Hereditary in Medical News

Leading Blood Centers, LifeSource and Central Blood Bank, Spotlight a Unique Donor Population During National Hereditary Hemochromatosis Awareness Month

CHICAGO, JULY 14 /PRNewswire/ -- According to America's Blood Centers, every two seconds someone is in need of blood - and during the summer season the need is even more profound. In honor of National Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH) Awareness Month in July, two of the nation's...

Changing Paradigms in Hereditary Angioedema: A Focus on Timely Diagnosis and New Therapies

VOORHEES, N.J., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is an autosomal dominant disease affecting approximately 10,000 people in the United States. HAE causes recurrent attacks of intense localized edema involving the skin, airway, and visceral organs. While chronic therapy with attenu...

Changing Paradigms in Hereditary Angioedema: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment

Complimentary Continuing Education Monograph for Healthcare Professionals VOORHEES, N.J., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is an autosomal dominant disease affecting between 4,000 and 10,000 people in the United States. HAE causes recurrent attacks of intense localized edem...

ViroPharma to Host Investor 'Teach-In' Educational Symposium on Hereditary Angioedema

- Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) and the Dawn of New Therapeutics - EXTON, Pa., March 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM ) announced today that the company will provide a live audio webcast of its 'Teach-in' educational event for investors on Hereditary Angioedem...

New technique enables faster genetic diagnosis for hereditary diseases

Antwerp, Belgium − VIB researchers connected to the University of Antwerp have developed a new method that enables them to track down the cause of hereditary diseases more quickly and efficiently. By means of this technique, genetic tests that take a long time today − such as screening...

ViroPharma Submits Supplemental Biologics License Application for Cinryze(TM) to Treat Acute Attacks of Hereditary Angioedema

EXTON, Pa., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ViroPharma Incorporated (Nasdaq: VPHM ) today announced that the company submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Cinryze(TM) C1 Inhibitor (human) as a treatment for acute attacks...

The cause of all hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type II cases has been established

A major discovery that details the existence of a neuronal specific form of the WNK1 gene, henceforth referred to as the WNK1/HSN2 isoform, was recently completed by the research group of Dr. Guy A. Rouleau and published in the scientific journal The Journal of Clinical Investigation . The group ...

Gene markers located for hereditary prostate cancer

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, Wake Forest University and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have identified an array of gene markers for hereditary prostate cancer that, along with family history for the disease, appear to raise risk to more than nine times that of m...

My Mother/Myself: Migraine Headaches are Hereditary

Experts urge sufferers to break the cycle of suffering 'Migraine Million' fundraiser honors one-in-a-million moms CHICAGO, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The mother/daughter relationship can give some women headaches -- literally. Yet, on Mother's Day we choose to put that aside an...

Researchers Identify Genetic Mutations for Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer

A study, published in the June 6 issue of JAMA, has identified novel genetic mutations linked to hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. It states that these mutations are due to both independent mutational events and common ancestry. The study has been released early to coincide with its presentation ...

Risk Of Soft Tissue Sarcomas In Hereditary Retinoblastoma Survivors

A study by Ruth A. Kleinerman and his colleagues quantifies the risk of hereditary retinoblastoma survivors developing specific subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas and finds that// this risk persists for decades after the original retinoblastoma diagnosis. The findings published in the January 3 ...

Gene Therapy for Hereditary Immunodeficiency Diseases

Since the late 1980s, gene therapy has given rise not only to high expectations of treatment success but also great concerns regarding health risks//. Since the German Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) issued its first memorandum in 1995; this field of research has develope...

Gene Therapy Shows Promise Against Hereditary Lung Disease

An experimental gene therapy to combat alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a common hereditary disorder that causes lung and liver disease, has caused no harmful effects in// patients and shows signs of being effective, University of Florida researchers say. In a clinical trial, researchers evalu...

Scientists Claim Encouraging Progress On Hereditary Diseases

Scientists have assembled to report encouraging and innovative strategies and probable future therapies for Huntington's disease// and related disorders. The Hereditary Disease Foundation convened HD 2006: Changes, Advances and Good News (CAG)n in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosting a group o...

New Hereditary Bone Joint Disorder Identified

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and University of California have found evidence for a new hereditary joint disorder which has been reported in Journal of Arthritis & Rheumatism//. The disease is found to cause extensive bubbling of the cartilage leading to tear off from the bone....

New Study May Help Prevent Hereditary Deafness

A new study by scientists in Japan may help to prevent a certain type of hereditary// deafness, reports UPI. Richard Smith, a research professor in otolaryngology at the University of Iowa, and scientists from Okayama University gave a genetically deafened mouse interfering RNA (Ribonucleic Ac...

Childhood Wheezing Could Be Hereditary

Studies in the past have suggested early onset wheezing is associated with high levels of allergies, impaired lung function, // and bronchial hyper-responsiveness. Children with the longest duration of wheezing also appear to have more severe asthma. However, some children who develop wheeze later ...

Urinary Incontinence May Be Hereditary

Researchers say women whose mothers suffer from urinary incontinence were about 1.3-times more likely to suffer from it and when // mothers reported severe symptoms, daughters were nearly two-times more likely to report urinary incontinence. If an older sister suffered from the condition, younger s...

Eating disorders are hereditary

A research done in the University of Pittsburgh reveals that heredity has a central role in the trigger of bulimia and eating disorders. Michael Strober, supervisor of the research explains that "the genetic influences play an important role in determining the susceptibility to get the illness". ...

ViroPharma Announces Initiation Of Non-Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile Phase 1 Program

...ma commercializes Cinryze(TM) (C1 esterase inhibitor [human]) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing information on ViroPharma's commercial products, please download the package ...

ViroPharma Announces Support by Advisory Committee of The Office of Generic Drugs Proposed Guidelines for Developing Generic Versions of Oral Vancomycin Hydorchloride

...ma commercializes Cinryze(TM) (C1 esterase inhibitor (human)) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing information on ViroPharma's commercial products, please download the package ...

Developing gene therapy to fight blindness

...s and Saudi Arabia are working to develop gene therapy for treating a rare, hereditary retinal disease. The therapy has been shown to restore lost vision in anim...Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia. RP is a type of hereditary retinal dystrophy, a group of inherited disorders in which abnormalities of...

ViroPharma Incorporated Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

..."With the early success of Cinryze - our product used to prevent attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) - exceeding our initial expectations, the second quarter o...rophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing in...

Grant for brain tumor and deafness research

...g adults. No therapy, other than invasive surgery aiming at a single tumour and which may not eradicate the full extent of the tumours, exists. The hereditary condition affects one in every 2,500 people worldwide. It can affect any family, regardless of past history, through gene mutation and currently there...

ViroPharma to Release 2009 Second Quarter Financial Results on July 29, 2009

...ma commercializes Cinryze(TM) (C1 esterase inhibitor (human)) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing information on ViroPharma's commercial products, please download the package ...

Stemedica Discovers Significant Breakthrough in the Use of Stem Cells and Stem Cell Factors for the Treatment of Retinal Degeneration

...inal degenerations include diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa, which are hereditary conditions in which abnormalities of the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE)...btained from human donor tissue. Various cells were injected into rats with hereditary pigmented degradation of retina. One eye of each participating rat served t...

Oncology Group's Pharmaceutical Services Agreement Enhances Efficiency of Drug Management Program

...ard of care available. In addition, two of the group's physicians are focused on genetic screening and counseling for patients and family members with hereditary cancers. For more information, visit the company's Web site, www.hoanm.com . About Oncology Pharmaceutical Services Oncology Pharmaceutical ...

Risk of cancer

...logical mechanisms involved will help to clarify the aetiology of colorectal cancer and pave the way to more effective cancer prevention. Apart from hereditary tumor predisposition, another area of major strength for Finnish research is gene regulation. It was hardly surprising therefore that Aaltonen's and T...

New Cancer Drug Fights Tumors in Those With BRCA Mutations

...t oncologist with Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and director of the Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic in Durham, N.C., said. "It speaks to a really clever understa...D., breast oncologist, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and director, Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic, Durham, N.C.; June 24, 2009, New England Journal of Medicin...

Fish protein link to controlling high blood pressure -- new study

...iversity of Leicester are investigating how a species of fish from the Pacific Ocean could help provide answers to tackling chronic conditions such as hereditary high blood pressure and kidney disease. They are examining whether the Goby fish can help researchers locate genes linked to high blood pressure. T...

Provocative New Nonfiction Addresses Spiritual Destiny

...w to Reform Personalities Enduring Metaphysical "Black Hole" BENIN CITY, Nigeria, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The question of whether intelligence is hereditary has always shared dangerous, if not poisonous, territory with questions arising from research studies that show cognitive differences across racial li...

Clues to Muscular Dystrophy Seen in Womb

... be done, researchers were confident that their findings had the potential to improve life for children with muscular dystrophy, a group of incurable, hereditary diseases that progressively weaken muscles and other body systems. Most patients with DMD, the most common and severe form, are wheelchair-bound by...

Ocean Spray Teams Up With the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women and Its Go Red BetterU Program

...participate in Go Red BetterU and blog about her journey is the result of a hereditary and often fatal heart condition shared by her mother and sister. "I h...ving to do," Melanie explains. "I have no control over whether I share this hereditary condition with my mother and sister, but I can control what I eat and how o...

Researchers estimate risk of transmission of Huntington's disease to offspring among male carriers

...dings, appear on-line in the American Journal of Medical Genetics , may be useful during prenatal genetic counseling. Huntington disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that arises from expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat on chromosome 4. Individuals with a variant of at least 36 CAG rep...

ViroPharma Announces Appointment of Frank Baldino, Jr., Ph.D. to Board of Directors

...ma commercializes Cinryze(TM) (C1 esterase inhibitor (human)) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing information on ViroPharma's commercial products, please download the package ...

Cepheid Receives Health Canada License for Xpert(R) HemosIL(R) FII & FV Test

...e results with other tests -- providing physicians a more comprehensive thrombophilia profile of their patients." FII and FV are the most common hereditary risk factors for venous thrombosis and key in the determination of genetic predisposition to the condition and the need for prophylactic treatment in ...

New Insights, Inroads Against Breast, Ovarian Cancers

...t oncologist with Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and director of the Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic in Durham, N.C. Still, "I doubt every treating oncologist wi...D., breast oncologist, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and director, Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic, Durham, N.C.; Claudine Isaacs, M.D., medical oncologist, Geo...

Some Antidepressants May Thwart Tamoxifen's Effect on Breast Cancer

...cologist with the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and director of the Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic, in Durham, N.C. Many breast cancer survivors take the dru...D., breast oncologist, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, and director, Duke hereditary Cancer Clinic, Durham, N.C.; May 30, 2009, presentations, American Society ...

ViroPharma Announces Meeting of FDA Advisory Committee for Pharmaceutical Science and Clinical Pharmacology on Bioequivalence Recommendations for Oral Vancomycin Hydrochloride Products

...ma commercializes Cinryze(TM) (C1 esterase inhibitor (human)) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency (for prescribing information on ViroPharma's commercial products, please download the package ...

Should parents share the results of BRCA1/2 genetic testing with their children?

... were at high risk of cancer because you carry the hereditary BRCA1/2 gene mutation, would you tell your childre...American Society of Clinical Oncology. BRCA1/2 are hereditary gene mutations that indicate an increased risk of ...ychosocial and behavioral responses to learning of hereditary risk during childhood and adolescence, and to info...