A report commissioned to develop a research methodology to study the health of children of Vietnam veterans has been released by the Minister of Veterans? Affairs, Bruce Billson.
One in three people exposed to whiplash trauma is at risk of developing delayed TMJ symptoms that may require treatment, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association.
Behavioral research over the past 15 years has confirmed what anyone who has purchased a house or dumped a significant other could tell you: When people make decisions, they anticipate that they may regret their choices.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of updated labeling for the widely used blood-thinning drug, Coumadin, to explain that people’s genetic makeup may influence how they respond to the drug.
Researchers in Taiwan have demonstrated for the first time that urban air pollution simultaneously affects key indicators of cardiovascular risk in young adults: inflammation, oxidative stress, coagulation and autonomic dysfunction.
A compound related to a drug used in humans to prevent organ-transplant rejection attacks a key biochemical process in the faulty immune cells of lupus-prone mice, suggesting a possible new approach to combating the disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.
Scientists have discovered a key protein in the toxic brain pathway that leads to fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder. The finding, in a Drosophila (fly) model of FXTAS, could help unravel the complex mechanisms of FXTAS and lead scientists to develop therapies to target the protein.
Scientists have discovered a new protein that may offer fresh insights into brain function in mad cow disease. ?Our team has defined a second prion protein called ?Shadoo?, that exists in addition to the well-known prion protein called ?PrP? ? said Professor David Westaway, director of the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta.
Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreatic cancer and diabetes are linked. According to research published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, women with a history of gestational diabetes had a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer later in life.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, have found that a key gene is often “silenced” in clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer, and when they restored that gene in human kidney cancer cells in culture and animal experiments, tumors stopped growing and many disappeared.