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Vascular structure and function improve with diet and exercise

...functional measures of cardiovascular disease risk may improve by the eighth week of a diet and exercise ...t 16 percent. Petrella said that the other factors may improve as patients are followed for one year. One in three American adults has high blood pressure...

Bone Density Recovers After Teens Stop Injected Contraceptive

...g?for DMPA, stating that prolonged use of the drug may result in significant loss of bone density, that t...he drug is administered and that bone density loss may not be completely reversible after discontinuation of the drug. The FDA warning states: “Depo-Prove...

Breast-Cancer Risk Linked to Exposure to Traffic Emissions at Menarche, First Birth

...in traffic emissions at particular lifetime points may increase the risk of developing breast cancer in w... the study. "There is growing evidence that there may be times in a woman's life when exposures to potential carcinogens may be critical for breast-cancer...

Towards precise classification of cancers based on robust gene functional expression profiles

...evious studies is elevated in diabetic animals and may be involved in the cascade of immunological events...ch for fighting diabetes, they say. "The MIF gene may be regulating other genes involved in type 1 diabetes," says Al-Abed. "We don't know yet, but we're ...

Unprecedented water level rise in Somalia

...alia's Shabelle River and that a major water surge may be headed into the centre of the country, the United Nations said today. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), reports yesterday from Belet Weyne, close to the border with Ethiopia, indicated that the river ...

Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene

...verriding the influence of genetics. The findings may help to explain why some children are more attract...sensitive to bitter taste," comments Mennella. "It may be that childhood represents a time of heightened bitter taste sensitivity in some children, which l...

New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

...chers as to how HIV evades the human immune system may offer a new approach for developing HIV vaccines. The findings suggest some HIV vaccines may have failed because they induce a class of antibodies that a patient's own immune system is programm...

Antibiotic might fight HIV-induced neurological problems

...en though the infection seems to be controlled, it may still cause damage in the brain. And because people are living with HIV longer than ever, the prevalence of neurological damage is increasing. Currently, there's no drug to treat it directly." In use for more than 30 years, minocycline was specifica...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...d is able to successfully stimulate the retina, it may open up new opportunities for restoring sight in patients with the end stages of retinitis pigmentosa." ...

Protein offers way to stop microscopic parasites in their tracks

Scientists may have found a way to throw a wrench in the transmissions of several speed demons of the parasite world. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University have identified a protein that could help them develop ...

Rats infected as newborns grew up vulnerable to memory problems during an immune challenge

...l care, new research suggests that early infection may create a cognitive vulnerability that appears late...rns can disrupt memory in immune-challenged adults may help scientists to understand how exposure to germs or environmental stressors before or just after ...

Asthma gene clusters identified

...cute and stable asthma attack, the genetic profile may be useful in identifying an imminent asthma attack...rimarily consist of anti-inflammatory drugs, which may not be optimal for acute attacks," Dr. Hershey said. Previous studies using microarray technology h...

Mayo Clinic Researchers Create 'Obedient Virus'; First Step To Use Measles Virus Against Cancer

...ity. "But we had a concern that the measles virus may be a little too promiscuous in its ability to infect both cancer cells and non-cancer cells, so we wanted to develop a method whereby we could retarget the virus to infect cancer cells only," says Dr. Russell. "And we succeeded." ...

Artifical cornea lets woman blind 20 years see

...ces right now, but in a few decades that situation may be different," he said. It isn't the cost of the device itself that is the problem, according to Dohlman. Rather, it is the prohibitive cost of the frequent post-operative visits, the travel required, the medications and contact lenses used in follo...

Effective Cancer Treatments Follow The Clock

...ir findings could lead to new drug treatments that may be more effective because they harness the power a... make some important predictions of how these mice may respond to drug treatment,?said Antoch. “Thus, defects in Clock or Bmal1 genes, which essentially da...

Use of Insecticides Linked to Lasting Neurological Problems for Farmers

...nt formulations and in lower concentrations, which may make them less hazardous. "Because the participants in this study are telling us they have never been previously diagnosed with pesticide poisoning or medically treated for any exposure to any pesticide, we are led to conclude that their symptoms ar...

LUCA technologies confirms real-time methane generation

...d coal) to methane is ongoing. Such Geobioreactors may offer the potential of turning currently finite en...hree additional sites are not currently active but may have the potential to be turned into active Geobioreactors through cross-inoculation with microbial ...

Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running

...ng from the small cuts they make. However, running may help them avoid being stepped on, Riskin suggests. More likely, the researchers say, the ability to run evolved long ago, when vampire bats had to prey on faster South American athletes such as the agouti, a rodent about the size of a hare, which mig...

Yale researchers identify molecule for detecting parasitic infection in humans

...ite components that trigger a host immune response may facilitate the development of better vaccines." ...

Multiple Campylobacter Genomes Sequenced

...ecting,?however. Having all these genome sequences may provide useful clues about why some bacteria cause...g unreported, up to 0.5% of the general population may unknowingly harbor Campylobacter in their gut annually. Diarrhea, cramps, abdominal pain, and fever ...

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