Molecule that usually protects infection-fighting cells may cause plaque deposits inside arteries
A molecule that usually protects the body's infection-fighting cells might also contribute to fatty buildups that coat arteries and lead to heart disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found. The molecule, called apoptosis inhibitor of macrophage or AIM, inhibits cell death in macrophages, which circulate in the bloodstream and help the body fend off infection and foreign...Nurses To Take On More Work Usually Done By GP’
The Federal government of Australia plans to introduce an incentives scheme to ease the nursing shortage and also plans to broaden Medicare to allow nurses// to take on certain work done by GPs. Doctors, nurses and the Opposition welcomed the measures. The government is expanding a program aimed at addressing the nursing shortage, adding hundreds more general practices to the incentiv...Elderly Patients Usually Keep Mum About Use of Alternative Medicine , Reveals Survey
Representatives of AARP and the National Center for Complementary //and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health, are urging consumers and physicians to communicate better, especially about alternative therapies they are trying out in order to ensure safe and integrated health care. This is the outcome of a survey conducted by NCCAM, by examining the telephonic c...Doctors Puzzled Over Man's Normal Life With Unusually Tiny Brain
French doctors are puzzling over the case of 44-year-old civil servant who has led a quite normal life -- but with an extraordinarily tiny brain . In a case history published in next Saturday's Lancet, doctors led by Lionel Feuillet of the Hopital de la Timone in Marseille say the father-of-two was admitted to hospital after suffering mild weakness in his left leg. Sca...