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New sunscreen ingredient to heal sunburn and help prevent skin cancer

People who suffer from sunburn could soon benefit from a new sunscreen ingredient that actively repairs sunburnt skin and helps prevent the onset of skin cancer, according to research published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Unlike conventional sunscr...

Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury

...em often encountered in diabetic patients, who can suffer from poor circulation in their limbs that causes pain or sores and may lead to amputation. The potential of the two drugs for treating such conditions was addressed in another study by the research group, also published in a recent issue of Blood, w...

From managing sugar to managing healing

...ns of insulin can be developed to treat people who suffer from poor healing." ...

Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

...ry and trauma. Even though developing countries suffer more than developed countries from the medical problems targeted by regenerative medicine, "there has been no attempt to understand systematically how regenerative medicine could contribute to improving health in developing countries," the authors sa...

Children of allergy sufferers prone to same problem

...ion--which included children whose parents did not suffer from allergies--7 percent had allergic sensitivity at age 1. The Swedes tested five allergens, two of which were food allergens. The Cincinnati results, however, showed that 28.4 percent of infants born to "atopic" parents, defined as those with al...

Leading reason for corneal transplants comes into focus

...t is hoped that someday the millions of people who suffer from FCD in the United States will eventually benefit from having the genetic basis of their disease identified and gene therapies developed. At present, corneal transplantation is the only solution for those severely affected. ...

Nerve cell software keeps track of brain change

...urgent in a world where tens of millions of people suffer neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's." HCA-Vision was developed by CSIRO's Biotech Imaging team who built on mathematical software code libraries from many years of image analysis research and added a user-friendly, database-...

Prototype just-in-time medical device enables untrained bystanders to save lives

...e October 16?0, 2006. About 300,000 people a year suffer sudden cardiac arrest in the United States. Sometimes the victim's life hinges on the help of bystanders, given that response time by paramedics following a 911 call is usually more than 6 minutes and that the probability of survival decreases 7?0% e...

New mechanism underlying pain found

...al injury has healed. Millions of people worldwide suffer some form of neuropathic pain, and the current treatment options are limited or inadequate for many people. The research presented today suggests that the persistent pain may be caused by specific types of ion channels, called "pacemaker channels," w...

A natural chemical found in strawberries boosts memory in healthy mice

...ces. Roughly one third of people age 60 and over suffer from memory and recall woes. As the average age of the U.S. population climbs, the number of people ravaged by Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia continues to rise. "Since the development of a basic understanding of the biochemical pat...

Dragonfly's metabolic disease provides clues about human obesity

Parasite-infected dragonflies suffer the same metabolic disorders that have led to an e...do with humans," said Marden. "Animals in general suffer from these symptoms." The work is also novel because it links metabolic disease to a supposedly h...

Proteins anchor memories in our brain

...ymus. Humans and mice lacking the normal Aire gene suffer from multiple autoimmune diseases including diseases that target the thyroid, adrenal, ovary, and eye. In 2002, Anderson, then at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues there demonstrated that knocking out the Aire gene in the mouse thymus led to ...

Autoimmune disease triggered if T cells miss a single protein early on

...ymus. Humans and mice lacking the normal Aire gene suffer from multiple autoimmune diseases including diseases that target the thyroid, adrenal, ovary, and eye. In 2002, Anderson, then at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues there demonstrated that knocking out the Aire gene in the mouse thymus led to ...

Researchers examine why food tastes bad to chemotherapy recipients

...ral, more than 40 percent of hospitalized patients suffer from malnutrition due to taste and smell dysfunction. "Unfortunately, these problems that impact nutrition and quality of life are underestimated and understudied by oncologists," said Andrea Dietrich, Virginia Tech professor of civil and environme...

76 percent of workers older than 60 years of age are overweight or obese

...han one third of those 40 years of age and younger suffer these health issues. This is one of the conclusions shown in the research of Alberto Cordero of the School of Medicine, and the University Hospital, published in the American Journal of Hypertension , the Revista Española de Cardiología [Spanish J...

Coral reefs are increasingly vulnerable to angry oceans

...del to predict how much damage a reef is likely to suffer when confronted with the might of an angry sea. They used mathematical models to calculate the forces that coral is subjected to –?events such as waves, storm surges, or tsunamis –?and the probability of the colonies being ripped from the seabed. ...

Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair

...n people have poor joint health; 20 million people suffer from osteoarthritis. Compromised joint health is a major contributor to comprised quality of life. No product of any kind has been able to demonstrate this combination of actions. These findings have been published in peer-review journals and present...

New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers

...ve called into question their efficacy. Those who suffer longest resort to surgical repair of the tendon when all other therapies have failed. Mishra and Pavelko evaluated 140 patients who had tennis elbow for longer than 3 months and had scored at least a 60 of 100 using a visual analog scale (a continu...

St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy

Children with cancer who suffer hearing loss due to the toxic effects of chemother...nderstand what happens in the ears of children who suffer ototoxicity (toxic damage to the inner ear due to chemotherapy) and eventually, which genes are resp...

International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region

...ing") in patients who receive organ transplants or suffer from autoimmune disease. Importantly, the researchers' data and analyses, which are made available online to the entire scientific community, provide the tools needed to begin the initial efforts toward identifying genetic risk factors in the MHC f...

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