... a welcome guest in your medicine cabinet. Chemists in China report identification of substances in a certain species of ants that show promise for fighting arthritis, hepatitis, and other diseases...
Smoking causes almost a third of all gum disease cases in Australia, often resulting in tooth loss, according to latest University of Adelaide research.
An 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 ...
Naturally elevated levels of the antioxidant urate may slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease in men. Researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) and ...
... and Harvard Stem Cell Institute(HSCI) have reported successfully reducing symptoms in a Parkinson's disease rat model by using dopamine producing neurons derived from reprogrammed adult skin cells(iPS ...
... ’ health likely won’t come from therapies
that inject stem cells or implant tissues made from them, but rather
from the knowledge gained by examining diseased tissues grown from the
cells.
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... 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 treatment using laser surgery. ...
... off by the enzyme NADPH oxidase may reverse some of the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to new findings published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National ...
Timber workers have high dioxin levels in their blood and many are heavily exposed to PCP, resulting in an increased risk of respiratory disease, a study has found.
... ) every four weeks were used to check for new areas of neurological inflammation, a hallmark of active disease.
In total, 38 patients—19 in each group—completed the study. The scans showed that those ...
... Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Morgantown, WV.. “This research, in conjunction with other recent ...
... born prematurely in the United States each year, over 50 percent of them will develop the disease, depending on how small they are when they are born, he says.
“If a baby is born at 3 to 6 months, ...
... clinicians identify if they are functioning correctly. The new technology could result in earlier diagnosis of emphysema and smoking related damage, as well as other lung conditions and diseases...
... and oxidative stress, two processes that are implicated in a wide variety of physiological and disease states. These findings will likely have broad implications and applications in basic research, ...
It's long been known that patients with sickle cell disease have malformed, 'sickle-shaped' red blood cells - which are normally disc-shaped - that can cause sudden painful episodes when they block ...
