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Mechanism Related To Onset Of Various Genetic Diseases Revealed
Researchers in Spain have revealed the process by which proteins with a tendency to cause conformational diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, familial amyloidotic cardiomyopathy, finally end...
UCSF scientists illuminate how microRNAs drive tumour progression
UCSF researchers have identified collections of tiny molecules known as microRNAs that affect distinct processes critical for the progression of cancer. The findings, they say, expand researchers' understanding of the...
Endothelin-1 inhibitors in chronic pancreatitis
Fibrosis is a key feature of chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. The extensive deposition of extracellular matrix proteins fosters the development of an exocrine and endocrine organ insufficiency, and accelerates...
Chemobrain: The Flip Side Of Surviving Cancer
Breast cancer survivors tell their story in a descriptive study of the effects that cognitive impairment has on women's work, social networks and dealings with the health care profession.
Guide On Lung Cancer In 'Never-smokers': A Different Disease And Different Treatments
A committee of scientists has published a new guide to the biology, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in never-smokers, fortifying measures for what physicians have long known is a...
Killing Cancer Like A Vampire Slayer: New Drug Cuts Off Blood Supplies To Starve Cancer Tumors
A researcher in Israel has developed a new drug carrier to deliver compounds straight to the cancer tumor, cutting off blood supplies to the tumor and improving the efficacy of...
Teenage Birth Rates Higher In More Religious States
Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers have found a strong association...
Discovery Of Regulatory Role Of Key Molecule: Step Towards Future Gene Therapy To Control Disease
The discovery of an additional role for a key molecule in our bodies provides a further step in world-wide efforts to develop genetic regulation aimed at controlling many diseases, including...
Yes, that soda will make you fat
(PhysOrg.com) -- While health officials have long suspected the link between obesity and soda consumption, research released today provides the first scientific evidence of the potent role soda and other...
Natural Hydrogel Helps Heal Spinal Cord, Researcher Finds
Injecting biomaterial gel into a spinal cord injury site provides significantly improved healing, new research has shown. The project indicates that a "practical path" to treatment may be found for...
Zero Tolerance, Zero Effect, Says Expert
Zero tolerance laws have zero effect, says one expert, who analyzed data from 30,000 fatalities in nighttime accidents involving drivers under 21.
Targeted TB treatment
Small molecule inhibitor of tuberculosis protein complex offers a new strategy to attack the disease tuberculosis
Taiwan scientists develop sperm 'efficiency' kit
Scientists in Taiwan said Thursday they have invented a male fertility home test kit that breaks new ground by measuring the efficiency of sperm cells -- a key factor in...
Group pushes for condom dispensers in high schools
Many youth on P.E.I. are sexually active, and a P.E.I. group is urging high schools to help protect them by installing condom dispensers.
The wonders of wine
Two years ago, a group of friends were enjoying a glass of wine in the Mosel region in south-west Germany when their conversation turned to the health benefits which studies...
Researchers to probe whether Lyme disease will follow spread of ticks across US
Potentially debilitating Lyme disease doesn't afflict people everywhere that the ticks harboring it are found. At least not yet. A five-university consortium led by a Michigan State University researcher wants...
Medical interpreters break language barriers in health care
Language barriers in health care settings can decrease access to quality care and diminish comprehension for limited English proficient patients (LEP). These barriers compromise quality of care, and increase costs...
Baby born with protruding heart dies
NEW DELHI, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- An infant Indian boy, born with his heart outside his body, died in a New Delhi hospital two weeks after undergoing a rare...
Low lead levels harming children
So-called "safe" levels of lead in the blood are harming young children's development, UK researchers say.
Researchers seek clues to high blood pressure's origins, impacts
How high blood pressure develops and the effects it has on the body are the focus of a two-part study underway at Penn State and Johns Hopkins University that will...
Proposed Tax on Sugary Beverages Debated
The proposed tax is billed as a way to fight obesity and provide billions for health care reform.
Opinion: The H1N1 virus: varied local responses to a global spread
The H1N1 virus, commonly known as Swine Flu, requires global solutions instead of anachronistic and parochial methods of treating the problem, writes Yanzhong Huang.
H1N1 fears strip waiting rooms of toys, magazines
Some Manitoba medical clinics are pulling magazines and children's toys from patient waiting areas to prevent the spread of swine flu.
Nicaragua: Abortion ban 'leading to more maternal deaths'
Human rights campaigners have denounced the 'devastating' effect on women of the total ban on abortion issued by the Nicaraguan government in 2008.
Hope to get a swine flu shot at work? Not likely
(AP) -- Plan on getting your swine flu shot at work? Don't count on it. The new vaccine will be rationed initially to groups most at risk of contracting...
Differences in Couples' Drinking and Smoking Habits Threaten Long-Term Marriage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Excessive drinking or smoking by a husband or wife can strain a marriage. However, is it substance use specifically that causes problems within a relationship, or is...
Vaccine venture boosts health hopes
Industry and academia join forces to develop cheap jabs against diseases that afflict the poorest.
Badge sensor alerts health-care workers of need to wash hands
A wireless, credit-card-sized sensor that can detect whether health care workers have properly washed their hands upon entering a patient's room is being studied at the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical...