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Addiction treatment proves successful in animal weight loss study
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Vigabatrin, a medication proposed as a potential treatment for drug addiction by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, also leads to rapid weight loss and reduced food intake according ...
CPR is successful without mouth-to-mouth, but not without oxygen
Nov 30, 2009 |
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People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them - as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive without access to oxygen ...
Researchers explore long-term adolescent vulnerability to drugs
Sep 16, 2009 |
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As part of efforts to understand drug abuse, Georgia State University researchers are finding that adolescent rats appear to be less vulnerable to the long-term effects of withdrawal and relapse in certain types of drug use ...
Traces of pharmaceuticals found in central Indiana waterways
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pharmaceuticals have been found in freshwater ecosystems in rural areas of central Indiana, says a new study from Ball State University.
New links between epilepsy and brain lipids
Sep 17, 2009 |
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In mice that are missing a protein found only in the brain, neural signals "go crazy," leaving the animals with epileptic seizures from a young age, researchers have found. The report in the September 18th Cell, a Cell P ...
Extracts from reishi mushroom and green tea shows synergistic effect to slow sarcoma
Apr 08, 2008 |
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Both the reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum; Lingzhi) and green tea have long held a place in traditional medicine in China and other Asian countries, for the general promotion of health and long life and for the treatment ...
Nanoparticles may cause arterial disease
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 01, 2007 |
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A U.S. study has found nanosized particles near plaque-filled arteries in animals that might contribute to arterial calcification.
Pavlov's neurons: Researchers find brain cells that are a key to learning
Dec 08, 2008 |
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More than a century after Ivan Pavlov's dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and animals learn from experience.
New adult brain cells may be central to lifelong learning
May 23, 2007 |
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The steady formation of new brain cells in adults may represent more than merely a patching up of aging brains, a new study has shown. The new adult brain cells may serve to give the adult brain the same kind of learning ...
Support for adjunctive vitamin C treatment in cancer
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Serious flaws in a recent study, which concluded that high doses of vitamin C reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment of cancer, are revealed in the current issue of Alternative and Complementary Th ...
Researchers to test first gene therapy For Alzheimer's patients
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of 12 sites nationwide participating in the first Phase 2 clinical trial to test gene therapy treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The study is the first multicenter neurosurgical intervention ...
Angiogenesis inhibitor improves brain tumor survival by reducing edema
Mar 30, 2009 |
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The beneficial effects of anti-angiogenesis drugs in the treatment of the deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas appear to result primarily from reduction of edema - the swelling of brain tissue - and not from any direct ...
Diabetes drug shows promise in fighting lethal cancer complication
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes and a condition often associated with obesity, is paradoxically also an apparent contributor to muscle wasting and severe fat loss that accompanies some cancers, according ...
Lack of fragile X and related gene fractures sleep
Jun 26, 2008 |
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Lack of both the fragile X syndrome gene and one that is related could account for sleep problems associated with the disorder, which is the common cause of inherited mental impairment, said a consortium of researchers led ...
Space: The not-so-final frontier
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Of all environments, space must be the most hostile: It is freezing cold, close to absolute zero, there is a vacuum, so no oxygen, and the amount of lethal radiation from stars is very high. This is why humans need to be ...
