Leptospirosis raising health concern among companion animal owners
...nsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug. A less frequent symptom seen in dogs is excessive thirst and urination. Harkin said pet owners are at risk because the dog drinks and urinates so much that they may do so in the house, exposing the owner to the disease. "There are a few other odd-ball things that can be see...Doctors failure to reevaluate asthma severity hurts wheezing sufferers
...c individuals about their gender, race, education, symptom severity, medication use, health care access and satisfaction, and physician specialists. All were employees and dependents of some of the largest U.S. companies and had health insurance coverage through managed care. For more information on asthma,...Study finds nonviral gene therapy for severe hemophilia a is safe with early signs of benefit
...aneous bleeding, a frequent and potentially lethal symptom of the severe form of the disorder. The findings are published in the June 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, which utilized a nonviral gene therapy system developed by Transkaryotic Therapies (TKT) of Cambridge, Mass., involv...Chronic Lyme disease symptoms not helped by intensive antibiotic treatment
...s daily, for 60 days. The investigators evaluated symptom improvement based on the patients responses to a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire given 90 days after they completed the course of antibiotic treatment or placebo. An interim data analysis planned into the design of the trials was carr...Discovery: Scientists find new reason red blood cells cut blood flow in sickle cell disease victims
...or she is a carrier like the parent but usually is symptom free. When two carriers have a child, there is 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 t...TDS - a new syndrome hitting men's reproductive health says Danish fertility expert
...n male reproductive health should not focus on one symptom alone, but take all aspects of TDS into account, otherwise vital biological information may be lost....Male infertility: Scientists discover candidate gene for impaired spermatogenesis
...be normal in every other respect, and none had any symptom of BWS. One of them had a medical history of cryptorchidism. Dr Gianotten said: "These results suggest that the ZNF214 gene is involved in impaired spermatogenesis, either on its own, or because it causes cryptorchidism which in turn leads to impair...Mouse model of type 2 diabetes
...ated blood glucose levels. The first identifiable symptom of type 2 diabetes is usually the inability of muscle to respond to normal blood glucose levels. Several attempts have been made to develop a mouse model of type 2 diabetes, but all have been unable to recapitulate the full range of clinical feature...Age at first drink: What does it really mean?
...be as easy as that. If early drinking is really a symptom rather than a cause, then ameliorating the symptom will have little impact on rates of alcoholism." He noted that even if adolescent alcohol use does ......d dosage, on average, by 50 percent without losing symptom control. Those treated with long-acting beta-agonists alone, however, suffered from significantly worse symptoms compared to those treated with inhaled steroids alone or with both medications. These findings were reported in the May 23, 2001, issue ....... As oxygen deprivation, or ischemia, is a common symptom of many different diseases and injuries, there have been several previous attempts to generate new blood vessels. None has ever been this successful. Previous attempts have centered upon the over-expression of a downstream target of HIF-1, named VEG...Women with rare lung disease found to also have high prevalence of meningiomas
...toms are similar to other lung diseases. "A common symptom of LAM is shortness of breath, which is seen in other lung diseases such as asthma and emphysema. Other symptoms of LAM include chest pain and coughing up blood-stained sputum or blood," he said. Moss noted that both spontaneous and inherited forms ......e a huge problem. We cant keep addressing this one symptom at a time....A genetic basis for diet-induced relapse of depression
...y investigated the relationship between depressive symptom during tryptophan depletion and the presence of a variation of the gene encoding for a protein that transports sertonin into neurons (SLC6A4). Forty three subjects who had improved from a major depressive episode and then underwent TRP depletion, wer...Symptoms of illness less severe in hamsters during winter, study finds
...y to survive." The changes in symptom response are tied to the changing length of daylight from summer to winter, said Staci Bilbo, a doctoral student in psychology at The Johns Hopkins Un...Muscle gene influences fat storage in mice; may be target to prevent or treat obesity and diabetes
... diabetes because they develop the disease's major symptom -- resistance to the hormone insulin. "Mighty" versions of these animals did not, Lee and McPherron report. They suggest that mice without myostatin, in addition to having less fat, may have enough extra muscle mass to make up for decreasing sensiti...'Back at square one' to find culprit in familial ALS
...ant result because levels of SOD1 affect timing of symptom progression. Furthermore, Jonathan Gitlin at Washington University in St. Louis used radioactive copper (copper-64) to "trace" distribution of the metal in the mice and proved that copper isn't reaching SOD1. "Taking away CCS dramatically decreased t...Even mild vitamin C deficiency may have negative effect on vascular function
...ely affect vascular elasticity and function a key symptom of preeclampsia. Research is closing in on this menace, said James M. Roberts, M.D., professor and chairman of research in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director...Study of menopausal women finds no benefit from hormone therapy and antioxidant vitamins
...eir clinics at 6 and 12 month intervals to undergo symptom and quality of life assessment and a comprehensive series of diagnostic tests, including blood pressure, pap smear, and mammography. The WAVE investigators analyzed the results using a ranking system that incorporated both clinical events such as he...USF study: Nicotine antagonist relieves depression in children with Tourette's
...researchers examined the effect of mecamylamine on symptom improvement in a group of 50 children and adolescents co-diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and at least one of several mood disorders. The mood disorders were major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiance d...