Sonic Foundry offers Mediasite to military families
Sonic Foundry will partner with the to offer Medi...Alzheimer's with psychosis runs in families
According to a study, siblings of people with Alzheimer's and psychosis are prone to suffer this form of dementia.// More than half of patients with Alzheimer's disease suffer from psychotic symptoms like hallucinations and delusions. This is an especially serious form of the condition, linked with more aggressive behaviour, more swift decline and earlier need for institutional care....Early rising from sleep can run in families
Scientists have found out that the pattern of rising early from bed in the mornings have a genetic component// and thus may run in families. The behavior is called familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) and involves sleeping early and rising early. This is said to be the phenotype of the gene PER2. The pattern is exhibited when there is a mutation in the phosphorylation site i...Alcohol based sanitizer found to reduce illness in families
Using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel significantly reduces the spread of gastrointestinal infections in the home. // Out of the 292 families studied, half of the families, which used the hand sanitizer in gel form, had a 59 % reduction in the spread of illness related to the gastrointestinal tract. Families already using hand sanitizer were excluded from the study. Half the familie...Kidney failure shows a tendency to run in families
With our improved understanding of the concepts of genetics, more importance is being given to the tendency of common diseases to run in families and the identification of the same. // A recent study has now shown that approximately one-fourth of all dialysis patients have a close relative on dialysis. What is even more alarming is that many relatives in these families have silent kidne...Tendency To Smoke and Get Addicted Could Run In Families!
Researchers from Canada point out to two genes, both variant forms of a gene called CYP2A6, which are believed to play in a significant role in the smoking addiction.// The protein product of these genes is believed to help regulate the elimination of nicotine from the body. The two identified gene forms are found to decrease the level of enzymes involved in the metabolism of nicotine,...Pelosi: Bush Veto of Stem Cell Bill Says 'No' to the Hopes of Million of Families Across America
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SpeakerNancy Pelosi issued the following statement today in response toPresident Bush's veto of the stem cell bill: "Once again, the President has ignored the will of the Americanpeople, of leading medical researchers, and of a bipartisanmajority of the Congress. His cruel veto says 'no' to the hopes ofmillion of families across...