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An ultra-resistant to antibiotics bacteria threatens to spread

Sat Aug 14, 18:13 / comments: 0

The NDM-1 resistant to virtually all types of antibiotics, including carbapenems

British doctors have discovered a bacterium resistant to almost all antibiotics in patients who have medical tourism in South Asia. This discovery has potential of a global spread.

A patient with anemia cured by gene therapy

Fri Sep 17, 11:22 / comments: 0

Beta-thalassemia is responsible for a deformation of red blood cells, causing their early destruction

For the first time, a man was treated for a common disease, beta-thalassemia by gene transfer. Beta-thalassemia is responsible for a deformation of red blood cells, causing their early destruction.

E.coli: Undercooked meat is the main source

Fri Jun 17, 13:12 / comments: 0

Escherichia coli bacteria, which belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae, are part of the normal intestinal flora of warm-blooded animals and particularly of man

GRAPHICS - The consumption of undercooked beef is the main mode of transmission of infection with E. coli

Hope for Fragile X syndrome

Thu Jan 6, 12:21 / comments: 0

The fragile X syndrome is characterized mainly by mental retardation, which may be associated with behavioral disorders: attention deficit, movements and repeated phrases, autistic behaviors, aggression etc.

It is a glimmer of hope in the fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited mental retardation. A portion of patients respond to a new drug.

The cockroaches are perhaps the source of future antibiotics

Wed Sep 8, 09:56 / comments: 0

It is living in unsanitary places that cockroaches have developed molecules effective against bacteria

The cockroaches that live in very unhygienic conditions, have developed bactericidal molecules. British researchers have already identified nine in the brain of these insects.

Myopathy: The promise of pharmacogenetics

Fri Jul 29, 14:22 / comments: 0

Histopathology of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Cross section of muscle shows extensive replacement of muscle fibers by adipose cells. (WiKi)

The children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy were able to produce the deficient protein. Hope against muscular dystrophy drug.

Chariots of death

Wed Mar 30, 10:22 / comments: 0

The toilets are regularly cleaned with disinfectant, unlike the handles of carriages

Preliminary results of a recent American study by researchers at the University of Arizona are clear: over 72% of the 85 carriage handles examined in four states, have markers of faecal bacteria.

Diagnosing Parkinson by examining the colon

Tue Sep 21, 01:04 / comments: 0

The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease could be made by a simple biopsy of the colon

Abnormalities caused by parkinsonism were found in the same neurons in the digestive system, according to a new study. If these results are confirmed, a simple biopsy of the colon would therefore assess the severity of the disease.

Malaria: The gorillas infected humans

Mon Sep 27, 10:02 / comments: 0

The parasite is widespread among western gorillas and chimpanzees

This large African monkey, now threatened with extinction, is accused of having sent to us, long ago, the agent of malaria

Asthma: How to halt the crisis?

Sat Feb 13, 09:08 / comments: 0

Parents wait too long to treat asthma in children

Parents can identify the warning signs of asthma in their children but do not treat the symptoms early enough to halt or avert the crisis.

SIDS: New data from research

Fri Mar 5, 12:13 / comments: 0

Cardiac abnormalities involved in the sudden death of infants

A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospitals of Strasbourg has identified "an anomaly of the nervous regulation of cardiac function" in the sudden infant death.

Alzheimer's: The real signals for a correct diagnosis

Tue Apr 26, 15:01 / comments: 0

Alzheimer's disease: non-drug treatment is always possible. (credit: lefigaro)

The Journal of the American Association Alzheimer outlines the main diagnostic criteria for the three stages of the disease.

COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Thu Oct 27, 16:01 / comments: 0

A Dutch study found a high percentage of smokers are unaware of suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Malaria: A promising discovery

Wed Apr 27, 14:11 / comments: 0

Malaria has since been the subject of much research, but the parasite that causes the disease demonstrated a great ability to rapidly develop resistance to antimalarial drugs

The National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) announced a breakthrough in the fight against malaria. Transmitted by certain species of mosquitoes, malaria affects about 250 million people worldwide and kills between one and three million.