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New Way To Reduce Neuronal Loss In Brain Of A Person With Alzheimer's Disease
Neuroscientists have discovered a new way to reduce neuronal loss in the brain of a person with Alzheimer's disease. Memory loss in people with Alzheimer's disease can be attributed to...
Excessive Drinking And Relapse Rapidly Cut In New Approach
Boosting the level of a specific brain protein quickly cut excessive drinking of alcohol in a new animal study, and also prevented relapse -- the common tendency found in sober...
Smoking And Body Mass Index Linked To Hearing Loss, But Alcohol Has Protective Effect
Smoking and body mass index are risk factors in the development of age-related hearing loss, says one of the largest-ever studies into risk factors for hearing loss -- but alcohol...
Diabetes Medication Associated With Slower Progression Of Retina Disease
Patients with diabetes who take the medication rosiglitazone may be less likely to develop the eye disease proliferative diabetic retinopathy or to experience reductions in visual acuity, according to a...
Pivotal Breakthrough Made In Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Remarkably, and for the first time, addiction experts report the results of a clinical trial whereby an effective therapeutic medication, topiramate, not only decreases heavy drinking but also diminishes the...
Vitamin D: New Way To Treat Heart Failure?
Activated vitamin D protects the heart against avoid overwork and enlargement, two of the hallmarks of heart failure, a new study in animals shows. The results, the first to show...
Race plays role in diabetes treatment
BOSTON, June 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. study said black patients with diabetes are less likely to receive recommended components of care than white patients.
Hi-dose Immunosuppressant Drug Reverses Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms In Selected Patients
A short-term, very-high dose regimen of the immune-suppressing drug cyclophosphamide seems to slow progression of multiple sclerosis in most of a small group of patients studied and may even restore...
Eating Fish And Foods With Omega-3 Fatty Acids Linked To Lower Risk Of Age-related Eye Disease
Eating fish and other foods high in omega-3 fatty acids is associated with reduced risk of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration, according to a meta-analysis of nine previously published...
Ranks of Underinsured Are Rising, Study Finds
A study found that the coverage of approximately one of every five adults younger than age 65 with health insurance was inadequate in case of serious health problems.
Common Bowel Problem Linked To Chili Pepper Pain Receptor
People with irritable bowel syndrome have a higher than usual number of chili pepper pain receptors, according to a new study. The research could lead to new therapies for the...
How the Brain Can Protect Against Cancer
Scientists have been aware for many years that if cancer patients are not able to deal with the stress associated with being sick, the cancer will progress faster than in...
Delayed sleep phase syndrome linked to irregular menstrual cycles, premenstrual symptoms in women
Women with delayed sleep phase syndrome are more likely to report irregular menstrual cycles and premenstrual symptoms, according to a research abstract that will be presented on Tuesday at SLEEP...
Gene Variation Linked To Earlier Onset Of Alzheimer's Symptoms
Investigators have identified a genetic variation associated with an earlier age of onset in Alzheimer's disease. Unlike genetic mutations previously linked to rare, inherited forms of early-onset Alzheimer's disease --...
Golf Cart Injuries On The Rise
As golf carts are used in more settings off the golf course, the number of injuries is rising. According to an article in the July 2008 issue of the American...
Caloric Intake Negatively Influences Healthy Adults' Sleep Patterns
Caloric intake negatively influences sleep patterns in healthy adults. Positive and statistically significant correlations were found between total energy intake and late-night snack energy intake and awakenings during sleep.
Children Who Grind Their Teeth Are More Likely To Have Problems In School, Be Withdrawn
Tooth grinding has an association with pre-school performance when withdrawn behavior is present.
Ethical Implications Of Modifying Lethal Injection Protocols
A team of medical, ethical and legal scholars argues in PLoS Medicine that in some US states the modification of lethal injection protocols is tantamount to experimentation upon prisoners without...
Managing noncommunicable diseases in Africa: what can we learn from TB control?
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, asthma, epilepsy, and mental illness, are becoming a major burden in sub-Saharan Africa but are often poorly managed in routine health...
Potential biomarkers for pancreatic cancer identified
In a new study in PLoS Medicine, Samir Hanash and colleagues from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle report the identification of proteins that appear in increased numbers at...
Healing through horses
Horses not only are fun to ride, but can help teach relationship skills as well as aiding people with physical or mental disabilities -- or so says equitherapy.
Cells That Initiate A Common Infant Tumor Identified
Infantile hemangiomas, exemplified by the strawberry-like patches that appear on the skin of infants soon after birth, are benign tumors that develop in 5 percent of Caucasian infants, and usually...
Therapeutic Potential Of Cord Blood Stem Cells Enhanced With New Technology
A CD26 Inhibitor increases the efficiency and responsiveness of umbilical cord blood for bone marrow transplants and may improve care for blood cancer patients according to research.
Morther's obesity a factor in newborn deaths for blacks, not whites, new study reports
A study led by the University of South Florida sheds new light on obesity's role in the black-white gap in infant mortality. While maternal obesity appears to have no...
Combining radiation and surgery significantly improves survival for head and neck cancer patients
Adding radiation therapy to surgery significantly improves overall survival in patients diagnosed with node-positive head and neck cancer when compared to treating with surgery alone, according to a study in...
New Molecular Link Between Diabetes And Kidney Failure
Diabetes is an increasingly common cause of kidney failure in developed countries. It is thought that activation of a hormone system known as the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) early in the...
'Report cards' don't reflect preventable bypass deaths
While death rate "report cards" indicated low mortality rates after heart bypass surgery, a review of in-hospital deaths in heart bypass patients at Ontario, Canada hospitals found that one-third might...
Amputees fight caps in coverage for prosthetics
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- After bone cancer forced the amputation of her right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her insurer told her that...