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Study shows hope for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...l sounds,?to collect the EEG signals, during which patients hear a series of low- and high-frequency tones as ...tentially could have great value to physicians and patients and their families, and the results are particularly significant for patients who have limited acces...

Scientists discover how body fights to control spread of cancer

...ion is significantly higher in the blood of cancer patients than in healthy people but until now scientists did not know whether this increase played any role in the spread of cancer. Our study indicates that galectin-3 may play a critical role and may have significant implications for future developments of ...

Blame the brain for high blood pressure

... The alarming statistic that nearly 60 per cent of patients remain hypertensive, even though they are taking d...e are looking at the possibility of treating those patients that fail to respond to conventional therapy for hypertension with drugs that reduce blood vessel in...

Mailman School of Public Health researchers report blood DNA can be early predictor of liver cancer

...ol researchers and colleagues studied the blood of patients enrolled in a cancer screening program in Taiwan, who provided repeated blood samples prior to diagnosis. A total of 12,000 males and over 11,900 females recruited in 1991-2 are being followed. Screenings performed by the team of Mailman School scie...

Vasectomy may put men at risk for type of dementia

...k between the surgery and PPA when one of her male patients connected the onset of his language problem at age... At a twice-yearly Chicago support group for PPA patients Weintraub sees from around the country, the male patient rushed into the room and asked the men sitt...

Novel antigen-cloning technique may boost efforts to develop a melanoma vaccine

... indicating that it has potential as a vaccine for patients with these tumors. In their study, the research...sting that RPL8 may be an ideal vaccine target for patients that display this antigen in tumors. According to Herlyn, these findings are important because there...

UW launches study testing adult stem cells for heart damage repair

...cells to improve symptoms and clinical outcomes in patients with chronic myocardial ischemia (CMI), a severe form of coronary artery disease. Myocardial ischemia, which affects hundreds of thousands of people, is a serious heart condition that involves narrowing of coronary arteries and results in limited b...

Scientists find new genes for Crohn's disease

...ct at all. The comparison of these SNPs between patients with Crohn's disease and people without the diseas...dings were then retested in two additional sets of patients and healthy controls in order to confirm their significance. After all of the comparisons, the conso...

Putting an old drug to a new use

...ecause it has already been used for years to treat patients with high blood pressure. From this we know the drug and its side-effects." An important step on the way from laboratory to clinic will be targeted pharmacological modifications of the compound to separate nifedipine's effect on iron metabolism fr...

Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency

...vel. The research also has great relevance for patients on Earth who are immobilized for long periods –?pa...ure. Here on Earth, explains Bikle, immobilized patients experience bone loss for the same reason astronauts do: their skeletons have not borne any weight. "...

Surgeons develop simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation

...we would urge use of this device for virtually all patients who have atrial fibrillation and are scheduled for... the age, sex and cardiac conditions of a group of patients who underwent Cox-maze III in the past with patients undergoing Cox-maze IV. "This is the first docu...

Migration played key role in HIV spread in South Africa

... these limitations, clinicians should advise their patients of the potential negative impact of marijuana smoking on overall lung health," said Tetrault. ...

Long-term marijuana smoking leads to respiratory complaints

... these limitations, clinicians should advise their patients of the potential negative impact of marijuana smoking on overall lung health," said Tetrault. ...

Elucidation of the genome for diabetics with DNA chips

The genome of patients with type 2 diabetes (DT2) has been elucidated, fo... an individual. Initially, DNA from non-obese patients with type 2 diabetes and a family history of the disease was compared with DNA from 669 non-diabetic...

Tracing broken wiring in stroke patients

...l disruption in brain circuitry that causes stroke patients to show a lack of awareness or response to the sid...n levels in brain regions. By performing FC MRI in patients with spatial neglect, the authors identified regions of the brain where there was a disruption of no...

Study to explore using magnets to correct 'sunken chest'

... ability to exercise, according to Harrison. Some patients also suffer serious emotional difficulties and low self-esteem, especially since sunken chest often worsens during adolescence when children are self-conscious about their appearance and seek peer acceptance. "This is not a trivial problem for the...

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

...uestion by examining the diagnostic records of 184 patients who came to Baycrest's Sam and Ida Ross Memory Cli...manian and Hungarian. Researchers found that 132 patients met criteria for probable Alzheimer's; the remaining 52 were diagnosed with other dementias. Patient...

UCSF brain tumor vaccine trial shows promising results

...s always fatal. Findings from a group of 12 study patients showed that vitespen vaccination (trademarked as O...ically as tumor-specific immune response. All the patients had recurrent, high-grade glioma, and all showed the immune response. The vaccine is made from the p...

Cancer vaccines -- Taking a jab at cancer by stimulating the immune system

...produced by pancreatic cancer cells. By presenting patients with MUC-1 on dendritic cells, the researchers exp...pisto. Prior to vaccination, the pancreatic cancer patients had significantly more regulatory T cells than normal, which then increased following each injection...

Gene that makes people 'early to bed and early to rise' demystified

...thods for people, such as nurses who must care for patients in the middle of the night, to synchronize their internal clocks with their regular or changing daily routines, the researchers said. Someday "people with jet lag or shift work--some of the most common of sleep disorders--might take a pill and be b...

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