An etiological role for H. pylori in autoimmune gastritis
Experimental animal studies have shown that H. pylori shares several antigenic regions in common with acid secreting cells in gastric mucosa. Antibodies triggered by H. pylori destroy acid secreting cells due this antigenic mimicry. H. pylori infection is very common in humans, and about half of the infected patients develop atrophic changes over the years. In end stage severe atrophy, H. pylori disappears and signs of a previous infection are difficult to detect. This research, lead by Dr. L Veijola and her colleagues in the University of Helsinki, Finland, has recently been published on January 7 , 2010 in World...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
A long way from Dublin's bloody past
There is a cold hour just before dawn, when the light is the colour of lead, when the past seems a little closer and a lot more real than it does in the clearer light that comes later in the day. --SNIP-- On that day, IRA gunmen burst into a string of houses that lay along my route to the conference centre and shot dead 14 British officers and intelligence officials. The Ireland of those days was inured to brutality on all sides but there was something about these killings that shocked the Dublin public. Maybe it was the curiously...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
Nation of Islam: Farrakhan has 12-hour surgery
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Minister Louis Farrakhan, who recently ceded leadership of the Nation of Islam to an executive board because of ill health, has undergone a 12-hour operation, the organization said Saturday. Physicians have told Farrakhan's family they were pleased with the operation's outcome but will monitor him closely for the next 24 to 48 hours, the Chicago-based group said in a statement. No other details were released, and a man who answered the telephone at the office of Farrakhan's chief of staff declined to reveal the nature of the surgery or where it was performed. Farrakhan, 73, wrote...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
Fresh theory on cause of Crohn's
A weakened immune system - not an over-active one as had been suspected - may cause the intestinal disorder Crohn's disease, research suggests. Work by University College London (UCL) suggests Crohn's is more likely to be due to a weakened immune system failing to destroy bacteria. The Lancet study also suggests the anti-impotence drug Viagra may help to treat the disorder. Viagra was found to correct low blood flow among Crohn's sufferers. There are several pieces of information that suggest Crohn's is linked to an abnormality of the immune response, rather than an excessive one Dr Alistair Forbes Crohn's disease...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
Prayer Request (Vanity)
My sister and her son need the FR Prayer Warriors. My nephew is 24 years old and needs your prayers. Here is an email I received from another sister: Chris is very ill and needs to be added to your prayer lists. He has spent months dealing with bleeding ulcers that have never properly healed. He spent last evening in the ER but they eventually turned him away and said there was nothing they could do for him. He can't get in to see his doctor until next Tuesday and is in an extreme amount of pain. He took a...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
ZOT!!! A cure for everything, made of 100% pure and natural electricity.
I believe that I have found a natural medicine (refluxed pure natural rubber, and since natural, basically unregulated by FDA) that is anti – carcinogenic and may cure cancer, and natural rubber (the longest known molecule), seams to have the ability to also stop bleeding once in the blood system, which in many cases is the first sign of cancer as an cancerous ulcer. The German scientist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) came up with the concept in medicine of a magic bullet that would kill bacteria but not harm Humans. He had some success with an arsenic compound that he add...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 04:14:15 AM
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This Day In History
Mary, Queen of Scots: was crowned at the age of nine months (1543)
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