Archive: 19/07/2012

Exposure to light could help Alzheimer's patients sleep better

(Medical Xpress) -- Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) often sleep during the day and are awake at night. The situation can turn life-threatening if they leave their homes and wander around ...

Jul 19, 2012

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Study reveals harmful effects of compact fluorescent light bulbs to skin

(Medical Xpress) -- Inspired by a European study, a team of Stony Brook University researchers looked into the potential impact of healthy human skin tissue (in vitro) being exposed to ultraviolet rays emitted from compact ...

Jul 19, 2012

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The hippocampus as a decision-maker

(Medical Xpress) -- Synapses are modified through learning. Up until now, scientists believed that a particular form of synaptic plasticity in the brain’s hippocampus was responsible for learning spatial relations. This ...

Jul 19, 2012

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Team finds new type of severe asthma, can be treated with drugs that suppress the immune system

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have identified a subset of severe asthma that improves with drug regimens that suppress the immune system. In the American Journal of Respiratory ...

Jul 19, 2012

Safety net health centers fill in urban gaps

Urban areas that are segregated by race, ethnicity or income have more Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which provide primary care services for disadvantaged populations, despite an adequate supply of private sector ...

Jul 19, 2012

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Life science businessmen predict genetically enhanced athletes will soon compete in the Olympics

(Medical Xpress) -- The journal Nature has begun publishing a series of commentary piece articles related to the sciences as they apply to the Olympics.

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Radical prostatectomy doesn't cut mortality versus observation

(HealthDay) -- For men with clinically localized prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy does not significantly reduce all-cause or prostate-cancer mortality compared with observation through 12 years of follow-up, according ...

Jul 19, 2012

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HIV-2 infection inhibits HIV-1 disease progression

(HealthDay) -- While many people don't know it, there's more than one kind of AIDS virus. Besides the HIV-1 strain that's common throughout the world, a type known as HIV-2 is found in some parts of Africa. Now, a new study ...

Jul 19, 2012

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Study gives first evidence that adult human lungs can regrow

(HealthDay) -- Researchers have uncovered the first evidence that the adult human lung is capable of growing back -- at least in part -- after being surgically removed.

Jul 19, 2012

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UN reports progress against HIV in poor countries

(AP) — A push to get more AIDS treatment to the world's poorest, hardest-hit countries is paying off as deaths inch down — and new infections are dropping a bit, too, the United Nations reported Wednesday.

Jul 19, 2012

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