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HIV Patients May Be at Risk of Heart Problems When Taking Protease Inhibitor Drugs

...d act accordingly. Worldwide, tens of thousands of people are taking protease inhibitors, and the numbers who experience these unexpected side effects are very low -- much less than 1 percent." Co-investigator Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D. agrees that the benefits of the drugs far outweigh the risks. "Our ...

Inflammatory molecules released by pollen trigger allergies

...ow plan to assess whether cells from allergy-prone people are more sensitive to the effects of the pollen-derived compound than those from non-allergic individuals. A better understanding of these molecules and how they work may eventually lead to new approaches to treating allergies. ...

Live Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine Technique Explored

...ection, which would be particularly beneficial for people living in the developing countries where resources...ses to provide immunity, which is not feasible for people living in many parts of the world,?explained Gary Ketner, PhD, senior author of the study and profes...

Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue

...ster Medical Center, is intended to eventually aid people with various cancers or injuries whose treatment involves the replacement of large sections of bone. Cancers such as osteosarcoma, one of the most common types of bone cancers, or tumors that occur adjacent to bones, often must be treated by removing...

Novel Therapy Tested in Mice Could Chase Away Cat Allergies

...is colleagues first tested GFD in blood donated by people allergic to cats. They cultured blood cells with either GFD or with a purified human antibody as a control. Then they added the cat protein that triggers allergic reactions to all the blood cell cultures. “We measured more than 90 percent less hista...

A bacterial genome reveals new targets to combat infectious disease

More than a billion people are at risk for infection with filarial nematodes,...her debilitating diseases in more than 150 million people worldwide. The nematodes themselves play host to bacteria that live within their cells, but in this ...

New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

... die, water diffusion changes. In the study of 20 people with malignant brain tumors, the researchers found...mary brain tumors have a high mortality rate, with people surviving only 10 months after diagnosis. Typically, patients receive seven weeks of treatment, foll...

Solution to Pollution: New Bacteria Eats Toxic Waste

...?invisible bacteria saved the world as well as the people in it. Through this project, life is imitating art and through these unique bacteria the world may stay a little cleaner, said Sims. ...

Scientists collaborate to assess health of global environment

...aking matters worse, he added, the world's poorest people stand to lose the most from environmental change, because they depend heavily on ecosystem services. In some places, such as sub-Saharan Africa, environmental change is the principal factor causing poverty, according to the assessment. Implications ...

Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice

...eral forms of Pompe disease affect more than 5,000 people in the U.S. If symptoms appear during infancy, the disease is usually fatal. Those for whom symptoms first appear late in childhood live longer, but life expectancy remains greatly decreased. Although Pompe disease is a relatively rare disease, it is...

BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route

...e sort-that scientists might be able to replace in people with identified BRCA1 mutations, making their risk of ovarian cancer drop precipitously. In addition, once the chemical messenger that's affected has been identified, it will be much easier to diagnose a predisposition to ovarian cancer or pinpoint ...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...ccus infectionshas increased sharply ?mainly among people with impaired immunity,including those who have HIV/AIDS or who receive cancer chemotherapy,steroid treatments, or therapy to prevent rejection of transplantedorgans. One study indicated that as many as 13 percent of AIDS patientssuffer a life-threat...

Scientists discover the cellular roots of graying hair

...l.The American Cancer Society expects about 55,100 people to be diagnosedwith melanoma, the most serious for...yafter birth and quickly went gray. It may be that people who grayprematurely have mutations that knock out Bcl2 activity, Fisher says.“This tells us there is...

Fundamental Finding Yields Insight into Stem Cells, Cancer; Opens Door to Drug Discovery

...l.The American Cancer Society expects about 55,100 people to be diagnosedwith melanoma, the most serious for...yafter birth and quickly went gray. It may be that people who grayprematurely have mutations that knock out Bcl2 activity, Fisher says.“This tells us there is...

Essential mangrove forest threatened by cryptic ecological degradation

...gically and socio-economically important for local people in tropical countries on all continents. Using biology, geography, hydrology, socio-economic interviews, and 18th-century history, an international team led by Dr. Farid Dahdouh-Guebas has demonstrated that in the recent past an increase in human-env...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a new approach for directing treatment to metastasized prostate cancer in the bones.

...l.The American Cancer Society expects about 55,100 people to be diagnosedwith melanoma, the most serious for...yafter birth and quickly went gray. It may be that people who grayprematurely have mutations that knock out Bcl2 activity, Fisher says.“This tells us there is...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

...espread famine because they consume crops, and the people there sometimes have nothing else to eat." ...

Protein Packages Found To Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development And Disease

...enes are also vital for understanding the way that people get certain cancers. "Many of the proteins that regulate these genes can suppress or enhance tumor growth," Bernstein notes. "Some of the genes can cause cancer directly when altered by mutations." "The work we're doing now is very fundamental," he ...

Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects

...espread famine because they consume crops, and the people there sometimes have nothing else to eat." ...

Study: Soap And Water Work Best In Ridding Hands Of Disease Viruses

...too, the UNC researchers tested what happened when people cleaned their hands for only 10 seconds, Sickbert-...g their hands at work. "Previous studies have had people clean their hands for 30 seconds or so, but that’s not what health-care workers usually do in practi...

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