Non-communicable disease treatment has a lot to learn from tuberculosis control programmes, say Anthony D. Harries and colleagues.
... identified a promising new target for autoimmune disease treatment – a cell-surface receptor called ... therapies don't work in all autoimmune diseases, however, the researchers turned to the study of DR3 ...
... antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. ...
... light on why some people with life-threatening conditions do not adhere to medical treatment, even when "it's for their own good". Psychological factors had a powerful effect on whether people would ...
A Calgary family is suing Alberta Health because they say it won't cover the treatments they need for a brain disease that causes migraines, back pain and fainting.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an immune globulin product called Gamunex for treatment of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.
A fungus discovered in Belize seems to be a new genus from a group used in Asian herbal medicines and immune disease treatment.
Aboriginal Canadians with chronic kidney disease may be twice as likely to be admitted to hospital for a preventable condition compared with non-Aboriginal people, researchers have found.
... better prediction of a person's risk for coronary heart disease and make appropriate changes in their treatment."
Brautbar and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities researchers followed 10,000 ...
... control were greater in the black group than amongst the whites over the two year period, with the treatment gap between the two groups closing between 2003 and 2005. More South Asians also had their ...
... for genes that raise the risk of osteoporosis found seven different sequences associated with the bone-thinning disease, and one team found two that might predict the risk for 20 percent of people.
... old, fickle therapy for a variety of autoimmune diseases is getting a makeover, thanks to a decade-long investigation. The original treatment, called intravenous immunoglobulin or IVIG, is an amalgam ...
A JDRF collaboration between Johns Hopkins researchers and Genentech has shown that a drug for the treatment of diabetic eye disease has performed better in clinical trials than the current standard ...
... placebo.
During the last 16 weeks of treatment, almost two thirds of patients (63 ... patients with MS,” adding that higher doses and treatment combinations with other drugs that alter the immune response ...
... the maximum benefit.”
Of added benefit, Fox says, is the associated finding that antibiotic treatment also reduces the level of other bacterial species that have invaded the stomach. “Gastric acid ...