Two women taking part in the world’s first controlled study of a comprehensive genetic screening test before IVF have given birth to healthy babies. The babies, twin girls born in Germany in June and a singleton boy born in Italy in September, are the first deliveries in a pilot study of comparative genomic hybridisation (CGH)… Continue reading
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Osteoporosis Drug helps to people with gum disease
A drug marketed to grow bone in osteoporosis patients also works to heal bone wounds in gum disease patients, a University of Michigan study suggests. “This new approach for the treatment of periodontal disease could allow us to rebuild some of the bone that is lost due to periodontal disease, which until this point has… Continue reading
Interaction Between two TB features – and the result is new anti-TB drug
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human cells and Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which cause TB, deliver unwanted proteins – marked with a “kiss of death” sequence – to their respective cellular recycling factories. This critical difference, described in… Continue reading
The scientist will made a test that predict a menopause
A test to predict when a woman will enter the menopause has come nearer the grasp of scientists from the University of Exeter Peninsula Medical School, England, and the Institute of Cancer, also in England, according to an article published in the scientific peer-reviewed journal Human Molecular Genetics. Being able to know when her reproductive… Continue reading
Young australian children with Diabetes type 1 need an assistent to transition to adult diabetes care
Young rural Australians with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) have limited access to adult diabetes health services and contact with specialist staff, and aren’t effectively transitioning from child to adult health services, according to an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia. The article finds that diabetes the management of young Australians, and uptake… Continue reading
Alemtuzumab Achieves Sustained Reduction in people with multiple sclerosis
Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with alemtuzumab show sustained reduction in relapses and disability after five years, according to results reported at the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) annual meeting (14 October; Gothenburg, Sweden). The CAMMS223 study randomised 334 patients with early, active relapsing remitting MS to alemtuzumab (at… Continue reading
For protection against diabetes, heart diseases and cognitive decline, you should eat a right food
For the first time researchers have found out what effect multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects have on healthy individuals. The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood lipids by 14 per cent, blood pressure by 8 per cent and a risk marker… Continue reading
Therapeutic Benefits Translate Into Significant Economic Benefits
New data presented at Obesity 2010, the 28th annual scientific meeting of The Obesity Society, find that bariatric surgery is associated with reduced healthcare costs for diabetes patients who are morbidly obese. The study, conducted by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), and Analysis Group, Inc., shows… Continue reading