Health & Medicine

Posted July 30, 2013:

• Learning from a Virus: Keeping Genes Under Wraps


• Reprogramming Patients' Cells Offers Powerful New Tool for Studying, Treating Blood Diseases


• New Approach to Treating Venomous Snakebites Could Reduce Global Fatalities


• Protein Surfaces Defects Act as Drug Targets


• Exercise May Be the Best Medicine for Alzheimer's Disease


• Taxing Sugary Beverages Not a Clear Cut Strategy to Reduce Obesity


• Second Known Case of Patient Developing Synesthesia After Brain Injury


• How to Learn Successfully Even Under Stress


• Severe Low Blood Sugar Occurs Often in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes


• How Superbug Spreads Among Regional Hospitals: A Domino Effect


• Inhalable Gene Therapy May Help Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients


• Making a Change: Status Quo Bias in Health Decision Making


• A Maternal Junk Food Diet Alters Development of Opioid Pathway in the Offspring


• Fetal 'Programming' of Sweet Taste's Elicited Pleasure


• Taste Preference Changes in Different Life Stages of Rats


• Stress Early in Life Leads to Adulthood Anxiety and Preference for 'Comfort Foods'


• Offspring of Mothers Stressed During Pregnancy With a Passive Stress Coping Style More Prone to Obesity


• Psychotherapy Via Internet as Good as If Not Better Than Face-to-Face Consultations


• Requiring Some Patients to Get Mental Health Treatment Saves Money


• Potent Compound Kills Prostate Cancer Cells

Posted July 29, 2013:

• Math Model Predicts Effects of Diet, Physical Activity on Childhood Weight


• Decision Aids Reduce Men's Conflict About PSA Screening, but Don't Change Their Decisions


• Most Ward Nurses Say Time Pressures Force Them to 'Ration' Care


• Glucose Intolerance, Diabetes or Insulin Resistance Not Linked With Pathological Features of Alzheimer's Disease


• Breastfeeding Duration Appears Associated With Intelligence Later in Life


• Worsening Trends in Back Pain Management


• New Guidelines for Exercise in Children


• Number One Source for New Teeth


• Monogamy Evolved as a Mating Strategy: New Research Indicates That Social Monogamy Evolved as a Result of Competition


• Human Cells Respond in Healthy, Unhealthy Ways to Different Kinds of Happiness


• Hot Flashes? Thank Evolution


• Could Sleeping Stem Cells Hold Key to Treatment of Aggressive Blood Cancer?


• New Modular Vaccine Design Combines Best of Existing Vaccine Technologies


• Therapy May Curb Kidney Deterioration in Patients With Rare Disorder


• Aberrant Splicing Saps the Strength of 'Slow' Muscle Fibers


• 'Cowcatcher' Enzyme Fixes Single-Strand DNA


• Evolution of Monogamy in Humans the Result of Infanticide Risk, New Study Suggests


• Essential Clue to Huntington's Disease Solution Found


• Plant-Based Compound May Inhibit HIV


• Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked to Oxidative Stress


• Parents Don't Fully Understand Biobank Research, Study Finds


• Diets Lacking Omega-3s Lead to Anxiety, Hyperactivity in Teens: Generational Omega-3 Deficiencies Have Worsening Effects Over Time


• Premature Aging of Immune Cells in Joints of Kids With Chronic Arthritis


• PTSD After Traumatic Events: Which Teens Are at Risk?


• Antibiotic Reduction Campaigns Do Not Necessarily Reduce Resistance


• Video Killed the Interview Star


• Sharing the Wealth With Loyal Workers


• Topical Analgesic May Provide Pain-Free 'Skin Glue' Repair of Cuts in Children


• Cells Move as Concentration Shifts


• Therapeutic Fecal Transplant: Hope for Cure of Childhood Diarrhea Comes Straight from the Gut