Archive: 05/26/2011
Disparities in stroke care prevail among US racial/ethnic groups
Disparities between racial/ethnic minorities and whites cross all aspects of stroke care, according to an American Heart Association/American Stroke Association scientific statement.
Cardiology
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Omega-3 may cut risk of artery disease, heart attacks for patients with stents
Omega-3 fatty acids, combined with two blood-thinning drugs, significantly changed the blood-clotting process and may reduce the risk of heart attacks in patients with stents in their heart arteries, according to research ...
Cardiology
May 26, 2011 |
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Cancer cells accelerate aging and inflammation in the body to drive tumor growth
Researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shed new light on the longstanding conundrum about what makes a tumor grow—and how to make it stop. Interestingly, cancer cells accelerate the aging of nearby ...
Cancer
May 26, 2011 |
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High risk of Parkinson's disease for people exposed to pesticides near workplace
In April 2009, researchers at UCLA announced they had discovered a link between Parkinson's disease and two chemicals commonly sprayed on crops to fight pests.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 26, 2011 |
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Folic acid given to mother rats protects offspring from colon cancer
Folic acid supplements given to pregnant and breast-feeding rats reduced the rate of colon cancer in their offspring by 64 per cent, a new study has found.
Health
May 26, 2011 |
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Master gene may shed new light on lysosomal and neurodegenerative disorders
Cells, like ordinary households, produce "garbage" – debris and dysfunctional elements – that need disposal. When the mechanism for taking out this garbage fails, rare genetic diseases called lysosomal storage disorders ...
Genetics
May 26, 2011 |
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Introduce specialized teaching for dyscalculia in schools, urge experts
Specialised teaching for individuals with dyscalculia, the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia, should be made widely available in mainstream education, according to a review of current research published today in the journal ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 26, 2011 |
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Babies can perform sophisticated analyses of how the physical world should behave: study
Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 26, 2011 |
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Common transplant drug inhibits breast cancer growth, study shows
Tacrolimus, a drug that is commonly used to prevent organ transplantation rejection, inhibits breast cancer growth in pre-clinical studies. The finding from UNC scientists was reported in the May 26th PLoS ONE.
Cancer
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People with body-image disorders process 'big picture' visual information abnormally
People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD — a severe mental illness characterized by debilitating misperceptions that one appears disfigured and ugly — process visual information abnormally, even when ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 26, 2011 |
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New study identifies compounds that could slow down Alzheimer's disease
A family of naturally occurring plant compounds could help prevent or delay memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
Medical research
May 26, 2011 |
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Five new hot spots where medicine and technology will converge
Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots performing ...
Health
May 26, 2011 |
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Aging, obsolete cells prime the lungs for pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. Newly published research from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio suggests why older people are ...
Medical research
May 26, 2011 |
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Stress may increase risk for Alzheimer's disease
Stress promotes neuropathological changes that are also seen in Alzheimer's disease. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have discovered that the increased release of stress hormones in rats leads ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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NIH stops clinical trial on combination cholesterol treatment
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned. The trial found that adding high dose, ...
Medications
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