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• Hispanic men in California need more screening for colorectal cancer, Study finds
• Phone checklist can help detect changes in clinical status among home care recipients
• Sugar addiction: Discovery of a brain sugar switch
• Gastrointestinal illnesses cost the Swiss health care sector up to EUR 45 million per year
• Global crosstalk limits gene regulation
• Large human brain evolved as a result of 'sizing each other up'
• Exercise can tackle symptoms of schizophrenia
• New method cuts the cost of drug-building chemicals
• Venetoclax safe, shows promise in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia
• Study links child obesity at age 9-11 years to gestational diabetes in mother
• Virtual reality and treadmill training could help prevent falls in older adults
• Strict blood pressure control may provide long-term benefits for kidney disease patients
• Heart bypass without surgery? AGGF1 induces therapeutic angiogenesis through autophagy
• Risk factors, features and outcomes of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in Vietnam
• New tool to determine cost-effective control of rheumatic heart disease
• First treatment for spinal muscular atrophy to be submitted for FDA approval based on positive results in clinical trial
• Human brain clocks exposed: Effects of circadian clocks, sleep loss vary across brain regions, new study finds
• Directly reprogramming a cell's identity with gene editing
• Drug sensitivity restored in breast cancer tumors
• Researchers find new functions of blood cell protein in transplant
• Long-term health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs not as dire as perceived

Hispanic men in California need more screening for colorectal cancer, Study finds Posted: 12 Aug 2016 07:38 AM PDT Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates in California have decreased markedly for men and women in all major racial-ethnic groups since 1990, except for Hispanic men -- a disparity that can be improved by greater screening, a study has found.

Phone checklist can help detect changes in clinical status among home care recipients Posted: 12 Aug 2016 07:38 AM PDT Millions of elderly Americans with physical or cognitive impairments receive nonmedical home-care services and are often hospitalized for potentially avoidable complications. A phone-based checklist can help detect telltale changes in health status among people receiving care at home, according to findings of a pilot study. Real-time monitoring systems that help spot problems may head off complications before they escalate.

Sugar addiction: Discovery of a brain sugar switch Posted: 12 Aug 2016 07:37 AM PDT Researchers have discovered that our brain actively takes sugar from the blood. Prior to this, researchers had assumed that this was a purely passive process. The transportation of sugar into the brain is regulated by so-called glia cells that react to hormones such as insulin or leptin; previously it was thought that this was only possible for neurons.

Gastrointestinal illnesses cost the Swiss health care sector up to EUR 45 million per year Posted: 12 Aug 2016 07:37 AM PDT Acute diarrhea entails annual health care costs of EUR 29 to EUR 45 million in Switzerland. Thereof, around a quarter is due to infections of the diarrhea-causing pathogen Campylobacter, say investigators.

Global crosstalk limits gene regulation Posted: 12 Aug 2016 07:37 AM PDT Scientists at the interface of biophysics, evolutionary biology and systems biology have developed a new framework to analyze effects of global crosstalk on gene regulation, a new report explains.

Large human brain evolved as a result of 'sizing each other up' Posted: 12 Aug 2016 04:45 AM PDT Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have proposed.

Exercise can tackle symptoms of schizophrenia Posted: 12 Aug 2016 04:36 AM PDT Aerobic exercise, such as treadmills and exercise bikes, in combination with their medication, can significantly help people coping with the long-term mental health condition schizophrenia, according to a new study.

New method cuts the cost of drug-building chemicals Posted: 12 Aug 2016 04:36 AM PDT Scientists have designed a new method to cheaply produce some of the most important chemical compounds in the pharmaceutical industry -- the amines.

Venetoclax safe, shows promise in patients with acute myelogenous leukemia Posted: 12 Aug 2016 04:36 AM PDT Patients whose acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) had relapsed or was resistant to chemotherapy and those who were deemed unable to tolerate chemotherapy experienced responses to the selective BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax (Venclexta), with complete remissions in some, according to phase II clinical trial data.

Study links child obesity at age 9-11 years to gestational diabetes in mother Posted: 11 Aug 2016 04:07 PM PDT New research shows an increased risk of childhood obesity at age 9-11 years when the mother has had gestational diabetes during pregnancy. Childhood obesity has increased dramatically in both developed and developing countries.

Virtual reality and treadmill training could help prevent falls in older adults Posted: 11 Aug 2016 04:07 PM PDT Combining virtual reality and treadmill training helps prevent falls in older adults better than treadmill training alone, according to a new randomized controlled trial. The authors say that the intervention, which combines the physical and cognitive aspects of walking, could potentially be used in gyms, rehabilitation centers or nursing homes to improve safe walking and prevent falls in older adults or people with disorders which affect movement such as Parkinson's disease.

Strict blood pressure control may provide long-term benefits for kidney disease patients Posted: 11 Aug 2016 04:07 PM PDT In long-term analyses of two clinical trials that included patients with chronic kidney disease, a lower blood pressure target than the currently guideline-recommended goal of 140/90 mm Hg was safe and associated with protection against premature death.

Heart bypass without surgery? AGGF1 induces therapeutic angiogenesis through autophagy Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:32 AM PDT Coronary artery disease, the number one killer world-wide, restricts and ultimately blocks blood vessels, cutting off oxygen supply to the heart. A new study reports that treatment with AGGF1, a protein which promotes angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels), can successfully treat acute heart attacks in mice. The therapeutic benefits depend on autophagy, a normal breakdown process that removes and recycles damaged cellular structures.

Risk factors, features and outcomes of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in Vietnam Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:32 AM PDT Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections cause illness and death in sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about iNTS in Asia. A new study suggests that iNTS is a severe infection with a high mortality rate in Vietnam. The research also found that HIV infection was a risk factor for iNTS and that iNTS infections were most commonly diagnosed in HIV-infected adult men.

New tool to determine cost-effective control of rheumatic heart disease Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:32 AM PDT Based on recent estimates, there are about 32 million cases of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) worldwide, which cause 275,000 deaths per year. Effective drugs and surgical procedures to prevent and treat the disease exist, but they can be expensive and are under-used in the resource-poor settings where disease burden is highest. A study introduces a tool that helps health officials to make smart decisions on prevention and treatment of RHD.

First treatment for spinal muscular atrophy to be submitted for FDA approval based on positive results in clinical trial Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:28 AM PDT A major milestone was reached when nusinersen, an investigational treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), was shown to significantly improve achievement of motor milestones in babies with infantile-onset SMA.

Human brain clocks exposed: Effects of circadian clocks, sleep loss vary across brain regions, new study finds Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:27 AM PDT A new study helps us to understand how the brain maintains performance during the day, why many symptoms in psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions wax and wane, and why we should avoid long drawn out negotiations into the night

Directly reprogramming a cell's identity with gene editing Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:26 AM PDT Researchers have used a gene editing tool called CRISPR to turn cells isolated from mouse connective tissue directly into neuronal cells. Results indicate that the newly converted neuronal cells show a more complete conversion than previous techniques, which persists after the treatment has ended. These cells could be used for modeling neurological disorders, discovering new therapeutics, developing personalized medicines and, perhaps in the future, implementing cell therapy.

Drug sensitivity restored in breast cancer tumors Posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:26 AM PDT A team of cancer researchers has uncovered one way certain tumors resist vital medication.

Researchers find new functions of blood cell protein in transplant Posted: 11 Aug 2016 10:16 AM PDT Scientists have found exciting, new functions of the protein angiogenin that play a significant role in the regulation of blood cell formation, important in bone marrow transplantation and recovery from radiation-induced bone marrow failure. Since current bone marrow transplantations have significant limitations, these discoveries may lead to important therapeutic interventions to help improve the effectiveness of these treatments.

Long-term health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs not as dire as perceived Posted: 11 Aug 2016 09:03 AM PDT The detonation of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in horrific casualties. The long-term effects of radiation exposure also increased cancer rates in the survivors. But public perception of the rates of cancer and birth defects among survivors and their children is greatly exaggerated when compared to the reality revealed by comprehensive follow-up studies.

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