Archive: 04/06/2015

Preventive neuroradiology: Brain imaging bolsters efforts to lower Alzheimer's risk

Armed with new knowledge about how neurodegenerative diseases alter brain structures, increasing numbers of neurologists, psychiatrists and other clinicians are adopting quantitative brain imaging as a tool to measure and ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Despite abnormalities after concussion, sleep continues to aid memory and recall

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people's DNA

A new study by National Institutes of Health researchers has turned traditional genomics research on its head. Instead of trying to find a mutation in the genomic sequence of a person with a genetic disease, they sequenced ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Study maps the types of physical activity associated with better sleep

Physical activities, such as walking, as well as aerobics/calisthenics, biking, gardening, golfing, running, weight-lifting, and yoga/Pilates are associated with better sleep habits, compared to no activity, according to ...

Jun 4, 2015

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'Female Viagra' gets green light from US expert panel (Update)

A US advisory panel on Thursday urged regulators to approve a drug nicknamed the "female Viagra" because it could help increase women's sex drive.

Jun 4, 2015

Social networking analysis helps identify cancer biomarkers

The advent of online social networks has led to the rapid development of tools for understanding the interactions between members of the network, their activity, the connections, the hubs and nodes. But, any relationships ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Withholding angiotensin receptor blockers after surgery increases risk of postoperative death

Withholding angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) for longer than two days after surgery is associated with a significantly increased risk of postoperative death, according to a study of more than 30,000 patients in the VA ...

Jun 4, 2015

Reprogramming of DNA observed in human germ cells for first time

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has described for the first time in humans how the epigenome - the suite of molecules attached to our DNA that switch our genes on and off - is comprehensively erased ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Study finds how feedback from cortex helps mammals make fine distinctions about odors

Everyday tasks we may regard as "simple" - for example, knowing the difference between the smell of an orange and a pickle - are actually marvels of evolutionary development, the work of eons. A neuroscience team at Cold ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Parent-reported symptoms gauge features of the food allergic disease EoE

Researchers have identified that parent-reported responses to a questionnaire called the Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Symptom Score (PEESS v2.0) correspond to clinical and biologic features of eosinophilic esophagitis ...

Jun 4, 2015

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Archive: 04/06/2015

Preventive neuroradiology: Brain imaging bolsters efforts to lower Alzheimer's risk

Despite abnormalities after concussion, sleep continues to aid memory and recall

Researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people's DNA

Study maps the types of physical activity associated with better sleep

'Female Viagra' gets green light from US expert panel (Update)

Social networking analysis helps identify cancer biomarkers

Withholding angiotensin receptor blockers after surgery increases risk of postoperative death

Reprogramming of DNA observed in human germ cells for first time

Study finds how feedback from cortex helps mammals make fine distinctions about odors

Parent-reported symptoms gauge features of the food allergic disease EoE

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