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ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

ScienceDaily: Health & Medicine News

Researchers identify brain network with mapping technique

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 06:50 PM PDT

A new image-based strategy has been used to identify and measure placebo effects in randomized clinical trials for brain disorders. The researchers used a network mapping technique to identify specific brain circuits underlying the response to sham surgery in Parkinson's disease patients.

New trigger for ovulation could make IVF safer

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 06:49 PM PDT

A new and potentially safer method to stimulate ovulation in women undergoing IVF treatment has been developed by researchers. Twelve babies have been born after their mothers were given an injection of the natural hormone kisspeptin to make their eggs mature. Doctors normally administer another hormone, hCG, for this purpose, but in some women, there is a risk that this can overstimulate the ovaries, with potentially life-threatening consequences.

Consuming probiotics for a month helps diminish fat accumulation in the liver, according to a new study

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 06:56 AM PDT

Scientists have demonstrated through an experiment on obese rats that the consumption of probiotics for thirty days helps diminish the accumulation of fat in the liver. This new findingis a step forward on the fight against Non-Alcolohic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), which is closely related to obesity and diabetes.

Exploiting gastric vulnerability

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 11:19 AM PDT

Helicobacter pylori infection promotes stomach ulcers and cancer. How H. pylori initially interacts with and irritates gastric tissue is not well understood. A new article now describes that H. pylori rapidly identifies and colonizes sites of minor injuries in the stomach, almost immediately interferes with healing at those injury sites, and so promotes sustained gastric damage.
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