Archive: 06/20/2012
Weight-loss surgery cuts heart risk 7 years later: study
(HealthDay) -- Seven years after they underwent weight-loss surgery, patients as a whole fared better on several measurements of their risk of cardiac problems, a new study finds, and many returned to normal ...
Surgery
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Novel live-cell imaging technique offers new opportunities to understanding immune responses in the skin
Biologists often use a technique called multi-photon imaging to examine live cells. The technique is unique in that it uses multiple photons of high wavelengths to stimulate fluorescent labels, causing them ...
Immunology
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Mind games: Mental exercises are key to better brain function
Go ahead - do it: Grab a pencil. Right now. Write your name backward. And upside down. Awkward, right?
Health
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Future reproductive outcomes for women who have had an ectopic pregnancy
Women who experience an initial ectopic pregnancy—when the embryo implants outside the womb, usually in the fallopian tubes—are less likely to conceive in the future and if they do, are at increased risk of having ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Researchers, with stem cells, advance understanding of spinal muscular atrophy
Cedars-Sinai's Regenerative Medicine Institute has pioneered research on how motor-neuron cell-death occurs in patients with spinal muscular atrophy, offering an important clue in identifying potential medicines to treat ...
Medical research
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I want to know where love is: Research develops first brain map of love and desire
Thanks to modern science, we know that love lives in the brain, not in the heart. But where in the brain is it – and is it in the same place as sexual desire? A recent international study is the first to draw an exact ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Study finds that assessments and incentives for medical faculty productivity improve research
(Medical Xpress) -- Strategies introduced to assess -- and reward -- the productivity of faculty at academic medical centers in the U.S. do improve faculty research productivity, according to a systematic review recently ...
Other
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MicroRNAs link the pathways that control growth during animal development and in disease
Cellular mechanisms that enable healthy growth can spiral out of control and give rise to cancer. For this reason, signal transduction pathways that underlie cell growth are tightly regulated, with multiple ...
Medical research
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Many mysteries unsolved in binge-eating disorder
Although cognitive-behavioral therapy and interpersonal therapy, as well as the anticonvulsant topiramate, can help patients who binge eat, a magic bullet for the disorder remains elusive.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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New treatment for childhood phobias
Australia’s leading support, treatment and research facility for anxiety and emotional disorders, the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University, is trialing a new treatment for childhood dog ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Improving life for those who suffer most from type 1 diabetes
A transplant procedure given only to those with Type 1 diabetes who pass out repeatedly from low blood sugar levels, or ‘hypos’, is likely to become much more effective as a result of a discovery ...
Diabetes
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Varying drug levels in the body could speed the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria
(Medical Xpress) -- Strains of bacteria able to resist multiple antibiotics pose a growing threat to public health, yet the means by which resistance quickly emerges aren’t well understood.
Medical research
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Acute severe pain is common in sexual assault survivors in the early post-assault period, but rarely treated
Despite the fact that the majority of women presenting to emergency departments for care after sexual assault experience severe pain, very few receive pain treatment.
Health
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Study: 21 percent of newly admitted nursing home residents sustain a fall during their stay
One in five short-stay nursing home patients sustains a fall after their admission, and certified nursing assistant (CNA) staffing is associated with decreased fall risk, according to a study in the Journal of the American Ge ...
Health
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Hugs from Mom and Dad, without the wires
(Medical Xpress) -- Anyone who has seen a newborn in a hospital NICU knows the image is shocking. Wires and electrodes designed to monitor vital signals such as heart rate, brain signals and blood oxygen levels ...
Medical research
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