Why dopamine freezes parkinson patients and drives drug addicts August 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Parkinson's disease and drug addiction are polar opposite diseases, but both depend upon dopamine in the brain. Parkinson's patients don't have enough of it; drug addicts get too much of it. Although the importance of dopamine ... | |
 Face transplant patient can smile, blink again August 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world's three teams that have done partial face transplants reported ... | |
Black girls who use marijuana engage in riskier sex, have higher STD rate August 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Black girls who use marijuana are more likely to engage in risky sexual acts and contract a sexually transmitted disease, a new study finds. | |
Killer carbs -- Monash scientist finds the key to overeating as we age August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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A Monash University scientist has discovered key appetite control cells in the human brain degenerate over time, causing increased hunger and potentially weight-gain as we grow older. | |
Adults easily fooled by children's false denials August 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Adults are easily fooled when a child denies that an actual event took place, but do somewhat better at detecting when a child makes up information about something that never happened, according to new research from the University ... | |
Scientists discover leptin can also aid type 1 diabetics August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center. | |
Study: Spices may protect against consequences of high blood sugar August 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and a new University of Georgia study suggests they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar. | |
Largest study of its kind implicates gene abnormalities in bipolar disorder August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A large genetic study of bipolar disorder has implicated machinery that balances levels of sodium and calcium in neurons. The disorder was associated with variation in two genes that make components of such ion channels. ... | |
A new light on the brains of people with borderline personality disorder August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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In a game of give and get, the brains of people with borderline personality disorder often don't get it. | |
Researchers study diet and autism August 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have embarked on one of the first double-blind, clinical studies to determine whether gluten and dairy products play a role in autistic behavior as parents ... | |
Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping ... | |
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors August 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak. | |
By amplifying cell death signals, scientists make precancerous cells self-destruct August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. Now, in research to appear in the August 15 issue of Genes & Development, ... | |
Sandwich meats kill 15 in Canada August 27, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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The death toll from contaminated deli meats in Canada has risen to 15, health officials said Wednesday, including an elderly woman who is said to have suffered terribly. | |
Indonesian villagers test negative for bird flu: health ministry August 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Thirteen people in Indonesia suspected of having bird flu have tested negative for the feared disease, the country's health ministry said Saturday. | |
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