| The Genetic Detectives | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - For the first four years of his life, Zachary Townsley was a medical mystery. His mother, Janine, noticed something strange about him at six months: he had "a little hump in his back." The family pediatrician said not to worry, but by one year, Zachary had a new symptom: at an age when most babies were starting to walk, he wasn't crawling. |
| New Guidelines to Help Achieve Optimal Digestive Health | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - BETHESDA, MD, The World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) released new digestive health guidelines today, in conjunction with World Digestive Health Day. In the United States, the Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (FDHN), which is the foundation of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), interpreted these new guidelines into a graphic that provides an easy-to-follow manual for consumers. |
| Pharmaceutical - Sponsored Internet Initiative May Mislead Consumers Seeking Savings | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK At least five legitimate, low-cost, drug-selling websites have been labeled Not Recommended in a list published by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) in a new initiative launched on May 16 sponsored by Pfizer Inc. PharmacyChecker.com is advising consumers that these five pharmacies, although not based in the United States, operate ethically and each have met the requirements of its Verification Program. |
| Avoiding Spleen Removal for Cooley's Anemia Sufferers |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - NEW YORK -- Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College may have discovered the precise role of a gene in one of the world's most common blood disorders, beta-thalassemia, commonly known as Cooley's anemia. Along with sickle-cell anemia, Cooley's anemia is the most commonly inherited disease in the world, affecting many people of Mediterranean descent, and 20 out of every 100,000 African-Americans. The World Health Organization estimates that between 50,000-100,000 children are born with the disease each year.
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| New Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - New Haven, Conn. - Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science.
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| Intrabody Can Mop Up Mutant Protein in Huntingtons Disease Model |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - ATLANTA--Scientists have created a tool for mopping up the clumps of mutant protein that drive neurodegeneration in Huntingtons disease. Emory University researchers engineered a virus to make an intracellular antibody or intrabody against huntingtin, the protein whose mutant forms poison the brain cells of people with Huntingtons.
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| My Stroke of Insight | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Jill Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained and published brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes of a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind completely deteriorate whereby she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life. Because of her understanding of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing mother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body. |
| HHMI Selects 56 of the Nation's Top Scientists | |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Fifty-six of the nation's most creative biomedical scientists are being given the opportunity to tackle their most ambitious, risky research plans, as they become the newest class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators. The Institute is committing more than $600 million over their first term of appointment. |
| Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight |
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Why you should listen to her: One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness. Click here to watch this amazing video: My Stroke of Insight">
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