Science backs Cod Liver Oil as cure for arthritis
..., slows the progress of cartilage destruction that occurs in arthritis, reduces inflammation and thus lessens pain. He goes on to say, Two years ago, research teams led by Professor John Harwood and myself at Cardiff University reported findings suggesting that the Omega-3 fatty acids in Cod Liver Oil can ...Gene therapy to treat angina appears safe
...ited States. The condition, marked by chest pain, occurs when blood vessels cannot get enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart to meet the increased demand during physical exertion. The bodys first response to reduced blood flow to the heart, called ischemia, is to grow tiny new collateral blood vessels to ...Breaking down the walls of immunological ignorance
...at the CTLs remain ignorant of the antigen when it occurs in the latter context. Wilcox et al. find that this ignorant state can be overcome when the animals are provided not just the agonistic antibody, but also an antigenic peptide recognized by the tumor-specific CTL. Hence, they argue that either inadeq...Two viruses team up in West Nile vaccine
..., St. Louis encephalitis and other illnesses. WNV occurs in many parts of the world. In 1999, it arrived in New York to make its first North American appearance; infected birds have since been found as far west as Arkansas and Illinois. The virus can cause human illness, and although it usually causes on...Cocaine use associated with often fatal heart condition
...blood to the organs of the body. Aortic dissection occurs when the inner lining of the aorta, which has thre...wo weeks after the rupture. This condition usually occurs in older individuals with high blood pressure, and cocaine use is not a commonly recognized risk fac...Air pollution causes healthy blood vessels to constrict
... a lack of understanding as to how the association occurs physiologically. These findings suggest a possible reason why the rate of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events increases with exposure to air pollution for people with known heart and blood vessel disease, says Robert D. Brook, M.D., study ...Lethal heart condition traced to cocaine use
...t November. The condition called aortic dissection occurs when the lining of the aorta the major blood vess...d risk factor for aortic dissection, which usually occurs in older people with high blood pressure. However, researchers at San Francisco General Hospital no...Alcohol and nicotine: A deadly duo
...ine, and corresponding author for the study. This occurs prior to alcohols reaching the general circulation, including the brain, where it exerts its psychoactive effects. Because cholinergic blockade by mecamylamine would be expected to slow the normal movements of alcohol and other ingested substances t...Blood test for heart failure scores big in new study
...the United States. Congestive heart failure (CHF) occurs when the heart can't pump enough blood to supply the rest of the body. A key symptom is shortness of breath. The condition is different from heart attack, where the blood supply to the heart itself is restricted. CHF affects some 4.6 million Ameri...Implantable heart device reduces deaths by one-third
...s understood than other forms of heart disease. It occurs most often in men in their 60s, when the heart stops abruptly, usually as a result of an electrical malfunction due to rapid and chaotic rhythms from blockage of coronary arteries or scarring from a prior heart attack. Young adults with heart disease...Doubling of life expectancy over past two decades for people with Downs syndrome
...e (characterised by three copies of chromosome 21) occurs in around one in every 800 live births. It is the most frequently identified cause of mental retardation, but information about illness and causes of death in people with Downs syndrome is limited. Quanhe Yang and colleagues from the Centers for Dise...Bone loss resumes when hormone replacement therapy stops, but at normal rate
...steoporosis. It is a natural process of aging that occurs in women who do not start hormone replacement therapy, and was confirmed in the placebo arm of the PEPI study. "PEPI helped establish that estrogen can lead to short term increases in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women," Espeland said. ...New study says people take mental stress to heart
...ities in the hearts pumping during ischemia, which occurs when there is not enough blood flow in the coronary arteries. Radionuclide angiography involves injecting a dye to label red blood cells. This lets researchers view the working heart. Wall motion abnormalities are specific markers of ischemia, Shep...Iron supplementation enhances aerobic training in iron-depleted women
Iron deficiency without anemia occurs in about 12% of premenopausal women in the United States, and may negatively affect adaptation to aerobic training in women by reducing their endurance capacity. Brownlie et al., publishing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, investigated ...Hormone drug linked to increased prevalence of male genital disorder
...(a birth defect in boys where the urethral opening occurs on the underside of the penis or the scrotum) in sons of women who were prenatally exposed to DES. The investigators did a population study of around 8900 sons of over 16,000 women with fertility problems in The Netherlands. Mothers of 205 boys repor...Renal colic shows a circadian pattern
... pain in the back usually caused by kidney stones) occurs in a circadian pattern, finds a study in this weeks BMJ. Researchers reviewed all episodes of renal colic from 1990 to 1996 in the emergency department of St Anna Hospital in Ferrara, Italy. Over 3,400 episodes of renal colic were reported. Kidney st...The National Comprehensive Cancer Network recognizes National Cancer Fatigue Awareness Day
...a variety of factors. In cancer patients, it often occurs in the setting of normal serum iron levels and is associated with inappropriately low serum erythropoietin production. Symptoms of anemia in patients range from shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and dizziness to inability to concentrate, weakne...Simple blood test may be able to predict risk of preeclampsia
...th prematurity. It is estimated that preeclampsia occurs in 5 to 7 percent of pregnancies (more than 200,000 women in the U.S. every year) and is more common in women having their first pregnancy. While preexisting diabetes and high blood pressure have been identified as risk factors, standard treatments ......ing a portion of the brain, and hemorrhagic, which occurs when a blood vessel leaks or ruptures. The only approved therapy for acute ischemic stroke is a clot-busting (thrombolytic) drug either through the veins within three hours after the onset of symptoms, or by infusing it directly into a brain artery,...