H1N1 Flu Challenges Heart and Lung Transplants

The pandemic H1N1 flu poses special problems for people getting heart and lung transplants, according to an advisory from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

Relationships Between Dietary Balance And Alzheimer's Disease


Prof Gandy and colleagues compared the effect of four diets on brains in mice that are genetically altered to develop changes in their brain like Alzheimer's disease in people.

Adult Eyes Cells Can Be Transformed Into Pluripotent Stem Cells Without Introducing Foreign Genetic Material

Scientists have overcome a key barrier to the clinical use of stem cells with a technique which transforms regular body cells into artificial stem cells without the need for introducing foreign genetic materials, which could be potentially harmful.

New Enzyme For Treating Rare Genetic Disorder Fabry Disease Shows Promise In Lab

Using a new modelling strategy, researchers in Japan have designed a new enzyme that shows significant promise compared with current therapeutic proteins used to treat patients with Fabry disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects about 1 in 40,000 people and often results in cardiac and renal failure.

Even Low Alcohol Consumption Has A Negative Impact On Overall Health

Low alcohol consumption is bad for your health in general.

Standards For A New Genomic Era

A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available genetic sequencing information.

Journal Of Vision Article Suggests Potential Treatment For Blindsight Patients

Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness.

How Normal Cells Influence Tumor Growth

It was once thought that the two communities of cells within a cancerous breast tumor - fast-growing malignant cells and the normal cells that surround them - existed independently, without interaction.

Glycemic Control Targets Still Controversial

The continuing controversy over the most appropriate glycemic targets for patients with type 2 diabetes was the focus at this press conference at the meeting of the European Society for the Study of Diabetes.

Strict BP Control Helps Save Kids' Renal Function

Intensified blood pressure control conferred significant benefits on renal function in children with chronic kidney disease, a multicenter European study found.

Chinese H1N1 Vaccine Similar to Western Drugs

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The pandemic flu vaccine being used in China has characteristics similar to those of vaccines developed in the West, researchers said.

Heart Disease Raises Hip Fracture Risk

A diagnosis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) significantly increased the risk of subsequent hip fracture in both women and men, a Swedish twin study found.

Cutting Breast Cancer Risk And Treating Symptoms Of Menopause With Hormone Mix


The right combination of estrogen and a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), which blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue, could relieve menopause symptoms and cut breast cancer risk, Yale researchers report in an abstract presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) scientific meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 17-21.

H1N1 Flu Still Hits the Young Hardest

The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus continues to disproportionately attack the young, the CDC warned today.

A Master Mechanism For Regeneration?

Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts.