Genetic variations may help explain why some men with depression develop suicidal thoughts and behaviors after they begin taking antidepressant medications, while most do not, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
University of Leeds scientists have shown how stroke victims could be more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease ? years or even decades after making a full recovery.
Physiological differences between men and women may contribute to differential tumor development and progression in colon cancer patients, a study led by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) suggests.
A Northwestern University researcher has found a key source of chronic pain appears to be an old memory trace that essentially gets stuck in the prefrontal cortex, the site of emotion and learning. The researcher has identified a drug that controls persistent nerve pain by targeting the part of the brain that experiences the emotional suffering of pain. The drug is D-Cycloserine, which has been used to treat phobic behavior over the past decade.
Bayer HealthCare, a subsidiary of Bayer AG (NYSE: BAY), and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONXX) announced that Nexavar? (sorafenib) tablets significantly extended overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or primary liver cancer versus those taking placebo by 44%.
Using a new highly sensitive imaging process, researchers have identified two adrenaline tumors in a live mouse. The process, called bioluminescence tomography (BLT), was invented by Ge Wang and his colleagues. ?Adrenaline tumors are just one example of a tumor and our non-invasive technology can be used to study all types of tumors,? Wang said.
A former University of Adelaide academic who revolutionised orthodontics has been awarded dentistry’s highest international honour.
Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells (hSSCs), researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine report.
A University of Melbourne longitudinal family study investigating risk factors for childhood allergic disorders and their consequences, has received $850,000 from the National Health and Medical Research Council, announced by the Commonwealth Government last week.
A study of high schools in China has found community, school and household factors have a major impact on obesity in adolescents. The new research highlights the need for more effective, preventative strategies that tackle parenting attitudes and school environments to reduce the growing rate of obesity in Chinese adolescents.