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Gene therapy may boost success of lung transplants
A new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more of the organs available for transplanting, Canadian researchers reported Wednesday.
Currently, only about 15% of potential donor lungs are...Tags: Charity, Lung Transplants, Lungs and Airways, Health, Indiana University
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Obesity Risks Start Before Birth
Pam Levin's daughter weighed less than 5 pounds at birth. But by the time the child turned 3, Levin and her husband had begun to bristle at some of the comments about her. "People would say, ‘She's chunky' or ‘She's a big girl,'" Levin says....Tags: Infants, Minority Groups, Bagels, Harvard Medical School, Drugs and Medicines
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Gut Bacteria May Affect Your Weight
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSomething in your gut could be making you fat — and it isn't just last night's pizza. The vast, diverse community of microbes inhabiting the intestines, scientists are finding, can influence metabolism and weight. Between 10 trillion and 100...Tags: Intestine, Hormones and Metabolism, Weather Reports, Genetics, Newspaper and Magazine
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Link between diabetes and heart disease scrutinized
The link between diabetes and heart disease is well-known -- diabetics are two to four times more likely to have cardiovascular disease than nondiabetics, and two-thirds will die of an early heart attack or stroke. But the link itself is poorly...Tags: Hemorrhaging, University of Pennsylvania, Heart and Circulatory System, Health, Diabetes
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Freeway air pollution linked to brain damage in mice
Greenspaceow, exposure to vehicle pollution particulates roughly one-thousandth the width of a human hair has been linked to brain damage in mice including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study to be published... -
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Holiday cocktails: A hangover for your skin
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThis time of year — pretty much from Halloween through New Year's Day — we're tempted at every turn by rich, sugary high-calorie foods, from candy corn to candy canes, with plenty of pumpkin pie, fruit cake and chocolate decadence in between....Tags: Human Body, Holidays, Physical Therapists, Iceland, Skin
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Stay moving, not still
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou may have heard the advice "If you exercise, you'll live longer." The good news -- or the bad news, if you hate doing anything more active than downloading iTunes -- is that it's true. Research backs this up. A 2007 study in the Journal of the...Tags: Aerobics, Heart and Circulatory System, Health, Muscle, Diabetes
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Where do you stand on the vaccination debate?
Comments BlogReaders come out in droves to debate the vaccinations verses autism controversy... -
Those with less severe symptoms of celiac disease may be at a higher risk of death
Booster ShotsThose who suffer from celiac disease have much to contend with. The immune-related disorder causes digestive symptoms when gluten is eaten, making flour-based foods such as breads and pasta problematic. Eating gluten can injure the surface of the small... -
Gene therapy could make more lungs available for transplants
Booster ShotsA new gene therapy procedure to restore function in lungs damaged during harvesting from donors could make more lungs available for transplanting, Canadian researchers said today. Currently, only about 15% of potential donor lungs are actually used... -
To fight inflammation with food
Booster ShotsInflammation -- a ramped-up immune system -- seems to be linked to chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease, and even the very fact of aging. Some foods, it turns out, promote inflammation. Others damp it down. Shara Yurkiewicz,......
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