Researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have found that a gene already implicated in human speech disorders and epilepsy is also needed for vocalizations and synapse formation in mice. The finding, they say, adds to scientific understanding of how language develops, as well as the way…
Genetic pathway to speech and language? Gene found to foster synapse formation in the brain
Many animals have highly developed senses, such as vision in carnivores, touch in mice, and hearing in bats. New research from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has uncovered a brain molecule that can explain the existence of such finely-tuned sensory capabilities, revealing how brain cells…
Researchers identify molecule that orients neurons for high definition sensing
Japanese researchers said Thursday they had moved a step closer to an oral treatment for diabetes, offering hope of a breakthrough against a disease racking an increasingly obese world.
Scientists at the University of Tokyo said they have created a compound that helps the body to…
Japan research could lead to oral diabetes treatment
Spices are the latest kitchen standby to land on a list of possibly tainted foods.
Roughly 7 percent of imported spices tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were contaminated with salmonella, a potentially deadly bacterium. Twelve percent contained insect parts or rodent hairs,…
Spices Top List of Possibly Tainted Foods
By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many young athletes still do not admit when they have suffered a head injury despite increased awareness about the risks of concussions in children and teenagers, U.S. health advisers said on Wednesday, urging sports leagues and government…
U.S. athletes still reluctant to admit head injuries: report
TORONTO (Reuters) – Police have obtained a video that matches one that has been alleged to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, but they won’t confirm what the video shows, or say if they are contemplating charges against Ford.
In a briefing on Thursday,…
Police have video of Toronto mayor, won’t detail contents
China should close live poultry markets in big cities to disrupt the spread of a new strain of bird flu that resurfaced there earlier this month, scientists said, after a previous shutdown was found to have slashed the number of human cases.
In a study published in The Lancet medical journal on…
Market closures dramatically cut cases of new China bird flu, study finds
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a strategic plan for preventing drug shortages on Thursday and proposed a rule to require drug and biotechnology companies to promptly notify the agency of potential disruptions to the supply of medically important drugs.
The plan and proposal come…
FDA outlines plan to combat drug shortages
Nearly one-third of U.S. veterans who are given psychiatric medications by their doctors do not have a diagnosed mental health problem, according to a new study.
Older vets between ages 65 and 85 were the ones most commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs without a formal diagnosis, and were…
Many veterans given psychiatric drugs without diagnosis, study shows
Thursday October 31 2013
Babies begin to hear around the 27th week of pregnancy
“Babies remember melodies heard in womb, study suggests,” reports The Guardian. The study found that babies exposed…
Babies may remember music heard in the womb
By Caroline Humer
Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:22pm EDT
(Reuters) – Insurer Cigna Corp said on Thursday it expects to increase its 2014 earnings from 2013, reflecting its smaller exposure to uncertainty around private Medicare and the rollout of individual insurance on new…
Cigna says will increase ’14 profit despite pressures
Thursday October 31 2013
Beta-carotene gives carrots their bright orange colour
“The secret to healthy sperm? Carrots,” the Mail Online website declares. The study it reports on found that…
Carrots and lettuce linked to better sperm quality
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Biotechnology have used the power of off-the-shelf computer gaming technology to capture previously unobservable atomic movements. The research is helping to chart one of nature’s most complex entities known as…
Source:Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature
Enlarge image i These HIV viruses even look a little like bull’s-eyes. A. Harrison and P. Feorino/CDC These HIV viruses even look a little like bull’s-eyes. A. Harrison and P. Feorino/CDC Scientists…
Source:AIDS Scientists Encouraged By Antibodies That Hit Monkey Virus
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Source:FDA takes two important actions on drug shortages
Hong Kong (HKSAR) – The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority: According to statistics published today (October 31) by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, total deposits with authorized institutions increased by 2.9% in September. With demand, savings and time…
Source:Monetary Statistics for September 2013
Hong Kong (HKSAR) – Doha Bank announced today (October 31) that it has opened its representative office in Hong Kong, aiming to leverage on the city’s global financial centre status to further expand its business in the Asia Pacific region. Doha Bank is one of the largest commercial…
Source:Doha Bank opens representative office in Hong Kong
Insecticide resistance has the potential to alter vector immune competence and consequently affect the transmission of diseases. Methods: Using both laboratory isogenic strains and field-caught Culex pipiens mosquitoes, we investigated the effects of insecticide resistance on an important…
Source:Patterns of phenoloxidase activity in insecticide resistant and susceptible mosquitoes differ between laboratory-selected and wild-caught individuals
Hong Kong (HKSAR) – Two mainland men, aged 65 and 42, were each jailed for four years and four months for conspiracy to use false instruments at District Court today (October 31). The Court heard that the duo were arrested by officers of Commercial Crime Bureau after they attempted to use…
Source:Duo jailed for conspiracy to use false instruments
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Washington Field Office is seeking information on a subject who is wanted on charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and operating a continuing financial crimes enterprise. Rosita Vilchez, formerly of Manassas, Virginia, is now…
Source:FBI Seeks Information on Wanted Subject Rosita Vilchez
31 October 2013 Last updated at 11:31 ET Hayley Sanders’s infection developed into a severe abdominal sepsis A woman who underwent a hysterectomy at the age of 19 because of an untreated infection, has received “significant five-figure” compensation. Hayley…
Source:Hysterectomy patient wins payout
31 October 2013 Last updated at 10:13 ET By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News A patient in a vegetative state was able to pay attention to sounds in his surroundings, a study found. An analysis of brain activity…
Source:Vegetative patient ‘paid attention’
31 October 2013 Last updated at 12:02 ET Maddock told his psychotherapist he wanted to kill Mr Naylor A NHS trust failed to warn a man who was killed by his former partner that he was at risk, a report has revealed. Killer Brian Maddock, 44, had previously told his…
Source:Trust did not warn of killer’s risk
Real estate agents emphasize location, location, and – once more for good measure – location. It’s the same in a developing brain, where billions of neurons vie for premium property to make connections. Neurons that stake out early claims often land the best value, even if they…
Source:Researchers discover how retinal neurons claim the best brain connections
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have generated the first known disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from a patient with familial transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR). The findings, which are reported in Stem Cell…
Source:Researchers model familial amyloidosis in vitro using iPSC technology
For more than 100 years, researchers have been unable to explain why cancer cells contain abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a phenomenon known as aneuploidy. Many believed aneuploidy was simply a random byproduct of cancer. Now, a team at Harvard Medical School has devised a way to understand…
Source:Patterns found in cancer’s chaos illuminate tumor evolution
New drug therapies offer promise to some hepatitis C sufferers whose transplanted livers are threated by a recurrence of the disease, including some patients who have had no treatment options. The encouraging findings are contained in two new studies by a collaboration of researchers across the…
Source:Studies of experimental hepatitis C drug show promise for preventing recurrence in liver transplant
One of my best friends brought a piñata to my sister’s memorial service, and I thought it was perfect, so I think right off the bat you should know this is the kind of person you’re dealing with here. I first heard about the “Selfies at Funerals” tumblr on Facebook, like…
Source:That Pinata at My Sister’s Memorial Service: Why ‘Selfies at Funerals’ Don’t Bother Me at All
On Friday, Nov. 1, Germany will become the first country in the world to allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their child’s birth certificate. As reported in August, the move is an effort to create legal recognition for intersex individuals, or children born without a clearly…
Source:Germany To Allow Parents To Choose No Gender For Babies On Birth Certificates
Although most people realize that it is not reasonable to expect others to read their minds, that does not always stop them from becoming hurt or outraged when they don’t. Many of us possess an unconscious belief that when it comes to intimate relationships, mind reading is not only a…
Source:Mind Reading: Don’t Try This at Home
Frightfully effective ways to burn off Halloween treats Knowing how many calories are found in our favorite Halloween candies may not stop us from eating them. But, would you be as keen to chow down if you knew you’d have to carve a pumpkin for more than 26 minutes straight to shed the…
Source:How long will it take to burn off that Halloween candy?
[ | E-mail ] Contact: Dwight Angelldwight.angell@hfhs.org 313-850-3471Henry Ford Health System DETROIT More than half of chronic hepatitis C patients studied in a new research project led by Henry Ford Hospital were not treated for the potentially fatal disease, either because they…
Source:Studies: Current hepatitis C treatments can’t be used by more than half of patients; others lose opportunity for treatment
Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM), together with scientists in the USA, have developed a new therapeutic approach for treatment of type 2 diabetes. A novel single molecule hormone, which acts equally on the receptors of the…
New therapeutic approach for treating type 2 diabetes
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab)
Please can you give a brief introduction to Crown Bioscience and the oncology drug discovery services you provide?
Crown serves pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies. We have two areas of focus: oncology and metabolic…
Oncology drug development services: an interview with Dr. Jean-Pierre Wery, President of Crown Bioscience, Inc.
Avidus Management Group Inc. (“Avidus” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: AVD, OTC: ASNHF), today provided market guidance relating to its acquisition strategy.
Over the last several months and with the support of the Company’s Mike Sheffield agreement and Director…
Avidus Management Group provides market guidance relating to acquisition strategy
COMS Interactive, also known as Clinical Outcomes Management Systems, has launched the Outcomes Performance Achievement Leader (OPAL) Award program. The program is an extension of the company’s focus on improving health care and clinical outcomes in the long-term care marketplace by…
COMS OPAL Award program recognizes top performers on a national basis
Relationships can break down if one partner loses a lot of weight
This may be because they start nagging their partner to do the same
It could also be because their partner feels threatened or insecure, so they try and derail the diet or reject the other person
By
Emma…
How losing weight can be BAD for your relationship, with partners sabotaging diets and rejecting sex
Hayley Sanders, now 23, developed an infection after the birth of her son, Jayden, at Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital in December 2009
Despite having a temperature, she was discharged shortly after the birth
Two days later she was rushed back to hospital where she fell into a coma
13…
Teenager forced to have a hysterectomy at 19 receives five-figure payout from hospital that failed to treat her infection
Mitch Gooch has Andersen-Tawil syndrome which he says turns him into a ‘human statue’ as it causes the potassium levels in his body to crash
This happens about ten times a year and leaves him unable to walk, talk or eat – he has to be hospitalised and put on a potassium drip…
‘My whole body feels like blocks of ice’: Martial arts fanatic suffers rare illness that causes him to FREEZE
Researchers at the University of Manchester’s Institute of Biotechnology have used the power of off-the-shelf computer gaming technology to capture previously unobservable atomic movements. The research is helping to chart one of nature’s most complex entities known as…
Gaming technology unravels one of the most complex entities in nature
Enlarge image i
These HIV viruses even look a little like bull’s-eyes.
A. Harrison and P. Feorino/CDC
These HIV viruses even look a little like bull’s-eyes.
A. Harrison and P. Feorino/CDC
Scientists…
AIDS Scientists Encouraged By Antibodies That Hit Monkey Virus
Massachusetts scientists have uncovered a molecule that plays an important role in the development of lung cancer. They hope that its discovery could result in a way to detect the illness in its early stages and in new methods to treat it.
By using RNA sequencing, a team of…
Scientists Discover Molecule With Important Lung Cancer Role
With new technology, prosthetics have never been more adaptable or customizable. As a result, more and more people who need prosthetics are turning to DIY methods of creating the perfect prosthetic.
Using nontraditional materials and methods such as 3-D printers and Legos, people have…
People Create Innovative DIY Prosthetics
A teenage girl who suffered horrendous burns as a child has been given a new face grown from one of her own breasts.
Xu Jianmei, 17, who was horrifically disfigured by a fire when she was 5, is able to smile properly for the first time in 12 years.
The pioneering eight-hour operation, which…
Doctor grows new face for woman with tissue from her own breast
