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Childhood Bullying Risk Increased By Poor Parenting - Including Overprotection
Date: Apr-28-2013Children who are exposed to negative parenting - including abuse, neglect but also overprotection - are more likely to experience childhood bullying by their peers, according to a meta-analysis of 70 studies of more than 200,000 children. The research, led by the University of Warwick and published in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect, found the effects of poor parenting were stronger for children who are both a victim and perpetrator of bulling (bully-victims) than children who were solely victims...
Discovery Of Evolutionary Changes In The Brains Of Rats And Humans May Lead To Parkinson's Therapy
Date: Apr-28-2013Most of us are familiar with the "winter blues," the depression-like symptoms known as "seasonal affective disorder," or SAD, that occurs when the shorter days of winter limit our exposure to natural light and make us more lethargic, irritable and anxious. But for rats it's just the opposite. Biologists at UC San Diego have found that rats experience more anxiety and depression when the days grow longer...
Mitochondrial Quality Control Links Parkinson's Disease And Heart Failure
Date: Apr-28-2013Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have described a missing link in understanding how damage to the body's cellular power plants leads to Parkinson's disease and, perhaps surprisingly, to some forms of heart failure. These cellular power plants are called mitochondria. They manufacture the energy the cell requires to perform its many duties. And while heart and brain tissue may seem entirely different in form and function, one vital characteristic they share is a massive need for fuel...
23% Of Teens Admit Driving Under The Influence
Date: Apr-28-2013Nearly on in every four American teenagers drives under the influence, according to a study (survey) published by Liberty Mutual and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD). The authors added that many teens who were surveyed believe driving under the influence does not affect their safety. It won't be long before millions of American teens celebrate prom and graduation to mark either the end of their school year or high school careers and enter the more easy-going summer months...
Prostate Cancer Gains Powerful Advantage With Abrupt Intervals Of Complex, Large Scale DNA Reshuffling
Date: Apr-28-2013Cancer is typically thought to develop after genes gradually mutate over time, finally overwhelming the ability of a cell to control growth. But a new closer look at genomes in prostate cancer by an international team of researchers reveals that, in fact, genetic mutations occur in abrupt, periodic bursts, causing complex, large scale reshuffling of DNA driving the development of prostate cancer...
NHS Wasting Hundreds Of Millions By Not Using Biosimilars
Date: Apr-27-2013UK lagging behind Europe in take-up of complex medicines. Cost-effective alternatives could improve access to life-saving drugs The NHS is wasting millions of pounds a year by not using biosimilar medicines as much as its European counterparts, costing the NHS many hundreds of millions of pounds every year, according to the British Generic Manufacturers Association (BGMA). Biopharmaceuticals are medicines derived from living organisms using biotechnology...
Are Living Liver Donors At Risk From Life-Threatening "Near-Miss" Events?
Date: Apr-27-2013A study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, reports that donor mortality is about 1 in 500 donors with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Research of transplant centers around the world found that those with more experience conducting live donor procedures had lower rates of aborted surgery and life-threatening "near-miss" events. For patients with end-stage liver disease, liver transplantation is their only option to prolong life...
Walgreens Presentation At Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress Examines Therapy Benefits Of Home Nutrition Support For Patients With Cancer
Date: Apr-27-2013Certain patients with cancer at risk for malnutrition may improve survival rates, response to treatment and quality of life by receiving nutrition therapy at home, according to information in a Walgreens Infusion Services'(NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) presentation today at the Oncology Nursing Society's 38th Annual Congress in Washington, D.C.1,2 In patients with cancer, malnutrition may cause more severe treatment side effects, added risk of infection and reduced response to treatment, negatively impacting quality of life and survival rates...
New Imaging Technology Could Reveal Cellular Secrets
Date: Apr-27-2013Researchers have married two biological imaging technologies, creating a new way to learn how good cells go bad. "Let's say you have a large population of cells," said Corey Neu, an assistant professor in Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. "Just one of them might metastasize or proliferate, forming a cancerous tumor. We need to understand what it is that gives rise to that one bad cell...
Reviving A Foe Of Cancer
Date: Apr-27-2013New research reveals how the tumor suppressor p53 is shut down in metastatic melanoma--and how it can be revived Cancer cells are a problem for the body because they multiply recklessly, refuse to die and blithely metastasize to set up shop in places where they don't belong. One protein that keeps healthy cells from behaving this way is a tumor suppressor named p53. This protein stops potentially precancerous cells from dividing and induces suicide in those that are damaged beyond repair. Not surprisingly, p53's critical function is disrupted in most cancers...
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