By Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Researchers have reprogrammed ordinary heart cells to become exact replicas of highly specialized pacemaker cells by injecting a single gene -- a major step forward in the decade-long search for a biological therapy to correct erratic and failing heartbea
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By Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Previous research has found that individuals who become more energized, talkative, and/or social when they drink – versus sedated or sleepy – are more likely to drink more heavily. A new study examined the impact of a mutation of the m
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By Columbia University Medical Center
Are you stressed? Results of a new meta-analysis of six studies involving nearly 120,000 people indicate that the answer to that question may help predict one’s risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) or death from CHD.
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By University of Utah Health Sciences
As the prescribed use of buprenorphine has dramatically increased in recent years, accidental exposure of children to the drug has risen sharply, placing them at risk for serious injury, and in extremely rare cases even death.
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By University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
New research reveals that sons of male rats exposed to cocaine are resistant to the rewarding effects of the drug, suggesting that cocaine-induced changes in physiology are passed down from father to son.
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By Mayo Clinic
A new series of studies in mouse models uncovered that the aging process is characterized by high rates of whole-chromosome losses and gains in various organs, including heart, muscle, kidney and eye, and demonstrate that reducing these rates slows age-re
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By American Academy of Sleep Medicine
A new study suggests that there is a significant correlation between excessive daytime sleepiness and vitamin D, and race plays an important factor.
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By Georgetown University Medical Center
A new reveals how a well-known tumor suppressor gene may be functioning to stop cancer cell growth. The findings focus on the gene BRCA1.
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By McLean Hospital
The long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids may severely impact the user's ability to accurately recall the shapes and spatial relationships of objects, according to a recent study.
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By International Osteoporosis Foundation
A new study links carotenoids to decreased hip fracture risk in elderly, lean Chinese men.
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By Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Asthmatic children living in asthma hotspots in New York City were twice as likely to have experienced symptoms after exercise and more likely to have visited their doctor in a hurry or an ER because of breathing problems.
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By Canadian Medical Association Journal
New York City's limit of a maximum 16-ounce size of sugar-sweetened drinks for sale in eating establishments is a positive public health move and should be replicated in Canada, argues a new editorial.
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By University of South Florida (USF Health)
A new study focusing on characteristics of people with dementia who become lost while driving, and the role of public notification systems like Silver Alert in these discoveries, makes recommendations that may help recover drivers with dementia and preven
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By Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Low prediagnostic levels of circulating adiponectin were associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, according to a new study.
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By Mayo Clinic
Scientists have decoded the entire pathway that regulates leakiness of blood vessels — a condition that promotes a wide number of disorders, such as heart disease, cancer growth and spread, inflammation and respiratory distress.
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By University of Plymouth
New research suggests that the cognitive test used in Alzheimer's drug trials is flawed. They believe that the flaw lies behind the failure and withdrawal of a number of trials around the world, and they call for the current test to be replaced with a met
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By Rockefeller University Press
Failure to launch an adequate immune response may be at the root of septic shock, according to a new study.
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By University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Reaching out to "high five" someone, grasping and moving objects of different shapes and sizes, feeding herself dark chocolate. For Jan Scheuermann and a team of researchers, accomplishing these seemingly ordinary tasks demonstrated for the firs
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By The Translational Genomics Research Institute
A fast growing, flesh-eating fungus killed five people following a massive tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., according to two new studies.
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By Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
Scientists have demonstrated that an advanced magnetic resonance imaging method can non-invasively evaluate the cellular proliferation of tumor models of breast cancer. This quantitative imaging method evaluates the diffusion of water in tumor tissue, whi
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