Archive: 30/03/2016

Generating good fat by pushing the right buttons

Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have identified a protein complex that is required for conversion of "bad" white fat to "good" brown fat. The findings, published online in the Journal ...

Mar 30, 2016

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Altered brain communication could be predictive marker of dementia in Parkinson's disease

Dementia will develop in about 80% of patients with Parkinson's disease, and a new study has found significant variability in brain signaling that could serve as a predictive marker for identifying which patients are at highest ...

Mar 30, 2016

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Managing migraine during pregnancy and lactation

According to doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, medications and treatments long considered safe to treat pregnant women with migraines may not be.

Mar 30, 2016

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Another study confirms link between Zika virus and fetal brain damage

A study led by Olli Vapalahti, professor of zoonotic virology at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has found that small amounts of genetic material from the Zika virus can be detected from a blood sample taken from a pregnant ...

Mar 30, 2016

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Researchers uncover key scientific and statistical errors in obesity studies

A special statistical series in the journal Obesity identifies common scientific and statistical errors in obesity-relate studies, challenges assumptions about weight loss, and calls for increased application of control arms ...

Mar 30, 2016

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Exercise keeps muscles—and you—young

A University of Guelph professor has uncovered the "secret" to staying strong as we age - superb fitness.

Mar 30, 2016

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Teens are gambling online at a significantly higher rate than previously reported

Nearly 10 per cent of teens in three Canadian provinces said they had gambled online in the past three months, according to a new study by researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the University ...

Mar 30, 2016

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Hopkins begins nation's first HIV-positive organ transplants

Surgeons in Baltimore for the first time have transplanted organs between an HIV-positive donor and HIV-positive recipients, a long-awaited new option for patients with the AIDS virus whose kidneys or livers also are failing.

Mar 30, 2016

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US regulators ease label requirements on abortion pill

US regulators Wednesday eased labeling requirements on a medication that induces abortion, a move that women's health advocates said should improve access to abortion, particularly in certain embattled states.

Mar 30, 2016

Death toll rises to 7 in Guinea Ebola outbreak

A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people, health officials said Wednesday, even as the World Health Organization voiced confidence that remaining isolated cases could be contained.

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