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Surprising Cystic Fibrosis Finding That Could Be A Helpful Treatment Option

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease where the patient has frequent respiratory infections, breathing difficulties and eventually permanent lung damage. // It’s believed that patients with CF have too much mucus in their airways. But new research shows patients actually have too little mucus. Researchers say that may studies have been done in the past , but it has never proven, that CF...

A new and surprising insight on AIDS

Dr. Roberto Giraldo, an American physician who addressed a Southern African Development Community (SADC) claimed that malnutrition was one of the key factors that was at the centre of the AIDS menace. His website (www.robertogiraldo.com) says, "Aids is neither an infectious disease nor// is sexually transmitted. It is a toxic-nutritional syndrome caused by the alarming worldwide increment of immu...

Blood Pressure Levels Across The Globe Show Surprising Drop

In a huge study involving 38 populations across 21 countries, reserachers have found that blood pressure levels across the globe are inexplicably dropping.// "Blood pressure did not go down in all of the populations, but it went down in most of them," said Prof Tunstall-Pedoe, who led the World Health Organization MONICA study conducted between 1980s and 1990s. . "The change was not gre...

Surprising Interaction Between Genes, Gender, and Hypertension

In surprising results, a study of more than 1,200 patients with extremely low or high blood pressure by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of// Medicine showed that the influence of genes on blood pressure may vary based on gender. “Sex is like a prism that refracts the effects of the gene very differently for men and women,” said Daniel T. O’Connor,...

Tamoxifen Discontinuation Rates Surprisingly High

A new study, published in the March 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society,// says early termination of this highly effective breast cancer drug may negatively affect treatment efficacy. At 3.5 years, the study also reveals that over one third of women have ceased tamoxifen treatment. In the clinical practice setting almost a quarter of women tr...

Increases in Autism Rates Not Surprising to Education Expert

The new national study showing higher-than-expected incidences of autism comes as no surprise to special education personnel// and autism advocates, says a special education professor at the University of Indianapolis. 'We have seen the rates of autism increase dramatically over the last seven years,' notes Dr.John Somers, director of graduate programs and coordinator of special educa...

Hunger Awareness Day to Shed Light on Surprising Face of Hunger June 5

CHICAGO, Today America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network kicks-off Hunger Awareness Day 2007 with 200 food banks and more than 20,000 food service agencies participating in events across the country. Also, as legislators in Washington D.C. begin to consider drafts of a new Farm Bill and the critically important federal nutrition programs it supports, America's Second Harvest rel...