Tag Archives: Diseases
Molecular switch enabling immune cells to better fight disease
Jan. 20, 2013 A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has discovered the mechanism that enables CD4 helper T cells to assume the more aggressive role of killer T cells in mounting an immune attack against viruses, cancerous tumors and other damaged or infected cells
Light exposure during pregnancy key to normal eye development
Jan. 16, 2013 New research in Nature concludes the eye — which depends on light to see — also needs light to develop normally during pregnancy. Scientists say the unexpected finding offers a new basic understanding of fetal eye development and ocular diseases caused by vascular disorders — in particular one called retinopathy of prematurity that can blind premature infants.
Disease burden links ecology to economic growth
Dec. 27, 2012 A new study, published Dec. 27 in the open access journal PLOS Biology , finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income between tropical and temperate countries
New MRI method may help diagnose dementia
Dec. 26, 2012 A new way to use MRI scans may help determine whether dementia is Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia, according to new research published in the December 26, 2012, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) often have similar symptoms, even though the underlying disease process is much different
New MRI method may help diagnose dementia
Dec. 26, 2012 A new way to use MRI scans may help determine whether dementia is Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia, according to new research published in the December 26, 2012, online issue of Neurology ®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology
Study sheds light on pregnancy complications and overturns common belief
ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) A study led by Hospital for Special Surgery researchers has demonstrated that women who have a specific type of antibody that interferes with blood vessel function are at risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes and that other antibodies in the same family thought to cause pregnancy complications do not put women at risk. The researchers say that many doctors may be unnecessarily treating some pregnant women who have antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) with anticoagulants, such as expensive heparin injections, which can cause bleeding and bone loss.
More than 200 genes identified for Crohn’s Disease
Dec. 13, 2012 More than two hundred gene locations have now been identified for the chronic bowel condition Crohn’s Disease, in a study that analysed the entire human genome. Published today in The American Journal of Human Genetics , scientists at UCL have devised a new method for identifying and mapping gene locations for complex inherited diseases.
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