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Mindfulness Meditation Slows Progression Of HIV, Study Suggests
CD4+ T lymphocytes, or simply CD4 T cells, are the "brains" of the immune system, coordinating its activity when the body comes under attack. They are also the cells that...
Genetic Mutation Identified For Eye Complaint
Researchers have identified a gene that, when modified, causes the eye disease Duane syndrome. Importantly, by identifying this gene the team has discovered how the visual system develops which may...
CMV Infections Affect More Than Just Patients With Compromised Immune Systems
An infection due to a virus called cytomegalovirus, which most commonly affects people with compromised immune systems, can also affect hospital intensive-care patients who have no immune-system problems, researchers have...
New Health Drink? Chemist Goes Nano With CoQ10
If one researcher has his way, you may soon be buying bottles of water brimming with the life-sustaining coenzyme CoQ10 at your local Costco. Like vitamin C, CoQ10 is a...
Cellular pathway linked to cancer
ROME, July 26 (UPI) -- Researchers at New York University Medical Center have identified a pathway for the development of cancer that suggests new ways of treatment.
Researchers unravel key mechanism of cellular damage in aging and disease
Researchers have taken a first snapshot of how a class of highly reactive molecules inflicts cellular damage as part of aging, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and Alzheimer's...
NIAID announces revised priorities for HIV vaccine research
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is reshaping its research enterprise to broaden HIV vaccine discovery activities. Many of...
Why Cigarette Smoke Makes Flu, Other Viral Infections Worse
A new study could explain why the cold and flu virus symptoms that are often mild and transient in non-smokers can seriously sicken smokers. The study also identified the mechanism...
Pathology neglected, underpaid in 1990s, cancer inquiry told
The physician who launched a breast cancer testing program in St. John's more than a decade ago told an inquiry that pathology was treated dismally during that era.
Researchers identify gene responsible for rare childhood disease
The chromosomal abnormality that causes a rare, but often fatal, disorder that affects infants has been identified by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, who...
Dental death in Washington 5th in 3 years
SEATTLE, July 24 (UPI) -- A University of Washington student became the fifth person in the past three years to die from complications related to oral surgery, a...
Ninth Las Vegas hepatitis C case confirmed
LAS VEGAS, July 24 (UPI) -- Another hepatitis C case linked to a closed Las Vegas endoscopy clinic brings the number of confirmed cases of the disease to...
Early Cessation Of Breastfeeding By HIV+ Women In Poor Countries And Child Survival
Researchers find that abrupt cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ mothers after the first four months of life did not result in any statistically significant benefit to infants in terms of...
Bosentan Improves Quality Of Life For Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension
Recent studies have shown that bosentan therapy greatly improves the quality of life for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. According to a new study treatments with oral Bosentan reduces resistance...
Booming business helps patients navigate medicine
(AP) -- After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She'd lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a new health benefit...
Surgery Will Put Dog Back on All Fours Again
A pioneering North Carolina State University collaboration between a veterinary surgeon and an engineer will give a deserving dog the ability to walk on four legs again.
Soda machines on base may be removed
OSLO, Norway, July 24 (UPI) -- Medical and dental officials in Norway say they want to ban soft drink dispensers on the country's military bases.
Energy drinks linked to risk-taking behaviors among college students
Over the last decade, energy drinks -- such as Red Bull, Monster and Rockstar -- have become nearly ubiquitous on college campuses. The global market for these types of drinks...
Officials: Search for HIV vaccine needs overhaul
(AP) -- Scientists will have to take "enormous intellectual leaps" to develop an AIDS vaccine in the coming years, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising...
Cold study has some hot under collar
LONDON, July 24 (UPI) -- Medical trials for research into the common cold at a budget motel chain in Britain are being held under safe conditions, the chain's...
Hyperactive immune resistance brings blindness in old age
Age-dependent macular degeneration (AMD) is the commonest cause of blindness in the western industrialised nations. Hereditary changes in the regulation of the immune system influence the risk of contracting AMD....
Prevailing theory of aging challenged in Stanford worm study
Age may not be rust after all. Specific genetic instructions drive aging in worms, report researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Their discovery contradicts the prevailing theory that...
Imiquimod, an immune response modifier, is dependent on the OGF-OGFr signaling pathway
Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered that the efficacy of imiquimod, a clinically important immune response modifier with potent antiviral and antitumor activity,...
Antidepressant Scripts Up 16 Million Over 3-Year Period
Psychiatrists wrote 29% of new orders, followed by GPs and primary care docs, survey finds
Protecting the brain from spiral of damage
Blows to the head from sports, falls, car accidents and war can cause damage inside the skull and a dizzying array of confusing symptoms that can be invisible to the...
Report warns of Southern AIDS ‘crisis’
AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of AIDS policy after a new study showed HIV and AIDS rising dramatically in the South even as they drop everywhere else...
Rural car crash causes identified
A five year study of rural and remote road safety found that speed, alcohol, and off road driving need to be managed better if serious crashes are to be avoided.
Killings turn focus on San Francisco sanctuary law
Road rage killings put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.