New study at UNC shows concussions promote dementias in retired professional football players
...skiewicz said. "Our data suggest that a history of recurrent concussions and probably sub-concussive contacts t...0,000 sport-related concussions, many of which are recurrent injuries, occur annually in the U.S. and more than 1.2 million Americans suffer head injury each yea...Biomarkers used to predict recurrent disease in hepatitis C transplant patients
...anism of liver disease, examining risk factors for recurrent HCV that might offer clues, as well as substances such as viral proteins and proteins secreted by liver cells. In particular, they cite their research on p21, a protein made in the liver, which showed that progression of fibrosis was related to the e...Sharper picture of major depression and alcohol disorders
...nce to alcohol. Alcohol abuse is characterized by recurrent drinking resulting in failure to fulfill major rol...bligations at work, school, or home; persistent or recurrent alcohol-related interpersonal, social, or legal problems; and/or recurrent drinking in hazardous sit...National funding goes to Johns Hopkins to advance research on stem cell therapies for heart attack
...United States, plus an additional 300,000 cases of recurrent heart attack. More than 3 million Americans suffer from congestive heart failure, a common target of the myoblast stem cell therapy. Myoblasts are the stem cells found in muscles....Cars, computer chips and heart attacks?
...sure that patients knew what to do in the event of recurrent cardiac symptoms, and knew what their plan for a follow-up appointment was once they went home. The new results are the first to show that this increased use of proven therapy and patient-involvement techniques can actually reduce the risk of death s...Hospitals that follow guidelines save lives
...le goals, and plans for what to do in the event of recurrent symptoms," he said. Joseph V. Messer, M.D., M.A.C.C., from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, who was not connected with this study, said the GAP project shows that modern medical care requires a systems approach. "The complexity of...Penn researchers discover a molecular pathway that leads to recurrence of breast cancer
...e mice. Using microarrays, Chodosh's team compared recurrent tumors with the original tumors from which they ar...ey found that a variety of genes were turned on in recurrent tumors that were not on in the original tumors, including the transcriptional regulatory protein, Sn...NIMH study to guide treatment choices for schizophrenia
...which affects 3.2 million Americans, is a chronic, recurrent mental illness, characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. The medications used to treat the disorder are called antipsychotics. Previous studies have demonstrated that taking antipsychotic medication is far more effective t...GroPep licenses technology to TGR BioSciences
... program on our most desirable products PV903 for recurrent miscarriage and PP0102 for psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases. This arrangement will allow continued development of the WGFE technology by a third party."Dr Leanna Read, Managing Director of TGR said "In addition to the oral mucositis project, t...Combination scanner may increase accuracy in detecting spread, recurrence of head, neck cancer
...ermining where we should pinpoint our biopsies for recurrent disease," said Dr. Carol Shores, assistant professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at UNC and the report's senior author. Shores is a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "We can pick up cancer where we thought none exi...Artemisinin-based therapy may not be the best treatment for uncomplicated malaria in Africa
...amine--had at least as good a chance of preventing recurrent malarial infection (defined as either new infections or the previous infection returning) compared with patients treated with artemisinin-based combination therapy. In the sites that had the highest transmission rates the cheaper combination worked b...Eight million dollar commitment to schizophrenia research
...les Minister for Health, Morris Iemma, announced a recurrent grant of $500,000 to NISAD to establish a Chair of Schizophrenia Research. NISAD will fundraise to bring the total figure to $1million per annum. In addition, over the next 5 years UNSW and POWMRI will contribute a further $3 million. Following a le...Minimally invasive solid tumor biopsy may replace surgery to get diagnostic specimens
...ich new chemotherapy agents are used for suspected recurrent tumor." Retroperitoneal refers to the membrane lining the abdomen that covers the internal organs. The only disadvantage to this technique is that there is only a small amount of tissue remaining for tumor banking (saving the tumor for future studies...Cranberry usage common for urinary tract infections
...their use of cranberry therapy in the treatment of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI). Patients ranged in... give their children cranberry products to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections," said Kemper. "We wanted to find out if we were right and if parents discu...Experts report dental X-rays effectively identify stroke risk factors
...us long-term disability. More than 750,000 new or recurrent strokes occur annually and treatment for strokes costs the U.S. $30 billion in medical expenses and lost productivity....Antidepressants may lower risk of recurrent heart attack in depressed heart attack patients
...), was associated with a reduced risk of death and recurrent heart attack, according to an article in the July ... minor depression. Depression is a risk factor for recurrent non-fatal heart attack and cardiac death in patients who experience an acute MI (AMI), independent o...Antidepressants lessen risk of heart attack, Stanford researcher says
...fered a heart attack appears to reduce the risk of recurrent events and cardiac death, according to a large, mu...heart attack patients is associated with death and recurrent heart attacks. Researchers launched the ENRICHD (ENhancing Recovery In Coronary Heart Disease) study...Children in chronic pain need better support, say researchers
...nd adolescents live with severely debilitating and recurrent pain but there is an "embarrassing" lack of data o...d adolescence that are characterised by chronic or recurrent pain," said Professor Eccleston. "Chronic pain in children is an important problem and more action i...Johns Hopkins scientists use gene therapy to prevent heart arrhythmias from stem cell transplants
...United States, plus an additional 300,000 cases of recurrent heart attack. More than 3 million Americans suffer from congestive heart failure, a common target of the myoblast stem cell therapy. In the study, Marbn and his team created a simulation of stem cell transplantation using healthy muscle cells taken ......d test for thyroid cancer can detect persistent or recurrent disease even before doctors can find any trace of ... After three to five years, the researchers found recurrent tumors in about 80 percent of the patients with Tg levels above 2.0, and in about 2 percent of those...