'Good' bacteria could save patients from infection infection by deadlier ones
...ly putting patients at a greater risk of suffering fatal bacterial infection? Yes, argues Mark Spigelman, a visiting professor at the Sanford F. Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Spigelman points to a recent BBC...Lung scarring diseases linked to genes and smoking
...terstitial pneumonia (IIP), a group of potentially fatal disorders that affects the lungs, may be caused by an interaction between a specific genetic background and cigarette smoking. In a study of 111 families that had at least two relatives with IIP, people who smoked cigarettes were three times more lik...UV measurement tool aids defense against microbes in tap water
...two weeks in healthy adults, but may be chronic or fatal in those with a compromised immune system. In 1993, a massive outbreak of Crypto transmitted through the public water supply infected an estimated 400,000 people in Milwaukee and led to more than 100 deaths, Linden said. In the last two decades, Cryp...Pall tells FDA panel about blood filtering technology
...se (vCJD). TSEs, also called prion diseases, are fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include vCJD, the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease." The presentation, part of the Advisory Committee's discussion on labeling claims for TSE clearance studies for blood compon...U of MN researchers awarded more than $20 million for stem cell and natural killer cell research
...dvanced acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a highly fatal cancer of the bone marrow, could survive in the patient and actively attack the deadly AML cells. Those findings led to Miller receiving the new NCI grant, which is one of the first grants awarded by NCI exclusively for research on natural killer ce...Poor pregnancy outcomes linked to increased uric acid
...e an increased risk of complications that could be fatal for mother and baby, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found. Reporting in the Oct. 27 online issue of Hypertension, a journal published by the American Heart Association, researchers note that the greatest risk of high blood pressure during ...UW study shows deer in CWD zone stick to home
...rst identified in Wisconsin deer in 2001, CWD is a fatal brain disease found in deer and elk. It is transmitted through an agent called a prion, an abnormal protein that causes brain damage and, subsequently, the characteristic symptoms of the diseases: staggering, shaking, and excessive salivation, thirst...More males chimps means more territorial patrols, study shows
...have known for about 25 years that the patrols and fatal attacks occur, the question has been what accounts for the varying number and frequency of these patrols and attacks. Researchers hypothesized that five variables might impact the number of patrols: food availability, hunting activity, the presence o...Scientific institute founded by Jonas Salk to host meeting for polio survivors on Oct. 27
...e U.S. About polio: The crippling and sometimes fatal disease is caused by a viral infection that disables the nerve cells, or motor neurons, that connect to the muscles of the body. The crippling and paralysis primarily affected children -- although one U.S. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a...Prozac improves learning and memory in fatal brain disease
...vels, which helps delay the onset of the inherited fatal disease. People with Huntington's disease have progressive motor problems, cognitive deficits (dementia) and psychiatric symptoms (the most common is depression) that usually start to appear in mid-life. There is no cure and death usually results wi...Discovery links blood cell defect to common lung disorder, leads to novel treatment
...ders of the heart, lung and blood. The potentially fatal lung condition, pulmonary hypertension, is characterized by high blood pressure in the lungs. The disorder is a common complication of chronic diseases such as emphysema, arthritis, sickle cell disease and heart failure. However, pulmonary hypertensi...NIH renews network focused on how genes influence drug responses
...that determine why drugs used to treat potentially fatal irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) are beneficial to some people and harmful to others. (Dan M. Roden, M.D., Vanderbilt University) The Amish Pharmacogenomics of Antiplatelet Intervention Study --$7.5 million provided by NIGMS to characterize t...Engineered molecule amplifies body's immune response
...e more severe case, the children die in infancy of fatal viral infections. In less severe cases, they later develop infections due to mycobacteria. When interferon levels are too high, for example during treatment with interferon, there are side effects due to the increased nonspecific response caused by e...Cancer drug might help kids with fatal 'aging' syndrome
...d against cancers might help children with a rare, fatal condition called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, which causes rapid, premature aging. Children with progeria appear normal until they're 6 months to a year old, but then begin developing symptoms normally associated with old age -- wrinkled ski...Old drug shows new promise for Huntington's Disease
...ease is a hereditary, degenerative, and ultimately fatal disease of the brain that causes changes in personality, progressive loss of memory and cognitive ability, and a characteristic uncontrolled jerking motion known as Huntington's chorea. There is no known cure or effective treatment. A person who carr...Prions rapidly 'remodel' good protein into bad, Brown study shows
...nery behind prions, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain ailments such as mad cow disease and scrapie in animals and, in rare cases, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and kuru in humans. Because similar protein self-replication occurs in neurodegenerative diseases, the findings, published in the latest issue...New research shows folic acid in grains has reduced birth defects
...ands of babies from being born with a disabling or fatal birth defect with such a simple, low-tech means as folic acid fortification," says Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes. "Studies have shown that adequate daily folic acid intake beginning before pregnancy can reduce the incidence ...New genome comparison finds chimps, humans very similar at DNA level
...ed in ion transport and, if mutated, can cause the fatal disease cystic fibrosis, is thought to be the target of positive selection in European populations. The chimp and human genome sequences, along with those of a wide range of other organisms such as mouse, honey bee, roundworm and yeast, can be access...NIH, UNC scientists find anti-cancer drugs might work in treating deadly aging disease
...efective gene that causes cystic fibrosis, another fatal illness that afflicts children. A report on the research appears in the Sept. 6 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Other authors of the report include M.D.-Ph.D. student Brian C. Capell of Collins' NIH laboratory; NIH staff...Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder
...shows promise in laboratory studies for treating a fatal genetic disorder that causes premature aging. In a study published Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Brian Capell and his colleagues at NHGRI reported that drugs known as farnesyltransferase i...