Diseases

'Restless Vagina Syndrome': Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido of a 17-year-old boy. You have a disease: female sexual dysfunction (FSD), and the pharmaceutical industry wants to help. You are among the "43 percent of American women [who] experience some degree of impaired sexual function,"...

Possible Help In Fight Against Muscle Wasting Disease

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

• Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease (w/ Video) - Physorg
• Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease - Eurekalert
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Entest BioMedical, Inc. Sees Substantial Opportunities In Treatment Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

David Koos, Chairman and CEO of Entest BioMedical, Inc. (OTCBB: ENTB), stated that the Company's unique treatments for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), currently in development, can lead to substantial revenue opportunities. According to Koos, "Current treatment for COPD is aimed at improving quality of life, not curing the illness. It is Entest's goal to reverse the damage from COPD....

Gene Therapy Success for Brian Disease

In Search of Enlightenment (Free subscription) | yesterday

Naturenews reports on another important success for gene therapy-- treatment for ALD ( adrenoleukodystrophy ), a rare, inherited metabolic disorder that afflicts young males. ALD results in severe degeneration of the structure that is crucial for brain-cell function and most die before adolescence. Here is a sample from the news story: Researchers have halted a fatal brain disease by delivering a...

degenerative valve disease

SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | yesterday

ATV's fifth single release proper on Depftford Fun City - not including their " Love Lies Limp " flexi distributed free through issue #12 of fanzine, Sniffin' Glue , the last - " The Force is Blind " parts company with all time-served apprentices with the notable exception of Dennis Burns, but continues in the experimental vein carried over from the fractured mess of " The...

Cause of disease spread yet to be confirmed

Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

Texas officials have yet to determine whether ticks have played a role in the spread of equine piroplasmosis to more than 100 horses.

Small Increases In Phosphorus Mean Higher Risk Of Heart Disease

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

Higher levels of phosphorus in the blood are linked to increased calcification of the coronary arteries a key marker of heart disease risk, according to a study in an upcoming issue of Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). "This may help to explain why even early-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with increased cardiovascular risk that is not otherwise...

• Phosphorus Levels May Predict Heart Disease - VitaBeat
• Small Increases In Phosphorus Mean Higher Risk Of Heart Disease - Science Daily
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Disease-mongering human sexual response

PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

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Legionnaires' disease confirmed at retirement community

Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

The Daily Herald reports : Lake County officials have confirmed three cases of Legionnaires' disease and suspect seven others at The Park at Vernon Hills retirement community. Get the full story : dailyherald.com

Gene therapy halts rare brain disease

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Two patients with a rare and fatal brain disease have been successfully treated using an experimental gene therapy, French scientists say.

• Scientists halt brain disease with gene therapy - MSNBC.com
• Scientists halt brain disease with new gene therapy - Reuters UK
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Baby suffering a “Brain Melting” killer disease survives

Baby Chums (Free subscription) | yesterday

An Australian baby girl, survives all odds against a rare, “brain melting” condition which kills about 100 babies each year. A slow and painful death was almost assured for the baby known as “Z”. Her brain had begun to dissolve after birth because she had too much toxic sulphite in her system. However an amazing [...] Source: Baby Chums

Biovitrum Creates Rare-Disease Focused Spec Pharma with Swedish Orphan Buy

The IN VIVO Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sweden’s Biovitrum on November 5 stumped up just over half a billion dollars for compatriot Swedish Orphan, buying itself a tidy additional SEK800 million ($115 million) in revenues, an extended commercial network and a couple of near-term launch opportunities. The move is yet another step in Biovitrum’s transformation into a specialty pharma company—coming just a week after it offloaded...

Scientists Halt Brain Disease With New Gene Therapy

Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

Scientists have managed to halt a rare and fatal brain disease with an experimental gene therapy technique using a deactivated version of the AIDS virus....

• Scientists halt brain disease with gene therapy - MSNBC.com
• Gene therapy technique slows ALD brain disease - Physorg
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Aranesp Associated With Increased Risk For Stroke In Patients With Diabetes And Chronic Kidney Disease

Drug Injury Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday

TREAT Study Revealed, Also, That This Amgen Anemia Drug Was No Better Than Placebo In Reducing Deaths Or Cardiovascular Problems (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com) The anemia drug Aranesp (darbepoetin alfa) might cause an increased risk for stroke in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease, according to the results from the Trial to Reduce Cardiovascular Events with Aransep Treatment...

Gene therapy can cure brain disease

Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

In what could raise hopes of thousands of families, scientists have managed to halt a rare brain disease that kills boys by the time of adolescence through an experimental gene therapy.

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Obesity Can Harm the Brain

bsalmons | 26/08/2009

Obese people have 8 % less brain tissue than people with a normal weight, according to a new study. Obesity can make the brain look 16 years older than the brain of lean people. "That's a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer's and other diseases that attack the brain."

• Fat People Have 'Severe Brain Degeneration' - Live Science

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philer | 23/08/2009

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