Heart disease associated with oral health
...or pro-inflammatory cytokines from the periodontal lesions into the blood stream....Vaccine nips breast cancer in the bud
... primary vaccine. Both morphologic analysis of the lesions and microarray analysis of gene expression in para...tion halted carcinogenesis and reverted neoplastic lesions to an early stage. This study highlights the potential of a combinatorial approach to vaccination fo...Studies focus on vascular spasm as a common cause of cardiomyopathy
...f six months, these mice develop extensive cardiac lesions that resemble small heart attacks. The researchers suspected that pockets of mild, early cellular damage caused by the membrane defect actually caused nearby blood vessels to spasm, which led to localized damage and even death of heart muscle. They ...Effectiveness of safer smallpox vaccine demonstrated against monkeypox
...ng the monkeys, researchers examined the number of lesions that formed on the animals' skin and the amount of... no signs of disease, except for a small number of lesions seen on several monkeys from the MVA-only group. The unvaccinated monkeys, however, had more than 50...Study suggests brain haemorrhage in babies over age one month unlikely from traumatic delivery
...n of the haematoma in all babies. Therefore, these lesions seem to be benign, clinically asymptomatic, and of no long-term importance. The medico-legal implications for the finding of asymptomatic isolated subdural haemorrhages in infants older than 4 weeks of age, in whom there is suspicion of non-accidenta...'Switched-off' genes put first chink in colon cell's anti-tumor armor
...lyps or cancer). Approximately 5 percent of these lesions become colon cancers. "The colon cancer process m...oci," Baylin explains. "Then, some of these early lesions may acquire mutations in the WNT pathway that push the cell into growth overdrive, failure to die pr...Study finds fewer, but more advanced, colon cancers in postmenopausal women on E&P hormone therapy
... the hormone treatment only prevents pre-cancerous lesions from progressing," she said. "Study participants weren't screened for colon cancer when they entered the study, and colon screening wasn't part of the WHI activities, so we don't know if those who were diagnosed with colon cancer during the study al...Vitamins good for some older women/bad for others
...zing clues, Levy says. Arteries get narrower when lesions build up inside blood vessel walls. Researchers think these lesions are caused in part by an oxidative, or degrading, process that scavenges the buildup of "good" chole...Australian 'mud football' game sickens players
...me infected with A. hydrophila, causing pus-filled lesions to develop at the wound sites. Several players also experienced headaches, fever, rashes, muscle soreness, nausea and a feeling of general illness. A. hydrophila is resistant to penicillin and other commonly used antibiotics. Once the cause of th...Hopkins' young researchers honored for their contributions
...tions begin to appear in small polyps or adenomas, lesions that may become cancerous in 10 to 20 years. "We found that cyclin E levels rise in colon cancer cell lines with inactivated hCDC4 because the mutated hCDC4 protein can't bind to cyclin E, but these cell lines also gain and lose chromosomes much fas...Changes in ovaries could indicate higher risk of ovarian cancer
...eded for early detection. The study, "Premalignant lesions in the contralateral ovary of women with unilateral ovarian carcinoma," conducted by physicians at Temple University's School of Medicine and Temple University Hospital, compared the healthy ovaries of women with ovarian cancer to ovaries in women wi...OHSU researchers, collaborators make recommendations to self-treating physicians
... shift in her hospital. When the report showed two lesions in the liver, the physician nearly went into hysterics. Other physicians got into problems following their physicians' advice even when it went against their own medical instincts. One physician reflected that he didn't think the needle biopsy do...Damage to brain vessels increases the chance of dementia and depression
...The damage is visible on MRI scans as white matter lesions and infarcts of the brain. Elderly people with ser...tion was worse in the group with more white matter lesions and infarcts. This group also had an increased risk of developing dementia and depression. Over a p...'Virtual colonoscopy' techniques and training need to be improved before widespread clinical use
...of CTC for detecting participants with one or more lesions sized at least 6 mm was only 39 percent and for lesions sized at least 10 mm, it was only 55 percent. These results were significantly lower than those for...Insights from intravascular ultrasound explore treatment benefits
...r proliferation signal inhibitor, reduced coronary lesions of patients with established cardiac allograft vasculopathy. In this small trial, there was suggestion of a plaque regression in those treated as compared with conventional immunosuppressive regimens. During the panel discussion, following the pre...Blood pressure drug helps delay ischemic brain damage in stroke patients
...op or delay the progress of further ischemic brain lesions in stroke patients according to research that will...ite matter lesions. The prevalence of white matter lesions increases with age, is strongly associated with hypertension, and has been shown to increase the ris...Bone implants could aid healing after tooth removal
...injury and cancer patients who have had large bony lesions in the jaw surgically removed," Mikos said....PET scanning promising in diagnosing cancer-related neurological disorders
...successfully yielded a high proportion of relevant lesions that were undetectable by alternative diagnostic means," reports Allder. Results of this study indicate that PET is an appropriate, promising tool for patients with undiagnosed paraneoplastic neurological disorders....Combination PET/CT should be used to determine stage of non-small cell lung cancer
...rectly identified 94 of 100 (94 percent) malignant lesions (tumors) in patients, but only eight of 22 (36 percent) of lumps that were not cancerous. The technique correctly identified the stage of cancer in 61 of 100 patients (i.e., 56 with stage N0, two with N1 and three with N3). However, combination PET/...Mayo researchers invent targeted imaging probe to aid early Alzheimer's diagnosis
...sonance imaging) pictures of the destructive brain lesions that cause Alzheimer's disease. This advance using... in" and target the brain regions that contain the lesions known as amyloid plaques. Second, the probe's novel chemical profile enables it to cross the blood-b...