News articles tagged with 'abnormal'
Researchers looking at a rare disease make breakthrough that could benefit everyone
— 1 Mar 2011 17:51 | HealthBy working with Canadians of French ancestry who suffer a rare genetic disease, researchers have discovered how three genes contribute to abnormal growth, making a breakthrough that…
NIH-funded study finds new possible risk factor of heart disease
— 16 Feb 2011 04:59 | HealthAbnormal heart rate turbulence is associated with an increased risk of heart disease death in otherwise low-risk older individuals, according to a study funded by the National Heart,…
'Healthy' patients at high risk of cardiac death identified
— 16 Feb 2011 04:26 | HealthThe way the heart responds to an early beat is predictive of cardiac death, especially for people with no conventional markers of cardiovascular disease, according to new research from…
Tufts University calls for moderate approach to teaching personalised genomic testing
— 25 Jan 2011 19:56 | HealthGenetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, published this month a paper by Tufts University faculty calling for a moderate, strategic approach…
NIH study suggests that early detection is possible for prion diseases
— 3 Dec 2010 17:32 | HealthA fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National…
Scientists find nerve cell activity drains stem cell pool in developing brain
— 5 Nov 2010 14:15 | HealthAs babies grow, their brain cells develop from a pool of stem cells - some stem cells continuously divide, replenishing the pool, whereas others morph into mature functioning nerve…
'Smart drug' targets new mutation, dramatically shrinks aggressive sarcoma and lung cancer
— 28 Oct 2010 14:24 | HealthA new oral drug caused dramatic shrinkage of a patient's rare, aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer that was driven by an abnormally activated protein, physician-scientists from Dana-Farber…
Electronic tracking system can improve follow-up after an abnormal Pap test
— 22 Oct 2010 16:43 | HealthResearchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report that physicians who use an automated, electronic medical record (EMR) tracking system to follow-up on patients with…
Mount Sinai researchers find mechanism behind cleft palate development
— 15 Sep 2010 11:24 | HealthResearchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new mechanism that explains why a certain gene mutation causes craniofrontonasal syndrome (CFNS), a disorder that causes…
New sporadic prion protein disease identified by Case Western Reserve
— 14 Aug 2010 08:12 | HealthA new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be…