http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The patient turned 40 over the summer and was already having symptoms that made her neurologist wonder whether she had Alzheimer's disease, the deadly, mind-killing dementia that usually attacks far older people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-alzheimer-disease-patients.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:26:03 EST news275221554 Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of Brazilian mediums during the practice of psychography, described as a form of writing whereby a deceased person or spirit is believed to write through the medium's hand. The new research revealed intriguing findings of decreased brain activity during mediumistic dissociative state which generated complex written content. Their findings will appear in the November 16th edition of the online journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-brazilian-mediums-brain-trance-state.html Neuroscience Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:00:01 EST news272274780 (Medical Xpress) -- A Yale University-led research team has developed a way to measure the loss of insulin-producing islet cells in the human pancreas. The death of those beta cells leads to diabetes. The finding is a crucial step in developing therapies to preserve insulin production and slow or halt the progress of diabetes. The study appears in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-diabetes-loss-human-pancreas-cells.html Medical research Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:44:59 EST news257751721 New research from the University at Buffalo suggests that cardiologists may have a new way to identify patients who are at the highest risk of sudden cardiac arrest, and the most likely to benefit from receiving an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-imaging-patients-benefit-implantable-cardiac.html Cardiology Thu, 10 May 2012 11:13:43 EST news255867212