Joslin Researcher’s find genetic defects leading to auto-immune attack on pancreas

March 14th, 2005 A discussion on immune system re-education results.

August 24th, 2005 In recent years, cord blood transplants, peripheral blood stem cell transplants and bone marrow transplants have become mainstream treatments for patients with certain life-threatening blood, genetic or immune system disorders. They offer hope of remission or cure for people with diseases such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, severe aplastic anemia, severe combined immunodeficiency, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, thalassemia major and sickle cell disease.

July 17th, 2005 The European study of patients with Type I diabetes found that short-term treatment lowered insulin dependence by 12 percent and increased insulin-making capabilities for at least 18 months. "The results are very promising.

March 18th, 2005 LOS ANGELES -- Researchers might be getting closer to finding a cure for diabetes. Researchers announced a new treatment and medicine, and the discovery of a gene that might play a role.

August 10th, 2006 Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered a flaw in HSBC's online banking security process that has left over three million customer accounts vulnerable to attack over the last two years. The researchers found that anyone using the attack would have guaranteed access to an account with at most nine tries.

May 30th, 2005 A new gene suspected to contribute to autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and lupus - a condition in which the body’s own immune system attacks organs such as the kidneys and skin - has been discovered by Australian National University (ANU) immunologists.

August 9th, 2005 Researchers George Church and colleagues at Harvard Medical School said they had found a faster and cheaper way to sequence your genome (the entire DNA code of a person, plant or other organism) for only about $2.2 million. They hope to reduce the cost to $1,000 per genome.

October 7th, 2005 I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week: Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely to Develop Birth Defects And How to Prevent it

August 30th, 2005 European scientists collide head-on with diametrically opposite views on health risk with mobile usage.

April 18th, 2005 Researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital are developing a revolutionary new test to diagnose and facilitate treatment of organ rejection in transplant patients.

May 20th, 2005 Korean Scientists lead by Woo Suk Hwang and Shing Yong Moon of Seoul National University in Korea have successfully generated new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are exact genetic matches for individual patients, according to a new study. The researchers derived stem cells from patients with spinal cord injury, a congenital immune disorder and juvenile diabetes.

April 22nd, 2005 The same gene that accounts for part of a genetic risk for developing alcoholism in a U.S. population is found in a Russian population, according to a published study by a Yale School of Medicine researcher.

January 11th, 2007 While WordPress 2.0.6 is still hot a serious security defect (SQL injection attack) was found and fixed in WordPress 2.0.7, which is currently available as RC1 (release candidate 1). The key defects fixed are: Security defect Worked around a PHP bug for PHP 4.x less than 4.4.3 and PHP 5.x less than 5.1.4 with register_globals ON that could potentially lead to SQL injection and other security breaches.

March 29th, 2008 Every major & minor version of WordPress (1.5, 2.0, 2.1...) comes with teething problems which are then fixed in patch releases. Will WordPress 2.5 release finally break the curse? Maybe not...

October 9th, 2006 X-Prize Foundation is offering $10m for the first private team that can decode 100 human genomes in 10 days. It is said to be the largest medical prize in history.