Gene therapy and sickle cell disease: Religious perspectives
...edical treatment. The patient would be relieved of pain and suffering resulting from this disorder and be able to strive toward God's purpose for humanity, union with Him. Gene therapy will become ethically unacceptable if it goes beyond treatment of disease and is directed instead at enhancing human perf...A 2,000 year-old technique may hold the key to acupuncture's therapeutic effect
...upuncture's therapeutic value for the treatment of pain and other medical conditions. One reason is that it seems very unlikely that the simple act of inserting fine needles into tissue could elicit any effect at all, let alone wide-ranging and long-lasting therapeutic effects. Acupuncture needles are of ...Researchers find gene involved in pain relief
...te have discovered a genetic mechanism involved in pain modulation that could lead to an entirely new approach to pain control. The results of their research are published in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Cell. I...Pain in the gut? Don't blame stomach acid
...RBOR, Mich. - When it comes to cooling the burning pain of gastritis or an inflamed stomach lining, reducing the amount of acid in the stomach may seem like a good idea. But two new studies with laboratory mice, conducted by Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at the University of Michigan Medical ...ENBREL is first therapy approved for psoriatic arthritis
...iatic arthritis often experience progressive joint pain and swelling, coupled with scaly red skin lesions, said Gail Zimmerman, president and CEO, National Psoriasis Foundation. There is a definite need for new approved therapies to specifically treat this disease. Current therapies for psoriatic arthri......on of the word exercise, which many associate with pain and discomfort. While the US gene pool has not significantly changed in the last ten years, rates for obesity have soared. The main cause associated with the changes in rates is environmental change. A documented decline in physical activity has be...Nabi experimental vaccine reduced Staph aureus bloodstream infections by nearly 60 percent
...ild to moderate and included induration, erythema, pain and heat at the injection site and malaise and myalgia. These reactions typically resolved within one or two days. Because the data showed the ability to reduce S. aureus bacteremia for up to 40 weeks, we now are examining the potential for booster...Scientists solve first flavivirus structure
...e illness that causes high fever, rash and extreme pain in the head, muscles and joints. Dengue haemorrhag...ause internal bleeding, vomiting, severe abdominal pain and death. The dengue virus is transmitted to humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes and is...Scientists seek women who suffer from PMS
... cycles, she said. They are much more sensitive to pain than other women, however. Last year, the UNC researchers published a preliminary study in the journal Biological Psychiatry showing that healthy women responded to stress during the second half of their monthly cycles by producing more allopregnano...For the longest distance runner, that tired feeling may not be due to central fatigue
...to two hours often leads to local fatigue, causing pain in a specific part of the body. A long held belief in the scientific community is that central fatigue, resulting from alterations to the central nervous system, is the consequence of an ultra-long-duration exercise. Despite the purported associat...Dietary soy reduces pain, inflammation in rats
...ch in soy appears to decrease inflammation-induced pain in rats, according to a study by Johns Hopkins res...Society in Baltimore, shows that rats with chronic pain resulting from inflammation similar to the pain experienced by some cancer patients were more tole...Intracoronary gene therapy trial shows promise for treatment of angina
...ople nationwide who suffer from debilitating chest pain caused by coronary artery disease. The University...nary artery disease often experience angina chest pain that results when the heart muscle doesnt get as much oxygen as it needs due to blockage in the arte...Current growing nursing shortage to be studied at 160 US acute care hospitals
... patients experiences, including satisfaction with pain management and how nurses help relieve distressing symptoms, she said. They also will examine how registered nurses feel about their jobs, decision-making responsibilities and relationships with physicians, social workers, physical therapists and oth...Patch delivers longer, deeper relief from dental pain
...ch promises relief from dental pain up to 45 times longer than a topical anesthetic ... the patch reported feeling half as much pain from a needle stick, and some patients reported less discomfort during procedure...Tucson chemist wins national award for studies of life molecules
...unds that have an effect on behavior reactions to pain or addiction, feeding behavior, sexual behavior, fear/flight reflexes and short-term and long-term learning, he said. One hormone he has worked with stimulates tanning in humans that is, helps cause skin cells to produce melanin. Alpha-MSH (for mela...Australian frog is first to make its own chemical weapons
...drugs, including heart stimulants, antibiotics and pain killers. Of the over 500 alkaloids they have characterized from frog skin, most are still believed to have originated from an insect food source. Frogs are the only vertebrates known to obtain alkaloids from the diet. While snakes and other vertebr...Tick saliva genes key to Lyme disease vaccine
... in the ticks saliva begin to suppress the mammals pain response, increase blood flow to the area, and prevent clotting while at the same time battling the mammals immune system response to the biting arthropod. Two University of Rhode Island researchers believe that the proteins in the ticks saliva may ...The next generation of scientists recognized at Johns Hopkins
....H., revealed that nitroglycerin's effect on chest pain does not help diagnosis, contrary to conventional wisdom. Korn received the Helen B. Taussig Research Award and Henrikson the Alfred Blalock Research Award. For detailed information about all of this year's awardees, visit http://www.hopkinsmedicin...New findings could lead to innovative treatment technologies for patients with sickle cell
...The only approved treatments for this disorder are pain relief, adequate hydration, oxygenation, bone marr...ckage to flow of blood. The results are recurrent pain and organ damage. The second finding from this research shows that that the adhesion of sickle cells...