- SUNDAY, July 27 (HealthDay News) — Scientists are reporting that
they have captured images of brain lesions in rabbits similar to those
found in people with Alzheimer's disease using conventional MRIs.

Amyloid plaques, which accumulate in the brain and are a hallmark of
Alzheimer's, have been captured before through extra-high-power MRI
scanners meant for use in animals [...]

Tourists walk through Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate as a Beijing Olympics logo is seen through hazy skies in Tiananmen square Sunday July 27, 2008. A thick fog of pollution blanketed the Chinese capital on Sunday, but a city environmental official pledged that the air quality would be ‘good’ by the time the Summer Olympics start in [...]

This Jan. 25, 2008 file photo shows Meghan Mulvany, 12, left, and her mother, Kate Mulvany, as they look at Meghan’s cell phone at their home in Stamford, Conn. Kate says that although Meghan wanted the phone for social and status reasons, ultimately Kate got her the phone for safety reasons. [...]

Yoga practitioners perform sun salutations in Sydney in this file photo from October 10, 2007. (Tim Wimborne/Reuters)

CHICAGO (Reuters) -
People in the early stages of
Alzheimer's disease who are more physically fit had less
shrinkage in areas of the brain that are important for memory,
researchers said on Sunday.

Fitness and exercise have been shown to slow age-related
changes in [...]

Indian athlete Santhi Soundarajan shows off her 800m silver medal on the winner's podium on the second day of the athletics competition at the 15th Asian Games at Khalifa Stadium in Doha, December 2006. Soundarajan was stripped of the medal in 2006 after failing a gender verification test.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)

BEIJING (AFP) -
Olympic host Beijing has set [...]

FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach speaks at the National Press Club in Washington in this Feb. 29, 2008 file photo. Drug companies are forbidden to promote medications for uses that have not been validated by the FDA on evidence from clinical trials. Doctors, however, can use their own independent judgment in prescribing medicines. The Government [...]

Auch wenn die Kinder Unfälle oder Gewalt nur passiv erleben, also nicht selbst physisch betroffen sind, können solche Ereignisse schwere Auswirkungen auf die Psyche eines Kindes haben. Deutliche Belastungen zeigen sich darin, dass die Kinder von Erinnerungen an das belastende Ereignis und Albträumen geplagt werden. Sie vermeiden Orte und Situationen, die sie an das Ereignis [...]

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. holds up a hat given to him, Friday, July 25, 2008, during a campaign stop at the American GI Forum Convention in Denver. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

COTTONWOOD, Ariz. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under an 18-year-old [...]