Archive: 05/12/2014
Rescuing the golgi puts brakes on Alzheimer's progression
Alzheimer's disease (AD) progresses inside the brain in a rising storm of cellular chaos as deposits of the toxic protein, amyloid-beta (Aβ), overwhelm neurons. An apparent side effect of accumulating Aβ in neurons is the ...
Dec 5, 2014
Cerebral oxygenation in elite Kenyan athletes
The Journal of Applied Physiology has published an article by Jordan Santos-Concejero of the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences of the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), and entitled `Maintained cerebral ...
Dec 5, 2014
Give flawed payments database time to improve
A "Viewpoint" published in JAMA urges readers to be patient with the new federal Open Payments Program database. The site, designed to report drug and device industry payments to physicians, debuted substantially incomplete, ...
Dec 5, 2014
Canada hopes avian flu is contained to 4 farms
(AP)—Canadian officials hope an avian flu outbreak has been contained to four quarantined poultry farms in British Columbia.
Dec 5, 2014
Vietnamese surgeon jailed for dumping patient's body in river
A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced a cosmetic surgeon to 19 years in jail for throwing the body of a patient who died during a botched operation into a river.
Dec 5, 2014
Type 2 diabetes risk starts in pregnancy (w/ Video)
The risk of developing type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease is affected by exposures in the uterus. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are now calling for updated guidelines in light of research evidence ...
Dec 5, 2014