New treatment boosts muscle function in myasthenia gravis
...cific proteins. This is the first time weve been able to show that antisense is effective and safe when taken orally for a neurological disease, said study author Zohar Argov, MD, with Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem and member of the American Academy of Neurology. Oral delivery ...RAND finds cases of undiagnosed diabetes drop sharply
...portant health disparities that affect those least able to deal with them, Smith said. The study also found the rate of growth of diabetes prevalence is not as high or as dramatic as often projected. Smith found that during the period studied, the proportion of men diagnosed with diabetes jumped from ab...Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...ic, M.D., Ph.D., the leader of the team. If we are able to lower the levels of amyloid-beta circulating in blood by sequestering more of it there, then the brain should follow and lower its levels too. This is exactly what we found. The team concentrated its efforts around a protein known as sLRP (solub...MRI finds breast cancer before it becomes dangerous
...gmas. Firstly, it was always said that MRT was not able to find early stages of breast cancer in the milk ...ingly there are too few radiologists who have been able to gain sufficient experience with this specific application,' she says. In order to evaluate the MR...Investigators uncover intriguing clues to why persistent acid reflux sometimes turns into cancer
...esting that the normal squamous cells might not be able to divide anymore, so they die out, Dr. Spechler said. The second paper suggests that the bone-marrow cells may then come and take their place, giving rise to the intestinal cells instead of the normal, skin-like cells. Further research will be nee...New study shows promise in reducing surgical risks associated with surgical bleeding
...safe and effective because it means that we may be able to avoid using blood or blood products from other people or animals and automatically diminish the risk of infection and the associated immunologic responses that have been noted in the past. The randomized, double-blind comparative study included ...NIH scientists target future pandemic strains of H5N1 avian influenza
...rowly on mutations that render H5N1 viruses better able to recognize and enter human cells. Bird-adapted H5N1 binds bird cell surface receptors. But these receptors differ slightly from the receptors on human cells, which in part explains why bird-adapted H5N1 can infect but not spread easily between huma...UCLA researchers awarded $9M contract for study identifiying antibiotic treatment for MRSA
...s diseases at Olive ViewUCLA. We are hopeful to be able to identify the most effective antibiotic treatment for these infections. Last year, the research team reported in The New England Journal of Medicine that CA-MRSA had become the most common cause of skin and soft tissue infections among patients ...Most seniors now have drug coverage, U-M study shows
...ur findings suggest that older Americans have been able to make good choices," said U-M economist David We... Health and Retirement Study, the researchers were able to go beyond the official statistics to show that rich and poor were equally likely to sign up for P...Galileo to support global search and rescue
... detecting distress signals. However, they are not able to automatically determine the location of the distress beacon as the low-Earth orbit system does. They have to rely on the beacon to use a navigation system to find its position and include it in the distress call. Emergency beacons need to have ...Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests
...ing blood and muscle samples, the researchers were able to measure the rate at which a particular individuals body built muscle protein. During the five hours after the young and elderly volunteers ate the beef, both groups muscle protein synthesis increased by 50 percent. Weve done studies in the past ...Penn researchers discover novel pathway for increasing 'good' cholesterol
...l (HDL-C). The pathway by which these proteins are able to achieve an increase in HDL cholesterol involves another enzyme that normally degrades HDL-C, and was also discovered at Penn. The newly recognized relationship between these enzymes and cholesterol represents another target for ultimately controll...Researchers find vitamin B1 deficiency key to vascular problems for diabetic patients
...thiamine deficient in blood plasma. They were also able to solve the mystery of what was happening to thiamine in diabetic patients and connect it more closely to vascular complications in diabetic patients. In a paper entitled "High prevalence of low plasma thiamine concentration in diabetes linked to ...Geriatric health conditions have major effect on half of all seniors
...bout these issues. In many situations, they may be able to help manage the condition before it leads to disability. In the medical world, experts have debated how to categorize conditions such as the ones in this study. Some are called geriatric syndromes, while others fall outside of categories typical...New research discovers independent brain networks control human walking
...ile those with damage to the cerebellum are rarely able to. This body of work sheds light on the specificity of walking adaptations and demonstrates that patients with certain types of brain damage can store a new walking pattern in the short term. Based on these findings, Bastians goal is to learn how ...Metabolic study in mice could lead to 'good cholesterol' boosters
...g levels of the enzyme in both directions, we were able to reduce HDL-C to almost nothing or double it. That wide range of effects suggests that it may be theoretically possible to manipulate good cholesterol levels to whatever point you like. He emphasized, however, that the new findings represent basi...Parents' depression can weigh on children
...ing supportive parents is vital for children to be able to make the lifestyle changes needed to lose weigh...e struggling, they may have less energy and not be able to provide the emotional support an overweight child needs or help organize play dates and exercise ...Study reveals gaps in vaccine financing for underinsured children
... The researchers found that many states were not able to provide state-purchased vaccines for underinsur...ne. This meant that underinsured children were not able to receive state-purchased vaccine in either the private or public sectors in these states. None of ...Study suggests nonpharmaceutical interventions may be helpful in severe influenza outbreaks
...ffective vaccines nor antivirals, cities that were able to organize and execute a suite of classic public health interventions before the pandemic swept fully through the city appeared to have an associated mitigated epidemic experience, the authors write. Our study suggests that nonpharmaceutical inte...Michigan-CDC study supports value of social restrictions during influenza pandemics
...ective vaccines nor antiviral medicines, they were able to organize and execute a suite of classic public health measures called non-pharmaceutical interventions or NPIs before the pandemic gained full force. The new study finds that cities whose NPIs were sustained and layered with multiple tactics ...