Dietary bioflavonoids induce DNA breaks, may contribute to infant leukemia
...ia can result when these normal DNA breaks are not properly reconnected, part of topo-II's mission. MLL is a promiscuous gene. Once broken, it can reconnect with any of more than 40 other genes in a translocation, a process that involves an exchange of DNA between two chromosomes. Extensive recombinatio...Study shows women more likely to have severe arthritis, less likely to undergo surgery
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Safety experts are calling for all children to be properly restrained on flights. Researchers at The Cranfi...rash-landed at Charlotte, North Carolina. A mother properly belted in her seat received only slight injuries but her unrestrained 9-month-old baby received mass...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... and that the change prevents affected people from properly processing sensory information from their environment. Pericak-Vance, director of the Duke Center for Human Genetics and lead investigator of the autism genetic studies at Duke, and her team located defects in tiny sections of chromosomes 15 and 7....Colorado most dangerous state in nation for avalanche fatalities
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...ind other genetic switches that, in the absence of properly functioningMECP2, can serve to switch off the necessary genes. Noting the potential of the discovery, NICHD Director Dr. Alexander saidthat the Institute would immediately seek grant applications to conduct studiesof how to manipulate the gen...You have to break a few (hundred) eggs to make a good crystal
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...y a small percentage of people with narcolepsy are properly diagnosed. TheWake Up to Narcolepsy initiative is...condition so that it canbe correctly diagnosed and properly treated. "Most people with narcolepsy are unaware they have a specific, treatable medicalcondition. ...Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
... after bypasssurgery. Other patients are not being properly informed about the risk factorsthat lead to secondary episodes of heart disease. Patients do not spontaneouslymodify their risk factors after bypass surgery, so health care providers at alllevels need to inform patients about their risk for subsequen...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
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...HD. What does that mean -- are these childrenbeing properly diagnosed, and what are the outcomes of treatment with thesedrugs?" Should physicians have the freedom to prescribe "off-label," which, in the caseof SSRIs, means children younger than 18 years of age? "I think they should,"Rushton says. "But, as wit...Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases For New Breast Cancer Biopsy
... one or more in 10 women will notget their disease properly staged, nor will they get the proper chemotherapyregimen up front." "Specifically, I think it's imperative that a woman ask her surgeon how many ofthese biopsies have you done and what is your false negative rate?" Ollila adds."I've done more than 12...Anabolic Steroids May Help Dialysis Patients Fight Fatigue And Gain Lean Body Mass
...procedure employed when a patient's kidneys cannot properly clean theblood of toxins and waste products. A patient's blood is removed from the bodyvia a tube inserted in a vein, filtered by a dialysis machine, and thenreplaced. Typically, this process must be repeated three times a week and takesthree to fou...