Archive: 10/03/2016

Breast cancer has a higher incidence in obese women as fat facilitates cancer stem cell expansion

An international team of researchers, with the participation of the University of Granada (UGR), has revealed new data on why breast cancer has a higher incidence and is more aggressive in obese people. The reason is that ...

Mar 10, 2016

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Parental stress and child behavior health impacts

Parenting a child with an illness or physical disability can be stressful, but a child's behavior can also affect the physical and mental well-being of parents in low-income and racially diverse families, according to Penn ...

Mar 10, 2016

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Pregnant women support first maternal gene therapy trial

Pregnant women would be willing to trial maternal growth factor gene therapy to treat severe early-onset fetal growth restriction (FGR) in their unborn babies, according to a new study. If the proposed trial goes ahead it ...

Mar 10, 2016

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Feeling hungry—A possible way to prevent neurodegenerative disease

Reducing a person's calorie intake can protect against the development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's Disease. But why this happens has remained a mystery. Until now.

Mar 10, 2016

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Technology is failing to meet the needs of older people with hearing and sight problems, report finds

Assistive technology developers and service providers need to do more to meet the diverse needs of the rising number of older people with both hearing and sight problems, according to a new report launched at the University ...

Mar 10, 2016

New study to assess why 'rogue gene' causes asthma in early life

Researchers at the University of Southampton are to study why some people are more likely to develop asthma.

Mar 10, 2016

Researchers prove antitumoral potential of a compound derived from olives

Researchers from the universities of Granada, Barcelona and Jaen prove that maslinic acid, a natural triterpene found in high concentrations in the waxy skin of olives is effective in Caco-2 p53-deficient colon adenocarcinoma ...

Mar 10, 2016

Sexual responses can be learned and unlearned

Undesirable associations with sex can be unlearned, but return if the circumstances change. They must therefore be unlearned in different situations. The drug D-cycloserine may help here. These are the findings of psychologist ...

Mar 10, 2016

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New app tackles head trauma

Thirteen-year-old Madeline Yunker fell hard during a soccer match three years ago, striking her head on the turf with enough force to cause a concussion.

Mar 10, 2016

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New cancer treatment to be tested

The Swedish Medical Products Agency and the Regional Ethics Committee have approved the initiation of a clinical trial for a completely new form of neuroendocrine cancer treatment that uses an oncolytic virus. The virus owes ...

Mar 10, 2016

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Archive: 10/03/2016

Breast cancer has a higher incidence in obese women as fat facilitates cancer stem cell expansion

Parental stress and child behavior health impacts

Pregnant women support first maternal gene therapy trial

Feeling hungry—A possible way to prevent neurodegenerative disease

Technology is failing to meet the needs of older people with hearing and sight problems, report finds

New study to assess why 'rogue gene' causes asthma in early life

Researchers prove antitumoral potential of a compound derived from olives

Sexual responses can be learned and unlearned

New app tackles head trauma

New cancer treatment to be tested

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