What is Prion Disease? You may recall several years ago that there was a scare in regards to beef. The concern was over a disease that was showing up in cows calledmad cow disease.Mad cow disease, formally calledBovine Spongiform Encephalitis or BSE, is a nervous system disease characterized...
Kuru is a very rare neurological disease which was documented in New Guinea through the 1960s. It is part of a group of conditions called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), which are characterized by damage to the brain which occurs very slowly over time. When someone eventually ...
But the aesthetic sphere of the mind, its longings, its pleasures and pains, and its emotions, have been so ignored in all these researches that one is tempted to suppose that if either Dr. Ferrier or Dr. Munk were asked for a theory in brain-terms of the latter mental facts, they ...
For example, suppose that an exposure-response model shows that, under current exposure conditions, there is a 10% probability of disease over a certain time interval. Does this mean that each individual has a 10% probability of disease, or that 10% of the population has a 100% probability...
While the recruitment of immune cells to the site of infection is in many cases necessary for viral clearance, the response of airway structural cells to virus and subsequent contributions to virus-induced remodeling phenotypes – in both the absence and presence of chronic airway disease – has ...
Huntington's disease (HD) towards reducing the impact of disease effects on quality of life (Dickson and Weller 2011) but evidence in support of these suggested benefits is sufficiently poor that it continues to be reported that there is no effective treatment for HD (Khakh and Sofroniew 2014...
Forest plot of condom use with (a) regular female partners; and (b) non-commercial casual female partners in last six months. Full size image Discussion Our meta-analysis showed that approximately 17.0% of MSM are currently married to a female in China, which is consistent with another recent...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death and a major cause of disability affecting quality of life [1, 2]. Despite best evidence-based strategies, including high-dose statin therapy, it is clear that there persists an unacceptably high residual risk of CV events. According...
Gasoline is made up of carcinogenic components and chemicals. Breathing the air surrounding an idling vehicle can lead to heart disease, damaged lungs, asthma, or other respiratory issues. Exposes fleets to theft Leaving a vehicle unattended and idling exposes it to theft. Would-be thieves ...
However, there is no known cause of nervous system cancer. Whether there is a genetic polymorphism which is crucial in a particular tumor type, or an involvement of toxins that regulate cell types at different stages of development remains unknown [50]. The very early onset of the disease ...