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Penn Medicine pathologists pioneer biomarker test to diagnose or rule out Alzheimer's disease
A test capable of confirming or ruling out Alzheimer's disease has been validated and standardised by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. By measuring cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)...
Hyperbaric Treatment For Autism Reports Significant Clinical Improvements
Hyperbaric treatment for children with autism has reportedly led to improvements in the condition, though previous studies were uncontrolled. Now is the first controlled trial to report clinical improvements.
Terminally ill patients, caregivers feel lost connection with doctors
Once a patient becomes terminally ill, relationships between patients, their caregivers and their primary doctors can change. Now a study offers an unusual glimpse of what patients and their doctors...
Drink Green Tea For Healthy Teeth And Gums
A new study shows that drinking green tea may help reduce periodontal disease.
Gene Therapy Shows Early Promise For Treating Obesity
With obesity reaching epidemic levels, researchers are studying a potentially long-term treatment that involves injecting a gene directly into one of the critical feeding and weight control centers of the...
Doctor-patient Conversations At End Of Life Associated With Lower Medical Expenses
Few physicians are eager to discuss end-of-life care with their patients. Yet such conversations may result in better quality of life for patients and could lower national health-care expenditures for...
Recipes for Health: Refried Black Beans
Spread these beans on crisp corn tortillas for nachos or chalupas, or serve as a side dish sprinkled with queso fresco.
Live fast, die young? Maybe not
The theory that a higher metabolism means a shorter lifespan may have reached the end of its own life, thanks to a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical...
Bipartisan Call for Food Safety Fixes
Lawmakers discuss changes to the nation’s food safety system to work towards reducing the number of contaminated food products.
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 26 February–11 March 2009
Malaria drugs last longer than previously thought, HIV/AIDS treatment should be free, rainy season spreads viral fever and more.
Transcriptional Factor SOX9 Renders Melanomas Sensitive To Retinoic Acid And Stops Tumor Growth
New research indicates that overexpression of the transcription factor SOX9 restores the sensitivity of mouse and human melanomas to the anticancer agent retinoic acid, thereby stopping tumor growth. The authors...
Protein key to eye development identified
BALTIMORE, March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've identified a protein that regulates how light-sensing nerve cells form in the retina during the eye's development.
Vitamin C may help ward off risk of gout in men: study
Men who take in more vitamin C appear to be less likely to develop gout, a painful type of arthritis, 20-year study suggests.
Does air pollution or weather trigger headaches?
A new study shows that higher temperatures and lower barometric air pressure may lead to a higher, short-term risk of headaches, but air pollution may not have a significant effect...
High prevalence of child marriage in India fuels fertility risks
Despite India's economic and educational reform efforts in the last decade, the prevalence of child marriage remains high, fuelling the risks of multiple unwanted pregnancies, pregnancy terminations and female sterilisations,...
Worries about the future cited as a top reason for patients requesting physician-assisted suicide
Oregon patients who request physician aid in dying under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act often rate concerns about future illness symptoms as a leading motivator. The findings are the result...
Anger and hostility harmful to the heart, especially among men
Anger and hostility are significantly associated with both a higher risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) in healthy individuals and poorer outcomes in patients with existing heart disease, according to...
Study links inflammation and calcium signalling in heart attack
A new study led by University of Iowa researchers has found an unexpected new link between this inflammation in heart muscle following a heart attack and a previously known enzyme...
Why People Often Get Sicker When They Are Stressed
A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they're stressed.
Parkinson's disease treatment strategies appear to have similar long-term effects on disability
Patients with early Parkinson disease appear to have similar overall levels of disability and quality of life six years after beginning treatment with either levodopa or a dopamine agonist, according...
Vital Signs: Behavior: Mental Fatigue Can Lead to Physical Kind
It's not surprising, but now there's evidence that mental labor can be physically exhausting.
Paralyzed RI lawmaker hails stem cell decision
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rep. Jim Langevin was 16 years old when a policeman's accidental gunshot severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed. Though doctors...
AIDS researcher in legal battle
PARIS, March 9 (UPI) -- French researcher Luc Montagnier, who helped discover HIV, is accused by an inventor of allegedly stealing a technique that could cure AIDS.
Former Fort Chip doctor calls for oilsands slowdown
The doctor who first raised concerns about cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., three years ago - and became the target of a professional complaint - said on Sunday he'd...
Pathology lab will be among Canada's best: Eastern Health
A St. John's pathology lab that was at the heart of an often-searing inquiry into breast cancer mistakes will soon be among the finest in the country, the authority managing...
What's the best medicine -- really?
(AP) -- Think your doctor knows which drug - or surgery or even diagnostic test - works best? Think again.
Quebec aims to get rural residents online at high speed by 2015
Quebec aims to close the digital divide between its urban and rural centres by spending $24 million to provide most rural areas with high-speed internet - something it says has...
Finding the risks of nanoparticle exposure
New model for nanoparticle lung exposure sheds new light on possible health risks