Study reveals stress hormone impacts on alcohol recovery
• Endocrinology • Sep 25 10
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that high levels of a stress hormone in recovering alcoholics could increase the risk of relapse.
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Stress can control our genes
• Genetics • • Neurology • Sep 25 10
Stress has become one of the major disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look.…
Video gaming prepares brain for bigger tasks
• Brain • • Neurology • • Surgery • Sep 25 10
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare your child to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a new study has shown. Reorganisation…
Common Neurological Disease in the Elderly Associated with Long-Term Post Treatment Mortality
• Neurology • Sep 25 10
An in-depth scientific article published in the Journal of Neurosurgery reveals that a fairly common disease in the elderly has a high mortality rate…
Secondhand Smoke Campaign Reaches Kentucky Parents
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 25 10
A recent UK HealthCare survey found that over the past year, the percentage of Kentuckians living with children who believe secondhand smoke to be…
From Kitchen to Classroom, New Course Nourishes Budding Food Writers
• Food & Nutrition • Sep 25 10
Writer Tenaya Darlington, M.F.A., assistant professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, loves eating cheese. She loves it so much that she…
Patients With Cancer Who Stop Hospice Care Boost Health Care Costs
• Cancer • • Public Health • Sep 23 10
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that the costs of care for patients with cancer who disenrolled from hospice were…
Young teens who play sports feel healthier and happier about life
• Children's Health • Sep 22 10
Taking part in sports is good all round for young teens: physically, socially, and mentally, according to a new study1 by Dr. Keith Zullig…
Scientists find clue to cell damage after stroke
• Stroke • Sep 22 10
Scientists have found that an enzyme is responsible for the death of nerve cells after a stroke and say an experimental drug that dramatically…
Taste genes predict tooth decay
• Dental Health • • Genetics • Sep 22 10
Dental caries is a highly prevalent disease that is disproportionately distributed in the population. Caries occurrence and progression is known to be influenced by…
Giving Aspirin Via IV Is Safe And Effective For Severe Headache
• Headaches • • Migraine • Sep 22 10
A new study shows that aspirin, given intravenously (IV), may be a safe and effective option for people hospitalized for severe headache or migraine,…
Obesity In Children Could Be Due To Viral Infection, Study
• Infections • • Obesity • Sep 22 10
New research from the US appears to back the suggestion that obesity may be triggered by a virus infection: it found that children had…
Scientists identify a new target for Alzheimer’s disease
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 22 10
Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found a new therapeutic target that can potentially lead to a new way to prevent the…
Obesity and blindness researchers win U.S. Lasker awards
• Eye / Vision Problems • • Obesity • Sep 22 10
Researchers who discovered a hormone intimately linked to obesity, who found a protein linked to a common form of blindness and who worked…
Too much TV, video and computer can make teens fatter
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 20 10
Too much television, video games and Internet can increase body fat in teens. A five-year study from the University of Montreal and the Sainte-Justine…
Testing urine protein in blacks may slow kidney disorder
• Urine Problems • Sep 20 10
Measuring urine protein in blacks who have chronic kidney disease related to high blood pressure might help physicians slow the disease progression in some…
‘Snus’ tobacco linked to stillbirth risk
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 20 10
Pregnant women who use a smokeless form of tobacco known as “snus” may have a risk of stillbirth on par with women who smoke…
Childhood viral infection may be a cause of obesity
• Infections • • Obesity • Sep 20 10
The emerging idea that obesity may have an infectious origin gets new support in a cross-sectional study by University of California, San Diego School…
Manganese in drinking water: Study suggests adverse effects on children’s intellectual abilities
• Children's Health • • Brain • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 20 10
A team of researchers led by Maryse Bouchard, adjunct professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology, Health, Environment and Society (CINBIOSE) of…
Safeguarding Soldiers From Infectious Diseases
• Infections • • Public Health • Sep 17 10
Scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have received a 2-year, $5.3 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)…
Link Between Fats And Heart Disease Signs Revealed By Gene Network
• Fat, Dietary • • Heart • Sep 17 10
A gene network behind hardening of the arteries and coronary heart disease has been identified by a team of scientists from Australia, Europe and…
Palliative Care; How To Help The Dying Cope
• Mortality and Morbidity • • Public Health • Sep 17 10
In 20 years, yearly deaths will up from 58 million to 74 million globally. Many of these humans pass on quite alone, feel alienated,…
Spinal Fluid Test May Diagnose Alzheimer’s Posted
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 17 10
The signature was found in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of 90% of people with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and 72% of people with…
Marijuana’s ‘Getaway Effect’ Lower Than Thought
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 17 10
They explain that this term is used to refer to the risk a person who smokes marijuana or cannabis has of moving on to…
Depression, Heart Disease Combo May Up Odds of Death
• Depression • • Heart • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 17 10
People with both heart disease and depression are much more likely to die than those with just one of the conditions or neither…