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Doctors see more children with inflammatory bowel disease

Once a medical rarity in children, inflammatory bowel disease today is increasingly common in kids, but many of them may not be diagnosed in a timely manner, according to experts from the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Potential new medicines show promise for treating colon cancer, asthma

In what they described as the opening of a new era in the development of potentially life-saving new drugs, scientists today reported discovery of a way to tone down an overactive gene involved in colon cancer and block a ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Road traffic pollution doubles risk of rejection after lung transplant

Lung transplant patients have double the risk of organ rejection and death within five years of the procedure if they live near a main road, indicates research published online in Thorax.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rare gene glitch may hold clues for schizophrenia

Scientists are eyeing a rare genetic glitch for clues to improved treatments for some people with schizophrenia -- even though they found the mutation in only one third of 1 percent of patients.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research links 29 genome regions with common form of inflammatory bowel disease

An international team of researchers has made new links between 29 regions of the genome and ulcerative colitis – a common form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The new findings increase the total number of genome ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hybrid plants with over-reactive immune system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals from the same species can often be crossed without any trouble. However, genes also have their preferences, and some gene variants are not compatible with those found in other ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New clues to how cancer-related proteins plasmin, thrombin lose inhibition

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new technique that searches blood for the tiniest remnants of broken down proteins has revealed new information about how cells crank up cancer activators called proteases. The results improve ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

One lock, many keys

German researchers discover how immune system B-cells can react to very different substances.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists describe how salmonella bacteria spread in humans (w/ Video)

New findings by National Institutes of Health scientists could explain how Salmonella bacteria, a common cause of food poisoning, efficiently spread in people. In a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Ac ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study points to increased risk for lupus in men

Lupus Research Institute-funded researcher Betty Tsao, PhD, at the University of California Los Angeles has discovered that humans -- males in particular -- with a variant form of the immune receptor gene "Toll Like Receptor ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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