News tagged with blood cell count
Most babies with uncomplicated febrile seizures can avoid spinal tap
Jan 06, 2009 |
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When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to rule out bacterial ...
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Link between male diabetics with allergies and kidney disease -- nothing to sneeze at
Oct 01, 2009 |
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For men with type 2 diabetes, a cell type linked to allergic inflammation is closely linked to a key indicator of diabetic kidney disease (nephropathy), suggests a study in the November Clinical Journal of the American So ...
Body's immune system response to dental plaque varies by gender and race
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Will neglecting to brush your teeth damage more than just your smile? Can failing to attack dental plaque increase your risk of heart damage?
PTSD a medical warning sign for long-term health problems
Feb 13, 2008 |
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Geisinger research finds that veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are as likely to have long-term health problems as people with chronic disease risk factors such as an elevated white blood cell counts ...
'Blood-free' monitoring as good as blood tests in predicting the course of AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 20, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that monitoring treatment adherence to AIDS therapy is a simple blood-free way to monitor risk of disease progression. The international study was ...
Researchers important markers of high risk of type 2 diabetes
Apr 25, 2008 |
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Doctors are aware of a range of risk factors, mostly related to the patients’ family history, overweight, and lifestyle, that contribute to the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Now researchers at the University of Warwick ...
Study shows that HIV antiretroviral treatment should start earlier
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of more than 45,000 people with HIV in Europe and North America suggests that the minimum CD4-cell count threshold for initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) ...
Genetic variation associated with survival advantage in African-Americans with HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
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From the start of the HIV epidemic, it appeared that some of the people who were infected with the virus were able to ward off the fatal effects of the disease longer than others. Recent studies have begun to unravel the ...
New therapy for HIV treatment
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of the HIV virus could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection.
Key player identified in cascade that leads to hypertension-related kidney damage
Nov 05, 2009 |
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A key player in a cascade that likely begins with stress and leads to high blood pressure and kidney damage has been identified by researchers who say the finding may lead to better ways to control both.
Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth
Jan 14, 2007 |
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A new discovery in stem cell research may mean big things for cancer patients in the future. Gary Van Zant, Ph.D., and a research team at the University of Kentucky published their findings today in Nature Genetics.
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