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    • Sex differences in molecular neuroscience: from fruit flies to humans2010-01-08
      Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 9-17 (January 2010) | doi:10.1038/nrn2754 Elena Jazin1 & Larry Cahill2 About the authors A plethora of discoveries relating to sex influences on brain function is rapidly moving this field into the spotlight for most areas of neuroscience. The domain of molecular or genetic neuroscience is no exception. The goal of this article is to highlight key developments concerning sex-based dimorphisms in molecular neuroscience, describe control mechanisms regulating these differences, address the implications of these dimorphisms for normal and abnormal brain function and discuss what these advances mean [...]
    • H1N1 virus attacks deep into the lungs2010-01-08
      By Stephanie Smith, CNN Medical Producer December 8, 2009 4:18 p.m. EST STORY HIGHLIGHTS Doctors examined records, autopsy reports, and slides of 34 people who died due to H1N1 Inflammation and damage in the lungs extended all the way to the farthest end of airways More than half of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia. 91 percent had underlying health condition; obesity was a factor in 72 percent of deaths New York (CNN) — In the rare cases when the H1N1 virus kills, scientists have found, it penetrates deep into the lungs, creating widespread damage — [...]
    • Music therapy ‘may help cut tinnitus noise levels’2010-01-08
      Individually designed music therapy may help reduce the noise levels experienced by people who suffer from tinnitus, say German researchers. They altered participants’ favourite music to remove notes which matched the frequency of the ringing in their ears. After a year of listening to the modified music, individuals reported a drop in the loudness of their tinnitus. The researchers said the “inexpensive” treatment could be used alongside other techniques to relieve the condition. It is thought that around 1-3% of the population have chronic ringing in their ears which is significant enough to reduce [...]
    • Officials Re-examining Organ Transplant Rules2010-01-07
      By DENISE GRADY Published: December 27, 2009 The plight of two kidney transplant patients who contracted a brain infection from an organ donor is prompting health officials to re-examine their policies on using people with certain neurological conditions as donors. The organ donor, a child at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, had had seizures and a brain disorder initially thought to be an autoimmune disease and not transmissible. The real cause of his illness turned out to be a rare, usually fatal infection, but the mistake in diagnosis was not [...]
    • Study: Ginkgo Flunks Test as a Brain Booster2010-01-07
      For years, practitioners of alternative medicine have been touting the benefits of ginkgo, especially for maintaining brain health, but a new study finds that the centuries-old nostrum does little to slow the cognitive decline of aging. Researchers at six universities across the U.S., led by Dr. Steven DeKosky at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, report that elderly people taking ginkgo supplements showed no notable differences in scores on brain-function tests from people taking placebo pills. The team, which published its results Tuesday, Dec. 29, in the Journal of the [...]
    • Aviation Injuries, Aloft and on the Ground2010-01-07
      By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published: December 28, 2009 More than 1,000 people a year are hospitalized for aviation-related injuries, with only one-tenth of them passengers in commercial aircraft. Researchers have analyzed data from 2000 through 2005, gathering information on crashes, parachuting accidents, airport maintenance worker injuries and passenger injuries sustained on the ground, among others. The report, which appears in the December issue of Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, uses a group of health care databases maintained by the federal government’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Only 10.6 percent of those hospitalized were traveling in [...]
    • Fat Hormone May Protect Against Alzheimer’s2010-01-07
      High levels of leptin associated with lower dementia risk, research finds By Ed Edelson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Dec. 15 (HealthDay News) — High blood levels of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite, may guard against Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. “Hopefully, in 10 or 15 years this may be one of many agents that we use to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease,” said senior study author Dr. Sudha Seshadri, an associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine. “Or it may be one of many markers that we measure in combination [...]
    • To cure Alzheimer’s, invest in prevention2009-12-21
      By Kate Mulgrew, Special to CNN December 3, 2009 9:29 a.m. EST STORY HIGHLIGHTS Kate Mulgrew says millions of Americans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease New research aims to prevent the brain process that leads to the disease, she says Mulgrew: Nation must commit money, attention to developing a promising treatment RELATED TOPICS Alzheimer’s Disease Aging and the Elderly Federal Research Funding Editor’s note: Kate Mulgrew is a stage, film and television actress who is best known for her TV role in “Star Trek: Voyager.” She is currently appearing in the NBC series “Mercy.” New York (CNN) [...]
    • NASA Orders D3S Digital SLR Cameras and Interchangeable Lenses from Nikon2009-12-21
      Nikon Corporation Dec 21, 2009 Nikon Corporation (Michio Kariya, President) is pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has placed an order for eleven D3S digital SLR cameras and seven AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses to be used for photographic documentation. The D3S digital SLR cameras and AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED lenses ordered by NASA will be carried on the Space Shuttle and used to photograph activities at the International Space Station (ISS) in the future. No special modifications will be made to these products. They will be [...]
    • Takeda and Pfizer to Co-Promote Takeda’s Actos® (Pioglitazone HCl) for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in China2009-12-21
      OSAKA, Japan & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) and Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”) announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Pfizer in China will co-promote Takeda’s Actos® (pioglitazone HCl) with Tianjin Takeda Pharmaceuticals in China. The exclusive co-promotion agreement will build on the current sales capability for Actos in China by increasing the number of medical representatives supporting the sales and marketing of the product and expanding the product reach utilizing the territory coverage of Pfizer in China, the largest multinational pharmaceutical company in China. Pfizer’s [...]