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Why two new studies represent important breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research
- medicalxpress.com
Two different research groups have independently made the same important discoveries on how Alzheimer’s disease spreads in the brain. The groups’ findings have the potential to give us a much more sophisticated understanding of what goes wrong in Alzheimer’s disease and, more importantly, what can be done to prevent or repair damage in the brain.
Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study from researchers in Switzerland and the UK.
“In our cohort of school age children, breastfeeding was associated with modest improvement in forced mid-expiratory flow (FEF50) in our whole group and with improvements in forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume at 1 second (FEV1) only in the children of asthmatic mothers,” said Claudia E…
Whole exome sequencing identifies cause of metabolic disease
- medicalxpress.com
Sequencing a patient’s entire genome to discover the source of his or her disease is not routine – yet. But geneticists are getting close.
Susan G. Komen Starts U-Turn After Planned Parenthood Cut-Off
- medicalnewstoday.com
After announcing that it was going to cut funding for Planned Parenthood’s breast screenings, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer foundation, today announced that it is changing its funding criteria, meaning it will probably resume funding to Planned Parenthood, a sexual health organization. The public outcry regarding alleged reasons for Planned Parenthood being dropped as a grantee by Komen appears to have taken the breast cancer charity by surprise…
Child Abuse And Neglect Toll $124 Billion, USA
- medicalnewstoday.com
A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in Child Abuse and Neglect – The International Journal, reveals that the total lifetime estimated financial costs that is associated with just one year of confirmed cases of child maltreatment, including physical and sexual abuse, psychological abuse and neglect, is about 124 billion U.S. dollars. The researchers examined confirmed incidents of child maltreatment over the period of one year and found 1,740 fatal and 579,000 non-fatal cases…
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