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How The Immune System Avoids Attacking Itself

2006/10/17 A finding by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

researchers about how immune cells " decide " to become active or

inactive may have applications in fighting cancerous tumors,

autoimmune diseases and organ transplant rejection. They found that

smal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012184230.htm

NIAID scientists identify human protein that helps chickenpox and

shingles virus spread

2006/10/19 A team of scientists at the National Institute of Allergy

and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of

Health (NIH), has identified a human protein that helps varicella-

zoster virus, the cause of chickenpox and shingles, spread from c

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nioa-nsi101906.php -

64%

Result found by: AltaVista News, MSNBC, FAST Search (alltheweb.com),

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Breakthrough for treatment of irritable bowel syndrome

Earthtimes.org - USA

October 17, 2006: A course of the antibiotic Rifaximin taken for ten

days could treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome for as long as ten weeks,

according to the ...

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/9530.html

19 OCT Doctors report bowel disease breakthrough...

2006/10/19 Denmark(The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

http://denmark.dk/portal/page?

_pageid=374,610590 & _dad=portal & _schema=PORTAL & ic_nextitemno=1 & ic_itemi

d=932419

Psoriasis may raise risk of heart attack

2006/10/11 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Findings from a new study

suggest that psoriasis may be an independent risk factor for heart

attack, particularly in young...

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?

type=healthNews & storyID=2006-10-11T133250Z_01_COL148540_RTRUKOC_0_US-

PSORIASIS-HEART-ATTACK.xml & WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-healthNews-3

Result found by: Reuters

Psoriasis Cure Now Reacts to JAMA Study Suggesting Psoriasis/Heart ...

U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA

.... Many people with psoriasis also have psoriatic arthritis, a

chronic, progressive and potentially debilitating inflammatory

disease that causes joint pain ...

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=74076

Skin disease's origins uncovered through mice

2005/01/19 Psoriasis, a chronic skin disease that afflicts 4.5

million people in the United States with patches of inflamed skin

topped with silvery scales, has long perplexed scientists. Is it a

skin disease or a symptom of an immune system gone awry? European

resea

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/09/19/sk

in_diseases_origins_uncovered_through_mice

Result found by: The Boston Globe

Brain Changes In Patients With Migraine

2006/10/19 Researchers from Harvard Medical School have found

increased thickness of two areas of the brain cortex in people with

migraine when compared to healthy controls.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061017085215.htm

Result found by: FAST Search (alltheweb.com), AltaVista News,

Dogpile, News

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