http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Belgian legislators opened a debate Wednesday on whether to amend a decade-old law on euthanasia to cover minors, being told by experts that it was already taking place in practice without any set guidelines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-belgium-debates-euthanasia-minors.html Health Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:30:02 EST news280584967 A new gene that causes early-onset of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by the research team of Dominique Campion at the Insert unit 1079 "Genetics of cancer and neuropsychiatric diseases" in Rouen. The research scientists showed that in the families of 5 of 14 patients suffering from the disease, mutations were detected on the gene SORL1. This gene regulates the production of a peptide involved in Alzheimer's disease. The results of this study have been published in the review Molecular Psychiatry issued April 3rd. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-gene-thought-early-onset-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:40:01 EST news252754229