Archive: 06/17/2011
How men's lifestyles double their risk of an early death
A University of Sussex psychologist is one of the key authors of a major new report that reveals that death rates of men aged 16-64 is twice that of women in the same age range in the European Union.
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Tapeworm drug inhibits colon cancer metastasis
A compound that for about 60 years has been used as a drug against tapeworm infection is also apparently effective against colon cancer metastasis, as studies using mice have now shown. The compound silences a gene that triggers ...
Cancer
Jun 17, 2011 |
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University of Louisville surgeons perform first prosthetic bypass graft with patient's stem cells at point-of-care
The first three patients to undergo an investigational surgical procedure for peripheral vascular disease that involves the patient's own stem cells continue to do well, reports the University of Louisville surgeon who is ...
Medical research
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A better way to remember
Scientists and educators alike have long known that cramming is not an effective way to remember things. With their latest findings, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, studying eye ...
Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Ned Kelly tattoos linked to higher violent deaths and suicides
(Medical Xpress) -- In a paper soon to be published in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Professor Roger Byard from Adelaide University showed that sporting a tattoo of Ned Kelly or in reference to him ...
Health
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US Medicaid drug lists cost more, deliver less
The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and effective medications, ...
Medications
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Brain surgeons analyze traumatic brain injuries in comic books
(Medical Xpress) -- Yes, you read that title correctly. In the European Journal of Nuerosurgery, Acta Nuerochirugica, a group of neurosurgery researchers from the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf in Germany have e ...
Health
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Learning lessons from an HIV cure
For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...
HIV & AIDS
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Brain iron as an early predictor of Alzheimer's disease
Early and correct diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is important for reasons that go beyond treatment. These include more time to make critical life decisions, planning for future care, and maximizing ...
Neuroscience
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Transcription factor regulates protein that dampens immune responses
Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine protein that reduces immune responses and staves off autoimmune disease. Now, a research team led by Masato Kubo at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy ...
Medical research
Jun 17, 2011 |
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More evidence vitamin D boosts immune response
Laboratory-grown gingival cells treated with vitamin D boosted their production of an endogenous antibiotic, and killed more bacteria than untreated cells, according to a paper in the June 2011 issue of the journal Infection ...
Medical research
Jun 17, 2011 |
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From religion to politics: why it matters if we think someone is watching
(Medical Xpress) -- People are more likely to condemn the bad behaviour of others when they sense someone else may be watching, research by a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Is 'positive aging' possible?
Positive ageing is explored in a series of papers emanating from five different countries in the latest issue of the e-journal of Applied Psychology, released today.
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Bust dust to toxin-proofing children
Bust the dust -- that’s one of five key tips featured in the first national brochure on protecting children from toxic substances, produced with input from a Simon Fraser University health sciences professor.
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Scientists achieve breakthrough in growth hormone research
Researchers in the School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Queensland (UQ) have made a ground-breaking discovery in the study of growth hormone.
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