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In The Prevention Of Cryptogenic Stroke, PFO Closure With Investigational Device May Improve Clinical Outcomes
Date: Oct-28-2012Results of the RESPECT trial presented at TCT 2012 A clinical trial indicates that using an investigational medical device to close a PFO, or "hole in the heart," may be superior to medical management alone in the prevention of a repeated stroke. Results of the RESPECT trial were presented today at the 24th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium. Sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), TCT is the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine...
Unique Immune Gene Signature Identified Across Thousands Of Patients' Solid Tumors, Including Metastatic Melanoma
Date: Oct-28-2012Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered a unique immune gene signature that can predict the presence of microscopic lymph node-like structures in metastatic melanoma. The presence of these immune structures, the researchers said, appears to be associated with better survival and may indicate the possibility of selecting patients for immunotherapy based solely on the immune-related makeup of their tumors as an approach to personalized medicine. The study appears in Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder And Other Traumatic Consequences Long After Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Date: Oct-28-2012Previously, there had been a lack of reliable data in Germany on the long-term psychological consequences of political imprisonment in the GDR. Professor Andreas Maercker, Head of the Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention at the University of Zurich, and private lecturer Dr. Matthias Schutzwohl, Group Leader at the Clinic and Polyclinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Dresden University of Technology, interviewed 146 former political prisoners in the mid-1990s. 15 years later, they studied the majority of those concerned (78 men and 15 women) again...
Life Satisfaction, Depression and Genes
Date: Oct-28-2012Vulnerability to major depression is linked with how satisfied we are with our lives. This association is largely due to genes. This is the main finding of a new twin study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in collaboration with the University of Oslo. The researchers compared longitudinal information from identical and fraternal twins to determine how vulnerability to major depression is associated with dispositional (overall) lifetime satisfaction. Previous studies have systematically shown that life satisfaction is considerably stable over time...
Identification Of Mitochondrial "Gatekeeper" Protein May Eventually Lead To Therapies Against A Range Of Diseases
Date: Oct-28-2012Researchers at Temple University's Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania have identified a protein that serves as a gatekeeper for controlling the rush of calcium into the cell's power source, the mitochondria. Without this calcium spigot under control, calcium levels can run amok, contributing to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and neurodegeneration...
Stem Cell Therapies Likely In The Future For MS and Other Myelin Disorders
Date: Oct-28-2012When the era of regenerative medicine dawned more than three decades ago, the potential to replenish populations of cells destroyed by disease was seen by many as the next medical revolution. However, what followed turned out not to be a sprint to the clinic, but rather a long tedious slog carried out in labs across the globe required to master the complexity of stem cells and then pair their capabilities and attributes with specific diseases. In a review article appearing in the journal Science, University of Rochester Medical Center scientists Steve Goldman, M.D., Ph.D...
Harmful Genes Hold Hidden Benefits - A Genetic Tradeoff
Date: Oct-28-2012The genes responsible for inherited diseases are clearly bad for us, so why hasn't evolution, over time, weeded them out and eliminated them from the human genome altogether? Part of the reason seems to be that genes that can harm us at one stage of our lives are necessary and beneficial to us at other points in our development. The idea that the same gene can be both beneficial and harmful, depending on the situation, is called antagonistic pleiotropy. The theory has been around since the 1950s and has been used to explain aging, cancer and genetic diseases...
Smokers Who Survive Stroke At Increased Risk Of Another Stroke, Heart Attack, Death
Date: Oct-28-2012Stroke survivors who smoke put themselves at a greater risk of additional strokes, heart attack or death than those who never smoked, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Stroke. Those who quit smoking before their stroke also had less risk of poorer outcomes than current smokers, researchers found. Researchers in Melbourne, Australia, tracked 1,589 patients who experienced a first or recurrent stroke in 1996-99...
Intellectual Disability-Protein Regulation Link
Date: Oct-28-2012Genetics researchers at the University of Adelaide have solved a 40-year mystery for a family beset by a rare intellectual disability - and they've discovered something new about the causes of intellectual disability in the process. While many intellectual disabilities are caused directly by a genetic mutation in the so-called "protein coding" part of our genes, the researchers found that in their case the answer laid outside the gene and in the regulation of proteins. Protein regulation involves the switching on or off of a protein by specific genes...
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Cures Depression Without Affecting Sleep
Date: Oct-28-2012Strong magnetic stimulation of the frontal lobe of the brain can reduce symptoms of depression and does not adversely affect sleep or arousal, which is common with use of anti-depression medications. This new research, published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, finds that as people's depression improves, their sleep improves, and treatment does not need to cause insomnia or other sleeping problems...
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