A once-a-day, short-term treatment with a drug compound substantially improved learning and memory in mice with Down syndrome symptoms, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children?s Hospital.
On Feb. 18, Nature Genetics published the largest-ever study on the genetics of autism. The research is the fruit of an international autism genetics consortium, called the Autism Genome Project.
Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., and Ami Klin are part of a global research consortium from 19 countries that identified an individual gene and a region of a chromosome that may lead to autism in children.
A researcher in the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center has found a way to identify which men need a second prostate biopsy because they may be harboring life-threatening prostate cancer even though they were given a clean bill of health after their first biopsy.
Age-related eye diseases, their treatment, and the latest research to find cures will take center stage at the 2007 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting to be held at the Greater Fort Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., May 6-10, 2007.
UK gay men, who are demanding vaccine Gardasil, may be wasting their money because Gardasil vaccine protects men from genital warts and genital cancers if they get the jab early in their sexual life before coming into contact with a person who has HPV.
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and the No. 1 cause of cancer death among non-smokers.
New research at the University of Maryland looks at why kids decide to include — and exclude — other kids from their group of friends. It turns out the decision making process is much more complex than previously believed, and could even provide insights into how to intervene when children are rejected by their peers.
Living in greener neighborhoods or in closer proximity to grocery stores is associated with reduced risk of being overweight, according to a study of more than 7,000 children ages 3 to 18 conducted by researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine; the Department of Geography, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; and the University of Cincinnati.
Doubts over three influential head injury studies mean that patients are receiving treatment that may be unsound, warn doctors in this week?s BMJ.