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Climate change amplifying animal disease
May 25, 2009 |
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Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday.
Gene therapy improves vision in patients with congenital retinal disease
Apr 28, 2008 |
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In a clinical trial at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers from The University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to safely restore vision in three young adults with a rare form of congenital blindness. ...
Talcum powder stunts growth of lung tumors
Jun 06, 2007 |
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Talcum powder has been used for generations to soothe babies’ diaper rash and freshen women’s faces. But University of Florida researchers report the household product has an additional healing power: The ability to stunt ...
Red wine and grape juice help defend against food-borne diseases
Oct 11, 2007 |
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Red wine is known to have multiple health benefits. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia have found that red wine may also protect humans from common food-borne diseases.
New and deadly viruses passed through sweet food and domestic animals
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Nipah virus is a new and deadly brain and lung disease that emerged from Singapore and Malaysia ten years ago. It is now spreading into rural India and Bangladesh killing up to three-quarters of the people who become infected ...
Naturally occurring enzyme can break down key part of Alzheimer's plaques
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Scientists have identified a naturally occurring enzyme that can break down a key component of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. The finding may provide researchers with new opportunities to understand ...
Scientists find key to keeping killer T cells in prime shape for fighting infection, cancer
Nov 30, 2008 |
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Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body's killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted ...
Signs of Alzheimer's disease may be present decades before diagnosis
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Scientists from the University of South Florida and the University of Kentucky report that people who develop Alzheimer's disease may show signs of this illness many decades earlier in life, including compromised educational ...
Researchers Find New Treatment for Hepatitis C
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center have found a new use for an old drug. Their findings appear online in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type 2 diabetes similar at molecular level
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type 2 diabetes, the human version of mad cow disease, and other degenerative diseases are more closely related at the molecular level than scientists realized, a ...
Erectile dysfunction gives early warning of a heart attack, warns expert
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Erectile dysfunction gives a two to three year early warning of a heart attack, warns an expert on bmj.com today.
Scientists discover compound that could lead to new blood pressure drugs
May 01, 2008 |
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University of Florida researchers have identified a drug compound that dramatically lowers blood pressure, improves heart function and — in a remarkable finding — prevents damage to the heart and kidneys in rats with persistent ...
Midlife coffee and tea drinking and the risk of late-life dementia
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Midlife coffee drinking can decrease the risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life. This conclusion is made in a Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) Study published ...
Frankincense provides relief to arthritis sufferers
Jul 30, 2008 |
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An enriched extract of the 'Indian Frankincense' herb Boswellia serrata has been proven to reduce the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy ...
New study suggests Columbus brought syphilis to Europe from New World
Jan 15, 2008 |
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Did Columbus and his men introduce the syphilis pathogen into Renaissance Europe after contracting it during their voyage to the New World? Or does syphilis have a much longer history in the Old World? The most comprehensive ...
