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Vets' PTSD affects mental and physical health of partners

A study from the University of Utah sheds new light on the health risks faced not only by military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but by their partners as well. Results of the study will be presented ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain injury may be autoimmune phenomenon, like multiple sclerosis, research finds

Most scientists are starting to agree that repeat, sub-concussive hits to the head are dangerous and linked to neurological disorders later in life. A new collaborative study, though, attempted to find out why – and discovered ...

Immunology created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Excess dietary salt identified as autoimmune trigger

For the past few decades, health officials have been reporting increases in the incidence of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Now researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Medical ...

Medical research created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Young offenders need a verbal toolkit to unlock literacy

Half of Australia's young male offenders have a clinically significant, previously unidentified language deficit.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Insomnia is linked to increased risk of heart failure

People who suffer from insomnia appear to have an increased risk of developing heart failure, according to the largest study to investigate the link.

Cardiology created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obesity makes fat cells act like they're infected

(Medical Xpress)—The inflammation of fat tissue is part of a spiraling series of events that leads to the development of type 2 diabetes in some obese people. But researchers have not understood what triggers ...

Medical research created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Age-related dementia may begin with neurons' inability to dispose of unwanted proteins

A team of European scientists from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) and the Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD) at the University of Cologne in ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New effort to identify Parkinson's biomarkers

Last month, the National Institutes of Health announced a new collaborative initiative that aims to accelerate the search for biomarkers—changes in the body that can be used to predict, diagnose or monitor a disease—in ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Antiviral lipid earns patent: Lipids in lung can inhibit RSV and influenza infections

Dennis Voelker, PhD, professor of medicine at National Jewish Health, has been awarded a U.S. patent (#8,367,643) for various lipids and related compounds that can inhibit inflammation and infection in the lungs, especially ...

Medical research created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amputee phantom pain linked to brain retaining picture of missing limb

Changes in the brain following amputation have been linked to pain arising from the missing limb, called 'phantom pain', in an Oxford University brain imaging study.

Neuroscience created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Genes that control nervous system development play a role in gum disease

(Medical Xpress)—By simultaneously investigating millions of gene variants in more than 5,000 individuals, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveal that genes that are responsible for nervous ...

Genetics created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A vaccine that works in newborns? Promising compound may help protect babies during vulnerable window

The underdeveloped immune systems of newborns don't respond to most vaccines, leaving them at high risk for infections like rotavirus, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcus. Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital ...

Immunology created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows mirabegron effective and well tolerated for overactive bladder

In a new phase III trial mirabegron, a β3-adrenoceptor agonist, given once daily for 12 weeks, reduced the frequency of incontinence episodes and number of daily urinations, and improved urgency and nocturia in adults with ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New moms suffer more obsessive-compulsive symptoms than general population

A new mother may constantly worry and check to see if her baby is still breathing. Or she may fret about germs, obsessing whether she's properly sterilized the bottles, then wash and rewash them.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Changes in patterns of brain activity predict fear memory formation

Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered that changes in patterns of brain activity during fearful experiences predict whether a long-term fear memory is formed. The research results have recently ...

Neuroscience created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast