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Why Do Sunbed Users Love Tanning So Much?
Date: Oct-16-2012Despite the alarming risks that are associated with tanning, including skin cancer, people are still not backing away from sunbeds due to motivational factors, such as attractiveness and relaxation. Previous Research, also from October of this year, estimated a total of 170,000 cases of skin cancer in America that were caused by indoor tanning. The report also indicated that tanning bed users who are exposed before they reach the age of 25 are more likely to develop cancer...
Prevailing Theory For The Basis Of Cell Death In The Developing Brain Challenged
Date: Oct-16-2012The unexpected survival of embryonic neurons transplanted into the brains of newborn mice in a series of experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raises hope for the possibility of using neuronal transplantation to treat diseases like Alzheimer's, epilepsy, Huntington's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia. The experiments, described in the journal Nature, were not designed to test whether embryonic neuron transplants could effectively treat any specific disease...
AARP Reminds People With Medicare To Take Advantage Of Medicare's Open Enrollment Period
Date: Oct-16-2012Open enrollment season runs October 15 through December 7As Medicare's open enrollment period begins, AARP is reminding its members and all older Americans to assess their current Medicare plan and select a plan that best fits their individual situation. People with Medicare have from October 15th until December 7th to add, drop or change prescription drug and health care plans for 2013. AARP encourages its members and everyone in Medicare to review their options for the coming year...
Alzheimer's Drug Builds New Brain Cell Connections
Date: Oct-16-2012Washington State University researchers have developed a new drug candidate that dramatically improves the cognitive function of rats with Alzheimer's-like mental impairment. Their compound, which is intended to repair brain damage that has already occurred, is a significant departure from current Alzheimer's treatments, which either slow the process of cell death or inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme believed to break down a key neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory development...
Preventing Childhood And Adolescent Suicide
Date: Oct-16-2012Suicide in children and adolescents has long been a matter of great concern to modern society, particularly for clinicians who deal with mental health problems of children and adolescents. For instance, in 1910 the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society with Sigmund Freud among the attending experts held a conference, dealing with what was perceived to be a growing epidemic of youth suicide (Greydanus & Calles, 2007)...
Discovery Of "Molecular Emergency Brake" In Charge Of Regulating Self-Digestion
Date: Oct-16-2012Times of distress literally eat away at the core of starving cells: They start to digest their own parts and recycle them for metabolic purposes. This process - called autophagy - also plays a role in immune defense. In that context, however, the digestive machinery is switched on for an entirely different purpose: the elimination of pathogens that have invaded the body. Now, Prof...
Editorial Published On Anti-Dope Testing In Sport
Date: Oct-16-2012Lance Armstrong's doping scandal may be considered by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) as "more extensive than any previously revealed in professional sports history," but a new editorial in The FASEB Journal by USADA's Larry D. Bowers shows that it is clearly not the first. From early athletes who used rat poison and heroin to fight fatigue to modern Olympians who perform under the ever-present shadow of high tech hormones, stimulants and steroids, this editorial lays out both the history and the science behind athletic "doping" scandals...
Molecular Basis Uncovered Of Infection Of Tick-Transmitted Disease
Date: Oct-16-2012Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have identified the "keys" and "doors" of a bacterium responsible for a series of tick-transmitted diseases. These findings may point researchers toward the development of a single vaccine that protects against members of an entire family of bacteria that cause disease in humans, domestic animals and livestock. Survival for many bacteria is dependent on their ability to invade human or animal cells. And it needs to be done in a very precise fashion...
Tying Our Fate To Molecular Markings
Date: Oct-16-2012A Simon Fraser University physicist has helped discover that understanding how a chemical mark on our DNA affects gene expression could be as useful to scientists as fingerprints are to police at a crime scene. In a new study, Emberly and his colleagues cite proof that variable methylation, a chemical mark on our DNA, is predictive of age, gender, stress, cancer and early-life socioeconomic status within a population. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has just published the study online...
Lymphoma Drug GCS-100 Seems Promising After Discovery Of New Mechanism
Date: Oct-16-2012Researchers at Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA have discovered the mechanism by which an experimental drug, GCS-100, removes a protein from lymphoma cells that prevents the cells from responding to chemotherapy. This discovery revives hope in a drug that had begun in clinical trials years before, but had been delayed indefinitely. The researchers hope GCS-100 can be combined with chemotherapy to create an effective treatment for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), the most common and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system...
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