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New recommendations against a major opportunistic infection -- cryptococcosis

...ls, most of whom are infected by HIV, but who also suffer from other immunological disorders or who are receiving immunosuppressive treatments. Most often, the fungus causes meningoencephalitis, but the infection can also be localised in the lungs. The incidence of cryptococcosis in France has decreased by ...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

... in the United States. More than 700,000 Americans suffer strokes annually. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the country. And stroke causes more serious long-term disabilities than any other disease. Nearly three-quarters of all strokes occur in people over the age of 65 and the risk of having ...

Surgeons develop simpler way to cure atrial fibrillation

...se with the disorder are five times more likely to suffer from stroke and have up to a two-fold higher risk of death. For some patients, medications can control the abnormal heart rhythms and the risk of clotting associated with atrial fibrillation, but unlike the Cox-maze procedure, the drugs do not cure t...

Study to explore using magnets to correct 'sunken chest'

...ercise, 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 these kids," Ha...

Studies yield insight into the numerical brain

...uch studies could aid in rehabilitating people who suffer from dyscalculia--an inability to understand, remember, and manipulate numbers. The researchers also said their findings offer insight into the mystery of how the brain learns to associate abstract symbols precisely with quantities. Both studies rev...

Statin plus cancer drug deliver combo punch to brain cancer cells

...oblastoma survive. "And those that do survive can suffer debilitating side effects caused by current toxic therapies." ...

Using dental X-rays to detect osteoporosis

...osteoporotic patients can incur bone fractures and suffer from other problems, reducing the quality of life. By analyzing a small area depicting the trabecular bone on the ordinary dental radiographs, dentists can predict the osteoporotic condition of the patients to the same extent as the BMD measuremen...

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

... consume a single, high-fat meal are more prone to suffer the physical consequences of stress than those who eat a low-fat meal. Published this month in the Journal of Nutrition, the study looked at the stress responses of two groups of students: one group consumed a fast-food breakfast from McDonald’s, th...

Lead-'scrubbing' drug may also improve muscle function in lead-exposed children

... high blood lead levels during childhood appear to suffer more accidental injuries than those who had lower lead exposure. He says further research is needed to determine if succimer therapy can minimize long-term negative effects of lead on balance and movement. According to the most recent U.S. Nat...

Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain

...em small, consider that 20 to 50 million Americans suffer from at least some symptoms related to hay fever, or allergic rhinitis, said Sheryl Szeinbach, the study's lead author and a professor of pharmacy practice and administration at Ohio State University. “That means the potential loss of millions of ...

Fruit fly gene research may shed light on human disease processes

...ried on the X chromosome. That's why women do not suffer in the same numbers as men from such ailments as color blindness or hemophilia, since their double dose of X genetic material helps compensate for 'defective' genes on one of their chromosomes. Men, with just one X chromosome, have less protection. ...

Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it

... aims to lead to better ways to protect humans who suffer periods of hypoxia due to medical emergency or accidents. Mark Krasnow, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, will speak on “Developmental responses to hypoxia in the insect tracheal system.?Krasnow has studied the ...

Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold

...es. This depression explains why the birds neither suffer from hyperthermia despite the very high ambient temperatures within the huddle, nor become hypothermic due to the harsh cold. ...

Proteins may predict lung transplant rejection

...r diseases. Patients who receive a new lung may suffer bouts of acute or chronic rejection. Acute rejecti... matrix metalloprotein-9 (66 times more likely to suffer rejection) proteinase 3 (nine times more likely) "Preliminary evidence suggests these b...

New study aims to stop sepsis in its tracks

...ous implications for the thousands of patients who suffer from this infection," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. Every year, sepsis affects more than 700,000 Americans. About 30 percent of them die. Sepsis occurs when the body's normal reaction to an infection goes into overdrive, causing widespr...

Lungs try to repair damaged elastic fibers

... 2-year-old could do it Very young children who suffer lung injuries increase elastin expression and produce new elastic fibers inside the alveoli, Woods said. Adults do not have that ability and that has led physiologists to conclude that the elastin gene must shut off after we reach a certain age, endi...

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage

...before they become pregnant are 72% more likely to suffer a miscarriage in the first three months of pregnancy, but can reduce their risk significantly by taking supplements and eating fresh fruit and vegetables, according to study findings published online today. These are some of the findings of a new st...

Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS

...ge kinase (MLK). "The number of HIV patients that suffer brain damage is usually estimated at one in five, but I believe that nearly all of them, if they live long enough, will be affected," said Harris A. Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D. professor in the Department of Neurology at the Medical Center, and principal in...

Studies look at how genes affect antipsychotic drug response

...ls and cause weight gain in children ages 8-18 who suffer from pediatric bipolar disorder. An increase in prolactin (a pituitary hormone that may affect bone development) or weight gain occurs in some but not all of these young patients. "We are trying to determine if some kids are at a greater risk than ...

Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses

... weight gain. An estimated 32 million Americans suffer from persistent inflammation of the tissue that lines the nasal and sinus cavities, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thirty-three men and women participated in the two-year study at Hopkins, designed to fin...

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