http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/topic-Health.html Latest Health news provided by Science Centric en-gb Copyright 2011, Science Centric contact@sciencecentric.com (Stanislav Abadjiev) Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:20:00 GMT Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:20:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ http://www.sciencecentric.com/images/sc_logo_news.jpg http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/topic-Health.html 60 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A new research report appearing in the December issue of the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows how scientists from the United Kingdom have developed a simple blood test to detect Parkinson's disease even at the earliest stages. The test is possible because scientists found a substance in the blood, called 'phosphorylated alpha-synuclein,' which is common in people with Parkinson's disease, and then developed a way to identify its presence in our blood... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120214-simple-blood-test-diagnoses-parkinson-disease-long-before-symptoms-appear.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120214-simple-blood-test-diagnoses-parkinson-disease-long-before-symptoms-appear.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:20:00 GMT One of the earliest known impairments caused by Alzheimer's disease - loss of sense of smell - can be restored by removing a plaque-forming protein in a mouse model of the disease, a study led by a Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher finds... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120212-early-sign-alzheimer-reversed-lab.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120212-early-sign-alzheimer-reversed-lab.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:14:00 GMT When a sperm fertilises an egg, each contributes a set of chromosomes to the resulting embryo, which at these very early stages is called a zygote. Early on, zygotic genes are inert, so embryonic development is largely controlled by parental factors. The activation of the zygotic genome therefore represents an important transition toward a more autonomous mode of embryonic development, and has been the subject of much speculation and scrutiny. Now, a new study published by Cell Press on December 1st in the journal Developmental Cell suggests that the reach of parental control in the embryo may be longer than we thought... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120211-parental-controls-on-embryonic-development.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120211-parental-controls-on-embryonic-development.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:11:00 GMT Researchers have identified a new and relatively abundant pool of stem cells in the heart. The findings in the December issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, show that these heart cells have the capacity for long-term expansion and can form a variety of cell types, including muscle, bone, neural and heart cells... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120210-newly-discovered-heart-stem-cells-make-muscle-bone.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120210-newly-discovered-heart-stem-cells-make-muscle-bone.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:08:00 GMT Research conducted by a pair of physicians at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Centre (BMC) has led to the development of a test that can help diagnose membranous nephropathy in its early stages. The test, which is currently only offered in the research setting and is awaiting commercial development, could have significant implications in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Currently, the only way to diagnose the disease is through a biopsy... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120209-busm-researchers-develop-blood-test-detect-membranous-nephropathy.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120209-busm-researchers-develop-blood-test-detect-membranous-nephropathy.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:05:00 GMT New hip implants appear to have no advantage over traditional implants, suggests a review of the evidence published on bmj.com today... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120208-new-hip-implants-no-better-than-traditional-implants.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120208-new-hip-implants-no-better-than-traditional-implants.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:02:00 GMT Policies aimed specifically at men are urgently needed to improve the health of Europe's men, say experts on bmj.com today... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120207-action-needed-improve-men-health-europe.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120207-action-needed-improve-men-health-europe.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:59:00 GMT Traumatic brain injury is associated with a profound suppression of the patient's ability to fight infection. At the same time the patient also often suffers hyper-inflammation, due to the brain releasing glucocorticoids in response to the injury. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that including probiotics with nutrients, supplied via the patient's feeding tube, increased interferon levels, reduced the number of infections, and even reduced the amount of time patients spent in intensive care... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120206-probiotics-reduce-infections-patients-intensive-care.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120206-probiotics-reduce-infections-patients-intensive-care.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:56:00 GMT Elevated blood sugar levels are associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. The findings, observed in nearly 5,000 postmenopausal women, appear in the Nov. 29 online edition of the British Journal of Cancer... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120204-high-blood-sugar-levels-older-women-linked-colorectal-cancer.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120204-high-blood-sugar-levels-older-women-linked-colorectal-cancer.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:50:00 GMT The most poisonous substance on Earth - already used medically in small doses to treat certain nerve disorders and facial wrinkles - could be re-engineered for an expanded role in helping millions of people with rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, psoriasis and other diseases, scientists are reporting. Their study appears in ACS' journal Biochemistry... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120202-engineered-botulism-toxins-could-have-broader-role-medicine.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11120202-engineered-botulism-toxins-could-have-broader-role-medicine.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:44:00 GMT The more grey matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences. That may seem like an obvious conclusion, but a new study conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is the first to show this link between structure and function in healthy people - and the impairment of both structure and function in people addicted to cocaine. The study appears in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11112901-grey-matter-brain-control-centre-linked-ability-process-reward.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11112901-grey-matter-brain-control-centre-linked-ability-process-reward.html Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:40:00 GMT A new study has revealed that immature neurones taken from healthy mouse embryos can repair damaged brain circuitry and partially normalise metabolism when transplanted into adult mice that have grown morbidly obese due to a genetic deficiency. This proof-of-principle discovery represents one step down a long road toward neuronal replacement therapy, which researchers hope might one day be used to repair brains that have been injured by trauma or disease... http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11112501-metabolic-defects-mice-corrected-with-transplanted-embryonic-neurones.html http://www.sciencecentric.com/news/11112501-metabolic-defects-mice-corrected-with-transplanted-embryonic-neurones.html Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:00:00 GMT