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New research shows that flu is a trigger of heart attacks

...on." Prof Madjid, who is assistant professor of medicine at the University of Texas-Houston, and a senior research scientist at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, USA, worked with colleagues in the US and in St Petersburg in the Russian Federation to investigate deaths between 1993 and 2000 in St Peters...

HIV protein enlisted to help kill cancer cells

...d S. Hotchkiss, M.D., professor of anesthesiology, medicine and surgery and associate professor of molecular biology and pharmacology. Hotchkiss was seeking proteins that inhibit apoptosis in patients with life-threatening infections and found that TAT-Bim had the unwanted effect of increasing cell death. Haw...

Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria

...nior author, Pradeep Singh, associate professor of medicine and microbiology at the UW. "The body has potent defense mechanisms to keep iron away from infecting organisms, and invaders must steal some if they are to survive." Iron is critical for the growth of bacteria and for their ability to form biofil...

Producing medicines in plant seeds

...ins could be an inexpensive alternative to current medicine production methods. Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) at Ghent University have succeeded in producing in plant seeds proteins that have a very strong resemblance to antibodies. They have also demonstrated...

Scientists discover a new risk factor for Alzheimer's

... George-Hyslop is a professor in the department of medicine and director of the Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease at the University of Toronto and an HHMI international research scholar. Through its international research scholars program, HHMI supports leading scientists in 28 countries outsid...

Researchers hot on the trail of brain cell degeneration

...s caused by calcium entry. Finding new targets for medicine development is also significant in terms of the economy, owing to the costly treatment of these diseases, both in Finland and globally. Cooperation between biocentres gets research going The teams' study is a perfect example of the cooperati...

New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks

...ion," he said. Grover Bagby, M.D., professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) and director of the OHSU Cancer Institute, said "the tobacco industry would have us believe that the health risks of tobacco use can be reduced by using new tobacco products. Dr. Pankow and his colleagues have challe...

Napoleon's mysterious death unmasked, UT Southwestern researcher says

... Robert Genta, professor of pathology and internal medicine at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study. "Even today, with the availability of sophisticated surgical techniques and chemotherapies, patients with gastric cancer as advanced as Napoleon's have a poor prognosis." Napoleon, born Aug. 15, 1...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...eat a variety of ills. In the last decade, Western medicine has been putting curry to the test, finding that t...cludes curcumin, is widely used in China as a folk medicine to treat male-pattern baldness. That condition is caused largely by the activity of the androgen rec...

Susceptibility to Crohn's disease -- an important new clue

...s, potentially paving the way towards personalized medicine and drug target identification. ...

Health Canada approves cold and flu medicine

...cure for the common cold,?Dr. Shan stated. “So, in medicine the traditional strategy is if you can’t treat the disease, you treat the symptoms. The COLD-fX strategy is to boost your immune system to help you avoid getting a cold or the flu in the first place, or if you do get one, to fight it more effectively...

Long-term narcotics use for back pain may be ineffective and lead to abuse

..., assistant clinical professor of general internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine. "Our findings suggest that clinicians should consider other treatments with similar benefits but fewer long-term adverse effects." Published in the January 16 Annals of Internal Medicine, Martell and co-authors conducte...

Active ingredient in common Chinese herb shown to reduce hypertension

...e sought relief from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In so doing, many have consumed danshen, a Chinese herb used in Oriental medicine that promotes blood flow and treats cardiovascular disease. Tanshinone IIA is an active ingredie...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...Affairs Medical Center and a research professor of medicine at the UW. "It is a protein that enables one neuron to contact another neuron. Often you don't have any idea of what a gene does, but in this case we know neurexin 1 is involved at sites where the neurotransmitter glutamate is released. Glutamate i...

Knocking out survival protein could aid leukemia treatment

...l investigator John C. Byrd, professor of internal medicine and director of the hematologic malignancies program at Ohio State's James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. "These results give us a rationale for lowering the amount of this protein in CLL cells and suggest that this should enhance...

New test for most virulent HPV strains under study

...cervical cancers, says Dr. Daron G. Ferris, family medicine physician and director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Center at the Medical College of Georgia. “Data from a National Cancer Institute trial shows that if you have a genital infection with HPV types 16 or 18, your chance of getting moderate ...

Tiny clue reveals new path toward heart disease

...zabeth R. Hauser, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at the Duke Center for Human Genetics. In a previous study, the researchers had scanned the entire genome -- the body's genetic blueprint -- of a group of families in which at least two siblings had early onset coronary artery disease, looking for...

A steady, high-fat diet is bad, but the news gets worse

...ays Dr Tavis Campbell, a specialist in behavioural medicine and senior author of the study. "It’s been well documented that a high-fat diet leads to artherosclerosis and high blood pressure, and that exaggerated and prolonged cardiovascular responses to stress are associated with high blood pressure in the...

Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view

...nd computer engineering, of bioengineering, and of medicine at the U. of I., and corresponding author of a paper accepted for publication in the journal Nature Physics, and posted on its Web site. Developed by postdoctoral research associate and lead author Tyler Ralston, research scientist Daniel Marks, el...

Chemicals in brown algae may protect against skin cancer

...tor Gary D. Stoner, professor emeritus of internal medicine and a cancer chemoprevention researcher. "These findings suggest that, even when eaten, these compounds get to skin cells and neutralize the cancer-causing oxygen radicals that are produced by UV exposure." Laboratory research has shown that ...

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