Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $710,000 to Understanding of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes
...early measures of disease status in predicting the probable time to clinical events such as dementia, falls and depression. Connie Marras, MD, PhD FRCP(C), of Toronto Western Hospital will focus on determining predictive factors for reaching a common neuroprotective clinical trial endpoint -- time to disabi...Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS
...rise is entirely explained by the orgies but it's probable that part of the rise has been caused by them," Marco Ter Harmsel, of Grongingen's municipal health service, told the Dutch newspaper DRC....Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows
... suggests that increased rate of deployment is the probable cause. Rentz is currently an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Co-authors on the paper include: Stephen W. Marshall, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology at UNC School of P...China Claims Viral Outbreak Contained
...lth department. A 2-year-old girl diagnosed as a probable hand, foot and mouth patient died on April 29, but no other deaths have been reported since, Xinhua said. Shandong Province recorded 2,477 cases of hand-food-mouth disease in 2005, including one death, and 3,030 cases in 2006, two of them fatal, it...Underage Youth Get Alcohol from Social Sources
...tional programs might also work, although it seems probable that most adults already know that buying alcohol for youth is illegal. However, he stressed, it is important that any intervention be part of a larger approach that addresses the multiple social and commercial sources of alcohol for youth....Evolution of HIV from African Greek Monkeys
...s of SIVagm were most closely related revealed the probable transmission route of SIV. The researchers hypothesize that the infection started in the westernmost species, sabaeus monkeys, moved east into neighboring tantalus monkeys, and then took one of two paths: southeast into vervets and then north into g......nce. According to experts, the new criteria for probable AD requires that patients show progressive memory loss over more than six months, and at least one or more of the supportive biomarker criteria-like atrophy in a particular part of the brain shown by MRI, abnormal biomarker proteins in the cerebrospi...