Sleep is essential to health but findings of a new study suggest that prolonged sleeping may also indicate dementia. Dementia Dementia is a condition marked by loss of memory and other mental abilities grave enough to interfere with daily life. The condition is caused by physical changes in the brain. The most common type of...
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Common causes of eye pain explained
Eye pain can be attributed to a variety of causes. It is typically divided into conditions that affect the cornea, conditions that affect of other parts of the eye, and conditions involving other areas of the body that cause pain to be felt in the eye area. Common causes of eye pain typically center...
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Modified Atkins diet helps children with rare form of epilepsy
Doose syndrome or myoclonic-astatic epilepsy is a rare syndrome accounting for one to two percent of childhood epilepsies. A ketogenic diet, which is low in carbohydrates and high in fat, is an effective treatment, but it is very restrictive and difficult to follow. In a recent study, 25 of 30 children (83 percent) with Doose...
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Ketogenic diet may protect against gout
New research examines the effects of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet on both rodents and humans, and suggests that it can alleviate the symptoms of gout. New research suggests that a ketogenic diet – typically consisting of meats and high-fat dairy – may protect against gout. Gout is a rheumatic disease that affects more than 8 million people...
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Unlocking the healing secrets of Komodo dragon blood
Not only is the Komodo dragon’s mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, but it contains bacteria that eventually poison any prey that gets away Downing a vial of Komodo dragon blood to fight a bacterial infection might sound like something prescribed by a meister on Game of Thrones, but new research shows that the substance might...
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FDA clears test to help manage antibiotic treatment for lower respiratory tract infections and sepsis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared the expanded use of the Vidas Brahms PCT Assay to help health care providers determine if antibiotic treatment should be started or stopped in patients with lower respiratory tract infections, such as community-acquired pneumonia, and stopped in patients with sepsis. This is the first test to use...
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Antibiotics used to treat cystic fibrosis increases risk of permanent hearing loss
A powerful class of antibiotics provides life-saving relief for people with cystic fibrosis; however, a new study for the first time reveals the levels at which high cumulative dosages over time significantly increases the risk of permanent hearing loss in these patients. Cystic fibrosis, or CF, is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Mysterious Reason Traced To Immune Fault
Considerable time has been spent by scientists in analyzing the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. The puzzle, however, persisted without any clue whether it was a psychological or physical illness. There are one million Americans affected by this disease. Complete exhaustion makes people afflicted with CFS incapacitated to work or study. The underlying...
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Pitt study provides clues to relationship between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24, 2017 – An in-depth computational analysis of genetic variants implicated in both schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh points to eight genes that may explain why susceptibility to one of the disorders could place individuals at lower risk for the other, according to the results of a...
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Absent tumor-suppressors allow melanoma to thwart immunotherapy
Researchers identified a set of genetic changes that predict whether melanoma patients will respond to checkpoint inhibitor therapies. It’s what’s missing in the tumor genome, not what’s mutated, that thwarts treatment of metastatic melanoma with immune checkpoint blockade drugs, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report in Science Translational Medicine. Whole...