الثلاثاء، 21 يناير 2014

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News


Toddlers' aggression strongly associated with genetic factors

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 04:24 PM PST

A new study provides greater understanding of how to address childhood aggression, and suggests that it is strongly associated with genetic factors in the

New study finds mistimed sleep disrupts rhythms of genes in humans

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 02:33 PM PST

A new study found that the daily rhythms of our genes are disrupted when sleep times

Radiation before surgery more than doubles mesothelioma survival

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 02:32 PM PST

Results of clinical research that treated mesothelioma with radiation before surgery show the three-year survival rate more than doubled for study participants afflicted with this deadly disease,

People who enjoy life maintain better physical function as they age

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:14 AM PST

People who enjoy life maintain better physical function in daily activities and keep up faster walking speeds as they age, compared with people who enjoy life less, according to a new

FAK helps tumor cells enter bloodstream

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:14 AM PST

Cancer cells have something that every prisoner longs for -— a master key that allows them to escape. A new study describes how a protein that promotes tumor growth also enables cancer cells to use

Artificial cell membranes marketed that can speed up drug discovery

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:47 AM PST

Scientists in Singapore will market novel plastic cell membranes to be used as low-cost, easily maintained drug targets that may help shorten the drug discovery process by weeks or months and cut

Restrictive concealed weapons laws can lead to an increase in gun-related murders

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST

It may make sense to assume that states in which there are tight laws on weapons would make that state a safer place and one with less gun crime, however, recent research argues that the very

Smoking late in pregnancy reduces baby's birth weight

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST

A doctoral dissertation finds that every cigarette a mother smokes a day during the third quarter of pregnancy reduces the baby's birth weight in 20

Novel nanotherapy breakthrough may help reduce recurrent heart attacks, stroke

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST

A new report shows that new statin nanotherapy can target high-risk inflammation inside heart arteries that causes heart attacks or

Ingredients in chocolate, tea, berries could guard against diabetes

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

Eating high levels of flavonoids including anthocyanins and other compounds (found in berries, tea, and chocolate) could offer protection from type 2 diabetes -- according to research. The study of

NHL teams pay more than $650 million to injured players over 3 years

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

Most successful businesses would not accept spending $218 million on lost time, but that's the amount NHL owners pay out every year to players who miss games due to injury, according to new

Secondhand smoke exposure increases odds of hospital asthma readmission for children

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST

A new study shows that exposure to secondhand smoke at home or in the car dramatically increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for

Hydrocephalus: Sensors monitor cerebral pressure

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST

If the pressure in a patient's brain is too high, physicians implant a system in the head that regulates the pressure. A sensor can now measure and individually adjust brain pressure. The sensor

Modified proteins as vaccines against peach allergy

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST

Research has been conducted on the peach allergy, the most common food allergy, and the Pru p 3 protein. As a result of this research work, three hypoallergenic variants of this protein have been

Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST

Public health researchers have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in

Quality control of mitochondria as defense against disease

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST

Scientists have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria. The protective mechanism removes damaged proteins

Forget about forgetting: Elderly know more, use it better

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST

What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week may make you think again. The work takes a critical look at the

Melatonin may lower prostate cancer risk

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:50 AM PST

Higher levels of melatonin, a hormone involved in the sleep-wake cycle, may suggest decreased risk for developing advanced prostate cancer, according to results of new

Possible explanation for link between exercise, improved prostate cancer outcomes

Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:50 AM PST

Men who walked at a fast pace prior to a prostate cancer diagnosis had more regularly shaped blood vessels in their prostate tumors compared with men who walked slowly, providing a potential

Researchers discover how heart arrhythmia occurs

Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST

Researchers have discovered the fundamental biology of calcium waves in relation to heart arrhythmias. The finding outlines the discovery of this fundamental physiological process that researchers

Double-layer capping solves two problems

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST

Using a newly developed technique, protective casings for microscale devices can be built quickly and cheaply without damaging

Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential

Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST

A portable instrument that replaces a full-size laboratory provides accurate multi-element analysis in less than a

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