Science news articles about 'fatal illnesses'

A wide array of fatal illnesses seem to be more likely in people with bipolar disorder.

... to warrant this caution—simply insufficient clinical information in pregnancy. Pregnant women with potentially fatal illnesses may thus be treated with inferior drugs to avoid a hypothetical risk to ...

... of staff for Research, Hines VA Hospital. "In the past, it was thought to be a nuisance illness. Now it is a fatal illness and a lot of physicians have not figured that out as yet." Hospitals in ...

... patient (initial person with symptoms), whose fatal illness was characterized by fever and hemorrhage at a primary care ... 12 hours of her death from suspected fatal HGA while she experienced extensive ...

... the time the eldest was diagnosed with a rare, genetic and invariably fatal illness which meant that he would never learn to walk or talk, and would gradually lose his sight along ...

Judy and Scott Lorenz had been through one of the most difficult periods of their lives. Their marriage of 30 years broke up, leaving them bickering and at odds over a host of difficult emotional ...

... may have figured out why a protein that can turn rogue and cause fatal illnesses such as mad cow disease exists in large quantities inside cows, humans and other animals.

... each year. Instead, the only treatments they can recommend for this painful and sometimes fatal illness (20,000 deaths globally each year) are fluids, rest and non-aspirin pain and ...

Scientists at the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Institute of Child Health have found the cause of a fatal illness that almost exclusively affects Hutterite children.

... in high-performance alloys and ceramics, can cause berylliosis—a chronic, incurable and sometimes fatal illness. The new reference material is expected to dramatically improve methods used to monitor ...

... be attributed only to chance. But rather than dashing all hopes for an AIDS vaccine, the trial has heartened some researchers, who see new clues in the battle against the fatal illness. [More]

... legs, pelvic bone and urinary system. "It is used as a last resort on patients with potentially fatal illnesses such as certain cancers or complications from ulcers in the pelvic region that cannot ...