By better understanding how antimicrobials bind and thereby get inactivated in the mucus of air passages, researchers at the University of Illinois may have found a way to help cystic fibrosis patients fight off deadly infections."While not a cure, this work has potential as a therapeutic strategy
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Reuters - Children whose parents have cancer rnoften suffer post-traumatic stress symptoms that adults rnunderestimate, Dutch researchers said on Wednesday.
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For the first time, a new study has looked into how language impairments affect a child's ability to understand and retell a script-based story. For this study, involving a University of Alberta researcher, the examiner read a script-based story (about two children who go to a restaurant with their
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Childhood vaccination for the rubella virus may have also almost entirely eliminated an inflammatory eye disease from the U.S.-born population, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.The study is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Ophth
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Gilead Sciences, Inc., one of the world's largest biopharmaceutical companies, and Parion Sciences, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company, announced they will co-develop Parion 680, a compound that could become an important new drug in treating the basic defect in cystic fibrosis. This p
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Pediatrics researchers have identified a gene variant that raises a child's risk of Crohn's disease, a chronic and painful condition attributed to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The research reinforces previous results by German researchers, who found the same gene variant associated
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Seventeen-year-old Eliot Drieband explains what it's like to have Crohn's disease a type of inflammatory bowel disease in the same matter-of-fact way she describes preparing for an advanced placement exam, working on the school newspaper, starting an organ donor awareness club for teens and being a
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Inflammatory bowel disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, involves both immune and nonimmune cells. Previous studies have established that the vasculature of the gut mucosa is an important nonimmune component of intestinal inflammation and that the protein C (PC) signaling
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In Crohn's disease, the lining of the small intestine is abnormally colonized by E. coli organisms that are able to adhere to and invade intestinal epithelial cells. In a study appearing online in advance of publication in the June print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Arlette Darfe
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