Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...eatment of ulcerative colitis, prolonged use often leads to insomnia, mood alterations, increased appetite, hypertension, osteoporosis and other adverse events. Adverse effects of corticosteroid use are a concern to physicians and lead to discontinuation of the therapy by many patients. However, more than...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
WHO: David L. Heymann, M.D., who leads the worldwide polio eradication effort for the World Health Organization (WHO) Robert A. Keegan, deputy director, Global Immunization Division, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Heidi J. Larson, Ph.D., senior advisor, Immunization...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...onal Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; leads efforts aimed at developing an HIV vaccine John B. Robbins, M.D., chief, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; has pioneered vaccines for diseases that are prevalent in infants a...Bacterial infection associated with heart attack in young men
...only as chlamydia. The pneumoniae species, though, leads instead to respiratory problems such as pneumonia, bronchitis, and sinus infection and is not sexually transmitted. It is a common illness--by age 30, half of people have evidence of previous C. pneumoniae infection. Researchers in Wisconsin and Mary...Breakthrough in national diseases
...this very way. The disease-associated gene variant leads to a reduction in the production of a number of immune defence proteins. Some viruses and bacteria have also been observed to influence the gene in an attempt to evade the immune defence system, a strategy employed, for example, by the viruses that c...Certain weight control behaviors may precipitate obesity among adolescent girls
...otonin that is usually inherent in depression also leads individuals to consume excessive amounts of carbohydrate-rich foods in an effort to regulate his or her serotonin levels. These foods can lead to gaining weight if one is not careful. Furthermore, an adolescent's perception of her parents' weight als...New recommendation encourages more activist approach to lung cancer screening
...results in the overdiagnosis of lung cancer, which leads to unnecessary procedures. However, more recent analyses of the data from those clinical trials show that overdiagnosis of lung cancer was minimal. Moreover, the data demonstrate that virtually all long-term survivors following the diagnosis of lung ...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
... the Weizman Institute of Science, Israel. Obesity leads to heightened levels of free fatty acids that are ...rovokes. The findings thus indicate that obesity leads to increased levels of free fatty acids that stimulate the secretion of insulin via GPR40 receptors,...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
...kage of blood back through the mitral valve, which leads to the heart's main pumping chamber. But it also changed the shape of that chamber, called the left ventricle, helping its muscular walls contract and pump blood better. All 25 patients had mitral valve regurgitation (leakage) as a result of distort...Cancer research could lead to improved detection methods
...es the cell's repair system, which fixes errors or leads damaged cells to die. "If, however, the overall pr...ad of carcinogens and the cell is not killed, this leads to multiplication of damaged cells which may develop in into a cancer. Identification of such damage...University of Nevada, Reno professor showcases 'mini' ion accelerator
...ons -- is nearly 17 miles in circumference. Cowan leads a team of approximately 65 at the Nevada Terawatt Facility, which houses a 2 trillion watt Z-pinch. The Terawatt team is bringing the Z-pinch together with a one-tenth-scale petawatt laser to create the only facility in the world with this capacity. ...Findings about anti-cancer agent could make it more effective
...nds to break, which is an important mechanism that leads to cell death," said Gmeiner. Knowing more about how the agent works means that doctors could combine it with other drugs to reach multiple treatment targets. For example, FdUMP[10] could possibly be used in combination with drugs that employ other ...Increasing benefit seen in novel drug that treats Gleevec resistance
...bl enzyme, shutting down its activity, which often leads to death of the leukemia cell. AMN107 is estimated to be up to 30 to 100 times more potent than Gleevec because it was designed to more efficiently bind to Bcr-Abl, including to mutated forms of the enzyme that can produce Gleevec resistance, Giles s...Short sugar chains-a future drug for Alzheimer's?
...mice were stimulated with a treatment that usually leads to rapid build-up of amyloid (AA amyloidosis) in several internal organs, including the liver, the kidneys, and the spleen. The heparanase-producing mice proved to be completely resistant to amyloidosis of the liver and kidneys, organs with pronounce...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...thood under-reporting (including memory failure) leads to underestimation of the extent of abuse, which currently is reported by 20 percent of women and 5 to 10 percent of men worldwide although official reports of child sex abuse have declined somewhat in the U.S. during the last 10 years, close to 90...Promising new West Nile therapy cures disease in mice
...will continue to aggressively pursue all promising leads for an effective treatment," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. Scientists do not know why some people infected with West Nile virus have no symptoms or a mild flu-like illness, while in others the virus invades the central nervous syste...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...r of Oncology and Physiology & Biophysics. Clarke leads a team of 15 researchers at Georgetown participating in what is dubbed "caBIG," or the "Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid" project, sponsored and funded by the National Cancer Institute. Currently, researchers work on projects that are often limited...New study shows simple actions wipe out huge higher heart risks for Asian diabetics
...earch has shown that such a drop in blood pressure leads to a 35% reduction in the risk of heart disease. The simple tools of this new pilot outreach effort to the UK Asians had thus, in just one parameter, almost completely wiped out the huge 40% increased risk of heart disease traditionally faced by that...Fatal brain disease holds clues to dementia
...that affects specific brain regions and inevitably leads to death. Symptoms range from disrupted control of movements and thought processes, and emotional problems. These include: jerky arm or leg movements; difficulties with speech, swallowing, concentration, memory and learning; and depression and person...'Fickle' enzyme helps protect, but also can promote heart failure, animal study shows
...ogether with NOS3, compensates for the damage that leads to heart failure. Funding for the two-year study came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Heart Association, the Peter Belfer Laboratory Foundation, the American Physiological Society and the Bernard Family Foundation. The le...