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Negative Tweets About Flu Vaccine Are 'Contagious'
Anti-vaccine Twitter posts "spread" more easily than positive ones.
Liver transplantation for patients with genetic liver conditions has high survival rate, study finds
Patients faced with the diagnosis of a life-threatening liver disease have to consider the seriousness of having a liver transplant, which can be a definitive cure for many acquired and...
Sugar-Coated Particles Provoke Immune Response Against Tumors
Cancer Vaccines: Virus-like particles covered in carbohydrates unique to tumors can trigger immune systems to recognize and potentially attack cancer cells
Shutting down DNA construction: How senescence halts growth of potential cancers
How does oncogene-induced senescence work? Imagine the cell as a construction site where work continues as long as bricks (nucleotides) are available. When an oncogene is damaged, it is like...
The New Old Age Blog: A Sharp Rise in Dementia Care Costs
Dementia is costing the nation more than heart disease or cancer, a new study finds.
National teen driving report in U. S. finds safety gains for teen passengers
A new report measured a 47 percent decline in teen driver-related fatalities since 2008. Still, as recent high-profile crashes illustrate, crashes remains the leading cause of death for US teens....
Shift of language function to right hemisphere impedes post-stroke aphasia recovery
In a study designed to differentiate why some stroke patients recover from aphasia and others do not, investigators have found that a compensatory reorganization of language function to right hemispheric...
Obesity without the health problems? There could be a way
Obesity is linked to the widespread epidemics of diabetes and heart disease that plague society, but a lesser-known fact is that the weight can also lead to autoimmune disease. Now,...
Scissor-Like Enzyme That Trims Fatty Acids From Protein Molecules Points Toward Treatment of Infectious Disease
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report that a pathogen annually blamed for an estimated 90 million cases of food-borne illness defeats a host's immune response by using a fat-snipping enzyme...
Protein maintains order in the nucleus
Researchers in Freiburg identify a protein responsible for the correct arrangement of the chromosome centromeres in the nucleus.
You Have A 'Breathprint'
Breath On A Mirror Cea.And scientists want to use it to test for illnesses, as they would with your blood or urine. Right now, if doctors want to test you for something,...
Stem cells fill gaps in bones
For many patients the removal of several centimeters of bone from the lower leg following a serious injury or a tumor extraction is only the beginning of a long-lasting ordeal....
Veterans Affairs Officials Offer Reassurance About Troubled Hospital
At a public meeting over an embattled medical center in Jackson, Miss., statements by a senior health official drew skeptical responses.
Advertising: An MS Drug Takes a Feisty Approach Aimed at Younger Patients
A campaign for the drug maker Novartis uses the slogan “Hey MS, Take This!” and shows patients sticking out their tongues with capsules on them in defiance of the disease.
Health Department files complaint against 27 radiologists
Nova Scotia's Deputy Minister of Health has filed a complaint against the billing practices of 27 radiologists - a move that Doctors Nova Scotia says is escalating a situation out...
Walgreen clinics expand care into chronic illness
Walgreen Co. has expanded the reach of its drugstore clinics beyond treating ankle sprains and sinus infections to handling chronic diseases such as diabetes, asthma and high blood pressure....
Can repurposed cancer drugs counter bioterror threats?
Scientists are investigating whether two cancer medications have the potential of protecting U.S. troops from biological agents that could be unleashed during an attack.
Low testosterone levels may herald rheumatoid arthritis in men
Low testosterone levels may herald the subsequent development of rheumatoid arthritis in men, new research suggests.
Assessing disease surveillance and notification systems after a pandemic
Significant investments over the past decade into disease surveillance and notification systems appear to have "paid off" and the systems "work remarkably well," says a researcher who examined the public...
Scientists develop monkey model to study novel coronavirus infection
Researchers have developed a model of infection in rhesus macaques that will help scientists around the world better understand how an emerging coronavirus, first identified in Sept. 2012, affects people....
A ban on trans fats
Removing trans fats from the food industry is an effective way of preventing chronic diseases such as diabetes.
Strep outbreak concerns health unit
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit says it is working with Lakehead Manor to keep a Group A strep outbreak under control after eight residents at the long-term care home...
IHT Special: Fall in Egyptian Pound Weighs Heavily on the Ill
A steep devaluation in the Egyptian pound, and the lack of hard currency, makes it harder to import expensive drugs because the law requires them to be resold at a...
Ottawa doctors optimistic about new MS treatment
Ottawa doctors have developed a new treatment for multiple sclerosis that they say has eliminated the disease in 70 per cent of their patients.
Will cell therapy become a 'third pillar' of medicine?
Treating patients with cells may one day become as common as it is now to treat the sick with drugs made from engineered proteins, antibodies or smaller chemicals, according to...
One specific microRNA promotes tumor growth and cancer spread
Researchers have determined that the overexpression of microRNA-155 (miR-155), a short, single strand of ribonucleic acid encoded by the miR-155 host gene, promotes the growth of blood vessels in tumors,...
Potential therapy for human prion disease
Scientists have for the first time identified a pair of drugs already approved for human use that show anti-prion activity and, for one of them, great promise in treating rare...
MMR jab warning as measles cases soar 25% over Easter
Health experts renew MMR jab plea as potentially life-threatening disease continues to spread at alarming rateA measles epidemic with children most at risk shows no sign of ending after a 25% jump...