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Epilepsy Breakthrough On Horizon: MIT Developing Device To Detect Onco
Researchers at MIT are developing a device that could detect and prevent epileptic seizures before they become debilitating. Epilepsy affects about 50 million people worldwide, and while anticonvulsant medications can reduce the frequency of seizures, the drugs are ineffective for as many as one in three patients. Too Many Vitamins? One Antioxidant Linked To Heart Disease, Study Show
Antioxidants are widely considered an important defense against heart disease, but researchers have found excessive levels of one antioxidant -- reduced glutathione -- actually may contribute to the disease. The findings indicate a new class of drugs can be developed to treat or even prevent heart disease caused by "reductive stress,"according to the study's principal author. Vitamin D, Taxotere Combination Extends The Lives Of Men With Advanced
Men with advanced prostate cancer who take an experimental, high-dose vitamin D pill with chemotherapy live about eight months longer than those receiving chemotherapy and placebo, according to a new study. Study Finds Enzyme Activity Promotes Rare Form Of Leukemia, Offers Pot
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified an enzyme that helps trigger the development of leukemia, a cancer of blood cells. Cassini Finds Recent And Unusual Geology On Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained new, detailed images of the south polar region of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data reveal distinctive geological features and the most youthful terrain seen on the moon. These findings point to a very complex evolutionary history for Saturn's brightest, whitest satellite. Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
Charles Moore was a photojournalist for Life magazine during the late 1950s and early 1960s. The photographs in this exhibit include brief annotations. Also find biographical material about Charles Moore. Scientists Find Guardian Gene's Choices Crucial To Stopping Cancer Pro
Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University have uncovered a novel pathway by which the anti-cancer gene p53 springs into action, protecting a damaged cell from becoming cancer. The gene can either halt the cell's growth or send it spiraling toward certain death. How this choice is made, the researchers say, could have implications for future strategies in chemotherapy drug development. Highly Accomplished People More Prone To Failure Than Others When Unde
Talented people often choke under pressure because the distraction caused by stress consumes their working memory. Highly accomplished people tend to heavily rely on their abundant supply of working memory and are therefore disadvantaged when challenged to solve difficult problems, such as mathematical ones, under pressure, according to research by Sian Beilock, assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Brain Imaging Suggests How Higher Education Helps To Buffer Older Adul
College seems to pay off well into retirement. A new study from the University of Toronto sheds light on why higher education seems to buffer people from cognitive declines as they age. Brain imaging showed that in older adults taking memory tests, more years of education were associated with more active frontal lobes -- the opposite of what happened in young adults. Hearing Loss From Chemotherapy Underestimated
An Oregon Health &Science University study found the incidence and severity of childhood hearing loss from ototoxicity, a condition in which platinum-based chemotherapy drugs damage tiny hair cells in the inner ear, has long been underreported by the medical community. It says a well-known classification system used for reporting toxicities in patients doesn't consider high-frequency hearing loss, allowing the magnitude of ototoxicity in children treated with platinum agents for tumors to be miscalculated.
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