http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. With a new insight into a model of Parkinson's disease, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a novel target for mitigating some of the disease's toll on the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-reveals-parkinson-disease-therapies.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:12:19 EST news277794730 Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with researchers at the Salk Institute in California, have found for the first time that a specific protein is essential not only for maintaining a healthy retina in the eye, but also may have implications for understanding and possibly treating other conditions in the immune, reproductive, vascular and nervous systems, as well as in various cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-specific-protein-essential-healthy-eyes.html Neuroscience Mon, 07 Jan 2013 07:53:08 EST news276767582 Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons on demand, in the laboratory. The crucial element in their strategy is a chemical sensor that acts as a light-sensitive switch. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pain-chemists-light-controlled-neural-inhibitor.html Medical research Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:10:02 EST news249125900