Archive: 09/21/2011
Monogenic defects responsible for intellectual disability and related disorders
(Medical Xpress) -- For over 15 years, genome research has focussed – largely unsuccessfully – on the quest for common genetic risk factors for widespread diseases and conditions, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, ...
Genetics
Sep 21, 2011 |
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NHS has 'wasted' $976 million on synthetic insulin in past decade
The NHS has stumped up an extra £625 million over the past decade on synthetic forms of insulin, when the recommended human alternatives— which are considerably cheaper— would have probably been just as effective, ...
Medications
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Leaders vow to cut deaths from chronic disease
(AP) -- World leaders have pledged to take wide-ranging action to prevent millions of deaths from cancer, diabetes, and heart and lung disease by tackling the key causes - smoking, excessive drinking, lack of exercise and ...
Health
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Study: Dialysis 3 times weekly might not be enough
A major study challenges the way diabetics and others with failing kidneys have been treated for half a century, finding that three-times-a-week dialysis to cleanse the blood of toxins may not be enough.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Do women's voices really allow men to detect ovulation?
The voice can reveal a lot about a person - their sex, their age, how they are feeling - and recent studies have even suggested that women's voices might also contain cues that men can read about how close they are to ovulation. ...
Medical research
Sep 21, 2011 |
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YouTube videos can inaccurately depict Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders
Looking online for medical information? Viewers beware, doctors caution. After reviewing the most frequently watched YouTube videos about movement disorders, a group of neurologists found that the people in the videos often ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Alzheimer's disease: The first prevention study of its kind
Researchers at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in Montreal, Quebec, are about to launch the first epidemiological study on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 21, 2011 |
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New twist in a blindness-causing disease gene found
After more than three decades of research, University of Pennsylvania veterinarians and vision-research scientists, with associates at Cornell University, have identified a gene responsible for a blindness-inducing disease ...
Genetics
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Million young adults get health coverage under law
(AP) -- At least one part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has proven popular. With the economy sputtering, the number of young adults covered by health insurance grew by about a million as families flocked ...
Health
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Nurses at dozens of Calif. hospitals set to strike
(AP) -- Tens of thousands of nurses at nearly three dozen hospitals in Northern and Central California are set to go on strike in a labor dispute that has hospital managers moving to call in replacement workers ...
Other
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Advice to divorcees: Go easy on yourself
Divorce is tough, for just about everyone. But some people move through a breakup without overwhelming distress, even if they're sad or worried about money, while others get stuck in the bad feelings and can't seem to climb ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Welsh-Finnish link pinpoints important new familial motor neuron disease gene
Families suffering from a history of motor neuron disease have helped an international scientific team locate a new gene linked to the incurable disease.
Genetics
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Large study finds genetic 'overlap' between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
Knowledge about the biological origin of diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychiatric conditions is critical to improving diagnosis and treatment.
Genetics
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Embryonic stem cell therapy for paralysis given to first patient in western United States
The Stanford University School of Medicine and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center have enrolled the fourth participant in the nation’s first trial of cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. The phase-1, FDA-approved ...
Medical research
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Electrical stimulation to the brain makes learning easier
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study presented at the British Science Festival by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg from the University of Oxford shows that the application of small electrical currents to specific parts ...
Neuroscience
Sep 21, 2011 |
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