Microscopic scaffolding offers a 'simple' solution to treating skin injuries
...nary dissolvable scaffold for growing new areas of skin could provide a safer, more effective way of treat...r. Before it is placed over a wound, the patient's skin cells (obtained via a biopsy*) are introduced and attach themselves to the scaffold, multiplying unt...Identification of role for proteins in children's muscle disease could open up new treatment options
...ry process of the blood vessels that lie under the skin and muscles. Some of the symptoms include skin changes around the eyelids and over the knuckles and finger joints, as well as weakness in muscles, ...Don't use mobile phone during storms, warn doctors
... struck by lightning, the high resistance of human skin results in lightning being conducted over the skin without entering the body, explain the authors. This is known as flashover and has a low death rate....Cancer drug is first to alleviate devastating scleroderma symptoms
...tissues and especially the lungs. Hardening of the skin is one of the most visible effects of the disease....nction, quality of life, functional disability and skin thickness. This is the first controlled clinical trial to show a positive treatment for scleroderma ...Media availability: Drug found to help scleroderma patients
...which fibrous tissue grows abnormally, causing the skin to thicken and harden, often disfiguring and disab...not treated. The drug also decreased the extent of skin thickening. Furthermore, treated participants reported feeling healthier and more energetic. The Scl...Stanford doctors advance in bid to turn mice stem cells into blood vessels
...lantations of a variety of human tissues including skin and corneas. Most recently, a team of researchers at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., performed the successful transplantation of laboratory-grown bladders into seven children. Tissue-engineered blood vessels have also seen some success...Hispanics and blacks with melanoma more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage
...ermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The skin cancer melanoma has become increasingly more commo... in which cancer has spread to the lower layers of skin but not to the surrounding lymph nodes. Twenty-seven percent of white patients, 10 percent of black ...DNA repair in mammal embryos is a matter of timing
...many different types of cancers can arise, such as skin cancer and sarcomas (cancers of bone, cartilage, fat, muscle or blood vessels)," McKinnon said. But as cells acquire specialized structures and functions, they stop dividing and no longer produce sister chromatids. "When cells begin assuming specifi...Summer update: Melanoma research progress suggests optimism for future cures
...ers are declining, melanoma the deadliest form of skin cancer is the fastest growing cancer in the U.S. ...f Herlyn's research has been to develop artificial skin models in order to study melanoma. Tumors don't exist in isolation but rather interact with other su...EGF receptor activation prevents microbes from going more than skin deep
Our skin not only serves as a physical barrier against infection but skin cells themselves can mount an immune response to kill invading microbes by producing antimicrobial p...Combination therapy with a monocloncal antibody and a vaccine leads to tumor rejection
...ine expressing GM-CSF (Gvax) was able to eradicate skin and breast cancer in mice. In a new study appearin...he authors show that when cancer develops in mouse skin cells, Tregs accumulate in tumors, yet CD8+ Teff cells are underrepresented. They go on to demonstra...UT Southwestern researchers identify roles of gene mutations causing lupus in mice
...can be associated with severe fatigue, joint pain, skin rashes, hair loss and neurological problems. Genetic predisposition, gender and race are major risk factors for lupus, which affects an estimated 270,000 to more than one million people in the United States. Women are five times more likely to die fr...Stem cells found in adult skin can be transplanted and function in mouse models of disease
...gary have found that stem cells derived from adult skin can create neural cell types that can be transplan...treat humans with Schwann cells derived from human skin stem cells, and perhaps even use the patient's own skin to generate Schwann cells for treatment." Th...Patients with history of cancer at increased risk for acquiring and dying from sepsis
...ther types of cancer, such as breast, prostate and skin cancer. The study also reveals that sepsis incidence rates are higher among cancer patients than among patients with other conditions commonly considered to increase the risk of sepsis. Out of 100,000 cancer patients in the U.S., for example 1,075...Risk for skin lesions increases with low-dose exposure to arsenic in drinking water
...centrations of as little as 50 ug/l is at risk for skin lesions. The report also concludes that older, mal...enic exposure from drinking water and premalignant skin lesions over the course of three years. Participants were evaluated for arsenic exposure based on we...Newsbriefs from the journal CHEST, June 2006
...dren performed methacholine challenges and allergy skin prick testing. Overall, AHR was strongly associated with sensitization to cat, dust mite, cockroach, and ragweed. However, no relationship was found between AHR and exposure to pets, tobacco smoke, or other perinatal exposures in the first year of li...Womens skin tone influences perception of beauty, health, age, sociobiologists find
...ty of Goettingen (Germany), have shown that facial skin color distribution, or tone, can add, or subtract,...he equation to determine the true impact of facial skin color distribution on the perception of a woman's age, health and attractiveness and is currently in...Warning for budding young footballers playing in new boots
...ow that the syndrome may follow relatively trivial skin trauma. They suggest that doctors consider toxic shock syndrome in a child with rash, fever and hypotension. They also stress the need to search carefully for the primary infection, as it may not be immediately obvious, and to be aware that secondary...Researcher develops better way to detect shock
...the sensor, Soller's team addressed variables like skin pigmentation and fat while considering what the military would need in the device, like stable output that's not interrupted during a medical evacuation. Though it's user friendly, Soller said she wants to make future versions of the sensor lighter ...Some patients with heart attack shock survive years after aggressive treatment
... the vital organs. As blood pressure plummets, the skin becomes cool and the body's organs shut down. Some 60% of these patients will not survive, which is why cardiogenic shock is the leading cause of death for heart attack patients once they reach the hospital. However, an important study published...