Dementia is a brain disorder that seriously affects a person’s ability to carry out daily activities. The most common form of dementia among older people is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), which involves the parts of the brain that control thought, memory, and language. Although scientists are learning more every day, right now they still do not know what causes AD, and there is no cure.
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of
the National Institutes of Health, have discovered new
information about how human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),
the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency (AIDS),
possibly evades eradication from the body.
With a record attendance, 150,000 people lined Denman Street and Beach Avenue along side English Bay in downtown Vancouver?s West End. This year?s parade was the most upbeat and colorful Pride Parade ever held in Vancouver and it is the third largest in Canada, after Montreal and Toronto.
We have heard lot about the South Beach Diet. You knoe the South Beach Diet is not low carb, not low fat diet. The South Beach Diet -a system- teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right fats and enables you to live quite happily without the bad carbs and bad fats.
Scientists do not yet fully understand what causes Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the more they learn about AD, the more they become aware of the important function genes play in the development of this devastating disease.
Obesity is one of the most common disorders in clinical practice. Defined (by the National Institute of Health – NIH) as a body weight 20% or more above “desirable” weight.
The pineal gland — which regulates the cycles of sleep and
waking — appears to have evolved as an indirect way to
improve vision, by keeping toxic compounds away from the
eye, according to a new theory by a researcher at the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at
the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers at the NIH’s National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) have identified a relationship between a
small section of one gene, the brain chemical messenger
glutamate, and a collection of traits known to be
associated with schizophrenia.
One misconception many people have about exercise. Most people think that the more you exercise, the hungrier you will become and the more you will eat. Actually, in some ways, exercise is an appetite supressent. Exercise stimulates production of glucagons, which raises the blood sugar level, which reduces symptoms of hunger. Therefore, exercise is helpful in controlling eating if we exercise before a meal.
A new clinical study to determine how people with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) evaluate improvements in disease
symptoms will be carried out by the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS),
part of the Department of Health and Human Services’
National Institutes of Health.