- TUESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — Aging hinders the
consolidation of memories during sleep, a process that's crucial for the
conversion of fresh memories into long-term ones, say University of
Arizona researchers.
The researchers recorded activity in the hippocampus — a brain region
involved in learning and memory — in 11 young and 11 old rats as [...]
- TUESDAY, July 29 (HealthDay News) — The gene most often
associated with Alzheimer's disease doesn't provide a complete picture of
overall risk, according to researchers who analyzed family histories of
the disease.
Previous research has shown that people with the E4 variant of the APOE
gene have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's, but this new Duke
University Medical [...]
WASHINGTON - A government advisory panel Tuesday recommended approval of the drug Actemra, promoted as a new type of treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling swelling of the joints generally kept in check with medication.
The Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. drug is already being used in Japan, and the Food and Drug Administration must now [...]
A worker watches as soybeans are unloaded at night from a hopper wagon into a truck . Eating or drinking a lot of products containing soy and isoflavones can result in reduced sperm count among men, a Harvard School of Public Health study has shown.(AFP/File/Daniel Garcia)
WASHINGTON (AFP) -
Eating or drinking a lot of products containing [...]
Surgeons in a file photo. European regulators have approved a breakthrough new medicine to help patients emerge far more quickly from anesthesia than existing treatments, Schering-Plough Corp, the maker of the medicine, said on Tuesday. (File/Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -
European regulators have approved a
breakthrough new medicine to help patients emerge far more
quickly from anesthesia than existing [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) -
An Alzheimer's drug that attacks
abnormal tangles in the brain appeared to slow progression of
the disease, British researchers said on Tuesday, but doctors
cautioned that the results are early.
The drug, made by private biotechnology company TauRX and
called Rember, produced a significant improvement in key
measures of thinking and memory in people with moderate
Alzheimer's disease, company [...]
File photo shows a pregnant woman reading her ballot paper through a curtain in a booth at a polling station organized at a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, October 31, 2004. (Mykhailo Markiv/Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Children whose mothers used
cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves
cell phone users are more likely [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
The mammography screening
policy used in the U.S. is equally effective as one used in
Europe in detecting breast cancer, according to a report in the
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The results suggest
that the longer screening intervals used by Europeans may be
suitable for use in the U.S.
The researcher compared an “opportunistic” [...]
A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine drops to a child at a roadside polio vaccination camp in Peshawar in 2007. Two new polio cases have been confirmed in Pakistan, bringing the total number of sufferers of the crippling disease in the country to 20 this year, health officials said Tuesday.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)
KHAR, Pakistan (AFP) -
Two [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
Many patients with
cardiovascular disease fail to achieve recommended levels of
“bad” LDL-cholesterol and other lipids (blood fats), according
to a report published this month.
Dr. Nathan D. Wong from the University of California,
Irvine, and colleagues examined the extent to which recommended
levels of lipids were present in a large sample of U.S. adults.
Among [...]