News tagged with bone disorder


Therapy helps regenerate child's undeveloped bones

Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. At age 3, the fragile toddler had the gross motor skills of a newborn and a ventilator kept her ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dopamine-producing neurons derived from bone marrow stem cells yield improvements in monkeys with Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in the midbrain, resulting in motor symptoms such as tremors and stiffness. The cause of cell death ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cellular bells: Key step in manufacture of red blood cells decoded

A healthy adult must generate as many as one hundred billion new red blood cells each day, to maintain the numbers circulating in his blood. A team of EPFL researchers has identified a key step in the process by which red ...

Medical research created Mar 14, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover gene's role in rheumatoid arthritis, findings pave way for new treatments

University of Michigan research sheds new light on why certain people are more likely to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis – paving the way to explore new treatments for both arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new treatment for kidney disease-associated heart failure?

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients frequently suffer from mineral bone disorder, which causes vascular calcification and, eventually, chronic heart failure. Similar to patients with CKD, mice with low levels of the protein ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Combination therapy using JAK2 and HSP90 inhibitors increased efficacy in myelofibrosis in vivo

Researchers have demonstrated that combination therapy with PU-H71 and ruxolitinib increases the durability and effectiveness of a treatment that had previously shown limited utility for patients with myelofibrosis.

Cancer created Dec 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Targeting histone deacetylases as a new strategy for graft versus host disease prevention

New research shows that the addition of the oral anti-cancer agent vorinostat to standard therapy given before, during, and after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may safely reduce the incidence and severity ...

Medical research created Dec 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons rescue motor defects in Parkinsonian monkeys

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that is characterized by tremors, rigidity, slowness of movement, and difficulty walking. It is caused by loss of the neurons that produce the neurotransmitter ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows exercise can improve bone density in postmenopausal women

(Medical Xpress)—A study by researchers in the West Virginia University School of Public Health and the University of Colorado shows that exercise can improve bone density in postmenopausal women.

Health created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rheumatoid arthritis patients can get gout too, study finds

Refuting a belief long held by many physicians, a Mayo Clinic study found that rheumatoid arthritis patients also can get gout. The research is among several studies Mayo Clinic is presenting at the American College of Rheumatology ...

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Nov 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Danish sperm donor passes genetic disorder to five children

A Danish sperm donor has passed a potentially severe genetic disorder to five children after a screening test failed to catch that he had the disease, health officials said Monday.

Other created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find novel predictor for MDS progression risk

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have discovered that changes in the physical characteristics of the effector memory regulatory T cell can predict the progression risk of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) ...

Immunology created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can gene therapy cure fatal diseases in children?

In order for the body to function, a balance is necessary between the cells that build up the bones in our skeletons and the cells that break them down. In the disease malignant infantile osteopetrosis, MIOP, the cells that ...

Genetics created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New review outlines screening strategies for osteoporosis in young adults

Much of the research defining osteoporosis and fracture risk has focused on older adults, i.e. postmenopausal women and men over the age of 50. While older adults are at highest risk of osteoporosis and related fractures, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jun 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stabilizing Fanconi anemia with antioxidants

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare genetic disorder which affects one person in 350,000. People affected by this disease have defects in DNA repair, and are hypersensitive to oxidative damage, resulting in bone marrow failure ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0