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Submitted by Mohit Joshi on Fri, 03/21/2008 - 08:03. Parkinson's Disease Health Update Washington

Washington, March 21: Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University say that a gene known as GIGYF2 may hold the key to developing new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive and often debilitating movement disorder.

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Akapella Health has a new approach to health care, namely “the future of healthcare, empowering patients and physicians. They approached Adrial Designs (that’s lil’ old me) for their logo design and website design. This logo design is an artistic hint of a doctor’s stethoscope and the heartbeat pattern laid behind it. The blues are reminiscent of the calming blues normally used in the realm of healthcare. The type was manipulated from an existing typeface in Illustrator to be unique.

Welcome to the Centre for Mental Health Research

Looking to support mental health research? AFFIRM raises funds for research at the Centre for Mental Health Research, and raises community awareness about early intervention, prevention and treatment for mental health problems.

Health News: SIGMOIDOSCOPY Screening Colon cancer

Patients are checks for colon cancer with a process called comfortable SIGMOIDOSCOPY show no important decrease in risk in excess of seven existences and the show did appear to inferior risk of disappearing from the disease and this disease is affected on your personality and health. And in this Screening are used for various methods just like colonoscopy, cancerous polyps and many more.

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setting. They are given in regular cycles for several months. Researchers are still investigating how many chemotherapy cycles to administer in late-stage cancers, the timing of those cycles, and the sequences of the drugs. For instance, research suggests that a three- or four-course cycle may achieve the same survival times and better quality of life than the standard of six or more course cycles. Changing even one day in a drug sequence can sometimes significantly affect the outcome. Such fine-tuning of chemotherapy regimens is likely to have the most effect on patients with advanced-stage disease, which requires more tailored treatment than early-stage disease

Immune Drug Boosts Lifespan

The-Scientist.com, July 9, 2009, by Bob Grant – A drug used to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs and as an experimental cancer treatment in humans can significantly increase lifespan when given to adult mice, researchers have found. Mice that were administered the immunosuppressant rapamycin lived an average of 9-14% longer than mice that were not fed the drug, according to a paper published online in Nature yesterday (July 8th).
“This is pretty remarkable,” Panjak Kapahi, a geneticist at the Buck Institute for Age Research in California told The Scientist. “There might be more to gain in understanding the downstream effects, but this is already a wonderful start.” Kapahi, who was not involved with the study, added that, though preliminary, the finding opens the door for further research into the drug’s use for an anti-aging intervention in humans. “It should be applicable to humans, I think.”
David Harrison, a gerontologist at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor Maine and lead author on the paper, told The Scientist that 9%, though seemingly a modest life span increase, is significant when compared to the effect of eradicating some of the most common age-related diseases in humans. “If you prevented all deaths from cancer and atherosclerosis,” Harrison said, “it would be a little less than that.”

Periodontal Disease and Tobacco

You are probably familiar with the links between

tobacco use and lung disease, cancer and heart disease.
Current studies have now also linked periodontal disease with tobacco usage. These cases of gum disease are more severe than non-smokers. There is a greater incidence of calculus formation on teeth, deeper pockets between gums and teeth as well as greater loss of the bone and fibers that hold teeth in your mouth. In addition, your chance of developoing oral cancer increases with the use of smokeless tobacco.
Chemicals in tobacco such as nicotine and tar slow down healing and the predicatability of success following periodontal treatment. Using tobacco causes lung disease, cancer, heart disease, mouth sores, gum recession, loss of bone and teeth, bad breath, severe tooth staining and less success of dental treatments such as implants and gum therapy

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patients are genetically predisposed to a higher risk of bleeding when taking the anticoagulant drug warfarin (Coumadin). Although a third of patients are especially sensitive to warfarin’s effects, all patients who take this drug need to have regular blood tests to make sure their blood does not become too thick or too thin.
According to a 2007 report, nearly 16 million Americans have coronary artery disease (CAD). In the U.S., coronary artery disease is the leading killer of both men and women. Each year, nearly 500,000 people die because of CAD. On the positive side, heart attack mortality rates have been declining. Half of men and 63% of women who die of heart disease do not have angina or other warning symptoms prior to their fatal attacks. Although at this time no tests can reliably predict whether a heart attack will occur, experts estimate that up to 30% of fatal attacks and many follow-up surgeries could be avoided with healthy lifestyle changes and by sticking to medical treatments. Two-thirds of patients who have suffered a first heart attack, however, do not take the necessary steps to prevent another.

Anty Cancer

The Cancer Project promotes cancer prevention and survival through a better understanding of cancer causes, particularly the link between nutrition and cancer. Through research, education, and advocacy, we are saving lives.

Chemotherapy for stomach cancer

A PICC is a long, thin, flexible tube known as a catheter. It is inserted into one of the large veins of the arm near the bend of the elbow. It is then slid into the vein until the tip sits in a large vein just above the heart.

The space in the middle of the tube is called the lumen. Sometimes the tube has two or three lumens (known as double or triple lumen). This allows different treatments to be given at the same time. At the end of the tube outside the body, each lumen has a special cap, to which a drip line or syringe can be attached. Sometimes there is a clamp to keep the tube closed when it is not in use.

India's Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Drug Market Will Almost Double by 2013

Distributed by Press Release EMAIL ARTICLE PRINT ARTICLE WALTHAM, Mass. (Map) - Western Branded Drug Sales Will Command 54 percent of the Market by 2013, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that the non-small-cell lung cancer drug market in India will almost double by 2013, growing from $27.7 million in 2008 to..

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Barry Artiste Op/Ed If this study is True, then Politicians of every party everywhere are in for some bad Health news, as we all know if anyone knows about BJs its politicians, whose also sideline masses of Verbal Diaherra, giving it at both ends when vying (Lying) for votes...

Scientists use near-infrared light to detect Alzheimer's

Washington, Mar 15 : Researchers at Bedford, Massachusetts have developed a novel technique that can detect signs of Alzheimer's disease by examining brain tissue with the help of near-infrared light.

The optical technique has been developed by Eugene Hanlon, a scientist at U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs Research, and his collaborators at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Boston.



Washington, Mar 11: Offspring of patients having Alzheimer's disease might be more susceptible to developing the condition, say researchers at University of Washington, Seattle.

The study, led by Suman Jayadev, M. D., of the University of Washington, Seattle, has stated that Alzheimer’s disease is hereditary and identifying genes in patients can help detect others who are at risk for the condition.

Diabetes drug LANTUS that power boost cancer

Despite new health study suggestive that the inject diabetes drug LANTUS that power boost cancer risk and U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday urge patients who are on medicine to persist use it. And the three of four studies available most recent Friday in DIABETOLOGIA show a possible link between LANTUS and better risks for a variety of tumor type.

But, “the duration of patient follow-up in all four studies was shorter than what is generally considered necessary to evaluate for cancer risk from drug exposure,” the FDA said in its first comment on the issue. “Further, inconsistencies in findings within and across individual studies raise concerns as to whether an association between the use of insulin glargine and cancer truly exists.”

“Based on the currently available data, the FDA recommends that patients should not stop taking their insulin therapy without consulting a physician, since uncontrolled blood sugar levels can have both immediate and long-term serious adverse effects,” the agency wrote.

And “For patients using glargine and considering switching to another form of insulin, the data in these studies make it unclear as to whether any one type of insulin increases the risk of cancer more than other types of insulin,” the ADA said.

Cancer drug that zaps cells before they spread is discovered

A cancer drug that destroys the deadly cells which give birth to tumours has been developed by scientists.

It has worked already in tackling breast cancer and offers hope to those with the disease in their prostate, skin or bowel.

The drug selectively kills cancer stem cells which help tumours grow and spread the disease through the body. Unlike other cancer cells, stem ‘mother’ cells are resistant to radiotherapy and

chemotherapy, allowing cancer to return after treatment.

In laboratory tests, the new drug, salinomycin, was 100 times more effective at destroying stem cells than the powerful chemo treatment Taxol.

Injected into mice with breast cancer, it also slowed the growth of tumours.

Stem cells treated with the new drug

were less able to start tumours in the animals than cells treated with Taxol, the journal Cell reports.

The U.S. researchers believe dozens of drugs with similar properties could be developed over the next few years. The treatment is around a decade away from the market.

The new drugs could be used in combination with standard therapies to mop up cancer stem cells left behind by traditional treatment.

This would cut the odds of the cancer coming back.

They could also be used to halt the spread of the disease through the body. This is the most common cause of death in the 155,000 cancer patients who die each year.

Piyush Gupta, of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology and Harvard, said: ‘It wasn’t clear it would be possible to find compounds that selectively kill cancer stem cells. We’ve shown it can be done.

‘Our work reveals the biological effects of targeting cancer stem cells

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