Sentences with phrase «developing narcolepsy»

Palm alerted Swedish health authorities, and subsequent population - wide studies in Sweden, Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom suggested that vaccination for H1N1 — but only with the Pandemrix vaccine — had increased the risk of developing narcolepsy between four - and 13-fold in children and adolescents, and between two - and four-fold in adults.

► Why did about 15,000 children in Europe develop narcolepsy after receiving the flu vaccine Pandemrix?

Researchers suspect an autoimmune reaction is to blame because many people who develop narcolepsy — and just about everyone with the vaccine - associated form — have a specific variant in a gene in the HLA family, which helps the body distinguish its own proteins from those made by microbial invaders.

Studies of genetically identical twins have shown that when one twin develops narcolepsy, the other tends not to.

He developed narcolepsy as a result of the tumor, a pre-existing condition that sent his health costs skyrocketing.

Not exact matches

Take the Air Force's 2004 approval of Modafinil, a drug first developed to treat narcolepsy, the chronic sleep disorder, for its pilots.

Exploiting methods that he developed in his hunt for the gene responsible for narcolepsy, Mignot is now in hot pursuit of a KLS gene.

Modafinil, developed for people with narcolepsy, is now a drug of choice for those who want to burn the midnight oil.

And it may be that the vaccine only accelerated progression of narcolepsy in children who would have developed it anyway.