Research holds promise for herpes vaccine
... genital herpes 2 million to 3 million Americans suffer outbreaks one to four times annually. A vaccine offering life-long protection does not exist. The key to Halford's research was understanding how the herpes simplex virus overcame the body's natural defenses. A cell infected with the herpes simpl...Children of allergy sufferers prone to same problem
...ion--which included children whose parents did not suffer from allergies--7 percent had allergic sensitivity at age 1. The Swedes tested five allergens, two of which were food allergens. The Cincinnati results, however, showed that 28.4 percent of infants born to "atopic" parents, defined as those with all...Early family experience can reverse the effects of genes, UCLA psychologists report
... that children who grow up in risky families often suffer lifelong health problems, including cancer, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, depression and anxiety disorders, as well as early death (Psychological Bulletin, March 2002, Vol. 128, No. 2, pp. 330366). A child's genetic predispositions ...Naked mole-rat unfazed by oxidative stress
...eorizes that the naked mole-rats in her laboratory suffer higher levels of oxidative stress than they would in their natural underground habitat, where they encounter much lower levels of oxygen. But this exposure at an early age may provide some protection against acute oxidative stress and may be of consi...New study aims to stop sepsis in its tracks
...ous implications for the thousands of patients who suffer from this infection," said NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. Every year, sepsis affects more than 700,000 Americans. About 30 percent of them die. Sepsis occurs when the body's normal reaction to an infection goes into overdrive, causing widespr...Urgent call to action issued to protect world's most vulnerable populations from influenza pandemic
... time, because it is inevitable that the poor will suffer most during a pandemic, it is especially unjust to also impose most of the burden of prevention upon them." Named for the Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, where international experts in economics, epidemiolog...International team analyzes human genetic variation in key immune region
...ing") in patients who receive organ transplants or suffer from autoimmune disease. Importantly, the researchers' data and analyses, which are made available online to the entire scientific community, provide the tools needed to begin the initial efforts toward identifying genetic risk factors in the MHC f...What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
... DNA damage and repair. Short-lived animals may suffer more damage to their genes and have a more difficu...nd, long-lived animals, including humans, not only suffer less DNA damage when exposed to damaging agents, they have a greater ability to repair the damage wh...Calcineurin helps newborns breathe easy
...hen it is born. As a result, many premature babies suffer from the potentially life threatening respiratory distress syndrome. The proteins that control the final stages of lung development have not been identified. Now, in a study appearing online on September 21, in advance of publication in the October...JCI table of contents: September 21, 2006
...hen it is born. As a result, many premature babies suffer from the potentially life threatening respiratory distress syndrome. The proteins that control the final stages of lung development have not been identified. Now, in a study appearing online on September 21, in advance of publication in the October p...Prenatal vitamins may reduce risk of brain tumors in children
...se to the time of conception seemed less likely to suffer medulloblastoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumors of the brain." While childhood brain tumors are, fortunately, relatively rare, medulloblastoma is the second most common brain tumor in children. Occurring in one in 20,000 children under age six...JCI table of contents: September 14, 2006
...tion, individuals with Kennedy disease often first suffer from muscle cramps. How the diseases progresses from muscle cramps to neuromuscular weakness is not clear. So, Andrew Lieberman and colleagues from the University of Michigan generated mice expressing the mutated form of human AR (AR113Q mice). In th...Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
...ry and trauma. Even though developing countries suffer more than developed countries from the medical problems targeted by regenerative medicine, "there has been no attempt to understand systematically how regenerative medicine could contribute to improving health in developing countries," the authors sa...Amgen launches Aranesp prefilled Sureclick autoinjector for treatment of anemia
...ten progresses over time. Patients with CKD often suffer from serious complications such as anemia, which occurs when failing kidneys no longer produce sufficient erythropoietin, a hormone that stimulates the production of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, a red, iron-ri...'Stress and the city': Urban birds keep cool
...use deleterious effects. Hence, wild animals would suffer from city life unless they adjusted their stress r...une, and brain functions. Thus, wild animals would suffer from city life unless they adjusted their stress response to the conditions in a city. Whereas chan...JCI table of contents: September 1, 2006
...ticular women who have gone through the menopause, suffer from osteoporosis -- a disease in which the bones become fragile and highly susceptible to fracture. Bone strength is naturally maintained by a group of hormones known as sex hormones (for example, estrogen). However, unnaturally high levels of these...Iron critical to ocean productivity, carbon uptake
...he ocean are iron-stressed, as well as which parts suffer from lack of nitrogen another key element to ocean productivity. "Nitrogen and phosphorus are nutrients that come up from the ocean bottom to feed the upper water column," Behrenfeld said. "Iron, on the other hand, can come from the deep or from the...Pest control research leads to pain control discovery
...e than 73 million patients. But many of the people suffer from pharmacological properties or side effects of the medications. Merck, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured and marketed Vioxx, a Cox-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), voluntarily pulled the pain killer from the mar......s but have more direct implications for people who suffer from ectodermal dysplasia - a range of conditions where skin cells fail to develop into other tissue, including hair follicles. "During human development, skin cells have the ability to turn into other types of cells to form hair follicles, sweat g...Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development
... The animal could well mature with this defect and suffer from reduced fertility. But it does not. Instead, they found that the ovary has a way to sense its lack of germ cells and steps up production. "Within three days, the ovary catches up; it then has enough germ cells," says Dr. Gilboa. "I had not a shr...