Transgenic mice aid research into deadly cancer
... half of all childhood cancers in Africa, where it affects about two out of 100,000 children every year. Incidence in Western countries is much lower, but has been on the rise with the spread of AIDS, since the cancer also strikes adults with compromised immune systems. NIAID is a component of the NIH. NIA...Study published in JAMA supports an alternative treatment approach in Parkinson's disease
...ain their motor function." Parkinson's disease affects approximately one percent of people aged 60 and over, though it can strike younger people, for a total of approximately one million people in the United States. The nature and severity of symptoms, which include tremor, muscle rigidity, slowed motio......hritis impacts more than just the joints. It also affects physical function and quality of life, and therefore is associated with non-arthritis related healthcare utilization," said co-investigator Joshua J. Ofman, M.D., M.S.H.S., from Cedars-Sinai. "We need to quantify the hidden aspects of health care ut...GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
...ent and private sector statistics. Lupus primarily affects women, many of whom experience the initial onset in their late teens and early twenties. In lupus, the body develops antibodies that react against a person's normal tissue, which can lead to inflammation, arthritis pain, tissue injury and major ...FDA awards grant to metaphore pharmaceuticals to study septic shock in humans
... two key biological markers, one of which directly affects blood pressure, to see if what happens among human subjects correlates with the phenomenon they observed in recent animal studies. Findings of those studies, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in August, confirmed th...How to spot drugs that misfire
...xplains the long-standing mystery of why oestrogen affects cell division. "It's been doing this for years, and no one knew why," says Dahiyat. The new technique allows millions of different proteins to be generated, each one tagged to the gene that made it. So far Xencor has only tried the technique wit...Survey finds chronic pain sufferers unsatisfied with pain treatments
... that their family doesntunderstand how their pain affects their life. Forty percent of patients surveyed ar...patients (56 percent). They also report that pain affects their overall mood, (51 percent), ability to drive (30 percent), ability to have sexual relations (2...Researchers identify new genetic risk factor for HIV infection
...tudy offers the first genetic evidence that RANTES affects the risk of HIV transmission," says Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). "It also adds to the evidence that RANTES can slow the progression to AIDS in HIV-positive individuals, le......dy from the Institute of Psychiatry, schizophrenia affects the mental and physical well being of caregivers from its earliest stages. The findings, published in the December issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, are being used by the researchers to develop new strategies to support carers to prevent th...Sustained use of anti-depressants increases cell growth and protects cells in the brain
...ess, a study by Yale researchers shows. Depression affects an estimated 12 percent to 17 percent of the population at some point during their lifetime. Anti-depressants are commonly prescribed for depression and other affective disorders, but the drugs therapeutic effects on the molecular and cellular level ...More evidence that soy may reduce breast cancer risk
...cal method of gathering information about how diet affects health and disease, according to Franke. "We wanted to improve this situation by measuring biomarkers that give better information about potential biological effect and health benefits of specific phytochemicals (molecules in plants) and food groups,...Researchers identify promising target to slow Alzheimer's
... promising targets for treating the disease, which affects an estimated 4 million people in the United States. Unless better treatments are found, that figure is predicted to rise to 14 million later this century, says Butterfield, who calls Alzheimer's a potential public health crisis. More than 8,000...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
...athy of prematurity (ROP), a blinding disease that affects premature, low birthweight infants. ROP spurs the...n infants and young children." Each year ROP affects an estimated 14,000-16,000 premature, low birthweight infants in the United States and thousands mor......taracts which cause more blindness overall, mainly affects the older generation, notes 4 Sight program Director, Maureen G. Maguire, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Health System Professor of Ophthalmology. The 4 Sight program, the first of its kind in the nation, seeks to recruit diabetics to participate ...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...neering program. "I try to learn how the workplace affects workers and how to design workstations to maximize work capacity and minimize risk," he says. Theres evidence of an intriguing twist to the fact that muscle strength is diminished with age, Nussbaum notes. As we age, we also develop more enduranc...Area of brain found to play key role in initiating memory storage
...nificance of the events in a decoding process that affects both learning and memory. Our data show that a disabled amygdala leads to a breakdown of learning-related changes in other parts of the brain, said Michael Gabriel, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advance...Hand size counts in safe handgun use
...andgun (leftward for a right-handed person), which affects accuracy, even if she tries to compensate. The other bad choice is to rotate her hand around the handgun so the distal pad of the index finger is properly placed on the centerline of the trigger. In this position, the center of the backstrap rests ag...Widely used anti-bacterial inhibits parasites that cause malaria and toxoplasmosis
...e available drugs, and there is no medication that affects the latent life-cycle stages of the parasite that ...ts of the University of Strathclyde, UK. Malaria affects more than 300 million people worldwide and kills an estimated 3,000 people, mostly children, each da...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...respiratory distress and apnea. The gene mutation affects the enzyme that produces acetyl choline, the chemical that transmits impulses from nerve to muscle, so that the mutated enzyme becomes inefficient or is not produced in adequate amounts. While this form of CMS is rare, it often results in sudden deat......enium in beef, since not every form of the mineral affects humans in the same way. "If nutritional experiments that we are currently conducting show the selenium in beef to have similar biological properties to other forms of selenium, then beef produced in these (high selenium) areas could conceivably be ma...