Archive for April 2017

Bacterial Trojan horse against the fatal disease

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Bacterial Trojan horse against the fatal disease - Scientists have developed an intelligent form of combat bug to bug the fight against Chagas disease, a potentially fatal infection transmitted by muscle aphidlike kissing bug. The new weapon is a bacterium normally found in the gut of the insect,...

Gene for Rare Tumors Bagged

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Gene for Rare Tumors Bagged - Scientists have identified a gene responsible for a rare form of endocrine tumor. The discovery, published in today's issue of Science * should lead to a genetic test for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 or MEN1, which strikes fewer than one in 10,000 and results...

breast implants associated with other risk factors

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breast implants associated with other risk factors - As a group, women who receive breast implants for cosmetic purposes have many demographic, lifestyle, and the differences in reproductive women in general, according to a study in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Recipe to end Chlamydia: breast milk

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Recipe to end Chlamydia: breast milk - MIAMI - A molecule of fat found in human breast milk can a day be used to prevent? transmission of chlamydia and possibly other sexually transmitted diseases. The results, presented today at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting, could lead...

Get Junkies heroin LAAM

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Get Junkies heroin LAAM - heroin can reduce their drug use up to 0% with a drug more convenient than the standard treatment, according to a report in Journal tomorrow of the American Medical Association . The researchers hope that the discovery will encourage more clinics to try the treatment -...

Get Junkies heroin LAAM

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Get Junkies heroin LAAM - heroin can reduce their drug use up to 0% with a drug more convenient than the standard treatment, according to a report in Journal tomorrow of the American Medical Association . The researchers hope that the discovery will encourage more clinics to try the treatment -...

Help the body fight cancer of the prostate

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Help the body fight cancer of the prostate - Scientists have shown for the first time that the immune system of a mouse can completely destroy cancer cells in the prostate. Experts say the discovery, published in today's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , could open the door...

HIV Gets a taste of his own medicine

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HIV Gets a taste of his own medicine - In an attempt to fight fire with fire, the researchers designed a virus that usually infects cattle to attack the AIDS virus in the man. "It really is about to make a breakthrough," says Nava Sarver, who oversees the development of new treatments against AIDS...

Cancer Most Fowl

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Cancer Most Fowl - Today is the birthday of Francis Peyton Rous, a US pathologist known for his pioneering research on cancer. In 109, gave a Rous chicken Plymouth Rock with a large breast tumor, and he experienced in transferring a cell-free filtrate of the tumor in healthy chickens. Surprisingly,...

How well do you know your neck?

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How well do you know your neck? - How well do you know your neck? risk of thyroid cancer has more than doubled over the past 20 years. Learn the basics of early-detection processing. Most people do not realize the importance of their thyroid gland shaped like a butterfly in the neck responsible...

Heroin Treatment Too Limited, said NIH

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Heroin Treatment Too Limited, said NIH - B ETHESDA , M ARYLAND - heroin addicts need a easier access to methadone, a panel organized by the National Institutes of Health announced at a press conference today. The committee recommended that public and private health plans cover such treatment...

Watermelon

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Watermelon - Watermelon Watermelon may not be the official fruit of summer, but it is a popular choice and healthy when temperatures increase. There are over 50 varieties of watermelon with seeds or without. Watermelon is the most consumed melon in the US and is in its softness midsummer peak...

Flu Sequence Offers Clues to deadly virus

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Flu Sequence Offers Clues to deadly virus - Although Hong Kong "bird flu" killed six people - the latest yesterday is dead - and prompted the slaughter of 1.5 million chickens, it remains largely a mystery to scientists. Now a team of US and Hong Kong has yet taken the most detailed look at the genes...

Smooth Start to School

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Smooth Start to School - Smooth Start to school It's time again to school! There is often a flurry of activities in preparation for the start of school, and a range of emotions experienced by children (and parents too!) As part of the transition back to school. Children, for example, may feel...

Flu Sequence Offers Clues to deadly virus

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Flu Sequence Offers Clues to deadly virus - Although Hong Kong "bird flu" killed six people - the latest yesterday is dead - and prompted the slaughter of 1.5 million chickens, it remains largely a mystery to scientists. Now a team of US and Hong Kong has yet taken the most detailed look at the genes...

Health is your spine?

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Health is your spine? - Health is your spine? Oh these bones, these bones oh, oh skeletal bones! Back pain, in particular, is a common reason for medical visits; Patients report dull pain acute pain that make it difficult to move. Back pain can occur quickly if you fall or lifting something too...

AIDS cocktail stimulates the immune system

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AIDS cocktail stimulates the immune system - The most effective drugs to suppress HIV - protease inhibitors - can enhance the immune systems damaged at the resurgence of HIV. The surprising discovery, reported in tomorrow's issue of The Lancet , suggests that all AIDS patients should continue taking...

heart attack symptoms and call 9-1-1

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heart attack symptoms and call 9-1-1 - symptoms of heart attack and call 9-1-1 Research recently presented at the American heart Association (AHA) Scientific session in 2012 showed that people are more likely to die from heart problems during the winter months you need to call 9-1-1 immediately...

Good to give

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Good to give - good to give you The holiday season is full of opportunities to help others in need. The experience of the gift of ourselves, and our children important life lessons taught and allows us to feel more connected to each other. Giving us gain a deeper appreciation of presence. As...

The Guts of HIV?

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The Guts of HIV? - Researchers familiar with the terrible progression HIV infection to AIDS, but they are less clued into how the virus gets a foothold in the body. The virus - which attacks the immune cells called CD4 T cells - appears very early in the lymph nodes. But a study in Science today...

Renew resolutions

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Renew resolutions - resolutions Renew We all put our New Year's resolutions with the best intentions in mind; eat healthier, lose weight, fitness, and quitting smoking are among the most popular resolutions. The first days in the new year are always viewed with more vigor and hope, but after a...

Softens hard antibody Arteries

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Softens hard antibody Arteries - As a punch one-two a fatty diet and the body's own immune system conspire to bring on heart disease. Fat and cholesterol clog arteries and block blood flow, starving the heart of oxygen. In the meantime, this clogging produces plaques that damage the artery wall,...

Treatment of asthma in winter

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Treatment of asthma in winter - treatment of asthma in winter Asthma is a chronic disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness , chest tightness and coughing. It can limit the quality of life of a person. Although we do not know why asthma rates are increasing, we know that most people with...

Cancer

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Cancer - Today Spotlighted of minorities is the 68th anniversary of LaSalle Leffall Jr., an oncologist who has drawn attention to the problem of the high mortality rate of cancer among minorities especially African Americans. Leffall published research in 1973 showing the increase of cancer mortality...

Women and heart disease

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Women and heart disease - Women and Heart Disease Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America. One in three American dies of heart disease. In fact, women are six times more likely to die from heart disease than breast cancer. Heart disease includes a range of conditions that...

Supplements Contain composed Suspect

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Supplements Contain composed Suspect - People who skip some amino acid supplements to treat insomnia, obesity, headaches and better beware. A report this month of Nature Medicine warns that joint supplements containing 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan (5HTP) may also harbor a potentially dangerous impurities...

The health benefits of healthy relationships

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The health benefits of healthy relationships - The health benefits of healthy relationships Strong relationships are important to your happiness and healthy living . People with good quality friendships handle stress much better; a good friend can really help you in difficult times. People with...

The Skinny on Diabetes

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The Skinny on Diabetes - Fat-free may be all the rage in packaged foods, but mice genetically engineered to lack the fat cells get diabetes with more severe symptoms than those obese mice. The findings, reported in two articles in the issue last week Genes and Development , may give clues to the...

How much protein do I need?

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How much protein do I need? - How much protein do I need? Protein is essential to our existence, because it is in every cell of our body; it is sometimes called the life of the building block. It is one of the three categories of macronutrients, as well as fats and carbohydrates,...

A Booby Trap for HIV

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A Booby Trap for HIV - Although we call the triple drug therapy can keep HIV count a patient under control for years, only one or two mutations in the genome the virus can cause resistance to develop and begin to multiply again. A paper Nature Medicine describes a potential drug can be much harder...

The Science of Faith Healing

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The Science of Faith Healing - Can prayer heal a sick patient? Although polls show that most Americans believe so, scientists are still very divided on the issue. In tomorrow's issue of The Lancet , three psychiatrists criticize several hundred studies to show a link between faith and religious...

The signs and symptoms of anemia

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The signs and symptoms of anemia - The signs and symptoms of anemia About 1 in 5 women, 3% of men and 50% of pregnant women in the United States have anemia, iron deficiency. In addition, 7% of children aged 1-2 years and about 175,000 nursing nursing home residents suffer from low iron levels....

head full of Xenon?

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head full of Xenon? - the noble gas xenon, polarized by a laser, and then inhaled by a rat, lights lungs and heart as seen in the front (first row) and top views. differences in xenon concentration in the blood (A and D), tissues (B and E), and gas (C and F) provides...

Tips to maintain a healthy blood pressure

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Tips to maintain a healthy blood pressure - tips to maintain a healthy blood pressure According to the Department of Health and Human Services US , one in three adults an estimated 68 million of us have high blood-pressure, also called hypertension. Hypertension is often called...
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