Harvard Medical School
Uncontrollable anger prevalent among US youth
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adolescents have experienced an anger attack that involved threatening violence, destroying property or engaging in violence toward others at some point in their lives. These severe attacks of uncontrollable ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 02, 2012 |
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For our guts, not just any microbiome will do
Gut bacteria's key role in immunity is tuned to the host species, researchers have found, suggesting that the superabundant microbes lining our digestive tract evolved with us—a tantalizing clue in the mysterious recent ...
Medical research
Jun 21, 2012 |
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Cancer may require simpler genetic mutations than previously thought
Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven't known how a deletion in one gene from one parent, called a "hemizygous" deletion, can contribute ...
Cancer
May 25, 2012 |
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Reverse engineering epilepsy's 'miracle' diet
For decades, neurologists have known that a diet high in fat and extremely low in carbohydrates can reduce epileptic seizures that resist drug therapy. But how the diet worked, and why, was a mystery—so much so that ...
Neuroscience
May 23, 2012 |
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More evidence for longevity pathway
New research reinforces the claim that resveratrol—a compound found in plants and food groups, notably red wine—prolongs lifespan and health-span by boosting the activity of mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier.
Medical research
May 01, 2012 |
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In developing world, economic benefits trump expense of C-sections
Surgery, often thought to be too expensive for wholesale global health delivery, can be a highly cost-effective means of improving health in the developing world.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Web-based tool produces fast, accurate autism diagnosis
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children.
Autism spectrum disorders
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Magnetic nanoparticles predict diabetes onset
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a magnetic nanoparticle-based MRI technique for predicting whether—and when—subjects with a genetic predisposition ...
Immunology
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Genetic mutation implicated in 'broken' heart
For decades, researchers have sought a genetic explanation for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), a weakening and enlargement of the heart that puts an estimated 1.6 million Americans at risk of heart failure each year. ...
Genetics
Feb 15, 2012 |
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Mouse brains keyed to speed
(Medical Xpress) -- It’s hard to be a mouse. You’re a social animal, but your fellows are small and scattered. You’re a snack to a bestiary of fast, eagle-eyed predators, not least the eagle. ...
Neuroscience
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Study points to therapy for radiation sickness
(Medical Xpress) -- A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a ...
Cancer
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Rate of physician referrals nearly doubled
Physician referral rates in the United States doubled between 1999 and 2009, a new study finds, an increase that likely contributes to the rising costs of health care.
Health
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Researchers rebuild the brain's circuitry
Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was ...
Neuroscience
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Bacterial genes tell the tale of an outbreak's evolution
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have retraced the evolution of an unusual bacterial infection as it spread among cystic fibrosis patients by sequencing scores of samples collected during ...
Genetics
Nov 13, 2011 |
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Stem cells repair lung damage after flu infection
Guided by insights into how mice recover after H1N1 flu, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, together with researchers at A*STAR of Singapore, have cloned three distinct ...
Medical research
Oct 27, 2011 |
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