Molecular medicine comes to the rescue
...cells in the pancreas and destroys them. Patients lose the ability to make their own insulin. They have to restrict their diets, check their blood-glucose levels up to a dozen times a day, and give themselves frequent insulin shots. Some, like Lilly, wear external insulin pumps. The pumps reduce the...Molecule helps cells plug leaks following lung injury
...a -- cells that line the blood vessels in the lung lose their ability to form a barrier, allowing fluid to seep into the lung's air spaces and resulting in respiratory failure. Such damage is a significant cause of death in critically ill patients. Very little is known about how the lung repairs this li...Nearly nine of 10 who seek individual market health insurance never buy a plan
...and their families are being squeezed. When people lose coverage, many who turn to the individual insurance market find that coverage is unobtainable or unaffordable. The report also finds that those with high-deductible health plans are more likely than those with lower deductibles to have burdensome med...Penn critical-care physicians recommend strategies when facing requests to end supplemental oxygen
...cer-related diseases. Many of these patients would lose consciousness and die within hours or even minutes if their supplemental oxygen was withdrawn." Advances in medicine have made it so that many more patients with end-stage diseases are living longer, and now the technology is available to provide hi...Jefferson scientists find boosting protein levels staves off heart failure
...e past in knockouts, and the transgenic mice never lose anything," Dr. Koch says. According to Dr. Koch, while he and his co-workers will continue to pursue new strategies using gene therapy to manipulate S100A1 levels for treating heart failure, he notes that the current study also provides insights in...St. Jude finds clues to hearing loss from chemotherapy
... more of a variety of mutations that cause them to lose the ability to hear high-frequency sounds, according to Jian Zuo, Ph.D., associate member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology. Zuo is senior author of a report on this work that appears in the October issue of Hearing Research. T...Decision-making impairment appears greater in alcoholics with coexisting personality disorders
...ted that individuals with lesions in these regions lose the ability to make advantageous decisions, reflected by severe social behavioral problems and impaired performance on decision-making tasks such as the Iowa Gambling Task, which was originally designed to study decision-making in neurological patien...Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach
...MD is a devastating disease where sufferers slowly lose central vision making reading and most day-to-day activities virtually impossible. The main risk factors for the disease are age and heritance but it is also linked to controllable factors such as poor diet, smoking and obesity. "Having their macul...AIDS study challenges conventional treatment guidelines for HIV patients
...l for determining the rate at which he or she will lose infection-fighting CD4 cells than previously thought. HIV targets CD4 cells, a type of white blood cell, and as they decline after HIV infection, the complications that characterize the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) become more common....Women given liver transplants outlive male recipients by around 4 years
...le tend to live longest of all, they also stand to lose more years of their life compared with those who have not had liver transplants, the research shows. The research team assessed the life expectancy and years of life lost of 2702 people who had received a liver transplant between 1985 and 2003, and...Researchers seek to design first treatment for neuroAIDS
...age before combination therapy, they now gradually lose attention span, memory, speaking ability and decis...ycled. Furthermore, nerve cells exposed to HIV may lose their ability to pass on nerve signals long before the virus causes them to self-destruct. To protec...Use, as well as 'meth mouth,' on the rise
... Cert.Orofacial Pain. He also says that many users lose interest in maintaining good oral hygiene habits, and will stop brushing and flossing their teeth. Eric Z. Shapira, MS, DDS, MAGD, MA and AGD spokesperson explains, "Meth users have no sense of time or the importance of helping themselves, especia...Read my lips: Not all fillers are safe for lip augmentation, rejuvenation
...nt larger, sexier lips. As people age, their lips lose fullness which makes them appear older. While injectable fillers can combat aging around the lips and mouth, not all are created equal some can even lead to long-lasting complications, say presenters at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASP...Obesity tied to higher risk of complications in spinal surgery, Jefferson neurosurgeon finds
... disease and diabetes, now comes another reason to lose weight: being obese may contribute to a greater likelihood of complications in delicate spine surgery. John Ratliff, M.D., assistant professor of neurological surgery and orthopedic surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University ...Smoking ban associated with rapid improvement in health of bar workers
...smoke-free laws will cause bars and restaurants to lose money. Using sales tax and other objective financi...onstrate that bars, restaurants, and hotels do not lose revenue after becoming smoke-free. In fact, some of these studies actually show a growth in income. ...Daily weighing and quick action keeps pounds off
...nlike other obesity studies, which focus on how to lose weight, the clinical trial called STOP Regain test...ming back - regardless of what method they used to lose the weight in the first place. Led by Rena R.Wing, PhD, Director of the Weight Control and Diabetes...Campaigns on young people's weight miss point, says research
Campaigns that try to get young people to lose weight by focusing on their dissatisfaction with t...ional poster giving them specific advice on how to lose weight. Seventy-five per cent of those who had drawn the picture of themselves, and who had there...Small but substantial proportion of surgeons interested in part-time training
... sacrifice quality of life, academic medicine will lose both women and men if greater work balance is not achievable."......ch is lung cancer. Therefore, smokers should never lose their incentive to quit smoking." "Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer and chronic lung diseases in the world. Although statins may reduce the incidence of lung damage in smokers, patients must still be urged to stop smoking as the be......ts, a considerable amount of patients with SHF may lose access to medications. Heart Murmurs More Common in Women (Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 2:30 PM EST) More than half of heart murmurs are innocent in origin and more prevalent in women, according to a new study out of the University of California, ...