Reducing the harms of alcohol through weaker beer
Could a small drop in the alcohol content of beer or other drinks reduce the harmful effects of alcohol in society at large?
Aug 10, 2016
Archive: 10/08/2016
Frozen embryos more effective than fresh in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who receive frozen embryos during in vitro fertilization have safer and more successful pregnancies than those who get fresh embryos, according to the results of a recent collaboration ...
Aug 10, 2016
New study supports surgery as treatment for myasthenia gravis
In a global study of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness and fatigue, researchers found that surgical removal of an organ called the thymus reduced patients' weakness, and their need for immunosuppressive ...
Aug 10, 2016
Treating at the earliest sign of MS may offer long-term benefit
Starting medication for multiple sclerosis (MS) in people who show the beginning signs of the disease is associated with prolonging the time before the disease is definitively diagnosed, according to a long-term study published ...
Aug 10, 2016
Syncing up drug refills: a way to get patients to take their medicine
You have your red pill and your green pill. There's the one you take at breakfast, the one you take before bed and the one you have to take six hours after eating. All told, it is a lot to keep track of. And remembering the ...
Aug 10, 2016
Scientists show molecule in brain may drive cocaine addiction
A new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ...
Aug 10, 2016
New PET scan tracer allows first imaging of the epigenetics of the human brain
A novel PET radiotracer developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is able for the first time to reveal epigenetic activity - the process that determines whether or not ...
Aug 10, 2016
Children can benefit when adoptive and biological parents share adoption stories
For most of the 20th century, adoptions were largely "closed," meaning birth parents placed their child with an adoption agency and had no further contact unless the child sought them out later in life. However, statistics ...
Aug 10, 2016
Gene signature in healthy brains pinpoints the origins of Alzheimer's disease
Researchers have discovered a gene signature in healthy brains that echoes the pattern in which Alzheimer's disease spreads through the brain much later in life. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, could ...
Aug 10, 2016
