhibited ?to create a physiology in mice that roughly mimics that of users of COX-2 inhibitors. They found that the COX-1 enzymes in the mi...

New tool tracks brain development in babies

...t cause of infant mortality and morbidity, with an incidence of between one and two per 1,000 live births in the United States. ...

Parasitic worms used to fight bowel disease

...developing countries move to developed ones, their incidence of the disease tends to increase. "We know from veterinary medicine that many bacterial and protozoan pathogens, especially those that multiply inside of cells, elicit an immune response in the host that would normally cause inflammation, but that w...

Mushrooms as good an antioxidant source as more colorful veggies

...its and vegetables rich in antioxidants have lower incidence of these diseases. Dubost detailed her results in a paper, Quantification of Polyphenols and Ergothioneine in Cultivated Mushrooms and Correlation to Total Antioxidant Capacity Using the ORAC and HORAC Assays, presented Monday, June 26, at the Insti...

Cycles of cell death, proliferation key to liver cancer

...n. Although not common in the United States., the incidence of HCC is on an upward trajectory, with little hope for treatment or cure through chemotherapy, radiation or other traditional cancer treatments. "We now understand development of liver cancer in mice. Since inflammation drives both damage and rege...

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