Archive: 06/12/2017

New gene therapy transplantation technique could improve treatment of neurodegenerative diseases

A therapeutic technique to transplant blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells directly into the brain could herald a revolution in our approach to treating central nervous system diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.

Dec 6, 2017

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Health law sign-ups seen as falling short though more enroll

Americans are signing up in growing numbers for the Affordable Care Act's subsidized health insurance, the government said Wednesday. But with enrollment season cut in half and just over a week to go, experts say the final ...

Dec 6, 2017

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Smartphone health apps miss some daily activity of users

If you use your smartphone to monitor your physical activity, you're probably more active than it suggests.

Dec 6, 2017

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Deadly cryptococcal fungi found in public spaces in South Africa

Large populations of potentially deadly cryptococcal fungi have been found on woody debris collected from old trees in two public areas in the centre of Cape Town and the Northern Cape, South Africa.

Dec 6, 2017

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Probiotic gets a boost from breast milk

Supplementation with probiotics can improve a person's gut health, but the benefits are often fleeting, and colonization by the probiotic's good microbes usually doesn't last. Breast milk may help sustain those colonies in ...

Dec 6, 2017

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Research in mice paves way to teasing out cause and effect between gut microbes and disease

Clearing a major hurdle in the field of microbiome research, Harvard Medical School scientists have designed and successfully used a method to tease out cause-and-effect relationships between gut bacteria and disease.

Dec 6, 2017

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Healthy mitochondria could stop Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and neurodegeneration worldwide. A major hallmark of the disease is the accumulation of toxic plaques in the brain, formed by the abnormal aggregation of a protein called ...

Dec 6, 2017

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Viagra goes generic: Pfizer to launch own little white pill

The little blue pill that's helped millions of men in the bedroom is turning white. Drugmaker Pfizer is launching its own cheaper generic version of Viagra rather than lose most sales when the impotence pill gets its first ...

Dec 6, 2017

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LGBQ* women's sexual desire particularly impacted by social and cultural pressures

Women's sexual desire is influenced by a host of factors, but one factor is often left out by researchers and clinicians. University of Kentucky researchers homed in on that missing piece—the influence of social and cultural ...

Dec 6, 2017

New clinician resource available explains biological impact of aging on immunity

The American College of Physicians (ACP), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), representing 220,000 clinicians, today released "Aging and Immunity: The Important Role ...

Dec 6, 2017

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