Industrial cleaner linked to increased risk of Parkinson's disease
Workers exposed to tricholorethylene (TCE), a chemical once widely used to clean metal such as auto parts, may be at a significantly higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease, according to a study...
View ArticleHypertension may predict dementia in older adults with certain cognitive...
High blood pressure appears to predict the progression to dementia in older adults with impaired executive functions (ability to organize thoughts and make decisions) but not in those with memory...
View ArticlePromising therapy for relapsing multibple sclerosis
An international team of researchers has found that adding a humanized monoclonal antibody called daclizumab to standard treatment reduces the number of new or enlarged brain lesions in patients with...
View ArticleNeuroimaging technique shows potential of bapineuzumab treatment and might be...
A neuroimaging technique known as ¹¹C-PiB PET* shows that a new investigational drug, bapineuzumab,** reduces amyloid-β deposits in the brain by about 25% compared with placebo in patients who have...
View ArticleRethinking guidelines for treating high blood pressure: Variability is a risk...
Hypertension is the most prevalent treatable risk factor for stroke. One in two adults are affected by it, and the risk of being hypertensive during a lifetime is about 90%. Despite this, the...
View ArticleUsing new approach, researchers find level of gene alters risk of Alzheimer's...
Using sophisticated techniques that scan the genomes of patients, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Florida have found that a gene appears to either help protect against development of...
View ArticleExperts: Lithium doesn't slow Lou Gehrig's disease
(AP) -- Lithium doesn't help patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, contrary to previous study results, new research says.
View ArticleIndividuals with Alzheimer's disease may lose muscle mass
the weight of an individual's bones, muscles and organs without body fat—appears to decline among patients with Alzheimer's disease, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Neurology....
View ArticlePramipexole shows promise for treating depression in patients with...
Pramipexole, a dopamine agonist, improves depressive symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), and has the potential to become an important antidepressant treatment for these patients. The...
View ArticleMusic aids Alzheimer's patients in remembering new information
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are better able to remember new verbal information when it is provided in the context...
View ArticleCrucial new insight into the secrets of Nobel Prize-winning pump
The story of the sodium-potassium pump has strong ties to Denmark. In 1997, the Danish scientist Jens Chr. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, and over the years, research on...
View ArticlePesticide regulation in California is flawed, UCLA report says
Approximately 30 million pounds of fumigant pesticides are sprayed on valuable California crops each year—strawberries, tomatoes, peppers and the like—in an attempt to control pests. Responsibility for...
View ArticleIndonesian miners risk lives in modern-day gold rush
In a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the frontline of a modern-day gold rush tear up the earth in the hunt for the precious metal.
View ArticleWaterfowl poisoning halved by lead shot prohibition
Lead shot was forbidden in 2001 in Spanish wetlands on the Ramsar List of these areas of international importance. Ten years later, this prohibition —and the consequent use of steel shot by hunters—...
View ArticleHuntington proteins and their nasty 'social network'
Researchers at the Buck Institute have identified and categorized thousands of protein interactions involving huntingtin, the protein responsible for Huntington's disease (HD). To use an analogy of a...
View ArticleHorses set to gain health benefits from stem cell advance
Horses suffering from neurological conditions similar to those that affect humans could be helped by a breakthrough from stem cell scientists.
View ArticleSkull malformations in lions is a consequence of a combination of...
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) Berlin examined the incidence of skull...
View ArticleWorld's first successful visualisation of key coenzyme
Japanese researchers have successfully developed the world's first imaging method for visualising the behaviour of nicotine-adenine dinucleotide derivative (NAD(P)H), a key coenzyme, inside cells. This...
View ArticleUnprecedented detail of intact neuronal receptor offers blueprint for drug...
Biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) report today that they have succeeded in obtaining an unprecedented view of a type of brain-cell receptor that is implicated in a range of...
View ArticleMajor achievement enables precision drug design for inherited learning...
Scientists have used the UK's national synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, to make a discovery that could pave the way for more effective, targeted drugs to treat inherited learning...
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