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• People who enjoy life maintain better physical function as they age
• FAK helps tumor cells enter bloodstream
• Artificial cell membranes marketed that can speed up drug discovery
• Restrictive concealed weapons laws can lead to an increase in gun-related murders
• Smoking late in pregnancy reduces baby's birth weight
• Novel nanotherapy breakthrough may help reduce recurrent heart attacks, stroke
• Ingredients in chocolate, tea, berries could guard against diabetes
• NHL teams pay more than $650 million to injured players over 3 years
• Secondhand smoke exposure increases odds of hospital asthma readmission for children
• Hydrocephalus: sensors monitor cerebral pressure
• Modified proteins as vaccines against peach allergy
• Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions
• Quality control of mitochondria as defense against disease
• Forget about forgetting: Elderly know more, use it better
• Melatonin may lower prostate cancer risk
• Possible explanation for link between exercise, improved prostate cancer outcomes
• Researchers discover how heart arrhythmia occurs
• Mechanism identified in Alzheimer's-related memory loss
• New hope for Gaucher patients
• Rate films with smoking 'R' -- cut teen smoking
• Double-layer capping solves two problems
• Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
• Tiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before
• Telestroke is cost-saving for society
• What comforts targets of prejudice the most
• You've got mail: Research reveals workers' worst inbox sins
• Is Europe equipped with enough medical oncologists? Horizon still unknown
• Chronic neck pain common among car crash victims, but most don't sue
• Two million people in England eligible for weight loss surgery
• Fighting flies: Brain cells promote fighting in male fruit flies
• High-quality whey proteins for foodstuffs
• Most women undergoing conservative surgery for vulvar cancer maintain healthy body image and sex life
• Genomic study identifies subgroups of breast cancer with varying sensitivities to treatment
• Geography plays major role in access to pediatric kidney transplantation in U.S.

People who enjoy life maintain better physical function as they age Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:14 AM PST People who enjoy life maintain better physical function in daily activities and keep up faster walking speeds as they age, compared with people who enjoy life less, according to a new

FAK helps tumor cells enter bloodstream Posted: 20 Jan 2014 09:14 AM PST Cancer cells have something that every prisoner longs for -— a master key that allows them to escape. A new study describes how a protein that promotes tumor growth also enables cancer cells to use

Artificial cell membranes marketed that can speed up drug discovery Posted: 20 Jan 2014 08:47 AM PST Scientists in Singapore will market novel plastic cell membranes to be used as low-cost, easily maintained drug targets that may help shorten the drug discovery process by weeks or months and cut

Restrictive concealed weapons laws can lead to an increase in gun-related murders Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST It may make sense to assume that states in which there are tight laws on weapons would make that state a safer place and one with less gun crime, however, recent research argues that the very

Smoking late in pregnancy reduces baby's birth weight Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST A doctoral dissertation finds that every cigarette a mother smokes a day during the third quarter of pregnancy reduces the baby's birth weight in 20

Novel nanotherapy breakthrough may help reduce recurrent heart attacks, stroke Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:55 AM PST A new report shows that new statin nanotherapy can target high-risk inflammation inside heart arteries that causes heart attacks or

Ingredients in chocolate, tea, berries could guard against diabetes Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST Eating high levels of flavonoids including anthocyanins and other compounds (found in berries, tea, and chocolate) could offer protection from type 2 diabetes -- according to research. The study of

NHL teams pay more than $650 million to injured players over 3 years Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST Most successful businesses would not accept spending $218 million on lost time, but that's the amount NHL owners pay out every year to players who miss games due to injury, according to new

Secondhand smoke exposure increases odds of hospital asthma readmission for children Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST A new study shows that exposure to secondhand smoke at home or in the car dramatically increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for

Hydrocephalus: sensors monitor cerebral pressure Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST If the pressure in a patient's brain is too high, physicians implant a system in the head that regulates the pressure. A sensor can now measure and individually adjust brain pressure. The sensor

Modified proteins as vaccines against peach allergy Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST Research has been conducted on the peach allergy, the most common food allergy, and the Pru p 3 protein. As a result of this research work, three hypoallergenic variants of this protein have been

Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST Public health researchers have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in

Quality control of mitochondria as defense against disease Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST Scientists have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria. The protective mechanism removes damaged proteins

Forget about forgetting: Elderly know more, use it better Posted: 20 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week may make you think again. The work takes a critical look at the

Melatonin may lower prostate cancer risk Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:50 AM PST Higher levels of melatonin, a hormone involved in the sleep-wake cycle, may suggest decreased risk for developing advanced prostate cancer, according to results of new

Possible explanation for link between exercise, improved prostate cancer outcomes Posted: 20 Jan 2014 05:50 AM PST Men who walked at a fast pace prior to a prostate cancer diagnosis had more regularly shaped blood vessels in their prostate tumors compared with men who walked slowly, providing a potential

Researchers discover how heart arrhythmia occurs Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST Researchers have discovered the fundamental biology of calcium waves in relation to heart arrhythmias. The finding outlines the discovery of this fundamental physiological process that researchers

Mechanism identified in Alzheimer's-related memory loss Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST Researchers have identified a protein in the brain that plays a critical role in the memory loss seen in Alzheimer's patients, according to a

New hope for Gaucher patients Posted: 19 Jan 2014 11:24 AM PST Scientists have discovered a new cellular pathway implicated in Gaucher disease. Their findings may offer a new therapeutic target for the management of this disease, as well as other related

Rate films with smoking 'R' -- cut teen smoking Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST Research estimates the impact of an R rating for movie smoking, and emphasizes that an R rating for any film showing smoking could reduce smoking onset in U.S. adolescents by

Double-layer capping solves two problems Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST Using a newly developed technique, protective casings for microscale devices can be built quickly and cheaply without damaging

Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential Posted: 18 Jan 2014 09:24 AM PST A portable instrument that replaces a full-size laboratory provides accurate multi-element analysis in less than a

Tiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:13 PM PST The alien world of aquatic micro-organisms just got new residents: synthetic self-propelled swimming bio-bots. Engineers have developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the

Telestroke is cost-saving for society Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:13 PM PST Researchers have found that using telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for society. The research was recently published in the American Journal

What comforts targets of prejudice the most Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:37 PM PST Rare in history are moments like the 1960s civil rights movement, in which members of a majority group vocally support minority groups in their fight against prejudice. New research not only confirms

You've got mail: Research reveals workers' worst inbox sins Posted: 17 Jan 2014 09:49 AM PST Workers obsessed with checking their emails could be damaging their own mental health and that of their colleagues, according to

Is Europe equipped with enough medical oncologists? Horizon still unknown Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:32 AM PST A recent paper assessing the current number of medical oncologists in the 27 European Union countries and predicting their availability by 2020 raises worries about the lack of information in many

Chronic neck pain common among car crash victims, but most don't sue Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:40 AM PST A new study finds chronic pain to be common among people involved in car accidents. However, most people in the study who reported persistent neck pain were not engaged in litigation six weeks after

Two million people in England eligible for weight loss surgery Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:40 AM PST Two million people in England could be eligible for weight loss surgery according to new research

Fighting flies: Brain cells promote fighting in male fruit flies Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:06 AM PST According to the latest studies from a fly laboratory, male Drosophilae, commonly known as fruit flies, fight more than their female counterparts because they have special cells in their brains that

High-quality whey proteins for foodstuffs Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:04 AM PST Whey resulting from cheese production contains valuable proteins that still often remain unused. In the project Whey2Food, researchers are investigating how high-quality whey proteins can be obtained

Most women undergoing conservative surgery for vulvar cancer maintain healthy body image and sex life Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:01 AM PST A new study finds that most women who undergo conservative surgery for vulvar cancer experience little to no long-term disruption to sexuality and body image. The study also reveals factors that can

Genomic study identifies subgroups of breast cancer with varying sensitivities to treatment Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:01 AM PST Researchers describe as many as four subgroups of HER2+ breast cancer with varying responses and benefits resulting from combined anti-HER2 targeted therapy and

Geography plays major role in access to pediatric kidney transplantation in U.S. Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:01 PM PST There is substantial geographic variation in deceased donor kidney waiting times for children across the United States, with median waiting time ranging from as little as two weeks to as long as

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