Discovery will assist treatment and research into fatal brain disorder
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Research using newly developed Magnetic Resonance Imaging technology could soon allow clinicians to confirm Huntington's disease before symptoms appear in people who have the gene for the fatal brain disease.
Steroids in female mouse urine light up nose nerves of male mice
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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A group of steroids found in female mouse urine goes straight to the male mouse's head, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. They found the compounds activate nerve cells in the ...
Lab identifies new role for factor critical to transcription
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The Stowers Institute's Shilatifard Lab has identified a new role for the elongation factor ELL in gene transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) — the enzyme that synthesizes messenger RNA to carry genetic information ...
Obese women in Canada are less likely to be screened for cervical cancer
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Research in the United States has shown that obese people are less likely than their normal-weight peers to undergo screening for breast, colon and cervical cancer. Raj Padwal, Rebecca Mitchell and Scott Klarenbach, from ...
Socio-demographic factors influence costs of back pain
Jun 17, 2008 |
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It is well-known that back pain belongs to the most frequent health problems in the industrial nations and, it is also well-known that it is the cause of considerable costs for health insurance schemes and the economy. In ...
Study shows 'being fat in today's world' invites social discrimination
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Obese people feel "a culture of blame" against them, which they say has been made worse by media reports about the health risks of obesity, a new study from Australia found. The results will be presented Tuesday, June 17, ...
Exercise reduces hunger in lean women but not obese women
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Exercise does not suppress appetite in obese women, as it does in lean women, according to a new study. The results were presented Tuesday, June 17, at The Endocrine Society's 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Fujitsu Develops Low-power CMOS Technology For 32nm Generation
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Fujitsu today announced the development of low-power CMOS technology for 32nm-generation logic LSIs, which makes it possible to minimize the number of necessary manufacturing processes for LSIs, and without ...
Better treatments for malaria in pregnancy are needed
Jun 17, 2008 |
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Malaria in pregnancy threatens the life of both mother and child, and yet there has been very little research on how best to treat it, say a team of malaria experts in this week's PLoS Medicine.
Scientists find potential protein biomarkers for growth hormone
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Jun 17, 2008 |
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Ohio University scientists have identified several proteins in mice that might act as biomarkers for growth hormone. The research could be the first step to finding a more reliable way to detect recombinant human growth hormone ...
Radiation therapy prolongs life in men with recurrent prostate cancer
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Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence. Surprisingly, survival benefits were best ...
Plasmodium vivax -- challenging the dogma of being 'benign'
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Plasmodium. vivax can cause severe malaria associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, show two studies published in PLoS Medicine this week. These findings challenge the current dogma that P. falciparum can be sev ...
Health varies widely across different regions of Mexico
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A new study of the burden of disease and injury across Mexico has found that the south suffers the highest rates of infectious and nutritional diseases, injuries, and non-communicable diseases. The study, by researchers at ...
Only 1 in 5 women in developing world receive effective cervical cancer screening
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Few women in the developing world are screened effectively for cervical cancer and those at highest risk of developing the disease are among the least likely to be screened, accordingly an analysis published in PLoS Medicine. The st ...
Gene mutation improves leukemia drug's effect
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Gene mutations that make cells cancerous can sometimes also make them more sensitive to chemotherapy. A new study led by cancer researchers at Ohio State University shows that a mutation present in some cases of acute leukemia ...
