Healthy :: Healthy Home Celebrates Anniversary, EPA Grant
The Healthy Home ? a model residence created to help property owners and residents improve the environmental health of their homes ? is celebrating its first year in operation.
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Healthcare :: Launch of far reaching consultation for Carers
Consultation seeks to stimulate debate on New Deal for Carers. Details of a huge national debate on how to improve the future of the nation’s six million carers were released today by Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis.
Healthcare :: Report recommends redefining the role of health visitors
An independent review is recommending strengthening the role for health visitors to maximises the impact they can have on children and families.
Genome :: Mutating the entire genome
Genes account for only 2.5 percent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint, yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but from mutations of other DNA that controls genes. University of Utah researchers report in the journal Nature Genetics that they have developed a faster, less expensive technique for mutating those large, non-gene stretches of DNA.
Infectious Disease :: Infectious diseases experts issue blueprint to avert
New vaccines are available to make significant gains against cervical cancer deaths and debilitating pain from shingles, but infectious diseases experts warn that their full potential will not be realized without changes in the way vaccines for adults and adolescents are promoted, financed and delivered in the United States.
Back Pain :: Laziness increases back pain risk
Office workers who rarely exercise are at increased risk of back injuries, according to UQ researchers working on a European Space Agency study.
Gene :: UVa-led team uncovers important secret in gene replication
A team of researchers led by University of Virginia Health System geneticists has uncovered a major secret in the mystery of how the DNA helix replicates itself time after time. It turns out that it is not just the sequence of the bases — building blocks — in the DNA, but also how loosely or tightly the chromatin — the material that makes up chromosomes — is packed at different points of the chromosome that is critical.
Cancer :: How tumor cells home in on the lymphatic system
A Swiss-based research team has published a new mechanistic description of how tumor cells migrate to the lymphatic system in the early stages of tumor metastasis. This new understanding holds significant potential for developing anti-metastasis therapies.
Parkinson’s Disease :: Blood pressure drug slows, halt Parkinson’s disease
Northwestern University researchers have discovered a drug that slows ? and may even halt ? the progression of Parkinson?s disease. The drug rejuvenates aging dopamine cells, whose death in the brain causes the symptoms of this devastating and widespread disease.
Chemotherapy :: Brain-boosting pill alleviates post-chemotherapy fogginess
A drug described by some people as a “genius pill”for enhancing cognitive function provided relief to a small group of Rochester breast cancer survivors who were coping with a side effect known as “chemo-brain,”according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study.