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New therapy may help people with unexplained symptoms of pain, weakness and fatigue

July 29, 2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology , the medical journal of the American ...

New Therapy May Help People With Unexplained Symptoms Of Pain, Weakness And Fatigue

July 28, 2011
A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. These symptoms, which ...

New therapy may help people with unexplained symptoms of pain, weakness and fatigue

July 28, 2011
A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. These symptoms, which ...

Scientists Reveal HIV Weakness

June 21, 2011
Ever since HIV was revealed as the infectious agent behind the AIDS epidemic, scientists have been striving to develop a vaccine against the disease. However, the task has proven difficult, because HIV mutates so rapidly. In a new finding that may allow vaccine designers to sidestep part of that obstacle, ...

Researchers discover biochemical weakness of malaria parasite — vaccine to be developed

June 7, 2011
(University of Copenhagen) Every year, 10,000 pregnant women and up to 200,000 newborn babies are killed by the malaria parasite. Doctors all around the globe have for years been looking in vain for a medical protection, and now researchers from the University of Copenhagen have found the biochemically weakness of ...

Study reveals weakness of pharmacies’ clinical decision support software in evaluating drug-drug interactions

May 18, 2011
A study conducted at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy found that only 28 percent of pharmacies' clinical decision support software systems - the computer programs that are in place to alert pharmacists to possible medication problems - correctly identified potentially dangerous drug-drug interactions.

Study Links Obesity to Greater Pain, Weakness in Fibromyalgia Patients

January 6, 2011
By Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Obese fibromyalgia patients suffer more severe symptoms such as pain, reduced flexibility and sleep disturbances than those of normal weight, a new study indicates. But the good news ...

Rare but deadly virus reveals potential weakness in new study

October 20, 2010
The JC polyomavirus doesn't strike very often, but it's a mean bug that preys on people with weakened immune systems, including people with AIDS, and almost always kills them. Now an international team of scientists at Brown University, the University of Tübingen in Germany, and Imperial College in London has ...

Rare but deadly virus reveals potential weakness in new study

October 20, 2010
A new study of the JC polyomavirus, a devastating pathogen that attacks brain cells in patients with compromised immune systems, has revealed how it binds to its targets, providing a basis for developing drugs to interrupt that process.

A lethal brain tumor’s strength may be a weakness as well

August 15, 2010
Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor - and one of the deadliest. Even as doctors make steady progress treating other types of solid tumor cancers, from breast to prostate, the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, called a glioblastoma multiforme or GBM, has steadfastly defied ...

A lethal brain tumor’s strength may be a weakness as well

August 14, 2010
Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor and one of the deadliest. Even as doctors make steady progress treating other types of solid tumor cancers, from breast to prostate, the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, called a glioblastoma multiforme or GBM, has steadfastly ...

A lethal brain tumor’s strength may be a weakness as well

August 14, 2010
Malignant gliomas are the most common subtype of primary brain tumor -- and one of the deadliest.