Archive: 13/06/2017

The role of vitamin A in diabetes

There has been no known link between diabetes and vitamin A - until now. A new study suggests that the vitamin improves the insulin producing β-cell´s function.

Jun 13, 2017

The importance of time and space in brain development and disease

Exactly when and where individual neurons develop is as important to our understanding of brain diseases as the underlying genetics, experts have shown.

Jun 13, 2017

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Drones carrying defibrillators could aid heart emergencies

It sounds futuristic: drones carrying heart defibrillators swooping in to help bystanders revive people stricken by cardiac arrest.

Jun 13, 2017

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Scientists reverse mechanism of fatty liver disease

Researchers have identified the mechanism which causes a build-up of fat in the liver in a disease affecting one in five in the UK—and were able to reverse it in a mouse model.

Jun 13, 2017

Researchers repurpose former experimental cancer therapy to treat muscular dystrophy

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med) have demonstrated that a drug originally targeted ...

Jun 13, 2017

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Researchers discover what may be earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease

Older adults with elevated levels of brain-clogging plaques—but otherwise normal cognition—experience faster mental decline suggestive of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study led by the Keck School of Medicine ...

Jun 13, 2017

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Ultrasound for children with abdominal trauma

Despite evidence showing that the routine use of sonography in hospital emergency departments can safely improve care for adults when evaluating for possible abdominal trauma injuries, researchers at UC Davis Medical Center ...

Jun 13, 2017