Study suggests loss of 2 types of neurons -- not just 1 -- triggers Parkinson's symptoms
...ement. Results of the study by Emory scientists, along with the University of Georgia, will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition online during the week of Aug. 13-17 and in the Aug. 21 print edition. The research was conducted by Karen Rommelfanger, graduate stu...Hispanic drug use rises in US culture
...ables. Akins is the lead author on the research, along with Clayton Mosher of Washington State University, Chad L. Smith of Texas State University and Jane Florence Gauthier of University of Nevada Las Vegas. Akins said the researchers hope to find new ways to maximize the protective effects of low-acc...New study counts the economic cost of persistent pain in Australia
...ree biggest health problems of the new millennium, along with diabetes and asthma, but its impact is still to be fully understood. Around a million Australians who might normally enjoy productive working lives struggle with persistent pain with substantial interference to their daily lives that can be so...Chromatin remodeling complex connected to DNA damage control
... assembled in histone/DNA units called nucleosomes along the connecting length of a string of DNA. "This structure is often referred to as beads on a string," Shen says, and is collectively known as chromatin. "Chromatin creates barriers to DNA against anything that wants access to DNA, such as a trans...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...risk of cardiovascular problems and deathincreases along with body weight, reports a study in the September Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. "We knew that in people with normal kidney function obesity leads to impairment in vitamin D metabolism and elevated PTH levels, but this phe...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
...sked for their height and weight before pregnancy, along with other demographic and medical information. These women were compared with 4,065 women who had babies without birth defects during the same time period. Mothers of babies with the following seven of 16 birth defects were more likely to be obese...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
... were completely eradicated by a single treatment, along with 14 of the larger tumors. Seven more of the 16...for RCC has been a removal of the affected kidney, along with adjoining blood vessels and lymph nodes, known as a radical nephrectomy, although newer minimal...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
... sleep can lead to problems with behavior and mood along with difficulty with cognition. Ralph Downey III, PhD, chief of sleep medicine at the Sleep Disorders Center at Loma Linda University (LLU) Medical Center in California, an associate professor of medicine, pediatrics and neurology at LLU, an associ...Study says normal but out-of-control enzyme may be culprit that signals some cells to become cancer
...s and proteins, which makes them ideal for passing along signals. For example, a cancer-causing agent or a hormone may find its way from the bloodstream to the outer membrane of a cell. After its arrival, it sets off a chain of reactions, or signals, inside the cell. Some of these signals take the form ...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
... Access for patients to their own medical records, along with patient information and tools to share in decision-making. According to Davis and co-author Sara Collins, assistant vice president at The Commonwealth Fund, significant improvements in quality will require greater federal involvement in heal...UGA study explains why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed
..., too. Rather than using an authoritarian approach along the lines of just say no, Paek urges health communicators to emphasize that most youth dont smoke, and for good reasons. Advertising professionals have only recently become involved in anti-smoking campaigns, she said. We need to develop more soph...ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
...ate three-dimensional positioning of the satellite along its orbit. Once delivered to ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the spacecraft and gradiometer will undergo the final integration and environmental testing programme to make sure everything is in order to withstand the rigours of launch and the ...Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
UCLA scientists, along with collaborators from Purdue University, have demonstrated that HIV protease inhibitors crucial drugs for HIV treatment block a cellular enzyme important for generating the structural scaffolding for the cell nucleus. Published in the July 16 e...Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
...useum of Paleontology, is a co-author of the paper along with several current and former graduate and undergraduate students from U-M. "My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the coffin of the idea that you can't produce enough food through organic agriculture," Perfecto said. In addition to equa...European Space Agency's Envisat captures breath of volcano
...e, of which around 50 erupt each year, are located along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. At least 500 million people live close to an active volcano. As world population increases, so does the potential threat from every eruption. Although there is no way ground-based monitoring can be carried out on all vo...Physician and congressional leaders convene on Capitol Hill
... the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), along with the Chief Executive Officers of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), met with House and Senate Democratic and Republican Leadership. During the meetings the groups discussed legislative strateg...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...devices for cancer, and the new techniques that go along with them. The scientific program will begin on Sunday, July 22 at 9:30 AM and conclude on Thursday, July 26 at 5:30 PM. Scientific abstracts that scored high during the review process were identified as "Reviewer's Choice" selections. More det...Stevens Roundtable: Health, Technology & Society, July 11
...dition, information privacy and security concerns, along with the economics of managing complex information-systems platforms, further burden the ability to deliver care. These and other topics relating to healthcare services for the growing number of elderly in the US will be examined during a Stevens I...A new direction: Integrating best-practices to improve food responses
...hoods at FIC and professor at the Friedman School, along with FIC researcher John Burns, will begin new research on involving communities in targeting in complex emergencies. Maxwell acknowledges that implementing best-practice standards is a difficult process. Improving analysis and tying this analysis ...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...nvaluable synoptic view of changing ice conditions along the explorer's route. With the aid of these satellite images, Leif has been able to help the expedition to try to avoid the rapidly disintegrating ice pack in the Robson Channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island in the extreme north of Canada...