ScienceDaily Health Headlines -- for the Week of June 12 to June 19, 2011

ScienceDaily Health Headlines

for the Week of June 12 to June 19, 2011

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Posted 2011-06-18:

• Progress using induced pluripotent stem cells to reverse blindness
• More evidence vitamin D boosts immune response
• New clues about protein linked to Parkinson's disease: Structural biologists measure energy difference between protein variants
• 'Ultrawideband' could be future of medical monitoring
• How many US deaths are caused by poverty and other social factors? About the same as deaths from heart attacks and stroke, study finds
• Dawn of agriculture took toll on health
• A better way to remember
• American Cancer Society report finds continued progress in reducing cancer mortality
• The way you relate to your partner can affect your long-term mental and physical health, study shows

Posted 2011-06-18:

• Tapeworm drug inhibits colon cancer metastasis
• Size matters -- in virulent fungal spores -- and suggests ways to stop a killer
• Surgeons perform first prosthetic bypass graft with patient's stem cells at point-of-care
• Look before you leap: Teens still learning to plan ahead
• Scientists turn memories off and on with flip of switch
• Shorter sleep durations may increase genetic risks for obesity
• Survival niche for cancer cells
• Poor 'gut sense' of numbers contributes to persistent math difficulties
• Discovery of a new mechanism of gene control that is associated with cancer
• How the immune system fights back against anthrax infections
• No healing in a vacuum, study finds
• Low fertility in Europe reversed
• Noninvasive brain implant could someday translate thoughts into movement
• Vaccine study supports immune targeting of brain tumors
• Gatekeepers: How microbes make it past tight spaces between cells
• How we come to know our bodies as our own
• Heightened immunity to colds makes asthma flare-ups worse, study suggests
• Lyme disease bacteria take cover in lymph nodes
• Surgeons successfully use artificial lung in toddler
• Postnatal depression linked to depression in offspring until age 16, study finds
• First diagnostic test for hereditary children's disease
• Structural biologists reveal novel drug binding site in NMDA receptor subunit
• Children as young as ten vomit to lose weight, with highest rates in boys
• Scientists develop a fatty 'kryptonite' to defeat multidrug-resistant 'super bugs'
• Protein found that improves DNA repair under stress
• Plants teach humans a thing or two about fighting diseases
• Roadmap published for dynamic mapping of estrogen signaling in breast cancer
• Focusing heavily on a task results in experience of deafness to perfectly audible sounds
• Etanercept shows promise for treating dermatomyositis, study suggests
• Consumers express their concern about the EHEC bacteria

Posted 2011-06-17:

• New sealant gel is effective in closing spinal wounds following surgery, study finds
• Why ketamine produces a fast antidepressant response
• Does driving a Porsche make a man more desirable to women?
• A stem cell target for expanding waistlines?
• A knockout resource for mouse genetics: Mouse gene knockout resource will empower mammalian gene studies for a generation
• Molecular imaging pinpoints source of chronic back pain
• Bad sleep habits are associated with lower grades from high school through college
• Healing times for dental implants could be cut
• Weekend sleep fails to improve performance, but women handle workweek sleep loss better
• Using living cells as an 'invisibility cloak' to hide drugs
• Understanding alcohol's damaging effects on the brain
• Animal instincts: Why do unhappy consumers prefer tactile sensations?
• Effects of premature birth can reach into adulthood
• Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind world's healthiest nations
• Potential predictor of deadly cancer common in Asia
• U.S. specialty physicians turn away two-thirds of children with public insurance, study shows
• E. coli bacteria more likely to develop resistance after exposure to low levels of antibiotics
• Parkinson's disease: Why dopamine replacement therapy has a paradoxical effect on cognition
• Testing improves memory: Study examines why memory is enhanced by repeated retrieval
• Scientists override errant form of genetic signaling for first time: Changing genetic 'red light' to green holds promise for treating disease
• 'Glowing hands' in the waiting room improves kids' handwashing
• Oral appliance therapy improves craniofacial growth direction and snoring, research finds
• Red-light cameras critical to public safety, traffic researcher finds
• Using olive oil in your diet may prevent a stroke
• Several methods for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease developed
• Sugar-binding protein may play a role in HIV infection
• Sexy doesn't always sell: When do beautiful models help?
• International team works out secrets of one of world's most successful patient safety programmes
• Fortifying corn masa flour with folic acid could prevent birth defects, March of Dimes says
• Risk factor identified for acute aortic dissections
• New stem cell research could aid in battle against bulging waistlines
• Research priorities for minimally invasive treatments for multiple sclerosis patients
• When warming up for the cycling race, less is more
• Depressed, pregnant women receive inconsistent treatment, have longer hospital stays
• Treatment gap leaves many older adults at unnecessary risk of fracture
• Don't stop anonymizing data: Report dispels myths of de-identification
• Fetal electrocardiogram helps in early detection of neonatal acidosis, Spanish researcher find

Posted 2011-06-16:

• Potential cause of severe sleep disorder discovered, implications for Parkinson's disease
• Immune response to tumour cells could aid cancer battle
• White adolescent girls may be losing sleep from the pressure to be thin
• Non-invasive brain stimulation helps curb impulsivity
• Evidence of a natural origin for banned drug that plumps up livestock
• Study hints at antibiotic overuse in home-care patients
• 'Magical thinking' helps dieters cope with unrealistic expectations
• Drug significantly improves glycemic control in type 1 diabetics on insulin, study suggests
• Learning to count not as easy as 1, 2, 3: Working with larger numbers matters
• Malaria vaccination strategy provides model for superior protection
• European experts propose method to harmonize nuclear emergency plans
• Anxious searchers miss multiple objects
• Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets may reduce both tumor growth rates and cancer risk
• Sleep loss in early childhood may contribute to the development of ADHD symptoms
• Molecular mechanism for some anti-arrhythmia drugs discovered
• What gamers want: Researchers develop tool to predict player behavior
• Potential therapeutic target for controlling obesity discovered
• Study estimates potential for ranibizumab to prevent blindness from age-related macular degeneration
• The good life: Good sleepers have better quality of life and less depression
• Prolonged TV viewing linked to increased risk of type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease
• Safety concern with mist inhalers for delivering common drug for chronic lung disease
• Protecting medical implants from attack
• Sleep can boost classroom performance of college students
• Fluent English speakers translate into Chinese automatically
• Fear boosts activation of immature brain cells: Adult neural stem cells play role in creating emotional context of memory
• Copper folds protein into precursors of Parkinson's plaques
• New strategy to attack tumor-feeding blood vessels
• Molecular imaging finds link between obesity and low estrogen levels
• Daytime sleepiness is associated with an increased craving for carbs among teens
• Laminin's role in cancer formation illuminated
• 3-D tracking of single molecules inside cells using new multifocal plane microscopy method
• Pathology study tracks uterine changes with mifepristone
• Media character use on food packaging appears to influence children's taste assessment
• Report reveals immense burden of osteoporotic fractures in Europe
• A grid approach to pandemic disease control
• UK first use of 3-D imaging derived from post-mortem computed tomography imaging in UK trial

Posted 2011-06-15:

• Prostate cancer gets around hormone therapy by activating a survival cell signaling pathway
• Scientists image beginning stages of ovarian cancer growth with time-lapse technique
• Patient safety risks outside hospital walls
• Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk, study suggests
• Note to dads: Good parenting makes a difference
• Why hair turns gray: Communication between hair follicles and melanocyte stem cells key to mystery
• New cell type offers immunology hope
• Ovarian cancer cells bully their way through tissue
• Poorer families have more sedentary children, Spanish study suggests
• Ancestry plays vital role in nutrition and disease, study shows
• Sickle cell anemia drug safe and effective for infants and toddlers, adds treatment option, study suggests
• 'Catch and release' program could improve nanoparticle safety assessment
• Single moms entering midlife may lead to public health crisis, study suggests
• Nanotubes could pose health risk to production line staff, study suggests
• Poplar tree leaf bud extract could fight skin aging
• Sniffing out a new source of stem cells
• Money can't buy happiness: Individualism a stronger predictor of well-being than wealth, says new study
• Brain structure adapts to environmental change
• Blood simpler: Researchers parse the origins of hematopoietic stem cells
• Researchers discover Sonic Hedgehog protein’s mechanism of action
• Tool developed to predict violence and aggression in children and teens
• Brain state affects memory recall
• Dietary changes appear to affect levels of biomarkers associated with Alzheimer's disease
• Cardiac resynchronization therapy: Pacemaker implantation for heart failure does not benefit nearly half of the patients, analysis finds
• New software 'hearing dummies' pave the way for tailor-made hearing aids
• Daily acts of sexism go unnoticed by men, women
• New clues about aging: Genetic splicing mechanism triggers both premature aging syndrome and normal cellular aging
• New light shed on how blood clots form
• Brain scan identifies patterns of plaques and tangles in adults with Down syndrome
• Type 2 diabetes associated with increased risk of stroke and cardiovascular problems, but metabolic syndrome is not
• Wives' sleep problems have negative impact on marital interactions, study finds
• Undernourishment in pregnant, lactating females found key to next generation's disease
• Controlling starch in sugar factories
• Sleep apnea may increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes
• Oregon program aimed at helping patients with advanced illness
• Food coloring and ADHD: No known link, but wider safety issues remain, researcher says
• Are physician-rating websites biased? Study examines bias in picking doctors, exaggerating consumer opinions
• Use of social media on the rise in Sweden

Posted 2011-06-14:

• Clever tool use in parrots and crows
• Heart attack death rates linked to ambulance diversion
• Simple analysis of breathing sounds while awake can detect obstructive sleep apnea
• Preteens surrounded by smokers get hooked on nicotine, study suggests
• Dengue virus circulating between monkeys and mosquitoes could emerge to cause human outbreaks
• Birdsong independent of brain size: Sex difference in the brain varies according to social status
• Key component in lethal lung cancer complication identified
• Sleep type predicts day and night batting averages of Major League Baseball players
• Promising new target for stifling the growth and spread of cancer
• Sleepiness may impair the brain's inhibitory control when viewing high-calorie foods
• One in five heart-attack deaths could be prevented with new drug, findings show
• Income disparity makes people unhappy
• Single GFP-expressing cell is basis of living laser device
• Cooling the brain during sleep may be a natural and effective treatment for insomnia
• High-impact radiopeptide therapy halts neuroendocrine cancer
• New computer algorithm improves method for finding genetic mistakes that fuel cancer
• Teen brain data may predict pop song success, study finds
• Stem cell treatment may become option to treat nonhealing bone fractures
• New 3-D tumor model: Step toward speeding cancer drug research
• Engineering new weapons in the fight against juvenile diabetes
• Deciding to stay or go is a deep-seated brain function, monkey-watching researchers find
• We are all mutants: First direct whole-genome measure of human mutation predicts 60 new mutations in each of us
• Routine screening for autism not needed, researchers say
• New evidence of genetic 'arms race' against malaria
• New molecular imaging agent targets cornerstone of cancerous tumors
• New genetic technique converts skin cells into brain cells
• Immune cells link pregnancy and tumor spread
• What happens in the brain as it loses consciousness: 3-D movie constructed
• Chronic marijuana smoking affects brain chemistry, molecular imaging shows
• New method for measuring Parkinson's disease prevalence reveals sharp increase in Israel
• Glioblastoma in the 21st century: Wealthier patients living longer than poorer patients
• Fathers still matter to kids who have moved out
• Studies evaluate criteria for detecting potentially inappropriate medications in older hospitalized patients
• Article outlines principles for a conservative approach to prescribing medication
• Expenditures for glaucoma medications appear to have increased
• 'Networking' turns up flu viruses with close ties to pandemic of 2009
• Glowing 'Cornell Dots': Potential cancer diagnostic tool set for human trials
• Safe prescribing information for children in Canada often hard to find
• Health data can help address alcohol-related harm in youth
• Final 3-year results from the landmark HORIZONS-AMI trial
• Group therapy helps multiple sclerosis patients cope with depression, study finds

Posted 2011-06-13:

• Cancer-seeking 'smart bombs' target kidney cancer cells
• Non-alcoholic wheat beer boosts athletes' health, sport doctors say
• Groundbreaking male infertility test could 'bring hope to millions'
• Citrate key in bone's nanostructure
• Childhood trauma linked to higher rates of mental health problems
• Eight substances added to U.S. Report on Carcinogens, including formaldehyde, may increase cancer risk
• Researchers link cell division and oxygen levels; Findings also solve long-standing paradox
• Chasing EHEC via computer: Scientists in Germany provide free access to enteric pathogen's genetic regulation data
• An egalitarian Internet? Not so, study finds
• Diversion of ambulances associated with increased risk of death for heart-attack patients
• Bariatric surgery among older, high-risk patients not associated with reduced mortality
• Family genetic research reveals the speed of human mutation

Posted 2011-06-12:

• Circulating levels of a lung protein found to be 'strongly predictive' of cardiovascular disease
• Hormone test helps predict success in IVF
• Strength training for grandma and grandpa
• Will psych majors make the big bucks?
• Molecular imaging for Alzheimer's disease may be available in hospitals within a year, studies suggest
• Key function of enzyme involved in RNA processing described
• New animal study shows promise for development of Parkinson's disease drug
• Signaling pathways point to vulnerability in breast cancer stem cells
• Gender differences in risk pathways for adolescent substance abuse and early adult alcoholism
• Combination therapy reduces pauses in breathing caused by OSA, study suggests
• Obstructive sleep apnea: Study finds excellent agreement between subjective and objective compliance with oral appliance therapy
• Internal bleeding higher with popular heart device than earlier model, studies find

Posted 2011-06-11:

• Simple test could hold key to early diagnosis of cancers
• Biologists uncover regulatory mechanism for gene expression in the visual system
• Two isolates from E. coli outbreak sequenced
• Potential new way to fight sepsis
• New approaches open up in spinal muscular atrophy: Failure in nerve-fiber navigation corrected in zebrafish model
• B vitamins in mother's diet reduce colorectal cancer risk in offspring, animal study suggests
• Mortality from all causes higher among hepatitis C-infected, analysis finds
• Brain imaging study of preschoolers with ADHD detects brain differences linked to symptoms
• Mutations in essential genes often cause rare diseases
• New imaging technology promising for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, diabetes
• Alternative approach to treating diabetes tested
• No gender difference in risk-taking behavior, study suggests
• How cells' sensing hairs are made
• Membrane protein mystery solved: May lead to better treatments for people with learning deficits
• Using cell phones while driving? Distracted driving data and laws to prevent it don't match up
• Discovery may pave way to quitting smoking without gaining weight
• Fragile X protein acts as toggle switch in brain cells
• Deaths and major morbidity from asbestos-related diseases in Asia likely to surge in next 20 years, experts warn
• Banning U.S. federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research would derail related work, experts argue
• Large-scale early education linked to higher living standards and crime prevention 25 years later
• B-cell lymphoma: New research provides breakthrough in understanding common cancer
• The cellular root of colorectal cancers?
• New guidelines for diagnosis and management of hyperthyroid
• 'One-stop' clinic ups mental health, social work visits for veterans
• Social scientists study impact of human adult stem cell research
• Quitlines help smokers quit regardless of recruitment method

Posted 2011-06-10:

• Why animals don't have infrared vision: Source of the visual system's 'false alarms' discovered
• Eating a high-fat diet may rapidly injure brain cells that control body weight
• Huntington's disease breakthrough: New research offers promise of medical intervention
• Swine flu spread was much wider than first thought, scientists say
• Sucking up to the boss may move you up and keep you healthy
• Nicotine triggered appetite suppression site identified in brain
• Study confirms safety, cancer-targeting ability of nutrient in broccoli, other vegetables, researchers say
• Genetic link between emphysema, lung cancer uncovered
• Fathers' use of restaurants affect children more than mothers' use
• Cancer protein discovery may aid radiation therapy: Blocking cyclin D1 might help sensitize tumors to radiation
• Genes provide landmarks on the roadmap of autism
• How killer immune cells avoid killing themselves
• 'Biological circuit' components developed; New microscope technique for measuring them
• Canine connection: Study explores how dogs think and learn about human behavior
• Historic first images of rod photoreceptors in the living human eye
• Shingles may be related to elevated risk of multiple sclerosis
• Barefoot running: To ditch the shoes or not?
• Size, strength of heart's right side differs by age, gender, race/ethnicity
• Progress in tissue engineering to repair joint damage in osteoarthritis
• Smoking, even for a short time, significantly increases a woman's risk for peripheral artery disease, study finds
• Breast cancer drug pushes colon cancer cells to their death
• An alternative to antibiotics
• Bone cancer, from the lab to the clinic

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