Researchers Identify A Gene That Causes Juvenile Polyposis
...hin the first two decades of life. The most common symptom is rectalbleeding. The condition was at first thought to be benign, however, in a 1975 study,University of Iowa College of Medicine researchers demonstrated that people withFJP had a high risk of developing gastrointestinal cancer. If an individua...Jefferson Researchers Provide Leads To Potential Parkinson's Treatment
... slowedloss of dopamine nerve terminals and slowed symptom progression compared toParkinson's patients, matched for age and disease duration, who don't take GM1."-more-Parkinson disease/page 2 He explains, "We would expect to see a natural decline in dopaminenerve terminal in these patients, and in t...Gene Identified For Heart Defect That Causes Sudden Death In Young People
...isease is difficult to diagnose. Often, the first symptom of ARVD isdeath, triggered by erratic heartbeats called arrhythmias. Those who do notsuffer sudden death develop symptoms of heart failure -- including swelling ofthe hands and feet and shortness of breath -- in their 30s and 40s, and usuallydie wit...Bleached Coral Could Be Environment Warning
...uman activity andwhether last year's El Nino was a symptom of global warming, the fact is thatsea temperatures globally in 1998 were high. And 1998 was the worst year everrecorded globally for coral bleaching." Corals bleach (or lose their symbiotic algae) when stressed by hightemperatures, Harvell explai...Genetic Research Boosts Understanding Of Iron's Path Through Body, Diseases Of Iron Metabolism
...isease. Moreover, the mutant mice showed a symptom that provides a clue toanother pressing question in the field, namely, which proteins control how muchdietary iron the intestine absorbs, Andrews adds. The mutant mice have lowlevels of total body iron, and this probably relates to the fact that the ...UF Researcher: Athletes Likely To Have Symptoms Of Eating Disorders
...nd a preoccupation with losingweight. Other common symptom are binging and purging techniques such astaking laxatives, diuretics and diet pills and engaging in excessiveexercise. Hausenblas said some of the traits of eating disorders stem from qualitiesthat also drive people to succeed in sports competition,...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...kinson's. Oftentimes an impaired gait is the first symptom andgoes unnoticed for months or even years. A "digital assistant" that is as easy to speak with, in plain English, as the"Star Trek computer," which people could turn to with many of their health-carequestions. A conversation might be about ear infe...SIDS prevention tactic leads to epidemic of 'misshapen head' in infants
...cause the neck is relatively short. One noticeable symptom is apersistent head turn, and parents frequently report a preferred resting positionwith sleep. After age six months, the neck begins to lengthen, and tilting ofthe head toward the tight side may become more evident, suggesting the need forneck physi...Mice show function of gene that causes two types of blindness
...ter for Basic Neuroscience at UTSouthwestern. This symptom is called delayed dark adaptation, an early sign ofthe illness, which is the most common form of juvenile macular degeneration. Because the genetically engineered animals lack the ABCR gene, RmP alsois missing. In normal mice, RmP inhibits ac...$500,000 gift launches new clinical research effort in peripheral neuropathy
...re often not known, and because it is frequently a symptom of some better-researched or 'more glamorous' disease, it hasn't received the attention it deserves. Yet there are hundreds of thousands of patients in this country who suffer because of the discomfort and disability associated with this disease, and...Low-income black women need information about menopause
...n experienced some level ofurinary incontinence, a symptom of menopause that may be relieved by HRT. "Women are significantly more likely to use HRT if their health care provider has discussed thetherapy with them," says Allen. "Information about menopause needs to be provided by anyone who isdelivering hea...... Medicine."While it's believed that dizziness is a symptom of specific diseases, the condition might often be the result of multiple problems working togethera condition we call a geriatric syndrome." Published in the March 7 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, the study suggests that by classifying diz......d occurrence and spread of the disease. The first symptom of Lyme disease is usually a red rash that often resembles a bull's eye. This rash, which can be small or cover a person's entire back, appears within a few weeks of a tick bite when the spirochete is introduced into the human host. The infection sp...Estrogen lifts mood in perimenopause
...ogen or placebo for 3-6 weeks. Using standardized symptom rating scales and structured interviews, the researchers confirmed that estrogen significantly boosted mood in 80 percent of the depressed women, independent of hot flushes. This level of relief, and the time required to achieve a therapeutic effect,...Laser surgery halts chest pain over the long-term; scientists also looking into non-surgical TMR
...st pain relief for at least five years. "Whatever symptom relief these patients had at one year seems to be holding true out to five years," says Keith Horvath, M.D., lead researcher of the TMR study and assistant professor of cardiovascular surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. "We hav...New drug blocks rheumatoid arthritis early on, with few side effects
...nt. Physicians may now prescribe it, not only for symptom relief, but to prevent joint damage in the first place. Rheumatoid arthritis is marked by an immune system attack on joints both on bone and on the cartilage that surrounds the bone bringing permanent joint damage. It affects joints in the hands a...Team identifies first drug therapy for rare, precancerous stomach illness
...e and removal of the stomach is often required for symptom relief and to prevent the progression to cancer. The 48-year-old Texas man was referred to Coffey from the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas with endless vomiting - before treatment, he was vomiting an average of 70 times a w...In possible boon to sickle cell victims, basic scientists find reason cells stick
...or she is a carrier like the parent but usually is symptom free. When two carriers have a child, there's a 25 percent chance the child will have sickle cell disease, 50 percent chance the child will be a carrier and a 25 percent chance he or she will have neither. Until about 1960, most infants born with th...Scientists seek genetic clues to emphysema and chronic bronchitis
...od. Shortness of breath with activity is the first symptom that most people with emphysema experience. People often lose 50 to 70 percent of their lung tissue by the time they experience the first symptoms. People with chronic bronchitis, also know as smoker's cough, have a chronic cough and mucus production......al neuropathy remains a matter of debate, the same symptom occurs in patients with type I and type II diabetes and can be observed in animal models of both conditions. Isner and his colleagues recently showed that a similar neuropathy, this one arising from ischemia in the hindlimbs, results from loss of b...