Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
...ramatic gains, liver damage --described as the new plague of the 21st century --has yet to be understood and in turn, to become treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure than do of cancer of the cervix. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54 dying of cirrhosis sin...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...ract infections and kidney problems that typically plague people with SCI. What's surprising and encouraging about the findings, said the researchers, is that electrically stimulating the pudendal nerve caused the urethral sphincter to function normally and to efficiently empty the bladder. Boggs, Grill and...New non-hormonal hot flash treatment set for clinical trial
...y supplement, to eliminate the sudden flushes that plague many postmenopausal women. The study is funded by a $665,550 grant from the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. Amino acids are the molecules that combine to make proteins, the body's bu...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage 'plague'
...ramatic gains, liver damage --described as the new plague of the 21st century --has yet to be understood and in turn, to become treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure than do of cancer of the cervix. "There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54 dying of cirrhosis sin...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
...ing other vector-borne diseases as well, including plague and West Nile virus." "The targeted vaccination of wildlife carriers could offer more far-reaching protection against vector-borne diseases than vaccinating humans," adds Alan Barbour, M.D., professor of microbiology and molecular genetics and medici...'Plague and Fire' a tale of public health, imperialism, race relations, catastrophe
...burning of Honolulu's Chinatown during the bubonic plague epidemic of 1900. "Plague and Fire: Battling Black...resorted to the use of fire for site burning where plague victims had died--fire was the only thing that they knew for certain would destroy any lingering bac...NIAID launches program to improve medical tools against emerging infectious diseases
...tmann, Ph.D. Focus: T-cell epitopes of anthrax and plague bacteria. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, J. Thomas August, M.D. Focus: T-cell epitopes of microbes that cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, dengue fever, yellow fever and other diseases. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Jeffrey...Minorities worry public health system won't respond fairly in a bioterrorist event
... Francisco's Chinatown in response to a cluster of plague cases--a move that a federal court in 1900 ruled as unfair, saying that the quarantine was based on ethnic bias. Health officials also unfairly distributed resources during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and in Baltimore, Jim Crow segregation laws ba...Mouse model mimics real-world plague infection
An experimental plague vaccine proved 100 percent effective when tested in a new mouse model for plague infection developed by scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), part of the National Institu...Mechanism leading to life-threatening infection identified by UCSD School of Medicine researchers
...m used by the bacteria that cause anthrax, bubonic plague and typhoid fever to avoid detection and destruction by the body's normal immune response leading to life-threatening bacterial infections has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. Pub...Sleep shortage takes toll on middle schoolers
Feelings of depression and low self-esteem plague children as they advance through middle school because they get increasingly less sleep, according to a new study of 2,259 Illinois students. "Sleep clearly played a significant role in predicting depressive symptoms and self-esteem during adolescen...Rabies remains a costly public health threat, says Jefferson virologists
...public health infrastructure and economic problems plague these areas, resulting in everything from uncontrolled, feral dog populations to out-of-date, unsafe vaccine preparations. Dr. Koprowski notes that the current worldwide shortage of rabies antibodies, normally produced from animal blood cells, is par...Regional consortium of universities chosen for biodefense initiative
...om potential bioterrorist agents such as smallpox, plague and anthrax, but also from naturally occurring emerging infections that so frequently jump from animals to man. SERCEB has organized a full continuum of resources, from basic scientists to those who can carry out clinical trials of developed vaccines...Most Canadian hospitals below recommended standards
...evastating to staff and patients) will continue to plague us unless improved infection control measures are put into place," he says. Statistics gathered by the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association of Canada, of which Dr. Zoutman is Physician Director, indicate that about 250,000 patients a ...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...arch confirm that motor deficits also continue to plague abstinent alcoholics. Furthermore, by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to "watch" brain regions involved in a simple motor task - finger tapping - the study has found that the brain appears to compensate for alcohol-induced damage ...Anti-bacterial spice that kills food germs on agenda for ACS meeting in New Orleans
...luids, and an enzyme that offers clues to fighting plague are among the topics to be covered at the American Chemical Society's 225th national meeting in New Orleans, March 23-27. Press registration is now open for members of the news media interested in attending the meeting. To sign up go to newsroom@ac...European seal plague may threaten population survival
...plore how the frequency and severity of these seal plague outbreaks affect population dynamics. They note that while it is generally believed that survivors develop a life-long immunity to PDV, they estimate that no more than seven percent of the current European harbor seal population is made up of survivo...Medieval black death not bubonic plague
...ic in the 14th century and the present day bubonic plague are the same, says Dr. James Wood, professor of an...ly associated with bubonic plague. Modern bubonic plague typically needs to reach a high frequency in the rat population before it spills over into the human...Air pollution causes healthy blood vessels to constrict
...urther research on the air pollution problems that plague most of the worlds major cities, Brook says. Our results are a clear demonstration that environmentally relevant concentrations of common air pollutants that can occur in urban settings adversely affect the blood vessels of healthy people, Brook sa...Women assaulted in military suffer depression, alcohol problems
...a national survey. Depression and alcohol problems plague these veterans. "The presence and magnitude of military-related sexual assault may be an issue not only of military and social concern, but also of importance to health care institutions and providers," said Cheryl Hankin, Ph.D., U.S. Department of V...