Archive: 01/07/2015

Dopamine found to increase sexual desire in aging male fruit flies

(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with affiliations to a large number of institutions in Taiwan has found that increasing dopamine levels in the brains of male fruit flies caused them to find a renewed interest in ...

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Level I trauma experience prepares surgeons for battle

Soldiers injured during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have the highest survival rates in history, thanks to the availability of surgeons skilled in combat care. But combat-ready surgical skills are hard to sustain ...

Jul 1, 2015

Sepsis—the largely unknown condition that puts one million people in the hospital each year

Most Americans have never heard of it, but according to new federal data, sepsis is the most expensive cause of hospitalization in the US.

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Experimental drug combined with standard chemo may shrink ovarian cancers

Working in cell cultures and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an experimental drug called fostamatinib combined with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel may overcome ovarian cancer cells' resistance to paclitaxel.

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Thin colorectal cancer patients have shorter survival than obese patients

Although being overweight with a high body-mass index (BMI) has long been associated with a higher risk for colorectal cancer, thinner patients might not fare as well after treatment for advanced cancer, according to a new ...

Jul 1, 2015

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Cancer surgery or biopsy collection could influence disease progression

Scientists at Bristol studying the body's inflammatory response to wounds following cancer surgery or biopsy have found that these procedures may cause growth signals to be delivered to any remaining cancer or pre-cancerous ...

Jul 1, 2015

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Sleep deprivation could reduce intrusive memories of traumatic scenes

Sleep deprivation might prevent people from consolidating memories of experimental trauma, reducing their tendency to experience flashbacks, according to a new Oxford-led study.

Jul 1, 2015

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New stem cell research uncovers causes of spinal muscular atrophy

New research from the Advanced Gene and Cell Therapy Lab at Royal Holloway, University of London has used pioneering stem cell techniques to better understand why certain cells are more at risk of degenerating in spinal muscular ...

Jul 1, 2015

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Researchers make progress in the identification of new biomarkers for the prevention of colon cancer

Scientists from the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica (IBI) [Institute of Biomedical Research], in Galicia (Spain), have made progress in the identification of new biomarkers for improving prevention of colorectal cancer.

Jul 1, 2015

People with epilepsy can benefit from smartphone apps to manage their condition

While many people with epilepsy can control their seizures with medication, those unpredictable and involuntary changes in behavior and consciousness can be limiting for others. Neurologists writing in the International Journal ...

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