http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Fears about the purported side effects once sent British parents running from vaccinations against measles. But now an outbreak of the potentially deadly disease in one city has brought them back in droves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-anxious-british-parents-vaccines-measles.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:56:37 EST news286347372 Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, deadly disease that affects five million people worldwide. It is irreversible, its cause is poorly understood, and it has a median survival of only about 3 years. A new study that implicates mast cells—an immune cell involved in allergic asthma—in the development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis could lead to new, more effective therapies. The study is published in DNA and Cell Biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-mast-cells-critical-role-pulmonary.html Medical research Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:54:58 EST news284903686 Diagnosis of the brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is particularly bad news for patients due to limited available medical options and poor outcomes. Even treatments that can eliminate other malignancies, such as chemotherapy and surgery, buy only limited time for GBM patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-insights-abnormally-rna-molecule-yield.html Cancer Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:00:02 EST news284804576 Federal public health officials say three people who received organs from a rabies-infected donor in 2011 are no longer in danger of coming down with the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cdc-rabies-longer-threat-recipients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:41:14 EST news284132465 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can actually be part of a regular, non-harmful process. The team further found that disruptions to this process occur in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease—and identified two therapeutic strategies that reduce these disruptions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-scientists-dna-brain.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:10:01 EST news283335265 An outbreak of tuberculosis in the skid row area of downtown Los Angeles may have exposed up to 4,500 individuals to the bacterium that causes the deadly disease and has left federal officials scrambling to intervene. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-wolf-sheep-uncovering-deadly-bacteria.html Medical research Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:04 EST news281280867 University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers have launched groundbreaking research into the spread of potentially deadly drug-resistant malaria in the developing Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The scientists, working as part of a large international team coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), have identified several promising genetic markers that could be used to develop tests to identify and track the spread of the newest type of drug-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia, including Myanmar. The scientists describe these new candidate markers in an article published online Dec. 17 in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Additionally, two new National Institutes of Health awards to the University of Maryland School of Medicine are some of the first U.S. federal funds to support the study of malaria in Myanmar. Myanmar, long an isolated sovereign state, ended military rule last year and is gradually opening its doors to the rest of the world. In November, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-team-drug-resistant-malaria-myanmar.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:07:02 EST news274986241 Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-associated deaths. Yet even for such a frequent and deadly disease, the pathogenesis of this cancer remains obscure. Now, a team of scientists in Japan has shown that genes involved in regulating how tightly DNA is wound into chromosomes are commonly mutated in liver tumors. The finding points to potential new and much-needed therapeutic strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-identification-mutations-common-liver-cancers.html Cancer Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:14:42 EST news272272473 Preliminary findings from the first trial of a new drug for patients with mesothelioma show that it has some success in preventing the spread of the deadly disease in patients lacking an active tumour suppressor gene called NF2. The study is presented at the 24th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Dublin, Ireland, today (Friday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mesothelioma-drug-disease-patients-inactive.html Cancer Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:02 EST news271613650 The war on tuberculosis is getting new weapons for the first time in decades, offering hope for controlling the deadly disease but major funding shortfalls threaten progress, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tb-global-burden-huge.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:40:15 EST news269689199 A deadly meningitis outbreak in the United States blamed on a tainted drug has triggered outrage and calls for tighter regulation of the loosely controlled pharmaceutical compounding industry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-oversight-tainted-drug-outbreak.html Medications Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:08:47 EST news269194120 An isolated outbreak of a deadly disease known as acute hemorrhagic fever, which killed two people and left one gravely ill in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the summer of 2009, was probably caused by a novel virus scientists have never seen before. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-bas-congo-genetic-sleuthing-uncovers-deadly.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:02:03 EST news267984105 A Qatari man suffering from a mystery respiratory virus from the same family as the deadly disease SARS is on an artificial lung to keep him alive, a British hospital said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-qatari-sars-like-virus-artificial-lung.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:42:09 EST news267799268 Lung cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and is associated with very low survival rates. Two new genome-sequencing studies have uncovered novel genes involved in the deadly disease, as well as striking differences in mutations found in patients with and without a history of smoking. The findings, published September 13th by Cell Press in the journal Cell, could pave the way for personalized therapies that boost survival rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-personalized-therapies-lung-cancer-patients.html Cancer Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:54:48 EST news266759680 Flinders University's Professor Tracey Wade and a team of researchers at Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute are only months from what may be an important turning point in the treatment of anorexia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-epigenetics-reveal-insights-anorexia.html Genetics Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:39:38 EST news266477968 (Medical Xpress) -- Yale Cancer Center geneticists, biochemists, and structural biologists have painted the most comprehensive picture yet of the molecular landscape of melanoma, a highly aggressive and often deadly skin cancer. The study appears in the July 29 advance online publication of Nature Genetics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-scientists-uncover-gene-variation-linked.html Genetics Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:06:47 EST news262800400 AIDS cannot be halted through treatment alone, and more prevention tools, in particular a vaccine, are needed to move seriously toward ending it, philanthropist Bill Gates said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-gates-urges-tools-vaccine-aids.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:37:27 EST news262280240 Three decades into the AIDS pandemic an end to new infections is in sight, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-aids-pandemic-sight-expert.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 18 Jul 2012 03:05:13 EST news261799505 The development of a highly accurate, blood-based pancreatic adenocarcinoma screen that would be accurate enough to test the general population for this deadly disease may not be far out of reach, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Pancreatic Cancer: Progress and Challenges conference, held here June 18-21, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-biomarker-panel-screen-pancreatic-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:30:15 EST news259332637 Researchers have unveiled a novel strategy for neutralizing unwanted molecules and clearing them from the body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-antitoxin-strategy-pathogens.html Medical research Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:03:53 EST news259232620 (HealthDay) -- Although the plague is typically considered a remnant of the Middle Ages, when unsanitary conditions and rodent infestations prevailed amid the squalor of poverty, this rare but deadly disease appears to be spreading through wealthier communities in New Mexico, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-plague-rare-surfacing-affluent-areas.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:34:13 EST news258829959 (Medical Xpress) -- With Type 2 human diabetes climbing at alarming rates in the United States, researchers are seeking treatments for the disease, which has been linked to obesity and poor diet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-human-diabetes-tool-overfed-fruit.html Diabetes Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:26:29 EST news258103582 (Medical Xpress) -- Half the world's population is at risk for contracting malaria. The deadly disease, spread by hungry mosquitoes that bite humans for their blood meals, affects more than 200 million people each year, and many people-mostly children-die. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-malaria-discoveries-pave-therapies.html Medical research Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:01 EST news256203911 A mysterious, difficult-to-diagnose, and potentially deadly disease that was only recently discovered can be controlled most effectively if treatment is started within the first month that symptoms occur, according to a new report by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-early-treatment-outcomes-rare-undiagnosed.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:55:32 EST news254137430 (Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins researchers have found that more than four in 10 people considered at high risk for hereditary pancreatic cancer have small pancreatic lesions long before they have any symptoms of the deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pancreatic-lesions-common-people-high.html Cancer Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:50:01 EST news252739834 Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, the health ministry said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bird-flu-victim-year-indonesia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:10:01 EST news249029944 A mutant protein found in nearly all pancreatic cancers plays a role not only in the cancer's development but in its continued growth, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers. The finding suggests a possible target for developing new ways to treat this deadly disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-gene-linked-pancreatic-cancer-growth.html Cancer Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:08:43 EST news247230516 A new study published in the journal Nature Medicine by NYU Cancer Institute researchers, shows how the cancer causing gene Notch, in combination with a mutated Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) protein complex, work together to cause T- cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-culprit-t-cell-acute-lymphoblastic-leukemia.html Cancer Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:20:01 EST news245586542 New research shows that older Americans with cirrhosis have significantly worse health status and greater functional disability compared to those without this potentially deadly disease. In fact, findings now published in Hepatology, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that elderly patients with cirrhosis require twice the amount of informal caregiving and contribute added strain on the health care system. Given the increase in obesity and aging of those with hepatitis C (HCV), researchers expect the prevalence of cirrhosis to climb in this frail population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-high-disability-health-older-americans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:40:59 EST news245428829 A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation's first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-dies-bird-flu-southern-china.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 31 Dec 2011 05:20:47 EST news244531238