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AP IMPACT: Testing curbs some genetic diseases

2010-02-22T08:41:29Z

<div id="subtitle">AP IMPACT: Positive eugenics? Gene tests appear to reduce levels of some inherited diseases</div><div><p>Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide whether to have children.</p><p>Births of babies with cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs and other less familiar disorders seem to ...

New drug class offers hope against "superbugs"

2010-02-22T08:39:09Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss scientists have found a new class of antibiotics, offering drug developers a fresh weapon in the fight against multi-drug resistant bacteria or "superbugs."</p><p>Researchers from a privately held Swiss biotech company Polyphor and the University of Zurich said the potenti...

UK scientists say find cheap, fast gene test method

2010-02-22T09:19:58Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists say they have developed a way of pinpointing variations in a person's genetic code using a chemical test on saliva, meaning quick, cheap DNA tests for risks of certain diseases may be around the corner.</p><p>Researchers at Edinburgh University said thei...

Vertex sees positive data in cystic fibrosis study

2010-02-22T12:19:18Z

<div id="subtitle">Vertex Pharmaceuticals says cystic fibrosis drug meets key goals in midstage study</div><div><p>Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Wednesday its experimental cystic fibrosis drug VX-809 met key safety and tolerability goals in a midstage study.</p><p>The company also said the drug candidate prompted a response i...

Gilead moves closer to US approval of CF treatment

2010-02-23T17:54:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Gilead Sciences says panel recommends approval of cystic fibrosis treatment aztreonam</div><div><p>Gilead Sciences Inc. said Thursday an advisory committee has recommended U.S. approval of the biotechnology company's inhalable cystic fibrosis treatment candidate.</p><p&...

Problem behaviors beset kids with cystic fibrosis

2010-02-27T01:41:24Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with cystic fibrosis, or CF, often have problems with sleeping, eating and complying with the physiotherapy they need, a new study shows.</p><p>These problem behaviors "may adversely affect health outcomes in children with CF," Dr. Christopher Richard Ward, of Cystic Fibrosis Foundation held at the Fontainebleau Resorts Hotels - Runway Miami Beach, Florida - 02.05.09

art ball 3

2009-05-06T00:15:57Z

Out & About Miami Beach host Erin, The Eleventh Annual Fashion Art Ball to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation held at The Fontainebleau Hotel. Miami Beach, Florida - 02.05.09

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation held at The Fontainebleau Hotel. Miami Beach, Florida - 02.05.09

Copyright 2009 Gilead Sciences' cystic fibrosis drug candidate gets negative recommendation in Europe</div><div><p>Biotechnology company Gilead Sciences Inc. said Thursday a European advisory committee recommended against approving the company's inhalable cystic fibrosis treatment candidate.</p><p&...

Update in Cystic Fibrosis 2006

2010-03-02T10:32:42Z

<div><p>Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a complex inherited condition resulting from abnormalities in the gene that codes for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). CFTR, a membrane glycoprotein present in certain epithelia, contributes to regulation of ion flux across the cell surface in a number of ways, including direct chloride channel activity. The clinical picture of CF includes variable, but often severe, injury to the primary organs involved (...

How did Chopin die? It matters

2010-02-27T18:23:49Z

<div><p>Romantic consumptive or someone with cystic fibrosis? Schick's portrait of Chopin. Photograph: Hulton Archive</p><p>Poor old Chopin. If it's not enough that he should be the consumptive emblem of a nation and its music, every detail of his life and his music fetishised into an icon of Polishness, he now faces the indignity of his remains being disinterred and made the forensic subject of scientific enquiry, nearly 160 years after hi...

Row over plan to DNA test Chopin's heart

2010-02-27T18:42:11Z

<div><p>Scientists are locked in a battle with the Polish government over their request to test the heart of Fr&amp;eacute;d&amp;eacute;ric Chopin for evidence he suffered from cystic fibrosis. They believe the Polish composer was not a victim of tuberculosis, as commonly supposed, but died because he suffered from one of Europe's most widespread hereditary disorders.</p><p>The res...

Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopin's heart

2010-03-04T06:58:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Poland rejects proposed DNA testing of Chopin's heart to explore mystery of composer's death</div><div><p>Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39. An...

STERN'S SIDEKICK CAUSE OF DEATH WAS CYSTIC FIBROSIS

2010-03-04T10:44:36Z

<div><p>LATEST: Shock jock HOWARD STERN's former radio sidekick KENNETH KEITH KALLENBACH's death was caused by complications from cystic fibrosis, according to a new medical examiner's report.</p><p> Kallenbach - described by Stern as the "ultimate airhead" - died in April (08) at the age of 39 at a