Diseases

Vaccinations are Causing Impaired Blood Flow (Ischemia), Chronic Illness, Disease and Death For Us All

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

This is a stern, yet humble, warning to all citizens of the globe. It is now proven that we are all being harmed by repeat vaccinations. This evidence must be circulated broadly in light of the imminent Fall, 2009 plan to turn North American schools into MASS vaccine centers to institute triple flu vaccine to us all. Children will be the first to be injected with experimental flu vaccines. The entire...

The Protein Srebp2 Drives Cholesterol Formation In Prion-Infected Neuronal Cells Which May Promote Prion-Dependent Diseases

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München have now succeeded in elucidating another disease mechanism of prion diseases: The prion-infected cell changes its gene expression and produces increased...

• Srebp2 Drives Cholesterol Formation In Prion-Infected Neuronal Cells - Red Orbit
• The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells - Physorg

Tiny chip could diagnose disease

3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday

From BBC: A tiny drop of blood is drawn through the chip, where disease markers are caught and show up under light. The device uses the tendency of a fluid to travel through small channels under its own force, instead...

• Tiny chip could diagnose disease - T Jantunen.com

Stem Cell Therapy may Reduce Vision Loss in Patients with Stargardt Disease

dBTechno (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Boston (DbTechNo) - Researchers from the United States have submitted a request to the government to begin performing embryonic stem cell trials on humans. The researchers want to perform a small study on 12 patients diagnosed with a rare condition called Stargardt, which results in vision loss. The condition currently has no cure, but stem cell therapy [...]

Fixing the wrong disease

New York Post (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago

As the City Council debates a bill to force employers to offer paid sick leave, Dem ocrats in Congress aim to pass a similar federal law. Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (both D-Conn.) on Tuesday released the Pandemic Protection for Workers...

Annual Evidence Update on Supportive and Palliative Care in Chronic Lung Disease: 23-27 November 2009

NHS Evidence Specialist Collections News Alert (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

An update of the evidence on this topic from NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care. The Annual Evidence Update on supportive and palliative care in chronic lung disease collects together the best new knowledge covering two key symptoms which affect most patients - cough and dyspnoea (breathlessness). Our review of the literature will encompass recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms...

Get Lou Gehrig's Disease and You will Pay an Extra Tax

ORACULATIONS (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

You will under Pelosi Care because if you need Botox to treat a host of ailments relating to spasms and many more neurological disorders especially including Lou Gehrig's Disease. I get shot up with Botox every three months because I have a condition known as a Hemi Facial Spasm and Botox is the only effective way to control it. Botox is also the recommended treatment for a condition known as hyperhidrosis...

You Might Have Gum Disease If…

Dating advice book | Friends Dating (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago

I heard from a woman from France yesterday. She told me about her experience with dental implants. One did not make it. Implants don’t always ‘take’. What was truly interesting about this conversation is that she never realized that her lost teeth were most likely due to gum disease. This plague on humanity is the number [...]

I Have A Spelling Disease

Dubious Quality (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

...and keep spelling "Solium Infernum" incorrectly. It's not "Solium Infernium", no matter how many times I type it wrong. The post below has been corrected.

Disease spreading despite quarantines

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago

LONDON - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one...

Disease Prevention and Anti-Aging Properties of Resveratrol

anti aging cream (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chances are that you heard a lot about Resveratrol lately because its popularity in media. Resveratrol called a "miracle" nutrient or "red wine nutrient" thanks to its unique properties in preventing heart disease and cancer, maintaining a healthy cholesterol balance and even supporting increased longevity is a substance produced by plants as a defense against infection by pathogenic...

NIAAA Official Says Alcoholism 'Isn't Usually' a 'Chronic, Relapsing Disease'

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Los Angeles Times notices that people can overcome drinking problems without abstaining from alcohol for the rest of their lives. More important, the Times quotes Mark Willenbring, director of treatment and recovery research at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, who admits that the one-size-fits-all, abstinence-only approach preached by Alcoholics Anonymous is inconsisent with...

Rumors and neglected tropical diseases

UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | yesterday

A recent mass administration of treatment for elephantiasis in Indonesia has resulted in side-effects that caused fear and panic. It’s nice to see a mystery solved. We just saw some major panic in Indonesia about a treatment for a neglected tropical disease. The Jakarta Post reported this morning that, after a mass administration of drugs to fight lymphatic filariasis, “those treated by...

Tiny chip could diagnose disease

Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

A simple and cheap approach to diagnosing a wide array of medical conditions has been demonstrated by researchers. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/8366405.stm

Cells That Control Inflammation In Chronic Disease

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

A new type of immune cell that can be out of control in certain chronic inflammatory diseases, worsening the symptoms of conditions like psoriasis and asthma, is described for the first time this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Diabetes and Hair Transplant Surgery

parsamohebi | 07/11/2009

Hair transplant surgery with follicular unit transplantation is the gold standard for the treatment of male patterned baldness for most men. There are several conditions a hair transplant surgeon Los Angeles should take into extra consideration before performing a hair transplant surgery. Most of those conditions are skin related problems that may lead to the loss of hair after hair transplant surgery...

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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