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Lupus News from Yahoo! Health
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Does Abortion in First Trimester Raise Risk of Mental Ills'
Return? MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women with a history of mental illness do not seem to be at increased risk of readmission to a psychiatric hospital after having an abortion in their first trimester, a new study suggests.
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:04:06 GMT Metformin Preferred Drug for Type 2 Diabetes, Experts Say MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) --When it comes to the treatment of type 2 diabetes, the first line of defense is lifestyle changes such as losing weight and exercising more often.
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:04:06 GMT New Criteria Could Change Who Is Diagnosed With Alzheimer's MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New guidelines for diagnosing the mental decline that can come with several diseases of aging may create confusion among doctors and patients about who has early Alzheimer's disease and who simply has mild co...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:04:05 GMT Spanking Produces Troubled Kids, Study Contends MONDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more fuel to the controversial topic of children and spanking, two Canadian child development experts have published a new analysis that warns that physical punishment poses serious risks to a child's ...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:04:05 GMT Diet supplements recalled on unlabeled drug worries WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Healthy People Co is recalling 15 lots of seven different dietary supplements because they contain appetite suppressants or a drug for male erectile dysfunction, the Long Beach, California, company said. The seven brands of ...
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Lupus News from Medical News Today
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Mutation Drives Viral Sensors To Initiate Autoimmune Disease A new study uses a mouse model of a human autoimmune disease to reveal how abnormal regulation of the intracellular sensors that detect invading viruses can lead to autoimmune pathology...
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST DNA Sequence Discovered That Causes The Most Severe Cases Of Lupus A "genetic accelerator" is responsible for the most severe cases of Lupus (systemic lupus erythemathosus), an autoimmune disease: the accelerator, called enhancer HS1.2, speeds up the activity of some critical genes of the immune system involved in the disease. A team of Italian researchers at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome found that the enhancer HS1...
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST 32 Million Americans Have Autoantibodies That Target Their Own Tissues More than 32 million people in the United States have autoantibodies, which are proteins made by the immune system that target the body's tissues and define a condition known as autoimmunity, a study shows...