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8/4/08
Lettuce, Legs and Loquacity
The next big thing in medicine may well be in your refrigerator, according to Henry Daniell, Ph.D., a molecular biologist at the University of Central Florida. Researching a way to teach the body how to cure Type 1 diabetes, Dr. Daniell hopes that once the patients’ immune systems respond to the pills he’s making from the human gene for insulin injected into lettuce leaves, the patients will no longer have the disease. See the story for more details on what he’s doing in this innovative research.
On the site this week there’s also hopeful news on a new drug which is showing promise for treating cystic fibrosis in as little as two weeks, which Steven Rowe, M.D. says is “one of the more exciting things that has happened in CF research,” and a new way to ‘sniff out’ Parkinson’s disease with a smell test that may identify healthy people who are at risk of developing Parkinson’s. The University of Pennsylvania and Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders are still recruiting people for the Parkinson’s study at 17 sites around the country, so read the story to find out how to participate.
Anyone contemplating having an angiogram will want to see this week’s In-Depth Doctor’s Interview with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s Daniel Berman, M.D. Dr. Berman discusses a low-dose, coronary CT angiogram which is now providing a fast and non-invasive way to see blockages of arteries that used to require an invasive procedure to detect. And if you’re one of the 12 million people who stay awake at night with restless leg syndrome, you’ll also want to see our report from the Max Planck Institute in Germany on the genes they’ve tracked down that may be responsible for RLS, and their suggestions for natural ways to relieve your symptoms.
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Finally, it seems we Americans are talking more than ever and that it’s important to give our voices a rest. Read our story about how to avoid blisters on your vocal chords, and why a strained whisper is bad for your voice. Speaking of vocal Americans, today happens to be Billy Bob Thornton’s 53nd birthday, Barak Obama’s 47th and longtime White House correspondent, Helen Thomas’, 88th. Happy birthday to all!
And there's more where that came from...
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