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Genome analysis of pancreas tumors reveals new pathway

The latest genomic analysis of pancreatic tumors identified two new pathways involved in the disease, information that could be capitalized on to develop new and earlier diagnostic tests for the disease

Cancer created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cracking the epigenetic code, advancing our understanding of disease

(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at The Australian National University is one step closer to better understanding how organisms function after discovering how epigenetic information is transmitted ...

Genetics created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

About face: Long-ignored segments of DNA play role in early stages of face development

(Medical Xpress)—The human face is a fantastically intricate thing. The billions of people on the planet have faces that are individually recognizable because each has subtle differences in its folds and ...

Genetics created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Academic websites offer the most reliable pediatric orthopedic information online

Most parents frequently rely on the Internet for pediatric health information, and yet the content and quality of information can vary greatly from website to website. According to new research presented on Sunday, Oct. 21 ...

Pediatrics created Oct 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Current genetic tests unlikely to improve antidepressant treatment, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Genetic markers cannot predict which patients with major depression will respond to anti-depressant drugs, according to a large collaborative study led by researchers at King's College ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Doctors who go digital provide higher quality healthcare

The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work ...

Health created Oct 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Non-coding antisense RNA can be used to stimulate protein production

While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand a novel function of non-protein ...

Genetics created Oct 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly 170 million years of healthy life lost due to cancer in 2008

The first detailed study to estimate the global impact of cancer on the number of healthy years of life lost by patients has revealed that nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost because of cancer in 2008, according ...

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England World Cup wins and losses linked to 30 percent rise in domestic violence

Domestic violence rates rose by an average of 30 percent each time England won or lost their games during the 2010 World Cup, but draws had little impact on the statistics.

Health created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Burst of fetal neural activity necessary for vision

(Medical Xpress)—A sudden and mysterious burst of activity originating in the retina of a developing fetus spurs brain connections that are essential to development of finely-tuned sight, Yale researchers ...

Neuroscience created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection

It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future.

Genetics created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Applying information theory to linguistics suggests 'functional design' in cross-language variations

The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electronic health records shown to improve the quality of patient care

A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, provides compelling evidence that electronic health records (EHRs) enhance the quality of patient care in a c ...

Health created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Graphic, emotional anti-smoking ads increase attempts to quit

Graphic and/or emotional television anti-smoking ads get more smokers to try to quit than less intense ads, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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Delayed auditory processing found in fetal alcohol syndrome

(HealthDay)—Preschool children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) display delays in auditory processing, which may serve as a useful neural marker of information processing difficulties, according ...

Addiction created Oct 05, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1