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Researchers Identify Cause of Early Bird Sleep Disorder

...ift" trait -- called familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) -- was studied in one affected family by neurologist Louis J. Ptacek, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher, and Ying-Hui Fu, at the University of California, San Francisco. Their report appears in the March 31, 2005, issue of the jour...

Research shows smoking adds a decade to reproductive age of IVF patients

...other causes (mainly women with polycystic ovarian syndrome or endometriosis) ?and analysed first cycle treatment results for the first three causes. Of the total, 1,828 of the first IVF treatment cycles were for unexplained subfertility. The overall live birth rate per cycle was 15.2%[2]. It was highest at ...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...ed ESCO2, by studying samples from just 15 Roberts syndrome families from Colombia, Turkey, Canada and Italy a...noticed an unusual number of patients with Roberts syndrome in the clinic at the University of Bogotá. Fairly quickly, he tracked down seven families with Rober...

Important discovery about second most fatal cancer

... cases colorectal cancer can be inherited. The new syndrome is characterized by distinctive clinical, patholog...cause and behaviour. The genetic basis of this new syndrome is not known but it is speculated that affected families have a genetic predisposition to develop DN...

Gene therapy cures inherited liver disease in rats

...tor at Baylor College of Medicine. Crigler-Najjar syndrome is currently treated by placing the person under special UV lights. It is an unwieldy and time-consuming treatment. While Lee does not think that cure would be possible in all adults with this technique, he does think it poses a real promise for lon...

What's really making you sick? Plant pathologists offer the science behind Sick Building Syndrome

...ilding-related mold growth and development and SBS syndrome in real-world conditions. More on this topic will be presented during the Identification of Fungi Involved in Sick Building Syndrome workshop at the APS Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, July 30 - August 3, 2005. The workshop will offer the latest infor...

Gene Therapy Cures Inherited Liver Disease In Rats

...tor at Baylor College of Medicine. Crigler-Najjar syndrome is currently treated by placing the person under special UV lights. It is an unwieldy and time-consuming treatment. While Lee does not think that cure would be possible in all adults with this technique, he does think it poses a real promise for lon...

Antiretroviral therapy may prevent excess risk of some cancers in people with HIV

... Studies of people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have reported increased risks of several cancers, including Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and, to a lesser extent, anal cancer, invasive cervical cancer, and Hodgkin lymphoma. However, less well understood are the associations of these...

How the environment could be damaging men's reproductive health

...sm is one of the symptoms of testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) ?a collection of male reproductive disorders, possibly caused by errors in development of the foetal testes. The Lithuanian study investigated 1,204 boys born in one hospital in Lithuania between October 1996 and November 1997. The boys were e...

New studies suggest airborne SARS transmission is possible

...ce that the virus causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) may spread through the air, not just through direct contact with contaminated water droplets as previous research had shown. SARS coronavirus was detected in the air in a patient's room during the 2003 outbreak in Toronto, according to a new ...

Leukemia Drug Breakthrough Study In New England Journal Of Medicine

...ovative way to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a form of pre-leukemia. Given in pill form,...ients with a chromosome abnormality named 5q minus syndrome became transfusion independent. The defective 5q chromosome abnormality may be linked to other serio...

U of M researcher examines newly emerging deadly disease

...ue injury occurs. In addition, because toxic shock syndrome is mediated by superantigens, it is possible that ...ical features of purpura fulminans and toxic shock syndrome seen in these patients resulted from massive cytokine release induced by the S. aureus strains. ...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...g colds or, morerecently, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Genetic evidencenow suggests that a previously unknown coronavirus may account for someof the many respiratory diseases for which a causative agent isunidentified, and may have a role in Kawasaki disease, the most commoncause of acquired hear...

Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease

...lzheimer's disease -- or in disorders such as Down syndrome where beta-APP is overexpressed -- those defects cause early failure in cellular transport," he said. "And those failures then stimulate further production of A-beta peptide, which may further poison the machinery." Goldstein theorized that Alzheime...

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