A team of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers has discovered that a protein involved in cystic fibrosis (CF) also regulates inflammation and cell death in emphysema and may be responsible for other…
Month: December 2010
Home births on the decline in UK
According to a leader of Britain’s midwives, more and more women are being discouraged from giving birth at home. Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives said that many…
Human Protein Improves Muscle Function Of Muscular Dystrophy Mice
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – A novel potential therapy based on a natural human protein significantly slows muscle damage and improves function in mice who have the same genetic mutation as boys…
Large-Scale Study Identifies New Genetic Variants Associated With Height
A large collaborative study has added to the growing list of genetic variants that determine how tall a person will be. The research, published by Cell Press on December 30 in the…
Government told to vaccinate millions more against flu
Health secretary Andrew Lansley was tonight under pressure to get a grip on the winter flu outbreak, amid warnings that millions more people need to be vaccinated in order to prevent a…
A ‘tough’ 2011 for Britain’s NHS
The NHS would have a tough year ahead said the NHS Confederation suggesting 2011 could end up being the “toughest year” in the NHS’ 62-year history. The major issues would be the…
Newborns With Low Vitamin D Levels At Increased Risk For Respiratory Infections
The vitamin D levels of newborn babies appear to predict their risk of respiratory infections during infancy and the occurrence of wheezing during early childhood, but not the risk of developing asthma….
FDA Approves Fortesta Gel For Treatment Of Low Testosterone
Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP) announced, yesterday, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved FORTESTA Gel for the treatment of low testosterone, or ‘Low T,’ also known as hypogonadism. Symptoms…
New Findings From A Study Of Memory Deterioration In Alzheimer’s Disease
The capacity to remember that a zebra has stripes, or that a giraffe is a four-legged mammal, is known as semantic memory. It allows us to assign meaning to words and to…
Winter flu at highest level for a decade
Children under five are now the worst affected by this year’s flu outbreak with cases at their highest level in winter since an epidemic a decade ago. Official figures showed that children…
Men with Type 1 diabetes eventually may have a way to grow their own pancreas transplants
Men with Type 1 diabetes may eventually have a way to provide tissues for their own beta-cell transplants, reseachers have found. Stem cells that normally grow into sperm can be prodded to…
Study Could Lead To New Treatments For Mood Disorders
Vanderbilt University researchers may have found a clue to the blues that can come with the flu – depression may be triggered by the same mechanisms that enable the immune system to…
Flu adverts to start as deaths continue to rise
An advertising campaign at fighting the spread of flu is to begin on New Year’s Day after ministers caved in to criticism of their handling of the outbreak, as new figures showed…
Nutrition Facts on Meat Products
Meat eaters will soon know the nutrition facts on their favorite cuts of beef, pork and poultry, whether they want to know them or not. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that…
Immunity Studied In Emerging Species Of A Major Mosquito Carrier Of Malaria
In notable back-to-back papers appearing in the prestigioous journal Science in October, teams of researchers, one led by Nora Besansky, a professor of biological sciences and a member of the Eck Institute…