Health
When picky eating is too great a luxury
Poor families, like families everywhere, share an age-old parental challenge: getting kids to eat healthy.
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Medical research
New drug to treat muscle wasting disease inclusion body myositis (IBM) reverses key symptoms in mice
A new drug to treat the muscle wasting disease inclusion body myositis (IBM) reverses key symptoms in mice and is safe and well-tolerated in patients, finds a new study led by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for ...
Mar 23, 2016
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Neuroscience
How a waste product of exercise protects neurons from trauma damage
Researchers led by EPFL have found how lactate, a waste product of glucose metabolism can protect neurons from damage following acute trauma such as stroke or spinal cord injury.
Feb 19, 2016
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Medical research
New research shows young muscle stem cells can improve adult muscle regeneration
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have found a key to enhancing repair of damaged muscle. In work published today in Cell Reports, scientists describe why fetal muscle stem cells (MuSCs) ...
Feb 18, 2016
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Medical research
Scientists identify critical pathway to improve muscle repair
Researchers at the University of Louisville have discovered a mechanism involved in skeletal muscle repair that may enable clinicians to boost the effectiveness of adult stem cell therapies for diseases such as muscular dystrophy. ...
Nov 30, 2015
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Medical research
Gene identified that produces benefits of steroids, without the detrimental side effects
Scientists have revealed that glucocorticoids, a class of steroid hormones that are commonly prescribed as drugs, enhance muscle endurance and alleviate muscular dystrophy through activation of the gene KLF15. Critically, ...
Nov 23, 2015
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Medical research
Prion disease detected soon after infection and in surprising place in mouse brains
Prion diseases—incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals—are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a new study, National ...
Sep 22, 2015
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Medical research
Research breakthrough in fight against muscle wasting diseases
It is estimated that half of all cancer patients suffer from a muscle wasting syndrome called cachexia. Cancer cachexia impairs quality of life and response to therapy, which increases morbidity and mortality of cancer patients. ...
Sep 15, 2015
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Health
Study examines role of vegetable food pairings in school plate waste
A study led by a team of Texas A&M University System researchers found school meals paired with popular vegetables are less likely to wind up in garbage bins.
Sep 14, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
More than 380 in US sickened by cilantro-linked infection
Two U.S. agencies say more than 380 people in 26 states have been diagnosed with a stomach illness tied to Mexican cilantro contaminated by human waste.
Aug 4, 2015
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