Urgent need for guidance on mobile phone use in clinical care
...he websites of key UK medical professional bodies, defence organisations and official regulatory bodies for appropriate guidance, and followed this up with an email or telephone call to ensure no important documents were overlooked. Guidance, where it existed, was found to be extremely limited in scope and...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
...hemselves against malaria and how HIV impairs this defence have been unknown, but a paper published in PLoS Medicine (Public Library of Science) pinpoints how the virus targets the immune response in pregnant women. "PAM can be a deadly condition that leaves mothers and their children particularly vulnerable...Tobacco companies admit their products cause cancer, but not in those who sue them
...caused by the particular product in question. The defence also argued that the presence of other risk factor...ntific proof to link cigarette smoking with cancer defence declined as companies began to publicly admit that smoking causes disease, starting in the late 1990...Funding to tackle hospital superbugs
...ified new pathways that enhance the bodies natural defence mechanisms to promote the clearance of infection. The new approach has been named "Resolution Therapeutics" by the Cardiff researchers. It is hoped that research in the School of Medicine will lead to the development of other drugs that modify ho...Predicting an answer to the threat of flooding
...this research will help inform investment in flood defence and drainage infrastructure, where new developments should be sited and, where necessary, evacuation planning. Developed by the multidisciplinary Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC), these animations are based not only on state-of-the...New findings could lead to vaccine for severe malaria
...ed several times can become partly immune as their defence system gradually starts to recognise the parasite's proteins. When the placenta is formed, however, a new environment is introduced with a different set of receptors. This means that a new growth niche is made available to a subpopulation of the para...New bird flu drug promises to beat the problem of resistance
...e. "Tamiflu and Relenza remain our best lines of defence against a flu pandemic, but we need to be working ...everity and duration of flu so that the body's own defence mechanisms, together with other medical interventions, can help aid recovery. However, the influen...Treatment for anorexia nervosa appears to have improved outcome
...The lead researcher, Prof. Arthur Crisp, argues in defence of the concept that anorexia nervosa is rooted in a biologically based avoidance behaviour, driven by a phobia of normal adult body weight. The seven papers, previously unpublished, derive from data collected between 1960-1995 by Prof. Crisp and a te...Researcher wins award from American Diabetes Association
...when those free radicals overwhelm the antioxidant defence system in cells and cause unwanted reactions with sensitive molecules (e.g. DNA). Beyond the direct cellular damage, oxidative stress also reduces the bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO). NO signals muscle within blood vessels to relax, widening the...Canadian researchers discover a natural defence mechanism for Alzheimer's disease
...r universitaire de Qubec) has discovered a natural defence mechanism that the body deploys to combat nerve ce...mer's disease, as they interfere with this natural defence mechanism. On the contrary, he adds, a way must be found to stimulate the recruitment of a greater n...UQ scientists break new ground in fight against infection & chronic disease
...l Science. It involves cells in the front line of defence against infection, called macrophages, releasing messengers to fight and kill disease-causing microbes. IMB researchers Professor Jennifer Stow, Dr Rachael Murray, Mr Jason Kay and Mr Daniele Sangermani discovered macrophages use a single pathway to...Molecular studies in cancer of the colon
...s the patient, and so our work should always be in defence of this. Another line of research involves haemato-oncological illnesses, such as leukaemias and lymphomas....... reduction in the production of a number of immune defence proteins. Some viruses and bacteria have also been...fluence the gene in an attempt to evade the immune defence system, a strategy employed, for example, by the viruses that cause AIDS, herpes and hepatitis. The ...