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In Moral Decision-Making Empathy Plays A Key Role
Date: May-24-2013Is it permissible to harm one to save many? Those who tend to say "yes" when faced with this classic dilemma are likely to be deficient in a specific kind of empathy, according to a report published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE...
Inexpensive, Accurate Way To Detect Prostate Cancer Could Facilitate Commercially Available, At-Home Urine Tests
Date: May-24-2013Early screening for prostate cancer could become as easy for men as personal pregnancy testing is for women, thanks to UC Irvine research published in the /iJournal of the American Chemical Society. After more than a decade of work, UC Irvine chemists have created a way to clearly identify clinically usable markers for prostate cancer in urine, meaning that the disease could be detected far sooner, with greater accuracy and at dramatically lower cost. The same technology could potentially be used for bladder and multiple myeloma cancers, which also shed identifiable markers in urine...
Study Clarifies Roles Of Anti-Angiogenic Proteins In Discouraging Metastasis And Reveals Potential Anti-Metastasis Drug
Date: May-24-2013By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that significantly reduces metastatic spread in mouse models of prostate, breast and lung cancer. The findings suggest that a prosaposin-based drug could potentially block metastasis in a variety of cancers...
40% Of Medical Students Unconsciously Biased Against Obese People
Date: May-24-2013According to new research carried out by scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, forty percent of medical students are unconsciously biased against obese people. The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine, revealed that doctors generally have an anti-fat bias which results in obese people not receiving the same level of respect as slim people. Doctors may assume that due to their obesity they won't follow treatment plans. David Miller, M.D...
Visual Test Associated With High IQ
Date: May-24-2013Optical illusions have long been used in neuroscience to point out perceptions into how the brain functions, and now a visual test can detect impaired abilities to see large motions in high-IQ people, according to a new study. The finding, published in Current Biology reveals that people who have high IQ scores process sensory information differently. The brains of people with high IQ were automatically more selective when they perceived objects in motion. More specifically, they are more likely to suppress larger and less important background motion...
Frequent Heartburn Increases Risk Of Throat Cancer By 78%
Date: May-24-2013Frequent heartburn increases the risk of cancers of the throat and vocal cord among nondrinkers and nonsmokers, according to a new study. The research, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, also indicated that the use of antacids has a protective effect against these cancers, while prescription medications do not. Heartburn, medically known as pyrosis or acid indigestion, is an uncomfortable warm and burning sensation in the chest, usually just behind the sternum that normally comes in waves...
Omega Oils Protect The Heart From Mental Stress
Date: May-24-2013The American Heart Association recommends that people eat at least two servings of fish every week. The omega 3 fatty acids in fish oil are thought to have very good properties that can help prevent cardiovascular disease. Fish oils come from fatty fish, also called "oily fish". They are found in the tissue of these fatty fish, such as trout, tuna, mackerel, herring, salmon, and sardines. Experts have long been seeking to understand how fish oils protect the heart...
Genetic Risk Factor Discovered For Pulmonary Fibrosis
Date: May-24-2013A paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-written by physicians and scientists at the University of Colorado School of Medicine finds that an important genetic risk factor for pulmonary fibrosis can be used to identify individuals at risk for this deadly lung disease. Researchers looked at a fairly common variant of the gene for mucin-5B, a protein that is a component of the mucous produced by the bronchial tubes. While this variant of the MUC5B gene is fairly common, pulmonary fibrosis is an uncommonly reported disease...
Identification Of Orphan Receptors In The Brain May Lead To Treatments For Neurological Diseases
Date: May-24-2013Researchers at Emory University have identified a protein that stimulates a pair of "orphan receptors" found in the brain, solving a long-standing biological puzzle and possibly leading to future treatments for neurological diseases. The results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Early Edition. The human genome is littered with orphans: proteins that look like they will bind and respond to a hormone or a brain chemical, based on the similarity of their sequences to other proteins...
Earlier Diagnosis And Intervention Likely Following Identification Of Biomarkers For Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Date: May-24-2013Using the Department of Defense Serum Repository (DoDSR), University of Cincinnati researchers have identified a number of biomarkers for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which could help with earlier diagnosis and intervention in those who have not yet shown symptoms. This finding, the first of its kind and led by UC's Bruce Yacyshyn, MD, was presented via podium presentation by staff from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Digestive Disease Week 2013 held in Orlando, Fla. The DoDSR is a biological repository operated by the U.S...
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