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• Intensive blood pressure management may save lives, landmark study shows
• Resveratrol impacts Alzheimer's disease biomarker
• Stroke patients fare better with private insurance than with Medicaid
• Cancer treatment outcomes are influenced by genetics and race, according to new study
• Innovative imaging technique reveals new cellular secrets
• Keeping gut bacteria in balance could help delay age-related diseases, study finds
• Wavelets improve medical imaging
• For veterans with Gulf War Illness, an explanation for the unexplainable symptoms
• Eating a lot of fish may help curb depression risk -- at least in Europe
• High-intensity training delivers results for older men—but not for older women
• Cell discovery offers new strategy to attack cancer
• AGA recommends all patients with colorectal cancer get tested for Lynch syndrome
• Solving a genetic mystery: Bridging diagnostic discovery through social media
• Identified genetic interaction offers possible new target for glaucoma therapy
• Protein aggregation after heat shock is an organized, reversible cellular response
• You'd have to be smart to walk this lazy... and people are
• GI side effects of chemotherapy reduced in mice by targeting gut microbes

Intensive blood pressure management may save lives, landmark study shows Posted: 11 Sep 2015 07:44 PM PDT A lower blood pressure target of 120 mm Hg greatly reduces cardiovascular complications and deaths in older adults, new research shows. The groundbreaking results of this important trial is expected to impact the way physicians across the United States and Puerto Rico treat patients with high blood pressure.

Resveratrol impacts Alzheimer's disease biomarker Posted: 11 Sep 2015 01:42 PM PDT The largest nationwide clinical trial to study high-dose resveratrol long-term in people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease found that a biomarker that declines when the disease progresses was stabilized in people who took the purified form of resveratrol. Resveratrol is a naturally occurring compound found in foods such as red grapes, raspberries, dark chocolate and some red wines.

Stroke patients fare better with private insurance than with Medicaid Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:07 AM PDT Stroke victims who use Medicaid or are uninsured were more likely to die, stay hospitalized longer and have worse medical outcomes than patients with private insurance, a study has found.

Cancer treatment outcomes are influenced by genetics and race, according to new study Posted: 11 Sep 2015 11:07 AM PDT A person's response to anticancer drug treatments is strongly related to their genetic ancestry, new research concludes. Notable associations were found for the drug temozolomide, which is used to treat brain tumors. Other drugs with results that suggest an association include etoposide and mitomycin, but the authors note that these results should be viewed as hypothesis generation.

Innovative imaging technique reveals new cellular secrets Posted: 11 Sep 2015 10:38 AM PDT A team of researchers has devised a novel optical technique -- a combination of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and single-particle averaging (SPA) -- to resolve individual components of SPB duplication in living yeast cells.

Keeping gut bacteria in balance could help delay age-related diseases, study finds Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:27 AM PDT Why do some people remain physically and mentally healthy into their 80s and beyond, while others age faster and suffer serious diseases decades earlier? New life sciences research may produce a new way to predict health declines and potentially to intervene to delay them.

Wavelets improve medical imaging Posted: 11 Sep 2015 08:10 AM PDT An approach to converting the data from MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machines, mammograms and other medical equipment gives doctors a much clearer picture of your insides and a chance to detect disease and other problems earlier, according to research.

For veterans with Gulf War Illness, an explanation for the unexplainable symptoms Posted: 10 Sep 2015 03:51 PM PDT One in four Gulf War veterans suffers from Gulf War Illness, a condition characterized by unexplainable chronic fatigue, muscle pain and cognitive dysfunction. New research finds for the first time direct evidence that the cells of Gulf War veterans cannot produce enough energy to run the body, explaining the fatigue and slow down of the body.

Eating a lot of fish may help curb depression risk -- at least in Europe Posted: 10 Sep 2015 03:50 PM PDT Eating a lot of fish may help curb the risk of depression -- at least in Europe -- suggests a pooled analysis of the available evidence. Depression affects an estimated 350 million people worldwide, and is projected to become the second leading cause of ill health by 2020.

High-intensity training delivers results for older men—but not for older women Posted: 10 Sep 2015 02:01 PM PDT High intensity training (HIT) is often recommended as a way to improve cardiovascular fitness in men and women. However, studies on these exercise regimens have focused on younger subjects. Researchers looked at whether HIT effects were the same for older males and females as those noted in younger adults and found significant differences in the results in men and women.

Cell discovery offers new strategy to attack cancer Posted: 10 Sep 2015 02:01 PM PDT By more selectively targeting cancer cells, a newly discovered method offers a strategy to reduce the length of and physical toll associated with current treatments.

AGA recommends all patients with colorectal cancer get tested for Lynch syndrome Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:18 AM PDT All colorectal cancer patients should undergo tumor testing to see if they carry Lynch syndrome, the most common inherited cause of colorectal cancer, according to a new guideline.

Solving a genetic mystery: Bridging diagnostic discovery through social media Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:18 AM PDT Scientists describe in a new article how USP7 becomes a 'disease gene.' It begins with the triad of genes -- MAGEL2, TRIM27 and USP7 -- and their effect on the critical process of the recycling of proteins within cells that is regulated by ubiquitination and deubiquitination.

Identified genetic interaction offers possible new target for glaucoma therapy Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:17 AM PDT Scientists have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of glaucoma, a blinding neurodegenerative disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide and is a leading cause of irreversible blindness.

Protein aggregation after heat shock is an organized, reversible cellular response Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:16 AM PDT Protein aggregates that form after a cell is exposed to high, non-lethal temperatures appear to be part of an organized response to stress, and not the accumulation of damaged proteins en route to destruction. The findings shed new light on the biological nature of protein aggregates, which have been widely considered to be toxic dead-end products, but are increasingly being recognized as a new layer of cellular organization.

You'd have to be smart to walk this lazy... and people are Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:14 AM PDT Those of you who spend hours at the gym with the aim of burning as many calories as possible may be disappointed to learn that all the while your nervous system is subconsciously working against you. Researchers have found that our nervous systems are remarkably adept in changing the way we move so as to expend the least amount of energy possible. In other words, humans are wired for laziness.

GI side effects of chemotherapy reduced in mice by targeting gut microbes Posted: 10 Sep 2015 10:14 AM PDT The blame for some of chemotherapy's awful side effects may lie with our gut microbes, early evidence suggests. As chemotherapy drugs are eliminated from the body, bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract can latch onto them and transform them into toxic species that cause severe diarrhea. Now researchers present ways to shut down the ability of GI microbes to convert chemotherapy drugs in mice as a first step to helping cancer patients.

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