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Scientists Identify New Genetic Mutation Behind Common Dementia

...ot have the gene mutation. Dr. Bruni noted that these four people belonged to a branch of the family with the disease in at least three generations. "These results are intriguing, since the family has two genetically distinct diseases that appear almost identical," Dr. Bruni said. The researcher, ...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...eping them around. Strikingly, however, none of these numts contained the blueprint (an actual gene) to ... believe they have uncovered a possible reason why these potentially damaging but mostly neutral bits of DNA accumulate over time by comparing the sequences ...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...results, the authors note. "The implications of these findings also remain uncertain: whether such an as...r both are markers of aging and frailty or whether these ocular conditions accelerate aging, thus leading to relatively earlier death in older persons," they...

Parkinson's Targets Two Distinct Brain Networks, Finds Study

...f Parkinson's disease using a brain scan to follow these Parkinson's network over time. The new report appe...for Parkinson's don't seem to do anything to alter these networks and we need new ones to target these symptoms," Dr. Eidelberg said. Eidelberg added that ...

Fossilized Midges can Predict Climate Change: Study

...go and the second around 8,000 years ago, and that these shifts were due to changes in the Gulf Stream, whi...t and 150 years for the other. The detection of these events will allow experts to understand more clearly what can happen when the climate system is dist...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...for extremely tiny babies. Doctors who care for these low-weight babies caution that surviving long enough to go home, after months in a neonatal intensive care unit, is not usually the end of their struggle. Though advances in medical technology have improved their chances of survival, the percenta...

Amorous African Fish Exchange Electric Pulses While Mating

...y, which has been reported by National Geographic, these fish produce weak electrical fields using specialized organs in their tails. Until now, the love life of electric fish was largely a private matter, claims Carl Hopkins of Cornell University. Hopkins and undergraduate Ryan Wong employed a variet...

No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers

...July 21, we will be compelled to make a bonfire of these books in public." The working committee of the secondary schools teachers' association had met here Sunday evening. Members are unanimous that the books published for adolescent education are not in tune with Indian culture and traditions. "The ma...

Advancement in Gene Associated With Colon Cancer

...arch for colon cancer genetic links. The fact that these studies were performed among other populations aro...king to close in on the mechanism that might cause these cancers. Gruber is an associate professor of internal medicine and of human genetics in the U-M Me...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

...tment with the chemotherapy drug docetaxel. Ten of these men have seen PSA declines of more than 50% that have lasted at least 3 months from the start of taking abiraterone, with no major toxicities or adverse events. Overall, the results are significant, the authors say. The drug has produced PSA decli...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...e hospitals were divided into four groups based on these rates, 35 ranked hospitals (70 percent) were in the group with the fewest deaths, 11 (22 percent) were in the middle two groups and four (8 percent) were in the worst-performing group. Eleven ranked hospitals (22 percent) and 28 non-ranked hospita...

Insights into Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

...erentiation of white blood cells. Previous work of these two groups suggested that PML/RARA self-associatio...xplains Dr. de The. Taken together, results from these studies indicate that formation of higher-order homotetrameric complexes and recruitment of RXR are ...

Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...hat PSA screening provides any health benefits for these patient populations, the authors write. Rather, ...alth care providers, they continue. The cause of these sex and age differences is not clear. It is possible that, as they age, male health care providers i...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...c health record systems, compared to those without these systems," Stafford said. Stafford had a couple o...f medical school are clearly more comfortable with these technologies, and it's only gradually diffusing into the whole of the medical practitioner populatio...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

...time catching their breath. Furthermore, a lack of these nutrients may also lead to lower lung function. Our study, as well as other research, suggests that higher intakes of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory micronutrients are associated with lower reports of cough, respiratory infections, and less sever...

Parental Match-making Blossoms in a Beijing Park

...ing. Despite their desire for a potential match, these proud parents are rigorous in their search for someone they think will be good enough for their children. Matchmaking rules in China generally mean that a wife must be younger, less educated, have a lower salary and be shorter in stature than her h...

Britains Free Fruit -And -Vegetable -Scheme Falls Flat

...tly increased levels of beta carotene and vitamin, these increases waned seven months later and had disappeared by year three - when pupils aged seven to eight were no longer eligible for the scheme. Fruit and vegetable intake fell at home, possibly because parents thought that their children were getting ...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

...topped taking HRT. But scientists now believe that these risks may only apply to older women who do not nor...overall deaths were not significantly different in these two groups. This study confirms an early increase in thromboembolic and cardiovascular risk in old...

Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

...ple in the UK have dementia, and more than half of these have Alzheimer's. Experts believe that delaying the onset of dementia by five years could save 30,000 lives annually. Alzheimer's affects one in 10 people over the age of 65. The only clinical tests are expensive brain scans carried out in hospital...

Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA

...e provided in London but doctors fear that some of these proposals may not be in the best interests of pati...ls of Professor Sir Ara Darzis proposals to ensure these principles have been met....

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