Combining molecular imaging technologies to stop/prevent heart attacks
...ure heart attack or stroke," he noted. The slow, progressive buildup of fats, cholesterol and other substancescalled plaqueon the inner lining of arteries causes atherosclerosis, which can lead to heart disease. Plaques can narrow the heart's arteries, allowing less blood to flow to the heart muscle (causing a...Transplantation does not benefit patients with refractory myeloma
...The second group, the remaining 38%, suffered from progressive disease. Until now, it was believed that the fract...s observed that refractory patients suffering from progressive myeloma did not show any benefit regarding survival. The disease progressed despite of the transplan...Gene expression patterns predict rapid decline in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients
...ng disease typically characterized by the slow but progressive onset of shortness of breath or cough. Most patients live about five years after diagnosis. However, according to a new study being published today in the online journal PLoS ONE, a subset of patients with a specific genetic profile has a much more r...Extra-aggressive form of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis identified
...iopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive lung disorder from which most patients die within 5 years after diagnosis. The disease is characterized by the insidious onset of dyspnea or cough and usually evolves slowly. Now, Selman and coworkers present in an article published in the onli...Story ideas from the Journal of Biological Chemistry
... most common type of dementia, is characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration and declining daily activi...ong suspected that this process contributes to the progressive damage or death of neurons but, until now, they have had difficulty testing this hypothesis in cultu...UVa researcher studying disease that cripples newborns
...has type 1 congenital myotonic dystrophy (CDM1), a progressive and crippling genetic disorder. Although doctors know that babies inherit CDM1 from their mother and prenatal tests are available, many children are not diagnosed until they are born. In these instances, mothers dont know that they have type 1 myo...New techniques redefine assessment of liver disease
...5) Diabetic patients with NAFLD are at risk for progressive liver disease. In this study, researchers examined connections between white adipose tissue (WAT, white fat) in the abdomen and medical disorders including insulin resistance (IR, inadequate response to insulin) and diabetes mellitus (DM, a metaboli...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
...es a life-threatening neurological disorder called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. After identifying the WU virus in the lungs of the Australian patient, researchers found it in the respiratory tract secretions of another 43 patients in Australia and St. Louis, suggesting that the virus may be geogr...Testosterone may help men with multiple sclerosis
...on form of the disease. Multiple sclerosis is a progressive disease involving the immune and central nervous systems. MS and many other autoimmune diseases (in which the body attacks its own systems or tissues) are less common in men than in women, said Voskuhl, at a ratio of about three women to one man. Vos...Estrogen use before 65 linked to reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease
...entia. Dementia is a general term referring to the progressive decline in a persons cognitive function. Dementia can affect memory, attention, language and problem solving abilities. Alzheimers is the most common type of dementia. Prior studies have shown that hormone therapy started during the WHI Memory Stu...Researcher receives $1.8M AIDS-related grant
...nd named for the initials of a patient who died of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML. A disease that afflicts patients with a weakened immune system, PML kills by, essentially, causing the brain's neurons to short-circuit. Aggressive and incurable, PML can kill a patient just a few months after ...New treatments have major impact on heart failure rates
...ion also established a decline in heart failure a progressive disorder when damage to the heart weakens the cardiovascular system and poor heart muscle function causes fluid in the lungs. This is the first time such findings relating to heart failure, a chronic condition often requiring specialised nursing ca...A thesis of the UGR analyses more than 20-million-year-old vegetation to study climatic evolution
... and the transformation of the vegetation was "the progressive raising of the European Alpine Arch during the Miocene". The importance of this study, which has been published in one of the most prestigious journals of this field, "Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, lies, according to Jimnez Mor...Class of PCB's causes developmental abnormalities in rat pups
...o change in response to stimuli contributes to the progressive development of cognitive function. In children with a variety of developmental disorders, including language impairments and autism, the auditory cortex responds abnormally to sound. Some scientists believe this is the basis of the conditions. Wh...Deactivating protein may protect nerve fibers in MS
...triggers a chain of molecular events that leads to progressive nerve fiber deterioration in MS, including the development of free radicals such as reactive oxygen and nitrogen that slow the cell's energy generation capability. It also throws off mitochondrial function by causing calcium to build up in the cell, ...Study links faulty DNA repair to Huntington's disease onset
...e effect in the brain. "Huntingtons disease is a progressive disease, but nobody knows exactly why," said McMurray. "Our work supports the idea that the disease progresses when the extra segment expands over time in non-dividing cells such as nerve cells." McMurrays study shows that the inserted segment grow...Kent State University and Summa Health System receive NIH grant to study prehypertension
... effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction and progressive muscle relaxation on people with prehypertension. ...ategies to help reduce stress. Participants using progressive muscle relaxation will apply alternating tensing and relaxing of muscles to produce a calm feeling a...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
... stable disease or 55 percent of the patients with progressive disease. According to Dr. Laurent-Puig, this might be due to the cascade of molecular interactions that occur after epidermal growth factor meets its receptor, EGFR. The KRAS enzyme is a key component to these molecular actions, but mutations in t...Omega-3 fatty acid may help prevent Alzheimer's brain lesions
...HA, learning and stress studies. Alzheimers is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than 4.5 million adults in the United States. With an aging population, that number could approach 20 million by 2050. Five percent of people older than 65 have Alzheimers, and up to one-half of people are...Diseased brain cells more involved in ALS-associated motor neuron death
...d from embryonic stem cells. In ALS, there is a progressive degeneration of motor neurons, leading to paralysis and eventual death. In single cell culture studies at Columbia University Medical Center, Serge Przedborski, M.D., Ph.D., co-director of the Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, and his coll...