Disease and Condition:
Research and publications on disease and conditions.
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Nov 7th, 2009
Deep brain stimulation has been shown to help individuals with Tourette syndrome in a small study. Tourette syndrome overview includes symptoms of involuntary movements of the limbs and trunkm as well as vocalizations that can become repetitive. Decreased quality of life is associated with severe cases of Tourette syndrome. Individuals who did not respond to conventional treatment of the condition were shown to benefit from deep brain stimulation to treat Tourette syndrome in two year follow-up.
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Nov 2nd, 2009
Today is the first annual World Pneumonia Day. Almost 100 leading global health organizations from around the world have joined forces to use this day to urge governments to take steps to fight pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of young children.
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Nov 1st, 2009
Vertex has announced the results of their Phase 2 Study C208 which explored the use of telaprevir-based regimen in hepatitis C patients. The study which showed more than 80% of patients responded is to be represented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), which began yesterday in Boston.
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Nov 1st, 2009
The MRSA USA600 strain is showing resistance to the powerful antibiotic Vancomycin. Henry Ford researchers say the MRSA strain is causing higher death rates, though the reasons are not entirely clear. The MRSA USA600 strain is five times more likely to lead to death than other strains of MRSA that enter the blood stream.
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Oct 29th, 2009
There is a continual shortage of organs to use for patients on transplantation lists. Help may be on its way in the form of gene therapy used to heal injured lungs which will then be suitable for transplantation.
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Oct 26th, 2009
As of Friday, October 23, 2009, the Arkansas Health Department reports 11 confirmed deaths due to H1N1. There is also a possible twelfth, a 12 year old girl from Van Buren who died Saturday night after testing positive for the H1N1 virus.
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Oct 24th, 2009
In an email declaration, President Obama has declared an H1N1 emergency. This national emergency is not in response to anything new with the H1N1 situation. However, to provide individual hospitals with the needed tools they need to handle overload problems, this was a critical step in caring for the nation’s citizens, writes Reuters.
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Oct 24th, 2009
The cause of multiple sclerosis, a chronic, often debilitating disease that attacks the central nervous system, has puzzled doctors for decades. Now neurologists at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York are embarking on research that may introduce an entirely new hypothesis as to what causes the disease.
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Oct 24th, 2009
Long term use of popular drugs to treat GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), seem to lead to weight gain. The study is the first to investigate the effect of GERD drugs on body weight, and show that patients taking the popular reflux drugs should be encouraged to take extra care not to overeat and manage weight.
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Oct 23rd, 2009
Remember mumps? Baby boomers may remember getting the childhood disease or getting the vaccine as a young child. Now the New York Department of Health has confirmed an outbreak of about 57 confirmed or probable cases of mumps, which have been reported since August 21 in Brooklyn. Across the border, residents in the New Jersey township of Lakewood are reporting about 15 to 30 cases of their own.