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Beethoven suffered from liver disease and hepatitis B, researchers found
Beethoven hair tests reveal composer's genetic health woes
LONDON — Beethoven had a likely genetic predisposition to liver disease and a hepatitis B infection months before his death, tests have revealed.A team of researchers led by Cambridge University analyzed five locks of hair to sequence the composer's genome.They were, however, unable to establish a definitive cause of his hearing loss.Lead author, Tristan Begg, said genetic risk factors, coupled with Beethoven's high alcohol consumption, may have contributed to his liver condition.The international team analyzed strands from eight locks of hair kept in public and private collections, in a bid to shed light on Beethoven's health problems.Five locks were deemed "authentic" by the researchers and came from a single European male.Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn,...
March 23, 2023

Beethoven hair tests reveal composer's genetic health woes

Molnupiravir is the first antiviral pill licensed for treating Covid in the UK
Covid antiviral treatment hastens recovery — trial
LONDON — An antiviral drug tested by more than 25,000 vaccinated Covid patients has been found to reduce recovery time from the disease.Molnupiravir was given to people twice a day, for five days at home, while they had the Omicron variant of Covid.Those chosen were at a higher risk of death or hospitalization from Covid due to age or underlying health conditions.Despite aiding recovery, the drug did not decrease death rates or hospital admissions.Participants taking the antiviral drug while having Covid were compared with those receiving standard care who also had the infection.The trial was conducted to see whether it backed up previous studies on molnupiravir, which had suggested it was effective at reducing hospital admissions among patients with mild-to-moderate Covid.However, those...
December 23, 2022

Covid antiviral treatment hastens recovery — trial

British Heart Foundation Professor Massimo Caputo has pioneered the stem cell 'scaffold' technique.
Baby's life 'probably saved' by umbilical stem cells
LONDON — A heart surgeon says he "probably saved the life" of a baby by carrying out a "world-first" operation using stem cells from the placentas.Professor Massimo Caputo from the Bristol Heart Institute used pioneering stem cell "scaffolding" to correct baby Finley's heart defect.He hopes to develop the technology so children born with congenital cardiac disease won't need as many operations.Finley, now two, is "now a happy growing little boy".But he was born with the main arteries in his heart the wrong way round and at just four days old had his first open-heart surgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.Unfortunately, the surgery didn't solve the problem and his heart function deteriorated significantly, with the left side of...
December 20, 2022

Baby's life 'probably saved' by umbilical stem cells

Covid virus can reside on some ready-to-eat groceries for days, a new study says
Infectious Covid virus can stay on some groceries for days
LONDON — The Covid virus can reside on some ready-to-eat groceries for days, UK experts have confirmed.Scientists carried out tests for the Food Standards Agency (FSA), purposely smearing the virus onto packaging and food products, including fruit, pastries and bottled drinks.They chose items that people might put in their mouth without cooking or washing.The risk to consumers remains very low, they say.Their report says it should be noted that "foods and packaging considered as part of this study were artificially inoculated with Sars-Cov-2 and therefore are not a reflection of contamination levels found on these foods at retail, and lower levels of contamination will require less time to decline to undetectable levels."'Noteworthy' findingsFor most food products...
December 02, 2022

Infectious Covid virus can stay on some groceries for days

Alzheimer's drug hailed as momentous breakthrough
LONDON — The first drug to slow the destruction of the brain in Alzheimer's has been heralded as momentous and historic.The research breakthrough ends decades of failure and shows a new era of drugs to treat Alzheimer's — the most common form of dementia — is possible.Yet the medicine, lecanemab, has only a small effect and its impact on people's daily lives is debated.And the drug works in the early stages of the disease, so most would miss out without a revolution in spotting it.Lecanemab attacks the sticky gunge — called beta amyloid — that builds up in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.For a medical field littered with duds, despair and disappointment, some see these trial results as a triumphant turning point.Alzheimer's Research UK said the findings...
November 30, 2022

Alzheimer's drug hailed as momentous breakthrough

Herpes simplex virus
Cancer-killing virus shows promise in patients
LONDON — A new type of cancer therapy that uses a common virus to infect and destroy harmful cells is showing big promise in early human trials, say UK scientists. One patient's cancer vanished, while others saw their tumors shrink. The drug is a weakened form of the cold sore virus - herpes simplex - that has been modified to kill tumors. Larger and longer studies will be needed, but experts say the injection might ultimately offer a lifeline to more people with advanced cancers. Krzysztof Wojkowski, a 39-year-old builder from west London, is one of the patients who took part in the ongoing phase one safety trial, run by the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. He was diagnosed in 2017 with cancer of the salivary glands, near the...
September 23, 2022

Cancer-killing virus shows promise in patients

Can your blood type predict your risk of having a stroke?
Blood type may affect risk of stroke before age 60: Study
WASHINGTON — People with type A blood may be at higher risk of having a stroke before the age of 60 compared to other blood groups, researchers have found.In contrast, those with blood type O are less likely to have an early-onset stroke, according to the new meta-analysis.The research was carried out by a team led by scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in the United States, who looked at the relationship between genetic characteristics such as blood type and their relationship to stroke.To do so, they looked at data from 48 genetic studies on ischemic strokes in adults between the ages of 18 and 59. Ischemic strokes are caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain.In total, the studies included around 17,000 stroke patients and nearly 600,000 healthy...
September 07, 2022

Blood type may affect risk of stroke before age 60: Study

Parents are being advised to get their children vaccinated to help protect against polio.
US doctor issues warning of many undiagnosed polio cases
WASHINGTON — A health official in New York State has told the BBC there could be hundreds or even thousands of undiagnosed cases of polio there.It follows an announcement last month that an unvaccinated man had been paralyzed by the virus in Rockland County, New York.His case has been linked genetically to traces of polio virus found in sewage in London and Jerusalem.Developed countries have been warned to boost vaccination rates.Dr Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, health commissioner for Rockland County, said she was worried about polio circulating in her state undetected."There isn't just one case of polio if you see a paralytic case. The incidence of paralytic polio is less than 1%," she said."Most cases are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, and those symptoms are often...
August 09, 2022

US doctor issues warning of many undiagnosed polio cases

Sarah has speech and movement difficulties after receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
A myth about depression?
LONDON — A study showing depression isn't caused by low levels of the "happy hormone" serotonin has become one of the most widely shared medical articles.It has provoked a wave of misleading claims about antidepressant drugs, many of which increase the amount of serotonin in the brain.This research doesn't show the drugs aren't effective.But the response to it has also sparked some genuine questions about how people treat, and think about, mental illness.After Sarah had her first major psychiatric episode, in her early 20s, doctors told her the medication she was prescribed was like "insulin for a diabetic". It was essential, would correct something chemically wrong in her brain, and would need to be taken for life.Her mother had type 1 diabetes, so she...
August 05, 2022

A myth about depression?

The gene, O6-Methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, or MGMT, plays an important role in how the body repairs damage to DNA in both men and women.
Gene discovery may explain why more women get Alzheimer's
BOSTON — Scientists have identified a gene that appears to increase the risk of Alzheimer's in women, providing a potential new clue as to why more women than men are diagnosed with the disease.The gene, O6-Methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, or MGMT, plays an important role in how the body repairs damage to DNA in both men and women. But researchers did not find an association between MGMT and Alzheimer's in men."It's a female-specific finding -- perhaps one of the strongest associations of a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's in women," said senior study coauthor Lindsay Farrer, chief of biomedical genetics at Boston University School of Medicine.Two-thirds of the 6.5 million Americans currently living with the devastating brain disease are women, according...
June 30, 2022

Gene discovery may explain why more women get Alzheimer's

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