Archive for January, 2012
A Parent’s Nurturing Results In Larger Hippocampus In Children
A recent study by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, states that children whose mothers showed them love and affection from the very beginning have brains with a larger hippocampus, which is a key part of the brain involved with…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsStatins Work As Well On Females As Males
Statins given to female patients are as effective in preventing the occurrence of cardiovascular events as they are for men, researchers from Boston and New York reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Cardiovascular events include stroke, heart attack, and angina. William J. Kostis, Ph.D., M.D…
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No commentsNutrition Labels Being Ignored By Consumers
The key outcome of the FLABEL conference (Food Labeling to Advance Better Education for Life) in November 2011 was reported to be that even though nutrition labeling is commonly used throughout Europe, consumers pay insufficient attention and lack motivation to use them. FLABEL Scientific Advisor, Professor Klaus G…
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No commentsChildhood Brain Tumors Linked To Newly Discovered Mutations
A recent study published in the online edition of the scientific journal Nature Genetics of rare, lethal childhood tumors of the brainstem has revealed that almost 80% of tumors contain gene mutations that have previously not been associated with cancer. According to early evidence, gene alterations also implicate other aggressive pediatric brain tumors…
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No commentsInherited Risk Factors For Childhood Leukemia Are More Common In Hispanic Patients
Hispanic children are more likely than those from other racial and ethnic backgrounds to be diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and are more likely to die of their disease. Work led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists has pinpointed genetic factors behind the grim statistics…
Original post by Wife of a Diabetic
No commentsWhat Is Brown Fat? What Is Brown Adipose Tissue?
Brown adipose tissue (BAT), also known as brown fat, is one of two types of fat humans and other mammals have – the other type is known as white or yellow fat. Human newborns and hibernating mammals have high levels of brown fat. Brown fat’s main function is to generate body heat…
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No commentsGiving Birth More Than Once Lead To Weight Gain And Other Problems For Mouse Moms And Male Offspring
Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times accrued significantly more fat compared to primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age…
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No commentsThe Design Of Novel Drugs To Combat Malaria Could Result From Research On Vitamins
New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria. The research will enable scientists to learn more about the nature of the enzymes required for vitamin biosynthesis by the malaria causing pathogen Plasmodium. Vitamins are essential nutrients required in small amounts, the lack of which leads to deficiencies…
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No commentsNew Drug Release Mechanism Developed That Utilizes 3D Superhydrophobic Materials
According to a recent study, there is a new mechanism of drug release using 3D superhydrophobic materials that utilizes air as a removable barrier to control the rate at which drug is released. The study was electronically published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society…
Original post by Allergy News From Medical News Today
No commentsResearch Scientists Illuminate Cancer Cells’ Survival Strategy During Dangerous Dissemination
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has discovered key elements of a strategy commonly used by tumor cells to survive when they spread to distant organs. The finding could lead to drugs that could inhibit this metastasis in patients with tumors…
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