By Washington University in St. Louis
Researchers have made strides in staying ahead of Huntington’s disease, a devastating, incurable disorder that results from the death of certain neurons in the brain.
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By American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
A new study shows that immune cells outside the brain may regulate propensity to develop depression. Depression is a chronic disorder with a devastating impact on the quality of life, health and life expectancy of those who suffer from the disorder. The u
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By Tufts University
In a study of older mice, wolfberries appear to interact with the influenza vaccine to offer additional protection against the flu virus. The research suggests the wolfberry may increase the activity of dendritic cells, which play an important role in the
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By Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki)
A new individualized systems medicine strategy enables a selection of potentially effective cancer therapies for individual patients. These are promising results achieved by applying this strategy to chemoresistant adult acute myeloid leukemia patients.
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By Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)
A 50-year-old mystery surrounding the existence of a cell wall in the bacterial pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis, or chlamydia, has been solved. Chlamydia is the leading cause of sexually transmitted infections worldwide, infecting nearly 1.5 million Americ
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By American Association for Cancer Research
Women with breast cancer characterized by high levels of the protein HER2 and hormone receptors gained much less benefit from presurgery treatment with chemotherapy and HER2-targeted therapies if their cancer had one or more mutations in the PIK3CA gene,
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By The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
There may be a better way to analyze the genetic causes of cutaneous melanoma according to a study published. A statistical analysis using the natural and orthogonal interaction model showed increased power over existing approaches for detecting genetic e
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By American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
A new study shows that high levels of maternal care during the early post-natal period in rodents can reduce the sensitivity of the offspring to stressful events during adulthood. Maternal care is shown to chemically modify and thereby re-program genes th
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By Buck Institute for Age Research
What are the limits to longevity? Scientists combined mutations in two pathways well-known for lifespan extension and report a synergistic five-fold lifespan extension in the nematode C. elegans. The worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years
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By International Osteoporosis Foundation
A new report shows that osteoporosis is a serious problem throughout the Asia Pacific, with the number of fracture sufferers to rise dramatically in the coming decades. The report provides new and updated information and data about the status and epidemio
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By European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano
A genetic study sheds light on the history of the populations, indicating that the genetic make-up of human beings is a result of their biological evolution, which is also influenced by geographical and socio-cultural factors such as environmental feature
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By American Association for Cancer Research
Breast cancer incidence among postmenopausal women at high risk for developing the disease was significantly reduced by the antihormone therapy anastrozole, indicating that the drug may be an effective new option for breast cancer prevention for this grou
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By American Physiological Society
In a new study, researchers found that living between 2,000 and 2,500 meters above sea level offered the best performance enhancement compared to living at higher or lower elevations. These findings could help competitive endurance athletes and their coac
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By Indiana University
Repeated blows to the head during a season of contact sports may cause changes in the brain's white matter and affect cognitive abilities even if none of the impacts resulted in a concussion.
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By Oregon Health & Science University
Scientists have discovered how to fix sleep disturbances in mice with traumatic brain injuries -- a discovery that could lead to help for hundreds of thousands of people who have long-term and debilitating sleep and wakefulness issues after they suffer co
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By National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH
Men with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer who received the chemotherapy drug docetaxel given at the start of standard hormone therapy lived longer than patients who received hormone therapy alone, according to early results from a National Ins
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By Washington University in St. Louis
A team of researchers has identified variations in a gene that double a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease later in life. The newly identified variations occur rarely in the population, making them hard for researchers to
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By Washington University School of Medicine
Widely used treatments for type 2 diabetes have different effects on the hearts of men and women, even as the drugs control blood sugar equally well in both sexes, according to researchers. The investigators used PET scans to measure heart and whole-body
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By University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences
A pilot program offering telehealth technology to pediatric obesity patients found that a great majority of pediatric patients were satisfied with their telehealth appointment.
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By European Society of Cardiology
The first test to identify acute mountain sickness has been developed by a team of researchers in Italy and France. The test could revolutionize trekking and climbing by predicting who will develop the potentially deadly condition so they can avoid high a
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