Diaphragm pacing in spinal cord injury successful in weaning patients from...
A new study published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery finds that diaphragm pacing (DP) stimulation in spinal cord-injured patients is successful not only in weaning patients from...
View ArticleHuntington disease prevention trial shows creatine safe, suggests slowing of...
The first clinical trial of a drug intended to delay the onset of symptoms of Huntington disease (HD) reveals that high-dose treatment with the nutritional supplement creatine was safe and well...
View ArticleStroke trigger more deadly for African-Americans
Infection is a stronger trigger of stroke death in African- Americans than in whites, a University of Michigan study shows.
View ArticleWomen fare worse than men following stroke
The good news: More people survive stroke now than 10 years ago due to improved treatment and prevention. The bad news: Women who survive stroke have a worse quality of life than men, according to a...
View ArticleComputer models help decode cells that sense light without seeing
Researchers have found that the melanopsin pigment in the eye is potentially more sensitive to light than its more famous counterpart, rhodopsin, the pigment that allows for night vision.
View ArticleNew method developed for ranking disease-causal mutations within whole genome...
Researchers from the University of Washington and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have developed a new method for organizing and prioritizing genetic data. The Combined Annotation–Dependent...
View ArticleResearchers use genetic signals affecting lipid levels to probe heart disease...
New genetic evidence strengthens the case that one well-known type of cholesterol is a likely suspect in causing heart disease, but also casts further doubt on the causal role played by another type....
View ArticleRacial / ethnic differences in CHD outcomes not due to statins
(HealthDay)—For hospitalized patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), racial and ethnic differences in one-year outcomes are due to demographics and comorbidity, not differential statin...
View ArticleVirtual avatars may impact real-world behavior
How you represent yourself in the virtual world of video games may affect how you behave toward others in the real world, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the...
View ArticleCaffeine common in US kids, youths; mainly soda
Nearly 3 out of 4 U.S. children and young adults consume at least some caffeine, mostly from soda, tea and coffee. The rate didn't budge much over a decade, although soda use declined and energy drinks...
View ArticleThe genetic origins of high-altitude adaptations in Tibetans
Genetic adaptations for life at high elevations found in residents of the Tibetan plateau likely originated around 30,000 years ago in peoples related to contemporary Sherpa. These genes were passed on...
View ArticleBrain mechanism connecting sense of smell with appetite discovered
In a state of hunger or fasting, the increase in food intake that takes place after smelling food is linked to a type 1 cannabinoid receptor in the olfactory bulb, according to a study co-led by a...
View ArticleClinical trial shows 'stress shield' device reduces appearance of revised scars
A small clinical trial of a device invented by researchers at the School of Medicine has shown that it can help reduce the size of existing scars when used after scar-revision surgery.
View ArticleCancer cells use body's wound-healing mechanism to spread
Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of deaths due to cancer. Current treatments such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy are...
View ArticleMinimum pricing for alcohol effectively targets high risk drinkers
(Medical Xpress)—Minimum pricing for alcohol of 45p per unit would reduce deaths and hospital admissions among high risk drinkers who purchase large quantities of low cost alcohol, but would have...
View ArticleBacteria in the lungs make COPD patients sicker
(Medical Xpress)—Conventional wisdom has held that even though bacteria persist in the lungs of patients with chronic, obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), their presence, referred to as...
View ArticleResearchers develop promising method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies
(Medical Xpress)—In 2011, biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) demonstrated a highly effective method for delivering HIV-fighting antibodies to mice—a treatment that protected...
View ArticleNewly found tactics in offense-defense struggle with hepatitis C virus
The hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a previously unrecognized tactic to outwit antiviral responses and sustain a long-term infection. It also turns out that some people are genetically equipped with a...
View ArticleSlowing down the immune system when in overdrive
Many people suffer from chronic inflammation because their immune systems overreact to 'self' tissue. Sydney scientists believe that a small molecule known as Interleukin 21 is a promising therapeutic...
View ArticleNew therapy for personality disorders proven more effective than other major...
A large scale randomized control trial, just released in the American Journal of Psychiatry (the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association) shows Schema Therapy to be significantly more...
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