Insomnia, falls in elderly linked
...ichigan Health System study suggests that the real culprit may be the underlying insomnia, rather than the medications used to treat it. Residents with untreated, or partially treated, sleeplessness have a much higher risk of falls than those who take sleep medications and get relief from their insomnia. Eve......mainly fructose and glucose, not sucrose, the main culprit in oral disease." In an earlier unpublished study, Wu's collaborator Shahrbanoo Fadavi, a pediatric dentist at UIC, found that adding raisins alone to bran cereal did not increase the acidity of dental plaque. Raisin bran cereal with added sugar, how...New food allergy research consortium focuses on peanut allergy
...ly life-threatening food allergies is to avoid the culprit food, often nuts or shellfish. But that may change as researchers in a new Food Allergy Research Consortium, announced today, strive to develop therapies to treat and prevent food allergy. The consortium, led by Hugh Sampson, M.D., at the Mount Sinai...New tools used to control foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions
...nvestigators identified green onions as the likely culprit in the outbreak by interviewing infected and uninfected restaurant patrons. In addition to these standard techniques, the researchers also compared viral RNA sequences from case patients and individuals concurrently ill with hepatitis A virus infect...Johns Hopkins researchers discover key protein linked to transverse myelitis and multiple sclerosis
... researchers say. "This is the first time a single culprit has been identified as causing a CNS autoimmune disease," said Kaplin. The researchers began investigating the protein IL-6 when they became aware that TM patients suffered from memory impairment and depression. IL-6 has been implicated in mood and ...New immune cell found to be a key to inflammatory diseases
...ng a novel type of "T helper" cell they say is the culprit for initiating chronic inflammation and autoimmunity in a variety of body tissues. This newly described T cell - which they call inflammatory TH cells (or THi) - produces interleukin 17 (IL-17), a potent cytokine that researchers have already linked ...Enzyme complex thought to promote cancer development can also help prevent it
...that leads to its phosphorylation - the well-known culprit Akt, an enzyme that has already been associated with cancer development. The findings explain not only why high levels of EZH2 (when bound to its partner proteins, such as EED) have been shown to identify people who have an aggressive, metasta...Mayo Clinic: Sinusitis is common yet often overlooked cause of chronic cough
...t sinusitis is often overlooked by physicians as a culprit in chronic cough. In addition, many patients in Dr. Lim's study had been told by their physicians to learn to live with their coughs. "It's also not unusual for chronic coughers to simply give up on getting a diagnosis and treatment for the underlyi...Scientists show how thinking can harm brain cells
...ty of Rochester Medical Center have targeted a new culprit and method of attack on neurologic functions in diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia associated with HIV. In an article in the Nov. 1 issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, the Rochester scientists describe a new mechanism by which brai...Gene increases risk of tuberculosis
...ed. Flores-Villanueva and colleagues show that the culprit behind the increased susceptibility to TB was a small change in the gene that encodes a protein called MCP-1 (the MCP-1 gene resides of chromosome 17). The genetic change was a tiny one, with the DNA sequence differing by only a single nucleotide (t...OHSU research reveals the complexities of obesity/cortisol interactions
... demonstrates that cortisol alone is not the major culprit in weight gain. Glucocorticoids are merely part of a chain of hormonal and neuronal signals associated with obesity." This research is being announced as the OHSU Center for the Study of Weight Regulation and Associated Disorders is moving into its...Progeria progress: Studies show how mutant protein hurts hearts
...esearch papers. "We now know there is a brand-new culprit molecule that plays a pivotal role in causing heart disease," Gordon said. "We know this is true with progeria. Now we can explore a bigger question: Does this molecule play the same role in heart disease in all of us?" A Brown Medical School graduat...How bad is malaria anemia? It may depend on your genes
...people worldwide who die each year of malaria. The culprit is a protein cells make in response to inflammation called MIF, which appears to suppress red blood cell production in people whose red blood cells already are infected by malaria parasites. The parasite that causes malaria - known as plasmodium - ......all RNA molecule, called a microRNA (miRNA) as the culprit that keeps the latent virus-infected cell alive. These findings could one day lead to a new way to fight the virus and offers the first target for intervention in the latent infection. A research team led by Nigel W. Fraser, PhD, Professor of Microbi...Mouse model aids discovery of novel melanoma metastasis gene
...uld be a daunting task to pinpoint the actual gene culprit among a large number of "bystander" gene abnormalities that may not be relevant to the cancer. For example, scientists had previously shown that the entire short arm of Chromosome 6, referred to as 6p, is amplified in more than 35 percent of cells...Diabetics see dramatic increase in lower limb amputations
...ut your pain." Common Warning Signs The frequent culprit of diabetic amputations is peripheral arterial disease (PAD), in which plaque blocks foot or leg arteries, resulting in pain, development of ulcers and onset of limb loss. According to the American College of Cardiology, common symptoms of PAD are: ...M. D. Anderson, BCM, launch research effort targeting asthma and allergic diseases
... of the immune system T cell known as Th2, a known culprit in the inflammation that causes chronic asthma. "Th2 is an important, heavily studied T cell that causes asthma," Liu said. "Our question is what induces and maintains Th2?" By nailing down the details of this process, the investigators expect t...Studies identify food sources of disease and drug resistance
...r illustrate the point, one adding a new bacterial culprit to the mix and the other showing that use of antibiotics as growth promoters in livestock increases the risk of antibiotic resistance in humans. In one study, investigators led by Katri Jalava, DVM, of the Finnish National Public Health Institute,...Proposal calls for sweeping changes at US Food and Drug Administration
...er managed. The only difference is the name of the culprit drug." Furberg and his colleagues recommend that Congress make five changes: "Give the FDA more direct legal authority to pursue violations." The FDA's own report says that drug companies committed to 1,231 post-marketing safety studies that are in...Columbia scientists present research findings at AHA Scientific Sessions
...research on the discovery of a potential molecular culprit for atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmias in the human heart, which can be a precursor for stroke. Dr. Kass has found evidence that hyper phosphorylation of the KCNQ1/KCNE1 potassium ion channel can predispose tissue to rapid and spo...