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Extreme Hot, Cold Spells Increase Heart-Related Deaths
Date: Sep-24-2012The extreme temperatures that occur during cold spells and heat waves may raise the risk of heart-related deaths, according to an Australian study which for the first time looks at the link between daily average temperature and "years of life lost" due to cardiovascular diseases. The study, which took place in Brisbane, was led by Cunrui Huang of the School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology (QUT)...
Male Fertility Restored With Missing Sperm Protein
Date: Sep-24-2012Male infertility can be the result of sperm missing just one vital protein, which is necessary to activate the egg when the sperm fuses with it. But injecting that egg with the missing protein can "kick-start" the vital processes of embryo development, and dramatically increase the chances of a successful pregnancy. These are the findings of a new study by a team at Cardiff University in the UK who write about their work in a paper being published in the journal Fertility and Sterility...
Prolia (Denosumab) Approved For Male Osteoporosis
Date: Sep-24-2012Amgen's Prolia (Denosumab) has been approved for the treatment of osteoporosis in males at high risk of fracture by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA. Denosumab reduced tumor-cell numbers in men with giant-cell tumor of the bone, Amgen informed. Prolia increases bone mass in male patients with osteoporosis who are at high risk for fracture. Prolia is the first RANK ligand inhibitor to be approved by the FDA. RANK ligand is a protein that acts as the primary signal for bone removal...
Biologists Gain New Insight Into Migrating Cells
Date: Sep-24-2012At any given moment, millions of cells are on the move in the human body, typically on their way to aid in immune response, make repairs, or provide some other benefit to the structures around them. When the migration process goes wrong, however, the results can include tumor formation and metastatic cancer. Little has been known about how cell migration actually works, but now, with the help of some tiny worms, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have gained new insight into this highly complex task...
Leukemia With Poor Prognoses: New Therapeutic Strategy Leads To Clinical Trial, Drug Development
Date: Sep-24-2012Investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified two promising therapies to treat patients with acute megakaryocytic leukemia (AMKL), a rare form of leukemia where the number of cases is expected to increase with the aging population. The disease is characterized by an overload of white blood cells that remain forever young because they can't mature into specialized cells...
Sickle Cell Disease Wiped Out In Selected Patients By 'Half-Match' Bone Marrow Transplants
Date: Sep-24-2012In a preliminary clinical trial, investigators at Johns Hopkins have shown that even partially-matched bone marrow transplants can eliminate sickle cell disease in some patients, ridding them of painful and debilitating symptoms, and the need for a lifetime of pain medications and blood transfusions. The researchers say the use of such marrow could potentially help make bone marrow transplants accessible to a majority of sickle cell patients who need them. After a median follow-up of two years, the transplants successfully eliminated sickle cell disease in 11 of 17 patients...
Evaluation Of Commercial Weight Loss Programme
Date: Sep-24-2012Anyone who wants to lose weight has a wide variety of diets to choose from, but knowledge of what works is often poor. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have now evaluated a Swedish commercial weight loss programme called Itrim, and found it to be effective. After one year, participants had lost 11 kg on average. Most of the participants lost a lot of weight in the first three months and then showed very good weight stability after one year," says Erik Hemmingsson, researcher at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital's Obesity Centre...
Gender Differences In Genetic Predispositions
Date: Sep-24-2012We are not all the same when it comes to illness. In fact, the risk of developing a disease such as diabetes or heart disease varies from one individual to another. A study led by Emmanouil Dermitzakis, Louis-Jeantet Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) reveals that the genetic predisposition to develop certain diseases may differ from one individual to another depending on their sex. Together with his collaborators, the professor has shown that genetic variants have a different impact on the level of gene expression between men and women...
Obese People Can Be Metabolically Healthy And In Good Shape
Date: Sep-24-2012A person can be obese and metabolically healthy at the same time, which means that this person will have the same mortality risk for heart disease or cancer as people of normal weight. This is the conclusion of a study published in the prestigious journal European Heart Journal [1]. "Obesity is associated with a large number of chronic diseases as heart diseases or cancer. However, there is a group of obese people that do not suffer the metabolic complications associated with obesity", the author of the study, Prof. Francisco B.Ortega, explains. Prof...
A Micro-RNA Causes Metabolic Problems In Obesity
Date: Sep-24-2012Scientists have identified a key molecular player in a chain of events in the body that can lead to fatty liver disease, Type II diabetes and other metabolic abnormalities associated with obesity. By blocking this molecule, the researchers were able to reverse some of the pathology it caused in obese mice. Their findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. MiR-34a (pronounced MEER-34a), a micro-RNA, occurs at higher than normal levels in the livers of obese animals and in human patients with fatty liver disease...
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