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Hidden Infection Shortens Life in Birds
Jan. 23, 2015 — Mild infections without symptoms of illness can still lead to serious consequences by reducing the lifespan of the infected individuals, research shows. A new study has been carried out on ... full story -
New 'Systems Genetics' Study Identifies Possible Target for Epilepsy Treatment
Jan. 23, 2015 — A single gene that coordinates a network of about 400 genes involved in epilepsy could be a target for new treatments, according to research. Epilepsy is a common and serious disease that affects ... full storyMore: -
Prescription Painkillers, Widely Used by Childbearing Age Women, Double Birth Defects Risk
Jan. 22, 2015 — Many women are unaware that prescription opioid-based medications such as codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, or morphine, used to treat severe pain, may increase the risk for serious birth defects of ... full story -
Brain Secrets Unlocked by International Imaging Effort
Jan. 22, 2015 — Significant genetic factors that influence the size of structures within the brain have been discovered by an international team of researchers. It is hoped these new insights may help scientists ... full story -
Study Detailing Axonal Death Pathway May Provide Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Jan. 22, 2015 — Axons connect neurons with each other to form the neural networks that underpin the vital functions of perception, motility, cognition, and memory. In many neurodegenerative disorders, from traumatic ... full story -
New Drug Compounds Show Promise Against Endometriosis
Jan. 21, 2015 — Two new drug compounds -- one of which has already proven useful in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis -- appear to be effective in treating endometriosis, a disorder that, like MS, is driven by ... full story -
Blood Vessels in Older Brains Break Down, Possibly Leading to Alzheimer's
Jan. 21, 2015 — Researchers used high-resolution imaging of the living human brain to show for the first time that the brain's protective blood barrier becomes leaky with age, starting at the hippocampus, a ... full story -
Twitter Can Predict Rates of Coronary Heart Disease, According to Research
Jan. 21, 2015 — Twitter has broken news stories, launched and ended careers, started social movements and toppled governments, all by being an easy, direct and immediate way for people to share what's on their ... full story -
When Parkisonism Does Not Mean Parkinson's
Jan. 21, 2015 — Lewy body dementia is often misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s disease. Lewy body dementia refers to two related diagnoses: Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). ... full story -
Hunger Hormone in Infancy May Link to Lifelong Obesity Risk
Jan. 20, 2015 — Researchers now reveal an unexpected role for ghrelin in early brain development and show its long-term impact on appetite regulation. "We've shown that neonatal ghrelin directly influences ... full story -
Education Aids Understanding, Reduces Stigma of Facial Paralysis, Study Shows
Jan. 20, 2015 — A little bit of sensitivity training can help people form better first impressions of those with facial paralysis, reducing prejudices against people with a visible but often unrecognizable ... full story -
Connection Between Childhood Adversity, Psychiatric Disorders Seen at Cellular Level
Jan. 20, 2015 — An association between biological changes on the cellular level and both childhood adversity and psychiatric disorders has been identified by researchers. These changes in the form of telomere ... full story -
Finding Shared Pathways for Psychiatric Disorders
Jan. 20, 2015 — A study on shared genetic risk factors and common pathways for schizophrenia, major depression and bipolar disorder is currently underway, with the hopes of finding more and improved treatments for a ... full story -
Portable Stimulator Being Tested on Parkinson's Patients
Jan. 20, 2015 — A weak electric 'noise' can improve balance and motor skills in patients with Parkinson's disease, researchers have demonstrated. In cooperation with NASA, the research team has now ... full story -
Hospitalized for Pneumonia? Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Is Higher
Jan. 20, 2015 — Your chance of having a heart attack or stroke increases significantly if you have been hospitalized for pneumonia and, as such, should be considered its own independent risk factor for developing ... full story -
Stem Cell Transplantation Shows Potential for Reducing Disability in Patients With MS
Jan. 20, 2015 — Results from a preliminary study indicate that among patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), treatment with nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplantation was associated ... full story -
Researchers Prevent Type I Diabetes in Mouse Model
Jan. 20, 2015 — A new approach developed by scientists stops the destruction of beta cells and preserves insulin production. Type I diabetes is a chronic autoimmune disease that occurs when the body's immune ... full story -
Bioethicists Call for Return to Asylums for Long-Term Psychiatric Care
Jan. 20, 2015 — As the United States population has doubled since 1955, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States has been cut by nearly 95 percent to just 45,000, a wholly inadequate equation ... full story -
Common Gut Microbe Might Curb MS Risk, at Least in Women
Jan. 20, 2015 — A common gut microbe might curb the risk of developing multiple sclerosis -- at least in women -- suggests the largest study of its kind. If confirmed in other studies, this might prove the hygiene ... full story -
Men Who Live Alone Run a Greater Risk of Dying Prematurely After Stroke
Jan. 20, 2015 — Men who live alone have a considerably greater long-term risk of dying prematurely than other patients. This is shown in a doctoral thesis that followed 1,090 stroke cases in western ... full story
- Hidden infection shortens life in birds
- New 'systems genetics' study identifies possible target for epilepsy treatment
- Prescription painkillers, widely used by childbearing age women, double birth defects risk
- Brain Secrets Unlocked by International Imaging Effort
- Study detailing axonal death pathway may provide drug targets for neurodegenerative diseases
- New drug compounds show promise against endometriosis
- Blood vessels in older brains break down, possibly leading to Alzheimer's
- Twitter can predict rates of coronary heart disease, according to research
- When Parkisonism does not mean Parkinson's
- Hunger hormone in infancy may link to lifelong obesity risk
- Education aids understanding, reduces stigma of facial paralysis, study shows
- Connection between childhood adversity, psychiatric disorders seen at cellular level
- Finding shared pathways for psychiatric disorders
- Portable stimulator being tested on Parkinson's patients
- Hospitalized for pneumonia? Your risk of cardiovascular disease is higher
- Stem cell transplantation shows potential for reducing disability in patients with MS
- Researchers prevent type I diabetes in mouse model
- Bioethicists call for return to asylums for long-term psychiatric care
- Common gut microbe might curb MS risk, at least in women
- Men who live alone run a greater risk of dying prematurely after stroke
- How to attack and paralyze myeloma cells: Comprehensive review on multiple myeloma
- Couples more likely to get healthy together
- Bariatric surgery can benefit some obese children, teens
- Early knee arthritis symptoms first felt when using stairs
- Women’s pain: Common, treatable and often overlooked or mismanaged
- Michigan autoworkers fare worse when it comes to the heart
- First pharmacological guideline for obesity treatment provides clinical roadmap for anti-obesity drug treatment
- Tool helps measure patients' readiness to make decisions about starting dialysis
- Study reveals lack of data on opioid drugs for chronic pain
- Eczema woes not just skin deep
- FDA approves first medical device for obesity treatment targeting brain-to-stomach signaling
- New approach to preventing fibrosing strictures in IBD
- Holistic assessment needed for wheelchair users with multiple sclerosis
- Mutations linked to repair of chromosome ends may make emphysema more likely in smokers
- HIV/AIDS patients in Deep South of U.S. have lower survival rates
- Depression, behavioral changes may precede memory loss in Alzheimer's
- Combat veterans' brains reveal hidden damage from IED blasts
- Worsening health conditions increase risk of mortgage default, disclosure
- Severe asthma: Diagnosis, treatment are inadequate
- Widespread hepatitis C screening may result in more harms than benefits
- 100 million Americans live with chronic pain, but treatment research is insufficient
- Fast sorting of CD4+ T cells from whole blood using glass microbubbles
- Chronic periodontitis, an inflammatory gum disease, influences prognosis and the severity of heart attacks
- Good life satisfaction has beneficial effects on bone health
- Experience of pain relies on multiple brain pathways, not just one
- First evidence of neuroinflammation in brains of chronic pain patients
- More clues to how drug reverses obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease
- Drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease boosts radiation effectiveness in melanoma laboratory models with brain metastasis
- United States: Mental health care lacking in state, federal prisons
- After eight years, similar outcomes with surgical or nonsurgical treatment for spinal stenosis
- Mental health workers don't recognize their own burnout
- Smoking, alcohol, gene variant interact to increase risk of chronic pancreatitis
- Could gut microbes help treat brain disorders? Mounting research tightens their connection with the brain
- Sound mind, strong heart: Same protein sustains both
- Ethnic discrimination and health: Direct link found
- Poor acceptance of illness associated with worse quality of life in chronic heart failure
- New discoveries in key pathway for neurological diseases
- Caregiver, families with mentally ill members all need help, CWRU researchers find
- Review article estimates annual US cost of psoriasis in 2013
- PTSD doubles diabetes risk in women
- Physical recovery in critically ill patients can predict remission of anxiety, PTSD symptoms
- Genome wide expression changes in vascular tissue identified due to infection/diet
- Potential option for treating chronic kidney disease
- New genetic, epigenetic contributors to diabetes
- Surgery for obesity linked to longer survival
- Kidney disease on the rise, but patients on dialysis or with transplant living longer
- Smokers, the obese, have markedly higher health-care costs than peers
- How to sell the drugs of the future
- The Berlin patient, first and only person 'cured' of HIV, speaks out
- Major depression in the national comorbidity survey
- Diabetes debate: Triglycerides form in liver despite insulin resistance
- For most 'healthy' obese, health declines over time
- New information about how enzymes from white blood cells function
- Animal study points to a treatment for Huntington's disease
- More whole grains associated with lower early mortality, especially cardiovascular
- Criminal behavior in patients with neurodegenerative diseases studied
- Byproducts from bacteria awaken dormant T-cells, HIV viruses
- Genetic factors contribute to insomnia in children, teens, twin study suggests
- Report on remission in patients with MS three years after stem cell transplant
- Lyme disease enhances spread of emerging tick infection
- Mechanism of toxin's inflammatory effect on lungs found
- Patient self-reporting version of 'blood pressure cuff' for dementia is reliable, valid
- Children's high risk clinic reduces serious illness by 55 percent
- 'July effect' does not impact stroke outcomes, according to new study
- Fear of terrorism increases resting heart rate, risk of death
- Using no-evidence-of-disease-activity standard for patients with multiple sclerosis
- Suicide risk linked to insomnia, alcohol use, study shows
- Existing drug, riluzole, may prevent foggy 'old age' brain, research shows
- Alternative for pain control after knee replacement surgery
- Less than half of UK prescriptions for antipsychotics issued for main licensed conditions
- Autism, intellectual disability studied in quest for new treatment approaches
- Is there a better way to treat substance use in adolescents with co-occurring mental health disorders?
- What can be done to prevent hepatitis c patients from being lost in the healthcare system?
- Using power of computers to harness human genome may provide clues into Ebola virus
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