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Medical Research News Many patients with diabetes say burden of care rivals complications of disease
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Many patients with diabetes say that the inconvenience and discomfort of constant therapeutic vigilance, particularly multiple daily insulin injections, has as much impact on their quality of life as the burden of intermediate complications, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the October 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.

30 percent of asthma in U.S.can be attributed to cat allergy
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30515
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that more than 50 percent of the current asthma cases in the country can be attributed to allergies, with approximately 30 percent of those cases attributed to cat allergy.

  Hair reveals all!
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30529
Historically, hair has had a magical and almost cultic importance in human history and was, for instance, believed to be a source of power.

 Loss of TDP-43 gene found to be related to age-related neurological disorders
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30511
Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville have discovered how loss of a gene can lead to accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain, resulting in a common dementia, and they say this mechanism may be important in a number of age-related neurological disorders.

 DNA damage response confers a barrier for viral tumorigenesis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30496
Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) is a human tumor virus and an etiological agent for Kaposi's sarcoma (KS).

 Transposons could make for safer gene delivery system
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30446
To move a gene from point A to point B, scientists and gene therapists have two proven options: a virus, which can effectively ferry genes of interest into cells, and a plasmid, an engineered loop of DNA that can do the same thing, albeit usually only on a short-term basis.

 The jury is in: microRNAs can cause tumors to metastasize
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30451
These tiny molecules fine-tune protein production and play a powerful role in biological processes ranging from development to aging. Now scientists have proved that they can prompt otherwise sedentary cancer cells to move and invade other tissues.

 Alcohol cessation significantly reduces cancer risk
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30432
Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have clarified the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of head and neck cancers, showing that people who stop drinking can significantly reduce their cancer risk.

 New research on glycemic index
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30444
In work investigating the reproducibility of glycemic index values, researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA) have reported that multiple glycemic index value determinations (measure of the rate of glucose absorption into the bloodstream) using a simple test food, white bread, resulted in a relatively high level of inter-individual (among different individuals), and intra-individual (within the same individual) variability.

 Defining biomarkers for better colon cancer treatment
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30470
Barcelona, Spain: New research has yielded a clearer picture of which biomarkers could help doctors more precisely target the treatment of colon cancer, bringing closer the day when patients who will not benefit from chemotherapy are spared it, while those that will, get the more aggressive treatment they need.

 New molecular target in blood clot formation
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30460
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have identified a new molecular target in blood clot formation, which seems to reduce clotting without excessive bleeding, the common side-effect of anti-clotting agents.

 Researchers demonstrate safety of synthetic siRNAs
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30474
Researchers from MIT, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and other institutions have demonstrated the safety of a promising type of genetic therapy that could lead to treatments for a wide range of diseases such as cancer.

 Researchers uncover likely source of rejection for otherwise well-matched kidney transplants
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30477
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, collaborating with colleagues in Germany, have for the first time identified antibodies associated with transplant rejection of otherwise healthy kidneys.

 Discovery of new pathway causing cell death related to frontotemporal dementia and ALS
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30465
Scientists have discovered a link between a mutated gene and a protein found in dead brain cells of people who suffer from a form of dementia and other neurological disorders.

 Research at Rice may help explain aspects of synesthesia
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30462
A research team led by Rice University Psychology Professor Tony Ro has published its findings that may help to explain the phenomenon known as synesthesia, in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory pathway.

 Enzyme's second messenger contributes to cell overgrowth
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30441
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have uncovered a novel pathway by which hormones elevated in inflammation, cancer and cell injury act on cells to stimulate their growth.

 Discovery supports theory of Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30439
Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body.

 Scots second only to Americans when it comes to obesity
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30416
Health officials in Britain say Scotland now has the one of highest obesity rates in the developed world, and comes second to the United States.

 Aloe vera powder nose spray vaccine shows potential for bird flu treatment
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30379
Researchers at Texas A&M University are participating in developing a medicine that is worth sneezing about: a treatment for influenza that forms a jelly when sprayed into the nose.

 PET scans accurately detect a breast tumor's response to chemotherapy
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30383
Researchers in Australia have shown that positron emission tomography (PET) that uses a radioactive sugar molecule is more useful than mammography and ultrasound in predicting a breast tumour's response to chemotherapy and, therefore, the patient's ultimate likelihood of survival.

 Potential new therapeutic target for obesity
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30358
A hormone system linked to reducing food consumption appears to do so by increasing stress-related behaviors, according to a new study.

 Discovery of structure in malaria with potential for a vaccine target
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30359
Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) have identified the biochemical mechanism behind the adhesive protein that give rise to particularly serious malaria in children.

 Manipulating immune response provides new approach to liver failure
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30360
If the results of the animal study can be applied in human patients, the approach may be able to keep patients alive until donor organs become available or to support liver function until the organ can regenerate itself, eliminating the need for a transplant.

 Biologists link Huntington's disease to health benefits in young
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30408
For years researchers in neurology have believed that people with Huntington's disease have more children than the general population because of behavioral changes associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity.

 BRCA1 gene plays significant role in non-small cell lung cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30346
Barcelona, Spain: Researchers have found that the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA1, plays a significant role in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

 Stem-cell therapy opens new avenue of research against Huntington's disease
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30402
Paying close attention to how a canary learns a new song has helped scientists open a new avenue of research against Huntington's disease - a fatal disorder for which there is currently no cure or even a treatment to slow the disease.

 New nanoprobe imaging station helps study the distribution of elements in cells
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30397
Scientists suspect that iron accumulation plays a role in neurodegenerative processes such as Parkinson's disease, but its distribution in neurons has never been observed because of the lack of techniques to do so. Until today.

 Simulation reveals how body repairs balance after damage
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30401
Your body goes to a lot of trouble to make sure you stay upright. But when the brain's neural pathways are impaired through injury, age or illness, muscles are deprived of the detailed sensory information they need to perform the constant yet delicate balancing act required for normal movement and standing.

 HPV is related to bladder cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30392
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is considered the cause of one of the most important sexually transmitted diseases nowadays, and affects both men and women.

 Molecular profiling can accurately predict survival in colon cancer patients
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30368
Barcelona, Spain: Researchers in The Netherlands have developed a method of accurately predicting which patients with colon cancer are most likely to have their disease recur after surgery and who would, therefore, be likely to benefit from additional chemotherapy.

 Mutation of the COX2 gene can double or treble a woman's risk of ovarian cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30371
Researchers in Portugal have discovered that a specific mutation of the COX2 gene seems to play a role in the onset of ovarian cancer, increasing women's susceptibility to developing the disease.

 Stem cells may aid national security
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30376
For more than a decade, Steve Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and debilitating injuries.

 A blood test for concussions - aim of new research
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=30394
The University of Rochester Medical Center received $1.5 million to develop a blood test for concussions by isolating proteins that can predict memory loss, chronic headaches or other neurological problems.

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