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Short-term food deprivation appears linked to high-calorie food options

A research letter by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Aner Tal, Ph.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., suggests that hungry grocery shoppers tend to buy higher-calorie products.

Health created May 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify potential new HIV vaccine/therapy target

After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain type of immune cell in their gut than others had much lower levels of the virus in their blood, ...

HIV & AIDS created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vaccine research shows vigilance needed against evolution of more-virulent malaria

Malaria parasites evolving in vaccinated laboratory mice become more virulent, according to research at Penn State University. The mice were injected with a critical component of several candidate human malaria ...

Medical research created Jul 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Searching for tumors or handguns can be like looking for food

If past experience makes you think there's going to be one more cashew at the bottom of the bowl, you're likely to search through those mixed nuts a little longer.

Neuroscience created Aug 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals new molecular target for melanoma treatment

A laboratory study led by UNC medical oncologist Stergios Moschos, MD, demonstrates how a new targeted drug, Elesclomol, blocks oxidative phosphorylation, which appears to play essential role in melanoma that has not been ...

Cancer created Aug 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Resveratrol shows promise to protect hearing, cognition

Resveratrol, a substance found in red grapes and red wine, may have the potential to protect against hearing and cognitive decline, according to a published laboratory study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Medical research created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Looking out for #1 can make you happy, if you have no choice

(Medical Xpress)—We are, at our core, social creatures and we spend considerable time and effort on building and maintaining our relationships with others. As young children, we're taught that "sharing means caring" and, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transmission routes of spreading protein particles

In diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's endogenous proteins accumulate in the brain, eventually leading to the death of nerve cells. These deposits, which consist of abnormally formed proteins, are supposed to migrate ...

Neuroscience created Mar 27, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Internet searches can identify drug safety issues well ahead of public alerts

Internet searches on health symptoms can be used to identify drug side effects and could be used to develop a new kind of early warning system to boost drug safety, indicates a study published online in the Journal of th ...

Medications created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell damage caused by personal lubricants does not increase HIV risk

The use of certain water-based, over-the-counter personal lubricants can dry out and irritate vaginal and rectal tissue, but does not appear to increase susceptibility to HIV, according to a laboratory study published today ...

HIV & AIDS created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oxytocin produces more engaged fathers and more responsive infants

A large body of research has focused on the ability of oxytocin to facilitate social bonding in both marital and parenting relationships in human females. A new laboratory study, led by Dr. Ruth Feldman from Bar-Ilan University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher provides further evidence that slow eating reduces food intake

Two new studies by researchers at the University of Rhode Island are providing additional insights into the role that eating rate plays in the amount of food one consumes. The studies found that men eat significantly faster ...

Health created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A step forward in regenerating and repairing damaged nerve cells

A team of IRCM researchers, led by Dr. Frédéric Charron, recently uncovered a nerve cell's internal clock, used during embryonic development. The discovery was made in collaboration with Dr. Alyson Fournier's laboratory ...

Neuroscience created Nov 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of cancer cell metabolism yields new insights on leukemia

University of Rochester Medical Center scientists have proposed a new reason why acute myeloid leukemia, one of the most aggressive cancers, is so difficult to cure: a subset of cells that drive the disease appear to have ...

Cancer created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New approaches may prevent certain side effects in BRAF mutation-positive melanoma

Findings from preclinical studies in a skin cancer model showed that next-generation BRAF inhibitors used alone, or first-generation BRAF inhibitors used in combination with an epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, ...

Cancer created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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