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Cholesterol And Your Lifestyle
If changing your lifesytle habits by increasing exercise,improving your diet and losing weight does not lower your cholesterol levels sufficiently,drug therapy may help. There are certainly many cases which diet and lifestyle changes alone are not sufficient.This...
Tags: cholesterol, heart, attack, LDL, stroke, drug, statin, diet, boost, therapy, genetic, side effects, Cardiovascular diseases, Cardiology, Statins, health
Schizophrenia, no social stigma.
Curiosity kills the cat. Thus, to me it’s always better to kill the curiosity itself than getting killed as a cat. For that, I would rather be a dog to sniff around. So that, eventually, I can sneak into the truth. Even, if it’s buried under...
Tags: schizophrenia, schizophrenic, paranoia, catatonia, nymphomania, avolition, alogia, asociality, social, stigma, genetic, medication, medicines, clinical, drug, dope, alcohol
Medical News Today: Therapy Intensity Determined By New Tumor Markers
Heidelberg :: Germany | 8 months ago
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Genetic aberrations in childhood brain tumors provide precise information on the course of the disease; Heidelberg researchers publish in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Characteristic changes in the DNA of medulloblastoma, the most frequent malignant...
Genetic abnormality may boost risk of blood diseases: study
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility US researchers said on Sunday they had identified an inherited gene mutation that may be responsible for certain blood diseases such as myeloproliferative neoplasms. The research, published online in the British journal Nature Genetics, found that the...
Tags: genetic
Nanotechnology to target cancer cells
Hamilton :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility According to a study published in Cancer Research , this technique can be considered as the first step in developing a highly targeted mechanism for delivering cancer-fighting gene therapy. Gene therapy is a promising area of research particularly for...
Scientists discover genetic 'off switch' for series of cancers
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
Credibility Activating a specific gene common to fruit flies, mice and humans may allow cancer to be "switched off", researchers say. The work has major implications for treating and curing cancers by snuffing out the root of tumour formation...Each year, 289,000...
Finally! A cure for cancer?
Scientists studying genetics say that they have made a startling discovery and found a way in which cells protect themselves against cancer. Their findings point to a common gene called p53 which has the power to block the development...
Tags: Cure, Cancer, Finally, p53, Gene, Cell, Suicide, Discovery, Link, Genetic
Affirmative Inaction (or, Sudden Onset of Foot-in-Mouth Disease)
Soapbox! Loudspeaker, stat! Full glass of raw eggs (supposedly does marvels for the vocal cords)! All right, we’re set. In November, the student association in Ottawa, Ontario, voted to eliminate a Cystic Fibrosis organization...
Tags: death, foot in mouth disease, genetic, I have a dream, progeria, racism, social responsibility
New Scientist: Plant cells churn out anti-cancer compound
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility For similar stories, visit the Cancer Topic Guide A herbalist wandering into a room full of scientists would likely get a mixed reception. But new research could have put plants firmly back in the drug business. Scientists in the US have engineered plant...
Tags: cancer, genetic, cell, gene, plant cells
Asian heart disease gene found
Hyderabad :: India | 10 months ago
Credibility A gene mutation that almost guarantees the development of heart disease is carried by 60m people, researchers say. Around 4% people from the Indian subcontinent have the mutation, which increases the risk of heart disease seven-fold, Nature Genetics reports.
Tags: mutation, genetic, Indian, Nature Genetics, gene mutation, heart failure, genetic mutation
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