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• New pathways to treat non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease discovered
• Study provides new focus for developing drugs to fight cancer
• Lending a hand: Student 3d prints functional, affordable prosthetic
• User-friendly medication packaging design can boost patient safety
• Economic stress played role in increasing U.S. death rate
• Aggressive form of leukemia linked to defective 'protein factory'
• Oxytocin improves synchronization in leader-follower interaction
• Older women with breast cancer report better cosmetic satisfaction with less radiation, less surgery
• Key regulator of bone development identified
• Running actually lowers inflammation in knee joints
• Air pollution impairs function of blood vessels in lungs
• Beans and peas increase fullness more than meat
• Breast cancer patients could benefit from controversial hormone
• Naturally occurring symptoms may be mistaken for tamoxifen side-effects
• Can you unconsciously forget an experience?
• Can you sneeze with your eyes open?
• Shooting, gang violence exposure leads to PTSD
• Does prostate cancer screening matter? Prostate cancer patients more likely to die of other diseases
• Collaboration between media, medical journals often leads to misinformation, hysteria

New pathways to treat non-alcoholic fatty-liver disease discovered Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:48 PM PST Researchers have discovered a new pathway in the liver that opens the door to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition that affects up to 25 percent of the population and may lead to cirrhosis and eventually liver cancer or failure, and likely other liver diseases.

Study provides new focus for developing drugs to fight cancer Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:48 PM PST Cancer researchers and drug companies may have been too quick to ignore a promising line of inquiry that targets a specific cell protein, according to a research team.

Lending a hand: Student 3d prints functional, affordable prosthetic Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:43 PM PST A physics student adapted open source plans for a prosthetic hand to build a highly functional, affordable prosthetic, outlines a new report.

User-friendly medication packaging design can boost patient safety Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:43 PM PST Improvements to text size and placement and color scheme could help consumers – especially the elderly – discriminate medication ingredients to avoid inadvertent overdoses.

Economic stress played role in increasing U.S. death rate Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:49 AM PST Greater stress and anxiety resulting from economic insecurity may be at least partly to blame for the U.S. death rate that the government has increased for the first time in a decade, says an expert on poverty and inequality.

Aggressive form of leukemia linked to defective 'protein factory' Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:47 AM PST 20 to 40 percent of the patients with multiple myeloma -- a type of leukemia -- have a defect in the ribosome, the protein factory of the cell. These patients have a poorer prognosis than patients with intact ribosomes. At the same time, they respond better to a drug that already exists, report investigators.

Oxytocin improves synchronization in leader-follower interaction Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:47 AM PST A new study shows that participants receiving oxytocin -- a hormone known to promote social bonding - are more synchronized when finger-tapping together, than participants receiving placebo. This effect was observed when pairs of participants, placed in separate rooms tapped together in a leader/follower relationship.

Older women with breast cancer report better cosmetic satisfaction with less radiation, less surgery Posted: 09 Dec 2016 09:58 AM PST In the first study evaluating patient-reported cosmetic outcomes in a population-based cohort of older women with breast cancer, researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long-term.

Key regulator of bone development identified Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:02 AM PST Loss of a key protein has been discovered as the event that leads to defects in skeletal development, including reduced bone density and a shortening of the fingers and toes -- a new potential target for the diagnosis and treatment of bone diseases such as osteoporosis.

Running actually lowers inflammation in knee joints Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:02 AM PST We all know that running causes a bit of inflammation and soreness, and that's just the price you pay for cardiovascular health. You know; no pain, no gain. Well, maybe not. New research from exercise science professors finds that pro-inflammatory molecules actually go down in the knee joint after running.

Air pollution impairs function of blood vessels in lungs Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:02 AM PST Air pollution impairs the function of blood vessels in the lungs, according to a study in more than 16,000 patients.

Beans and peas increase fullness more than meat Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:02 AM PST Meals based on legumes such as beans and peas are more satiating than pork and veal-based meals according to a recent study. Results suggest that sustainable eating may also help with weight loss.

Breast cancer patients could benefit from controversial hormone Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:01 AM PST An international team of researchers is tackling the controversy over what some scientists consider to be a 'harmful' hormone, arguing that it could be a game changer in the fight against recurring breast cancers that are resistant to standard treatments.

Naturally occurring symptoms may be mistaken for tamoxifen side-effects Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:00 AM PST Women taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer were less likely to continue taking the drug if they suffered nausea and vomiting, according to new data.

Can you unconsciously forget an experience? Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:11 AM PST Wanting to squash not-so-great memories is human nature, but is it possible to intentionally forget a traumatic experience?

Can you sneeze with your eyes open? Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:10 AM PST The changing weather brings about many things: holiday excitement, a different wardrobe and -- perhaps most annoyingly -- cold and flu season. Those around you have likely been sneezing more frequently, which may have prompted you to ponder if it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

Shooting, gang violence exposure leads to PTSD Posted: 08 Dec 2016 12:19 PM PST The violence that women in disadvantaged neighborhoods experience and witness can result in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and full diagnoses, according to a new study that examined a disadvantaged Chicago neighborhood.

Does prostate cancer screening matter? Prostate cancer patients more likely to die of other diseases Posted: 08 Dec 2016 11:35 AM PST Starting in 1993 and ending in 2001, ten academic medical centers in the United States screened 76,685 men and 78,216 women for prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancers. The question was whether yearly screening could catch cancers early and thus decrease mortality from these diseases. Fifteen-year follow-up results focusing on prostate cancer show little difference in mortality between men screened annually and the control group, some of whom chose to be screened occasionally. According to researchers, the results don't necessarily negate the value of prostate cancer screening, but imply that within the data of this massive trial are clues that inform personalized decisions for subsets of this prostate cancer population.

Collaboration between media, medical journals often leads to misinformation, hysteria Posted: 08 Dec 2016 09:58 AM PST When flawed clinical research is reported in the media with hype and sensationalism, it has the potential to have a devastating effect on patients, physicians, the scientific community and eventually society as a whole, suggests a new report.

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