Archive: 12/11/2015

Experimental drug targeting Alzheimer's disease shows anti-aging effects

Salk Institute researchers have found that an experimental drug candidate aimed at combating Alzheimer's disease has a host of unexpected anti-aging effects in animals.

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Team identifies drug that could limit the spread of deadly brain tumors

In a significant breakthrough, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has identified a drug, propentofylline or PPF, that could help treat patients with deadly brain cancer.

Nov 12, 2015

California vaccine refusers cluster in rich, white areas

(HealthDay)—California's anti-vaccine sentiment tends to concentrate in wealthier, largely white areas of the state—a pattern that has left certain communities with childhood vaccination rates as low as 50 percent, a ...

Nov 12, 2015

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Head, neck cancer patients may be at higher risk for suicide: study

(HealthDay)—Head and neck cancer patients may be at raised risk for suicide, new research suggests.

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About half of pulmonologists tend to offer LDCT screening

(HealthDay)—About half of pulmonologists have a propensity for guideline-concordant low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening for lung cancer, according to a study published in the November issue of the Annals of the ...

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US adult smoking rate falls to new low

(HealthDay)—Fewer Americans smoke than a decade ago, and those who still light up do so less often, federal health officials reported Thursday.

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Sharp increase in US babies born with syphilis: CDC

(HealthDay)—As syphilis cases increase among U.S. women, doctors are seeing more babies born with the serious infection, health officials report.

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Medicaid coverage improves access to health care and chronic disease control

Low-income Americans with Medicaid insurance have more awareness and better treatment of chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure, than their uninsured counterparts, a group of Harvard researchers said today. People ...

Nov 12, 2015

Despite health law's bow to prevention, US public health funding is dropping

Although the language of the Affordable Care Act places considerable emphasis on disease prevention - for example, mandating insurance coverage of clinical preventive services such as mammograms - funding for public health ...

Nov 12, 2015

Eating sweets forms memories that may control eating habits, study finds

Eating sweet foods causes the brain to form a memory of a meal, according to researchers at Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center.

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Archive: 12/11/2015

Experimental drug targeting Alzheimer's disease shows anti-aging effects

Team identifies drug that could limit the spread of deadly brain tumors

California vaccine refusers cluster in rich, white areas

Head, neck cancer patients may be at higher risk for suicide: study

About half of pulmonologists tend to offer LDCT screening

US adult smoking rate falls to new low

Sharp increase in US babies born with syphilis: CDC

Medicaid coverage improves access to health care and chronic disease control

Despite health law's bow to prevention, US public health funding is dropping

Eating sweets forms memories that may control eating habits, study finds

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