Peanut Allergy Desensitization Trial Successful

Posted on February 20, 2009, 4:17 pm, by admin, under medical news.

A small group of children in the UK with peanut allergy were treated successfully in a trial desentization bring the hope that healing will ever be possible. Children have been gradually increasing peanut flour and peanuts until they are able to eat together at least 10 peanuts without having an allergic reaction.

The trial was conducted by AT Clark of Cambridge Addenbrooke’s Hospital and a study is published in the February 17 online issue of the journal Allergy.

The researchers stressed that people with peanut allergy should not try to do what they did in the trial: medical supervision is important because there is a real risk that the person will react and need emergency treatment, as does a child in the early stages of this test.

According to the British Nutrition Foundation peanut allergy can be severe and life threatening. It is quite common and affects about 1 200 people in the UK and rarely moves more than one person during his lifetime. Reactions range from itching, rashes and swelling of difficulty breathing and severe asthma.

There is no treatment for the condition and research, as this study is an important step towards developing a cure.

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Community Pharmacists Launch Campaign

Posted on February 19, 2009, 2:09 pm, by admin, under medical news.
The $ 250,000 campaign to prevent the reduction in pharmacy reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid; allow small pharmacies to unite and negotiate prices directly with the federal government, and prevent the mandates would require that people enrolled in government-sponsored health coverage programs to use the mail-order pharmacies. Customers were enrolled by the pharmacists at the counter or through leaflets in prescription bags. The NCPA also have television commercials featuring a local pharmacy of each market and place ads on different consumer health information Web sites and a dedicated website, Fight4Rx.com, increase the number of other members.

NCPA Camooso spokeswoman Lisa Miller said that because all participants opting for the campaign, they are more likely to contact members of Congress and other legislators when they are asked. She said: “In the major districts, we will ensure that we have a critical mass of patients so that these members of Congress how the people who care about health care in their districts feel about health in the care debate in Washington “(frates, The Politico, 2 / 17).

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Alzheimer’s May Trigger Cell Death Mechanism

Posted on February 19, 2009, 2:08 pm, by admin, under medical news.
Researchers at a major U.S. biotech companies have discovered a new route through which the disease in May, either to start or sustain the destruction of brain cells: the mechanism that diverts is normally used for brain cells prune undesirable in early development and involves a part of unsuspected culprit known, APP, the precursor of amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease disease.On information the authors explain that scientists have already discovered there are natural mechanisms by which adverse axons and neurons are pruned and killed with “sculpt neuronal connections during development, but exactly how they are still somewhat of a mystery.

In this study, researchers found that beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) and death receptor 6 (DR6, also known as TNFRSF21) a broad program of self-destruction based on caspases (sometimes called “executioner proteins” because of their role in apoptosis or programmed cell death).

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AIDS is killing In China

Posted on February 19, 2009, 1:44 pm, by admin, under medical news.

China’s state-term news agency Xinhua reported that official figures show that AIDS claimed 6897 lives in China between January and September 2008, to head the list of infectious diseases in this country for the first time from the third position he held three years ago.

There were 264,302 confirmed cases of people living with HIV in September last year, said the Ministry of Health, 34,864 of them have since died, five times the number three years ago. The accumulation of cases is almost double the 2005 figure, which showed 135,630 Chinese were infected with the virus.

Although the Chinese government did not elaborate on the reasons for the increase of HIV / AIDS cases and deaths, a recent report by the Associated Press (AP) suggests that the Chinese government is willing to recognize just just the presence of the disease could be a factor.

There was no reaction to the figures from UNAIDS and the World Health Organization in Geneva, said the AP report, which mentions that the UNAIDS estimates there are 700,000 people living with HIV China, of which about 85,000 have AIDS.

According to Chinese authorities, AIDS came to China in 1982 and their first dead of the disease is three years later.

Since 2003 there has been a government policy of “four frees, one care” for all HIV carriers and AIDS patients in China. “Four releases are free HIV testing, free counseling and treatment for those infected by HIV has in rural areas, free drugs for all pregnant women living with HIV, and free education for children orphaned by AIDS.

The “custody” is to help impoverished people with AIDS and the eradication of AIDS-related discrimination “, said the Xinhua report.

According to the AP report, the spread of HIV in China was caused by contaminated blood transfusions and unsafe blood plasma, but a government report last year said that sex and drugs have now exceeded other causes of the spread of HIV in the country.

Earlier this week, said the AHN World Health Organization provides an increase of HIV / AIDS in Asia, infection rates among men who have sex with men, and this group urgently needs d ‘better access to health care if the rise is to be avoided.

Advise WHO on HIV / AIDS in the Western Pacific, Mssimo Ghidinelli told the press that the spread of HIV by men who have sex with men was much greater than they first thought.

WHO suggests there are approximately 10 million men who have sex with men in Asia, the highest of all regions of the world.

At the WHO Technical Consultation on the health sector response to HIV / AIDS held in Hong Kong on Wednesday, York Chow, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health, said that the HIV prevention among men who have sex with men was the main focus of the city five years, HIV / AIDS, which runs from 2006 to 2011.

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