UT rheumatologists discover 2 genes related to disabling form of arthritis
HOUSTON (Oct. 22, 2007)Work done in part by researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston has led to the discovery of two genes that cause ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory and potentially disabling disease. The findings are published in the Oct. 21 online edition of Nat...Humor and Hope Sustain NJ Woman Through Disabling Movement Disorder, Election Campaign
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Global study finds it takes bigger toll than other chronic conditions FRIDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- When compared with other chronic diseases, depression may well be the most disabling disease in the world, a new global study finds. People with chronic physical diseases such a...York Hospital Trauma Center Upgrade
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...ere extrapyramidal symptoms, somnolence, dyspepsia, constipation, weight increase, and nasopharyngitis. "Schizoaffective disorder is a chronic, disabling condition," said Husseini Manji, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Global Therapeutic Area Head, Neuroscience, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Dev...Scientists Reverse Muscular Dystrophy in Mice
...ording to the MDA, myotonic (muscle-stiffening) dystrophy is one of nine forms of muscular dystrophy, a group of genetic, degenerative and potentially disabling diseases which primarily affect voluntary muscles. Myotonic dystrophy type 1 is the most common form of muscular dystrophy affecting adults. It is...Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Opens for Business
...n, A.L.S. and other neurodegenerative diseases who have worked so hard to make this effort a reality." The center's mission is to prevent the disabling symptoms of chronic brain diseases and to prolong healthy, vital aging in people at risk for dementia or cognitive disorders, through the use of Cle...Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases
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SEATTLE An international team of researchers led by a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center geneticist has discovered two genes linked to a disabling form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, a painful and progressive disease in which some or all of the spines vertebrae fuse together. The...Protein handlers should be effective treatment target for cancer and Alzheimer's
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...open doors to new and potentially better treatments." According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1.1 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. People with schizophrenia sometimes hear voices...Gene expression findings a step toward better classification and treatment of juvenile arthritis
...itute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the National Institutes of Health. JIA is an inflammatory and sometimes disabling joint disease that affects an estimated 294,000 children in the United States. At present, making a diagnosis of JIA is imprecise and based largely on...MSU lands $2.1 million grant to take part in national autism study
...e a repository for data from nearly 3,000 families as part of the congressionally mandated Study to Explore Early Development. "Autism is a serious disabling condition that has been estimated to occur in one in 150 children in the United States," said Phil Reed, director of MSU's BRIC and the principal inve...$1.6 million grant to lead development of resistance-detecting field kit
...ng kit will be designed, tested and rolled out for use by control programme staff in the regions of sub-Saharan Africa where malaria and filariasis, a disabling and disfiguring condition also spread by mosquitoes, is endemic. The new screening tools will provide information vital for predicting the success of...Genetic study confirms the immune system's role in narcolepsy
... Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have identified a gene associated with narcolepsy, a disorder that causes disabling daytime sleepiness, sleep attacks, irresistible bouts of sleep that can strike at any time, and disturbed sleep at night. The gene has a known role in...Oh, my aching back: Give me a shot of ozone
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...they are able to overcome some of the many challenges in translating the potential of using stem cells into reality. "The potential to reverse the disabling effects of stroke seems to have been proved. However the development of stem cell therapy for stroke survivors is still in the early stages and much ...Rett Syndrome Research Trust advisor makes significant discovery
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...ion in an accessible, online format for adults living with RA. The show also aims to raise awareness about RA, a chronic, inflammatory and potentially disabling condition that affects more than one million Americans, 70 percent of whom are women. (The views and opinions shared in New Way RA are those ...Advanced Life Sciences' Restanza(TM) Shows 100% Survival In Confirmatory Anthrax Study
...ontrolled efficacy studies in humans cannot be ethically conducted because the studies would involve administering a potentially lethal or permanently disabling toxic substance or organism to healthy human volunteers. Approval of a drug under the "Animal Efficacy Rule" is subject to certain post-approval commi...Lumbar Matrix(TM) Scan From SpineMatrix(R) Revolutionizes the Diagnosis of Low Back Pain
...mine proper treatment and can result in significant savings for patients and the healthcare industry. Low back pain is the most common and costly disabling condition in the United States, affecting nearly 31 million Americans. Current diagnostic methods used most frequently to detect lower back pain - su...Savient Pharmaceuticals Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
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...epair Stems Cells are right now, every week, improving dozens and dozens of lives all over the world. He emphasized that "Patients stricken with disabling diseases such as congestive heart failure, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, ataxia, autism, COP...InterMune Reports Results of Two Phase 3 CAPACITY Studies of Pirfenidone in IPF
...ovided additional details of this agreement in its press release dated November 26, 2007. About IPF Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disabling and ultimately fatal disease that affects approximately 250,000 people in the United States and Europe combined, with approximately 30,000 new cases r...