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Employer Leave Helps the Parents of Chronically Ill Kids

...hronic illnesses, said lead author Dr. Paul Chung, senior natural scientist at RAND and assistant professor ...school or daycare a year, added Dr. Mark Schuster, senior author of the study and director of the health promotion and disease prevention program at RAND Heal...

Cigarette Smoking Delays Ligament Healing

..., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery and a senior investigator on the MCL study.Previous studies have demonstrated that the mouse provides a good paradigm for what happens in injured human knees. "This is a good model for knee ligament injury, but it could be a model for ligament injuries anywhere...

Fishing for a Speedy Recovery After Chemotherapy or Marrow Transplant

... induced by a small-molecule drug, says the studys senior author, Leonard Zon, MD, of the Childrens Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program and Division of Hematology/Oncology. Other studies, including one from Zon's own lab*, have identified ways of increasing formation of blood stem cells, which give rise to ea...

Neurological Disorder Gene Identified

...had an unknown genetic basis, says Miriam Meisler, senior author of the study. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, one of the most prevalent inherited neurological disorders, affects one in 2,500 people in the United States, usually beginning in youth or by mid-adulthood. It is actually a group of related disor...

Urate Reduces the Risk of Parkinsons Disease

...rofessor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH and senior author of the study. To follow-up on this clue, Ascherio, along with co-author Michael Schwarzschild, a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues at the Parkinson Study Group, a collaborative group of Parkinson'...

Aedes Agypti Mosquitos Immune System Revealed

... Imperials Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, senior author on the paper explains: Our study has reveal... says Dr Christophides. Professor Fotis Kafatos, senior researcher of Imperials immunogenomics lab and co-author of the paper, explains the significance of ...

Diet Could Be Life or Death for Prostate Cancer Patients

... toward a good or bad outcome," said Yong Q. Chen, senior researcher at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. "It's possible that a change in diet could mean the difference between dying from the disease and surviving with it." Taking a recommended daily dose of omega-3...

High Urate Levels in Blood Linked to Reduced Parkinson's Risk

...rofessor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH and senior author of the study and Michael Schwarzschild a movement disorder specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital then followed up on this clue and accessed the databases of two large, randomized studies conducted among patients with early Parkinson's d...

Doctors Warn of Deficiencies in Antenatal HIV Testing

...out awareness of the mothers HIV status, argue two senior doctors from Warwickshire Hospital in Coventry. In the United Kingdom, all antenatal clinics routinely offer HIV testing. Most mothers accept screening, but two recent cases, they say, highlight the deficiencies in the existing system. In 2006, t...

Mothers of Children Killed in Fire Charged With Manslaughter

...was questioned by detectives on Monday. Love, a senior student of criminology at Point Park University who worked in the evenings, was interviewed yesterday at police headquarters. She was accompanied by her attorney, one of her sisters, and her father, Lutual Love, who wore a T-shirt bearing the photogr...

Abbott's RealTime Hepatitis B Viral Load Test Receives CE Marking in Europe

...l known HBV genotypes," said John Robinson, Ph.D., senior director, research and development, Abbott Molecular. "It gives physicians one of the most precise tests available to guide treatment decisions and builds upon Abbott's 30-year legacy in hepatitis testing." HBV genomes have been classified into...

Research Studies on Molecular Switches of Gene

...Department of Biochemistry at St. Jude. Brindle is senior author of a report on this work that appears in the June 20 issue of The EMBO Journal. CREB is like a plumber who turns on the water flow in a pipe system by using a certain tool, Brindle said. What we discovered is that the CREB plumber requires d...

Genetic Cause of Inherited Eye Diseases Identified

...nction is such an important cause of disease, says senior author Eric A. Pierce, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology at Penn. One of the first steps to achieve this is to put together a complete parts list. Now that we have that, we can figure o...

US FDA Wants Vitamin Manufacturers to Test All Ingredients

...whether it is dangerous," said Janell Mayo Duncan, senior counsel for Consumers Union. Congress limited the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of vitamins and other dietary supplements in 1994. The new rule is a product of that law, meaning that the rule took nearly 13 years to develop. Under the ...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

...hey travel. Study director Susan McPherson, MSc, senior research scientist at Charles River Laboratories, said preliminary research findings demonstrate that the proprietary whole fruit formula in XanGo Juice leads to high levels of xanthone absorption. Ongoing research shows high absorption of xanthone...

Stem Cell Licensing Deal Positions Toronto as World Leader in Technology

...titute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, senior inventor of the technology. This is a great example of how a university can facilitate the translation of professorial research from the university laboratory to commercial reality for the benefit of the public. Currently, TRT technology is availab...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...t retinopathy, said Lois E. H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., senior investigator of the study and associate professor of ophthalmology at Childrens Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. By identifying the fatty acids, lipids and growth factors involved in both the disease and protective processes...

Germany, Greece Hold Gay Rights Marches

...mayor Klaus Wowereit said in a closing speech. In senior positions one can be homosexual, "but you cannot say so," he said, adding that equal rights had not been achieved for gays. Axel Hochrein of the German gay and lesbian association criticised German legislation which he said discriminated against hom...

Childhood Abuse Increases the Risk of Alcoholism

...es and stressful environmental exposures, explains senior author David Goldman, M.D., chief of the NIAAA Laboratory of Neurogenetics. Analyses of MAOA-LPR genotypes in this study revealed that women who had been sexually abused in childhood were much more likely to develop alcoholism and antisocial behavi...

Violent Videogames Attract Criticism Again

...uto it's a lot less significant," Colin Sebastian, senior research analyst at Lazard Capital Markets. said of "Manhunt 2." "Grand Theft Auto is the key driver. This is a second-tier title." The previous game in the series, "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," was at the center of a ratings controversy two yea...

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