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Study Identifies Likely Mechanism Underlying Resveratrol Activity
National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health benefits.
Embryonic Stem Cells Improve Vision Of Blind Patients
Researchers at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and colleagues have successfully used specialized retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to improve the vision of two legally blind patients.
Just Because It Isn?t Sweet ? Doesn?t Mean It Isn?t Sugar
From a nutritional perspective, is a spoonful of white rice more like a spoonful of sugar or a spoonful of brown rice?
Heart Conditions Don?t Just Affect Older Adults
How much do you know about the condition of your heart? Heart health awareness typically focuses on heart disease in older adults, but what if you could be at risk for cardiac arrest and sudden death even though you are young and in shape?
Drug Companies Collaborate to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases
A global initiative to fight neglected tropical diseases launched in London this week. The so-called London Declaration calls for the eradication of 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Experts are calling it the largest coordinated effort ever undertaken to combat diseases that affect 1.4 billion people in the world's poorest countries.
F1000 Launches Open Access Publishing for Biology and Medicine
This week, the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), announced F1000 Research, a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine that will launch later this year.
LowestMed Mobile App Helps Consumers Make Informed Decisions About Prescripti...
LowestMed recently launched a first-in-the-industry mobile app that enables healthcare consumers to view and compare prescription drug prices at leading supermarket and pharmacy chains in their local area.
Biomarker Bulletin: January 30, 2012
Biomarker Bulletin is an occasionally recurring update of news focused on biomarkers and the development of personalized medicine.
Safe Sun Behavior Uncommon In Preadolescent Children
According to a new study in the journal Pediatrics, only 25% of children will be appropriately shielded from the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays this summer, down by 50% from survey done eight years ago.
Memories are Made of This: Differences in Working Memory with Age are Linked ...
Recent research published in the journal Memory suggests that older adults perform less well on working memory tasks as they do not forget information that is no longer relevant.
NIH establishes National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
New center to speed movement of discoveries from lab to patients.
Bath Salts Case Underscores Dangers of Legal Drugs
According to a case study report in the medical journal Orthopedics, a New Orleans woman recently lost an arm to flesh-eating bacteria after injecting a drug called "bath salts."
A Pill-Sized MRI Powered Robotic Endoscope
Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston are working on a robotic endoscope that can be steered through the GI tract.
The Fat Trap: Why Lost Pounds Return
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that mediators of appetite that encourage weight regain after dieting do not revert to levels recorded before weight loss.
Ion Proton Sequencer for Genome Sequencing
Life Technologies Ion Proton Sequencer is designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
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