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.
More than 26 million people worldwide were estimated to be living with Alzheimer’s disease in 2006, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center are beginning a study to look at whether diet can impact a person?s risk of developing colon cancer. Specifically, the researchers will compare a Mediterranean diet ? high in olive oil, nuts and fish ? with a standard healthy eating plan.
More than three decades ago, scientists pursued the then-radical idea of implanting tiny electronic hearing devices in the inner ear to help profoundly deaf people. An even bolder alternative that promised superior results ? implanting a device directly in the auditory nerve ? was set aside as too difficult, given the technology of the day.
PG-13 films have lots of “happy violence,” say UCLA researchers. Borrowing from the late communications theorist George Gerbner, happy violence is that which is “cool, swift and painless.”
Researchers from the Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University have found steroid use among teen girls is not limited to athletes and often goes hand in hand with other unhealthy choices, including smoking and taking diet pills.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered a potential new target for treating type 2 diabetes, according to a new study that appeared online this week in Nature. The target is a protein, along with its molecular partner, that regulates fat metabolism.
Taking folic acid supplements does not reduce the risk of developing precancerous tumors in the colon and may even increase the risk, a new study has found.
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.
High doses of vitamin D can reduce the risk of developing some common cancers by as much as 50%, US scientists claim. This benefit of vitamin D is seen more in women.