• Impact of spinal osteoporotic fractures

    Updated: 2010-10-20 17:53:24
    A new report issued by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) for World Osteoporosis Day puts the spotlight on the severe impact of spinal fractures and calls on health professionals to recognize the signs of these fractures in their patients. "The widespread underdiagnosis and lack of therapy of spinal fractures, leaves millions of people around the world with chronic pain, deformity, disability and at high risk of future fractures," says Professor John Kanis, President of the IOF........

  • Congratulations to the students selected to attend Science Online ‘11!

    Updated: 2010-10-19 19:05:02
    What is Science Online?  See videos from last year’s conference and our previous blog posts about the conference.

  • Fireflies Light Up Hope for Coronary Heart Disease Patients

    Updated: 2010-10-18 21:47:08
    If you ask most people what connection there is between the human heart and fireflies, they probably won’t have any idea what you’re talking about.  If you ask Steven Ebert, a professor at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Medicine, however, he’ll tell you that fireflies may one day help America [...]

  • Older women with normal T-scores

    Updated: 2010-10-18 15:13:54
    The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended that women ages 65 and older be routinely screened for osteoporosis and has suggested that a 2-year screening interval might be appropriate. However, what length the screening interval should be is a topic that remains controversial and undecided, with no definitive scientific evidence to provide guidance........

  • Genetics and Alzheimer's disease

    Updated: 2010-10-14 16:11:35
    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an extremely complicated disease. Several proteins seem to be involved in its cause and progression. For example, the lipid-transport protein apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) is the major genetic risk factor for AD, and apoE4 carriers account for 65and#821180;% of all Alzheimer's cases, but exactly how apoE4 contributes to the disease is unclear........

  • Treatment of retinal conditions

    Updated: 2010-10-12 14:31:29
    The number of Medicare recipients undergoing therapy for retinal conditions nearly doubled between 1997 and 2007, with significant shifts in the types of procedures most usually performed, as per a report in the recent issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. "Retinal disease is highly prevalent among older individuals, and both age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy account for more than half the irreversible blindness in older Americans. The prevalence of both macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy increases with age, and the number of Americans affected by these conditions is expected to increase substantially as the number of Americans older than 65 years doubles from 2010 to 2040," the authors write as background information in the article. "The last decade has seen substantial changes in the therapy options available for a number of retinal diseases, especially in the therapy of neovascular AMD," a form of the disease involving abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye........

  • Oral delivery system to treat inflammatory bowel diseases

    Updated: 2010-10-11 19:36:13
    Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed a novel approach for delivering small bits of genetic material into the body to improve the therapy of inflammatory bowel diseases. Delivering short strands of RNA into cells has become a popular research area because of its potential therapeutic applications, but how to deliver them into targeted cells in a living organism has been an obstacle........

  • Studying Illnesses Caused by Worms

    Updated: 2010-10-11 19:36:13
    A billion people living in underdeveloped areas around the world are infected with parasitic helminthes, worms that survive by residing in and feeding on their hosts. These infestations can cause chronic intestinal (and occasionally systemic) illnesses leading to long-term disability. Irah King and Markus Mohrs, biomedical scientists at the Trudeau Institute, are investigating illnesses caused by these gut-dwelling worms in an effort to decipher how immune cells send and receive signals that determine the specific immune response to mount........

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    Updated: 2010-10-07 18:51:33
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  • Blood test could diagnose Alzheimer's disease

    Updated: 2010-10-06 20:17:59
    A set of proteins found in blood serum shows promise as a sensitive and accurate way to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found as part of a statewide study. An analysis of the proteins, plus a clinical exam, proved 94 percent accurate in detecting suspected Alzheimer's and 84 percent accurate in ruling it out in people without the disease, the scientists said........

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