Archive: 10/27/2011
Lupus classification system too complicated
The current classification system for kidney complications in patients with lupus is too detailed, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results should ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Why some kidney disease patients can't repair blood vessels
In some kidney diseases, patients have high blood levels of a protein that blocks blood vessel repair, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). Inhibiting th ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Vitamin B derivative helps diabetics with mild kidney disease
A vitamin B6 derivative may help slow or prevent the progression of mild kidney disease in patients with diabetes, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Cattle parasite vaccine offers hope to world's poorest farmers
A new approach to vaccinating cattle could help farmers worldwide, research suggests.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Promising kidney drug fails in large clinical trial
What was hoped to be a promising new drug to protect the kidneys has failed to benefit diabetes patients with kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN) ...
Medications
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NYC man pleads guilty to kidney trafficking
(AP) -- A New York man pleaded guilty Thursday to what experts said was the first ever proven case of black-market organ trafficking in the United States.
Other
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Drug treatment shows promise for brain blood vessel abnormality
A drug treatment has been proven to prevent lesions from cerebral cavernous malformation -- a brain blood vessel abnormality that can cause bleeding, epilepsy and stroke -- for the first time in a new study.
Cardiology
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Poorer countries, those spending less on health care have more strokes, deaths
Poorer countries and those that spend proportionately less money on health care have more stroke and stroke deaths than wealthier nations and those that allocate more to health care, according to new research in Stroke: Jo ...
Cardiology
Oct 27, 2011 |
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What role do cytokines play in autoimmune diseases?
Cytokines, a varied group of signaling chemicals in the body, have been described as the software that runs the immune system, but when that software malfunctions, dysregulation of the immune system can result in debilitating ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2011 |
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New oncolytic virus shows improved effectiveness in preclinical testing
A new fourth-generation oncolytic virus designed to both kill cancer cells and inhibit blood-vessel growth has shown greater effectiveness than earlier versions when tested in animal models of human brain cancer.
Cancer
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FDA ties newer birth control drugs to blood clots
(AP) -- Safety concerns with the popular birth control pill Yaz increased Thursday as federal health scientists reported that the Bayer drug and other newer birth control treatments appear to increase the risk of dangerous ...
Medications
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2.5 million California children still at risk of secondhand smoke exposure
Despite having the second-lowest smoking rate in the nation, California is still home to nearly 2.5 million children under the age of 12 who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center ...
Health
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Scientists make strides toward drug therapy for inherited kidney disease
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that patients with an inherited kidney disease may be helped by a drug that is currently available for other uses. The findings are published in this week's issue ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Research predicts how cancers will respond to chemo, rewrites old theory of why chemo works
Challenging a half-century-old theory about why chemotherapy agents target cancer, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have devised a test that can predict how effective the drugs will be by determining whether a patient's ...
Cancer
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Biologists create anti-HIV antibody that shows increased potency
Using highly potent antibodies isolated from HIV-positive people, researchers have recently begun to identify ways to broadly neutralize the many possible subtypes of HIV. Now, a team led by biologists at ...
HIV & AIDS
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