News tagged with incurable disease


Amateur players need to beware of long term effects of concussion

Well timed to coincide with the Super Bowl, the US football final that seems to obsess the nation, President Obama raised the issue of the effects of long term damage caused by concussion in the game. In an interview with ...

Health created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers discover key to heart failure, new therapies on horizon

Some 5.8 million Americans suffer from heart failure, a currently incurable disease. But scientists at Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Center for Translational Medicine have discovered a key biochemical step ...

Medical research created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

International warning issued on drug-resistance from agricultural fungicides

The European Centre for Disease Control has today announced it is examining current evidence for the possible environmental origin of drug resistance in a group of diseases known as Aspergillus infection, following Manchester ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple sclerosis drug disappoints on disability

(Medical Xpress) -- This week the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study with unfortuate news for the millions of people who suffer from multiple sclerosis. In the large study, a therapy known as inte ...

Neuroscience created Jul 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients to benefit from better advice on pain control

New UK guidance for doctors and other prescribers on the use of strong painkillers for patients with chronic or incurable disease has been welcomed by researchers at the University of Leeds.

Medications created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Omega-3 fatty acids not associated with beneficial effects in multiple sclerosis: study

Omega-3 fatty acid supplements were not associated with beneficial effects on disease activity in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, according to a report of a randomized controlled trial published Online ...

Neuroscience created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Approach to diabetes self-management too narrow, study suggests

A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London reveals the many difficulties faced by people with diabetes in self-managing their disease.

Diabetes created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dutch pensioner's decision: when to die with dignity

With a deadly dose of barbiturates stashed in his home in a small eastern Dutch town, pensioner Hans Hillebrand is a "self-determinist": he alone wants to decide when it's time to die with dignity.

Other created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dutch, Belgians mark decade of 'mercy killings'

Ten years after they became the first countries to legalise euthanasia, the Netherlands and Belgium now provide assisted suicide to 4,000 people a year.

Health created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple sclerosis: Damaged myelin not the trigger

Damaged myelin in the brain and spinal cord does not cause the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS), neuroimmunologists from the University of Zurich have now demonstrated in collaboration with researchers from Berlin, ...

Neuroscience created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover protein that may represent new target for treating type 1 diabetes

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have discovered a new protein that may play a critical role in how the human body regulates blood sugar levels. Reporting ...

Medical research created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New insights come from tracing cells that irreversibly scar lungs

Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable disease in which the delicate gas exchange region of the lung fills with scar tissue, which interferes with breathing. Now researchers at Duke University Medical Center ...

Medical research created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Next-generation brain stimulation may improve treatment of Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a devastating and incurable disease that causes abnormal poverty of movement, involuntary tremor, and lack of coordination. A technique called deep brain stimulation (DBS) is sometimes used to ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eye of a fruit fly

(Medical Xpress) -- A tiny fruit fly's retina may hold the key to understanding the cause of the progression of Alzheimer's disease, according to a newly published study by researchers at the University of ...

Medical research created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Welsh-Finnish link pinpoints important new familial motor neuron disease gene

Families suffering from a history of motor neuron disease have helped an international scientific team locate a new gene linked to the incurable disease.

Genetics created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast