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Stroke patients respond similarly to after-stroke care, despite age difference

Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

Cardiology created May 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team develops new method for producing precursor of neurons, bone, other important tissues from stem cells

In principle, stem cells offer scientists the opportunity to create specific cell types—such as nerve or heart cells—to replace tissues damaged by age or disease. In reality, coaxing stem cells to become the desired ...

Medical research created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New vaccine attacks breast cancer in mice

Researchers from the University of Georgia and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have developed a vaccine that dramatically reduces tumors in a mouse model that mimics 90 percent of human breast and pancreatic cancer ...

Cancer created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Pigment in the eye found to be key between obesity, vision loss

"Eat your veggies" has been an admonition of parents through the ages, but newly published brain research from the University of Georgia provides one of the best reasons why.

Health created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Sugar boosts self-control, study says

(Medical Xpress)—To boost self-control, gargle sugar water. According to a study co-authored by University of Georgia professor of psychology Leonard Martin published Oct. 22 in Psychological Science, a mouth rinse with g ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop universal flu vaccine: New technology could become available to consumers within a decade

(Medical Xpress)—Flu is unpredictable. Influenza viruses are constantly changing—from one season to the next or even within the course of a flu season—making vaccine development difficult.

Medical research created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Discovery sheds light on Alzheimer's mystery

(Medical Xpress)—In 1906, when Alois Alzheimer discovered the neurodegenerative disease that would later be named for him, he saw amyloid-beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles inside the brain. Several decades later, ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery promises to improve drugs used to fight cancer, other diseases

(Medical Xpress)—Even when at rest, the human body is a flurry of activity. Like a microscopic metropolis locked in a state of perpetual rush hour traffic, the trillions of cells that make us who we are work feverishly ...

Medical research created Jan 11, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify brain pathway triggering impulsive eating

New research from the University of Georgia has identified the neural pathways in an insect brain tied to eating for pleasure, a discovery that sheds light on mirror impulsive eating pathways in the human ...

Medical research created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fighting sleep: Discovery may lead to new treatments for deadly sleeping sickness

While its common name may make it sound almost whimsical, sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, is in reality a potentially fatal parasitic infection that has ravaged populations in sub-Saharan Africa ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

UGA discovery uses 'fracture putty' to repair broken bone in days

Broken bones in humans and animals are painful and often take months to heal. Studies conducted in part by University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center researchers show promise to significantly shorten the healing ...

Medical research created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Tamiflu doesn't offer relief promised, study finds

For the nearly 62 million Americans infected with influenza each year, oeseltamivir, commonly called Tamiflu, promises to offer relief. New research from the University of Georgia finds the medication may not have all of ...

Medications created Oct 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study reveals flu-fighting role for well-known immune component

University of Georgia scientists have discovered a new flu-fighting role for a well-known component of the immune system. Kimberly Klonowski, assistant professor of cellular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and ...

Medical research created Jun 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use gold nanoparticles to diagnose flu in minutes

Arriving at a rapid and accurate diagnosis is critical during flu outbreaks, but until now, physicians and public health officials have had to choose between a highly accurate yet time-consuming test or a rapid but error-prone ...

Medical research created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds anxiety linked to chest pain in children

(Medical Xpress)—Psychological factors can have as much—or more—impact on pediatric chest pain as physical ones, a University of Georgia study found recently. UGA psychologists discovered pediatric patients diagnosed ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast