Bacterial Protection From Allergy
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If infants encounter a wide range of bacteria they are less at risk of developing allergic disease later in life. This is the conclusion of research from the University of Copenhagen, which suggests completely new factors in many modern lifestyle diseases.
Oversensitivity diseases, or allergies, now affect 25 per cent of the population of Denmark. The figure has been on the increase in recent decades and now researchers at the Dansk BørneAstma Center [COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-11-03 à: 20:19:36
Chondroitin Eases Pain, Boosts Function in Arthritic Hands
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Six months of treatment with chondroitin led to significant improvements in pain and function among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) in their hands, a single-center randomized trial found.
Global hand pain rated on a 100-mm visual analog scale fell by 20 mm for patients taking chondroitin, compared with 11.3 mm for patients receiving placebo, for a between-group difference in change of −8.7 mm (P=0.016), according to Cem Gabay, MD, of University Hospitals of Geneva in Switzerland, and ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-11-01 à: 21:07:11
Drug Prevents Cerebral Cavernous Malformation In Mice; Could Replace Surgery
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A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation - a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke - for the first time in a new study.
The drug fasudil, which prevented the formation of lesions in a genetic mouse model of the disease, shows potential as a valuable new tool in addressing a clinical problem that is currently treatable only with complex surgery. ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-10-30 à: 22:01:52
Substance In The Blood Blocks Repair And Contributes To Kidney Failure
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In some kidney diseases, patients have high blood levels of a protein that blocks blood vessel repair, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Inhibiting the protein may reduce patients' risk of developing kidney failure.
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-10-29 à: 22:10:38
ECTRIMS: Little Support Found for Vascular MS Theory
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AMSTERDAM -- Of more than a dozen studies presented here on the chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) theory of multiple sclerosis, most failed to find any support for it.
One study presented at the joint meeting of the European and Americas Committees for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, found that eight of 15 children with pediatric MS had venous abnormalities when examined with magnetic resonance venography. ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-10-26 à: 12:09:12
CHEST: Low Platelet Count Does Not Lessen DVT Risk
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HONOLULU -- Low platelet counts do not appear to protect critically ill patients with cancer from deep vein thrombosis, a retrospective study showed.
Among patients admitted to the oncologic intensive care unit, platelet count was not significantly associated with the occurrence of deep vein thrombosis (P=0.83), Sajid Haque, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, reported at the CHEST meeting here. ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-10-24 à: 23:22:36
After Stroke, Blood Pressure-Lowering Drugs Aid Recovery
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A commonly prescribed blood pressure-lowering medication appears to kick start recovery in the unaffected brain hemisphere after a stroke by boosting blood vessel growth, a new University of Georgia study has found.
The discovery, based on a study using rats and published recently in the online journal PLoS ONE, occurred only because the team, led by Susan Fagan, professor of clinical and administrative pharmacy at the UGA ... ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-10-24 à: 23:07:10
Imaging technology might help doctors determine best treatment for Crohn's disease patients
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Diagnostic tool for distinguishing intestinal inflammation from fibrosis could allow doctors to deliver efficient, timely treatment
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It's difficult for doctors to tell whether a patient with Crohn's disease has intestinal fibrosis, which requires surgery, or inflammation, which can be treated with medicine. A new imaging method might make that task easier, according to a U-M-led study. ...
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Par : Administrateur : admin_actumed Le : 2011-10-15 à: 00:34:34
New Treatment Option For Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Prostate cancer that has become resistant to hormone treatment and that does not respond to radiation or chemotherapy requires new methods of treatment. By attacking stem cell-like cells in prostate cancer, researchers at Lund University are working on a project to develop a new treatment option. ...
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Par : Moderateur : Asirem Le : 2011-08-14 à: 23:56:26
Mystery powder sends 10 cell phone employees to hospital
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Ten employees of a cellular phone company in suburban Atlanta were hospitalized on Friday after a powdery substance was released from a package containing two phone batteries.
Written on one of the two batteries was a message: "You just got punked," police said. ...
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Par : Administrateur : admin_actumed Le : 2011-08-14 à: 02:42:33
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