Chlamydia common among young women and men

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A large number of people between the ages of 14 and 39 years have chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, a new report indicates, while gonorrhea, another STD, is less prevalent.

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Genetic disease carries risk of sudden deafness

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Researchers advise in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association .People diagnosed with a genetic disease called von Hippel-Lindau disease or VHL may suddenly experience hearing loss caused by a tumor.

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Our upright walking started in the tree

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"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

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The Connexin31 F137L mutant mouse as a model for the human skin disease

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"Erythrokeratodermia variabilis (EKV) is a rare autosomal dominant human genodermatosis. Its clinical appearance varies from transient, fast moving erythemas to persistent brown hyperkeratoses. So far, several mutations in the Cx31 or Cx30.3 gene have been reported to cause EKV in humans. We have generated a conditional mouse mutant that carries the human F137L mutation in the Cx31 gene which was described to act in a transdominant negative manner."

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