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Preventive Treatments In Elderly People Needs Rethinking
Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.sciencedaily.com)
There is a call for a more sophisticated way of assessing the benefits and harms of preventive treatment in elderly people.Preventive health care aims to delay the onset of illness and disease and to prevent untimely and premature deaths. 


crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.biomedcentral.com)
"Preventative and therapeutic modulation of macrophage/microglial activity significantly alters the outcome of EAE at symptomatic stages. Specific molecular targets have been identified that represent potential avenues of exploration for the treatment and prevention of MS." 


Gene therapy treatment offers Parkinson's relief
Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.reutershealth.com)
Two studies published on Thursday offer new hope for Parkinson's disease -- one using gene therapy to treat the symptoms and another investigating a drug that might stop the incurable disease in its tracks. 


New Treatment Promising for Parkinson's
bioman submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.examiner.com)
New Treatment Promising for Parkinson's. An experimental treatment for Parkinson's disease seemed to improve symptoms - dramatically so, for one 59-year-old man - without causing side effects in an early study of a dozen patients. 


US Scores Hospitals on Heart Care
bioman submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.examiner.com)
The government gave hospitals around the country a public report card Thursday that measures their performance in the treatment of patients suffering from heart attacks or heart failure. 


Gene breakthrough against brain diseases
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.telegraph.co.uk)
In a pioneering study, researchers used the treatment to bring about significant improvements in the mobility of Parkinson's sufferers. They said it could also herald a breakthrough in the treatment of other neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's or epilepsy. 


Bacteria ferry nanoparticles into cells for early diagnosis, treatment
psychologist submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (news.uns.purdue.edu)
Researchers at Purdue University have shown that common bacteria can deliver a valuable cargo of "smart nanoparticles" into a cell to precisely position sensors, drugs or DNA for the early diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. The approach represents a potential way to overcome hurdles in delivering cargo to the interiors of cells, where they could be used as an alterative technology for gene therapy, said Rashid Bashir, a researcher at Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center. 


Our upright walking started in the tree
Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.aidsrestherapy.com)
"During the extended clinically latent period associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection the virus itself is far from latent. This phase of infection generally comes to an end with the development of symptomatic illness. Understanding the factors affecting disease progression can aid treatment commencement and therapeutic monitoring decisions. An example of this is the clear utility of CD4 count and HIV-RNA viral load for disease stage and progression assessment 


crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.kinetoplastids.com)
"According to the experts from different endemic countries present, the financial and social burdens of CL are high, but they have limited quantitative data. The analysis of published trials indicates that the quality of most trials is poor and requires both improvement and standardization. The available drugs are inadequate. Criteria by which different CL types could be prioritized as target disease were set 


Vertex drug may shorten hepatitis C treatment-study
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.reuters.com)
The current treatment duration for the more common, tougher to treat, Genotype 1 form of the disease is 48 weeks. Vertex is hoping to show that the addition of its drug can cut that time in half, which would be a major advance as interferon is a difficult medicine for patients to tolerate.one of the study's lead investigators, said in a telephone interview from Barcelona. they think treatments like this will radically alter our perception of optimal duration of therapy for hepatitis C. 


julie submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (circ.ahajournals.org)
"Most adult US residents are at lower 10-year CHD risk and meet risk-adjusted LDL-C goals. However, large portions of the high-risk population are undertreated. The commonly described population at intermediate risk is small. A novel method of identifying patients who might benefit from additional testing to determine their treatment strategy is provided. " 


crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (mcb.asm.org)
“Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is an independent predictor of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease and is correlated with insulin resistance.……IL-6 treatment reduced insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of eNOS at the stimulatory Ser1177 site and impaired insulin-stimulated eNOS dephosphorylation at the inhibitory Thr495 site. Insulin-stimulated eNOS activation and NO production were also inhibited by IL-6; these effects were reversed by inhibition of JNK and ERK1/2 


DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.washingtonpost.com)
last February, thirteen of the 24 Egyptians who have contracted the H5N1 strain have died. Most of the infected have been women or girls, who normally tend to look after chickens and turkeys kept in the backyards of Egyptian homes. Now, a 4-year-old Egyptian boy has contracted the potentially deadly strain of bird flu, bringing to two dozen the number of people to be diagnosed with the disease since it appeared in the country. Egypt is on a main route for migratory birds, which are believed to have brought disease from Asia. Who will be the next ? 


Extremely prevalent : More than 1 in 4 women has HPV
DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.chron.com)
The U.S. Centers for Disease provides a study that most comprehensive assessment of human papillomavirus prevalence among American women. The overall prevalence was slightly higher than previous estimates. 


Herpes treatment may help HIV patients: study
big pig submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.sciam.com)
'Treating genital herpes may slow the progression of the AIDS virus in those infected with both viruses, researchers reported on Wednesday.' 