Last month, Dr. George Bartzokis, director of the UCLA Memory Disorders and Alzheimer’s Disease Clinic, suggested in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia that the breakdown of a type of myelin that develops late in life promotes the buildup of toxic amyloid plaques long associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Myelin is the “insulation” that wraps around nerve axons in the brain.
Early life sun exposure, from birth to 20 years old, may specifically increase the risk of melanomas with BRAF gene mutations. Skin cancers often contain different gene mutations, butjust how these mutations contribute to the cause of melanomas has been amystery.
While the symptoms of bipolar disorder can be disabling on their own, most patients with the condition also are afflicted with a variety of other psychiatric, substance use and physical disorders.
Tristar Food Wholesale, 115 Amity Street, Jersey City, NJ 07304 is recalling Ferrari Chocolate because it contains undeclared peanuts.
There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this week?s BMJ.
Epidemiologists at the University of Liverpool and the Heart of Mersey have found that approximately half the recent fall in coronary heart disease deaths in the US is due to positive life style changes and a further half to medical therapies.
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have, for the first time, used a ?bionic? ear to restore hearing in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease.
India’s largest life insurance services provider Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is set enter the health insurance space in about two months as it is awaiting a nod from the IRDA.
Talcum powder has been used for generations to soothe babies? diaper rash and freshen women?s faces. But University of Florida researchers report the household product has an additional healing power: The ability to stunt cancer growth by cutting the flow of blood to metastatic lung tumors.
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they are moving closer to understanding why the most lethal form of human malaria has become resistant to drug treatment in the past three decades.