New gene therapy promising for treating Fabry disease
...tion of Fabry disease, an inherited disorder whose sufferers have a life expectancy of only 40 to 50 years. Fabry disease is one of about 40 lysosomal storage disorders that collectively affect approximately one in 7,700 people. Due to genetic defects, Fabry patients have a buildup of lipids (fats) in endothe...Random gene activation helps ulcer bug escape immune system
...ntibiotics, but treatments are too costly for many sufferers in underdeveloped nations, where the bacteria's pervasiveness and poor sanitation significantly increase the risk of repeat infections. In addition, resistance to standard drug therapies is a major problem in these countries. The study appears in the...'Lighter than air' breathing more than doubles COPD patients' exercise endurance
...d. (Nov. 29, 2004) It certainly makes sense: COPD sufferers have varying degrees of serious breathing difficulties, which keeps them from almost any kind of exercise, especially in advanced stages. So maybe "lighter than air" air would be easier to breath, reduce shortness of breath and perhaps even allow the...Gene therapy reduces skin cancer to sunburn in mouse model
...ith a 10,000-fold increase in cancer risk, many XP sufferers eventually succumb to tumors at an early age. Mice with mutations in the gene Xpa suffer from XP and develop cancerous lesions on their skin within three weeks after UV light exposure. Dr. Errol Friedberg, professor and chair of pathology at UT S...Fewer calories may slow Alzheimer's
...n the hippocampus and frontal cortex ofAlzheimer's sufferers - areas responsible for memory. In the diet-restricted mice, both the amount and size of plaque wasabout 50 percent less than in mice that ate as much as they wanted. "The power of this study is that two different sets of [human] familymu...Researchers identify gene that plays major role in age-related blindness disease
...ause of blindness in the developed world, and most sufferers are older than 60. It causes a loss of the central visual field necessary for detailed sight, reading, driving, sports participation and watching TV and movies. A characteristic of AMD (both the "dry" and wet forms) is the build up of fatty deposits ...Employee with sleeping disorder has to work extra hard
...e level was probably not visible because the sleep sufferers invest extra energy in carrying out a task. Research psychologist Michel Varkevisser investigated how sleeping problems affected the performances of employees under both laboratory and field conditions. In contrast to earlier findings, Varkevisser f...The relationship between lawns and allergies and asthma
...e most aggravating types of mold spores for asthma sufferers come from the fungal genus Alternaria, a member of the family Dematiaceae, which are recognized by their dark coloration, Williams said. Fungi reproduce by means of spores, microscopic structures that contain the main allergenic irritant. Dematiaceae...... Welsh national flower, which could offer hope for sufferers of Alzheimer's disease, is being supported for large scale manufacture by Cardiff University's Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC). Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, making up 55 per cent of all cases of dementia. Dementia a...Researchers gain support from Merck Sharp & Dohme for novel area of diabetes research
... of the world with the largest numbers of diabetes sufferers were India with 35.5 million, China with 23.8 million and the United States with 16 million , with at least that same number in the European Union. In Europe, an estimated 22.5 million patients are believed to have diabetes. At least 50% of all peopl...Prozac improves learning and memory in fatal brain disease
...an actually be delayed, which brings great hope to sufferers of Huntington's disease. Recent studies by Dr Hannan's group have also shown that mice with Huntington's disease actually display cognitive problems before the disease's typical movement problems appear. These results were recently been published ...Researchers reveal basis for debilitating hereditary disease
...efective causes an inherited disease that afflicts sufferers with severe abdominal pain, psychiatric symptoms, skin fragility, and light sensitivity. "Unless prompt and appropriate treatment is given, hereditary coproporphyria can very quickly turn into a life-threatening medical emergency," said C. S. Raman, ...ECCO 13 - Chernobyl legacy sheds light on link between thyroid cancer and radiation exposure
...enetic mutations found in childhood thyroid cancer sufferers born before and after the accident and assess the link to radiation exposure or patient age at diagnosis. Overall, 52 cases of PTC were studied, using tissue obtained from the Chernobyl Tissue Bank. These cases were split into four groups matched ac...ECCO 13 explores issues in cancer patient management
..., yet the attitudes and preferences of male cancer sufferers have thus far been overlooked. To redress this balance, UK investigators assessed the attitude of male urological cancer patients towards female physicians, nurses and chaperones. The results revealed that a minority of male patients (11% with prosta...ECCO 13 offers new insights into patients' perceptions of cancer
... reporting they felt it had been unhelpful. Cancer sufferers who opted to utilise alternative approaches were more likely to be younger, female and educated to a higher level. 45% of CAM users since diagnosis had breast cancer, compared with only 17% of non-CAM users. In terms of the actual pattern and type of...Discovering the first steps in transcription-coupled repair
...by window filters and protective clothing, many XP sufferers can lead seemingly normal lives. XP results from m... in the first year of life. As they grow older, CS sufferers look increasingly aged, with faces marked by sunken eyes. Average life expectancy is only 12 years a...New study to find cause of former President's hand disease
A crippling condition that can result in sufferers losing their fingers is to be investigated by scientists in one of the most detailed studies into the genetic causes of the disease ever carried out. Dupuytren's disease or contracture, a condition that affects the hands and sometimes the feet and pe...Feeling fat in the festive season? It's all in your mind
...ht on anorexia and body dysmorphic disorder, where sufferers are overly concerned by a small or imagined defect in their body, and frequently overestimate or underestimate their actual body size. The study, led by Dr Henrik Ehrsson of the UCL Institute of Neurology, used the Pinocchio illusion in combination...Accentia Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. launches CRSFungal Profile
...sitis is extremely debilitating to the millions of sufferers worldwide. The improvements in diagnostic testing will make it easier for the practitioner to appropriately treat these patients," said Dr David Sherris, Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Buffalo. "In clinical studie......s in the gene encoding the paraplegin protein. HSP sufferers are ultimately confined to a wheelchair, and currently there is no cure for the disease. In the current study, Rugarli and colleagues have shown that a one-time delivery of normal paraplegin by a viral vector to the spinal motor neurons of mice with ...