Signs of future high blood pressure in college football players
(Medical Xpress)—College football players tend to have stiffer arteries than other college students, even before their college athletic careers have started, cardiology researchers have found.
View ArticleImmune cell defenders protect us from bacteria invasion
(Medical Xpress)—An international team of researchers including University of Melbourne staff has identified the exact biochemical key that awakes the body's immune cells and sends them into fight...
View ArticleScientists identify third critical hormone in Type 2 diabetes
(Medical Xpress)—Working with mice and human blood and liver samples, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have identified a previously unsuspected liver hormone as a critical player in...
View ArticleAspirin does not prevent pregnancy loss, study finds
(Medical Xpress)—A daily low dose of aspirin does not appear to prevent subsequent pregnancy loss among women with a history of one or two prior pregnancy losses, according to researchers at the...
View ArticleUncovering the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease
(Medical Xpress)—A breakthrough investigation by UTS researchers into the underlying causes of Parkinson's disease has brought us a step closer to understanding how to manage the condition.
View ArticleFinding genetic links to personal health and fitness
With obesity now a national epidemic, doctors, nutritionists, and exercise professionals are doing everything they can to encourage people to lead healthier lives, and that includes participating in...
View ArticleScientists emphasize metabolites' role in understanding disease
Overreliance on genetic-centered approaches in predicting, diagnosing and treating disease will lead to few future scientific breakthroughs, cautioned a University of Alabama researcher who co-authored...
View ArticleCancer and the Goldilocks effect: Too much or too little of a single enzyme...
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that too little or too much of an enzyme called SRPK1 promotes cancer by disrupting a regulatory event critical for...
View ArticlePatient stem cells help identify common problem in ALS
Harvard stem cell scientists have discovered that a recently approved medication for epilepsy may possibly be a meaningful treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—Lou Gehrig's disease, a...
View ArticleJamming a protein signal forces cancer cells to devour themselves
Under stress from chemotherapy or radiation, some cancer cells dodge death by consuming a bit of themselves, allowing them to essentially sleep through treatment and later awaken as tougher, resistant...
View ArticleNew study casts doubt on heart regeneration in mammals
The mammalian heart has generally been considered to lack the ability to repair itself after injury, but a 2011 study in newborn mice challenged this view, providing evidence for complete regeneration...
View ArticleTumor suppressor gene TP53 mutated in 90 percent of most common childhood...
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital—Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project found mutations in the tumor suppressor gene TP53 in 90 percent of osteosarcomas, suggesting the...
View ArticleHIV vaccine research must consider various immune responses
Last year, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, held a scientific meeting to examine why certain investigational HIV vaccines...
View ArticleHeart disease haunted mummies, too
(HealthDay)—Though the pyramids are proof of the ancient Egyptians' architectural skills, new research on mummies tucked away inside them unearths a lesser known fact: heart disease was as common then...
View ArticleInsomnia may significantly increase stroke risk
The risk of stroke may be much higher in people with insomnia compared to those who don't have trouble sleeping, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Stroke.
View ArticleWhat bank voles can teach us about prion disease transmission and...
When cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine...
View ArticleResearchers identify brain cells that control backward walking in fruit flies
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) in Vienna managed to isolate "moonwalker flies" in a high-throughput screen. Screening a large collection of fruit flies, the scientists found...
View ArticleResearchers find portable, low-cost optical imaging tool useful in concussion...
(Medical Xpress)—Two separate projects, spearheaded by University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences researchers and published recently in scientific journals, represented important steps...
View ArticleCutting phosphate in diet reduces deaths, heart problems related to kidney...
(Medical Xpress)—Millions of Americans suffer from chronic kidney disease, a condition that rarely causes symptoms until its later stages. But long before kidneys fail and dialysis becomes a way of...
View ArticleHigher social class linked to fewer bone fractures among non-white women
(Medical Xpress)—If you are a middle-aged African-American or Asian woman, your social class may play a significant role in how likely you are to suffer bone fracutres, a UCLA-led study suggests.
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