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Diabetes Rates Vary Widely in Developing Countries

jamal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:47:36 +0000

Worldwide, four in five people with diabetes now live in developing countries. Liu’s study found that access to healthcare support for diabetes varied widely in developing countries, and that one in 10 diagnosed cases remain untreated.

“Diabetes is now one of the most common non-communicable diseases globally,” Liu . . . → Read More: Diabetes Rates Vary Widely in Developing Countries

Positive Parenting During Early Childhood May Prevent Obesity

jamal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:47:33 +0000

Children who received familyintervention during early childhoodhad significantly lower rates ofobesity; © panthermedia.net/Erwin Wodicka

Today, one out of five American children is obese. Young children who are overweight are five times more likely than their peers of normal weight to be obese by adolescence. Obese . . . → Read More: Positive Parenting During Early Childhood May Prevent Obesity

Breastfeeding is Good for the lungs

jamal — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:32 +0000

“In our cohort of school age children, breastfeeding was associated with modest improvement in forced mid-expiratory flow (FEF50) in our whole group and with improvements in forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume at 1 second (FEV1) only in the children of asthmatic mothers,” said Doctor Claudia . . . → Read More: Breastfeeding is Good for the lungs

Small Molecules at the Cell’s Membrane Enable Cell Movement

jamal — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:39:27 +0000

Ruffles form on cells to help themcrawl. These ruffles were formedfrom glowing pieces of cell skeleton;© John Hopkins Medicine

“Essentially we are figuring out how cells crawl,” says Doctor Takanari Inoue of the Centre for Cell Dynamics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. . . . → Read More: Small Molecules at the Cell’s Membrane Enable Cell Movement

Accelerates CAGE Analysis on a Single Molecule Sequence

jamal — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:30 +0000

A key obstacle in DNA sequencing is the long time required for sample preparation, especially when compared with how fast next-generation sequencers are able to sequence DNA. Now, researchers at the OSChave reduced that time using a new automated sample preparation system. Using the new system, sample preparation . . . → Read More: Accelerates CAGE Analysis on a Single Molecule Sequence

Children Exposed to Anaesthesia Multiple Times Show Elevated Rates of ADHD

jamal — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:37:26 +0000

Children exposed to two or more anaesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says Doctor David Warner, a Mayo Clinic paediatric anaesthesiologist and investigator on the observational study.

When . . . → Read More: Children Exposed to Anaesthesia Multiple Times Show Elevated Rates of ADHD

Surgical Breast Biopsy Not Overused

jamal — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:33:46 +0000

Results from a previous study in 2011 in a surgical journal suggested that surgery is used for 30 percent of breast biopsies, an excessive number. However, in response, the authors of a new article thought that the reported results may overstate the percentage of biopsies performed as surgical . . . → Read More: Surgical Breast Biopsy Not Overused

Decaffeinated Coffee Preserves Memory Function

jamal — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:33:44 +0000

Non-caffeine components in coffee provide health benefits in mice; © panthermedia.net/Sascha Burkard

A research group led by Doctor Giulio Maria Pasinetti at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, explored whether dietary supplementation with a standardized decaffeinated coffee preparation prior to diabetes onset might improve insulin . . . → Read More: Decaffeinated Coffee Preserves Memory Function

Processes Leading to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

jamal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:32:36 +0000

The image shows three positions of mutations in the four-protein complex called DNMT3A. The mutations are disruptions of DNMT3A and are circled in black. The mutations appear different from each other because the proteins are configured differently at each interface. In patients with acute myeloid leukaemia, DNMT3A is . . . → Read More: Processes Leading to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia

Training Has Biological Impact on Aging Process

jamal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:32:32 +0000

Measuring the automatic brain responses of younger and older musicians and non-musicians to speech sounds, researchers in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory discovered that older musicians had a distinct neural timing advantage.

“The older musicians not only outperformed their older non-musician counterparts, they encoded the sound stimuli as quickly . . . → Read More: Training Has Biological Impact on Aging Process

Leukaemia Cells Are “Bad to the Bone”

jamal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:28:40 +0000

Leukaemia is a devastating disease that results in the disruption of normal blood production. Blood stem cells (hematopoietic stem cells or HSCs) give rise to all mature blood cells and maintain a balance of self-renewal and expansion. However, in this study, even when leukaemia is barely traceable in . . . → Read More: Leukaemia Cells Are “Bad to the Bone”

Radiation Therapy Improves Patients’ Quality of Life

jamal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:28:37 +0000

Standard radiation therapy to thehead and neck has been knownto affect a patient’s ability toproduce saliva, taste, and evenchew food; © panthermedia.net/Nuno Andre

Allen Chen of UC Davis reported that the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, was associated with fewer long-term side effects, . . . → Read More: Radiation Therapy Improves Patients’ Quality of Life

Traffic-Related Air Pollution

jamal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:38 +0000

The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollution is a cause of asthma and a trigger for attacks, so it should be included, say the researchers. They . . . → Read More: Traffic-Related Air Pollution

Traffic-Related Air Pollution

jamal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:37 +0000

Brachytherapy Reduced Death Rates in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients

jamal — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:17:33 +0000

Many experts believe that high-quality contemporary brachy-therapy may be an effectivetool against high-risk prostatecancer; © panthermedia.net/Luis Louro

A population-based analysis looking at almost 13,000 cases revealed that men who received brachytherapy alone or in combination with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) had significantly reduced mortality . . . → Read More: Brachytherapy Reduced Death Rates in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients