Vitamin B3 Shows Early Promise in Treatment of Stroke

An early study suggests that vitamin B3 or niacin, a common water-soluble vitamin, may help improve neurological function after stroke, according to Henry Ford Hospital researchers.

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Inhibiting Serotonin Cures Osteoporosis in Animal Model

A recent animal study showed that it may be possible to delay or cure osteoporosis with a drug that inhibits the production of serotonin in the gut.

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Fish Oil Is No Snake Oil

Recent reports on the health benefits of fish oil sound almost too good to be true. The omega-3 fatty acids that it contains have been shown to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes and slow the formation of plaques in the arteries, and they may also lower blood pressure.

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Remember Magnesium If You Want to Remember

Those who live in industrialized countries have easy access to healthy food and nutritional supplements, but magnesium deficiencies are still common. That's a problem because new research from Tel Aviv University suggests that magnesium, a key nutrient for the functioning of memory, may be even more critical than previously thought for the neurons of children and healthy brain cells in adults.

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Internet making our brains different, not dumb

A decade from now, Google won't make us "stupid," the Internet may make us more literate in a different kind of way and efforts to protect individual anonymity will be even more difficult to achieve, according to many of the experts surveyed for a look at "The Future of the Internet" in 2020.

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Personalized Blood Tests for Cancer Using Whole Genome Sequencing

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used data from the whole genome sequencing of cancer patients to develop individualized blood tests they believe can help physicians tailor patients' treatments. The genome-based blood tests, believed to be the first of their kind, may be used to monitor tumor levels after therapy and determine cancer recurrence.

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AIDS vaccine effects may wear off, researchers say

An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers reported on Thursday.

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Researchers Find Biomarkers in Saliva for Detection of Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer

Physicians and scientists agree: If we cannot entirely prevent cancer, the next best thing is to find it earlier to augment the chances of a successful fight.

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Aspirin cuts death risk after breast cancer: U.S. study

Breast cancer survivors who take aspirin regularly may be less likely to die or have their cancer return, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.

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Oxytocin Hormone May Treat Autism

Oxytocin, the so-called hormone of love, may help promote social skills and social behavior in people with high-functioning autism.


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Dietary Formula That Maintains Youthful Function Into Old Age

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process.

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Botox May Have Migraine Potential

Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) provided significant relief from certain types of migraine in a small clinical study of migraine patients undergoing cosmetic procedures of the upper face

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Scientists Spot Genes Tied to Aging

Scientists have discovered genetic variants that are associated with biological aging, a finding that could explain why some people seem to age faster than others.


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Alzheimer's drug Dimebon helps Huntington's: study

Dimebon, a pill being developed for Alzheimer's disease, helped people with Huntington's disease improve their thinking, learning and memory skills, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

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Hearts Actually Can Break

Dorothy Lee and her husband of 40 years were driving home from a Bible study group one wintry night when their car suddenly hit the curb. Mrs. Lee looked at her husband, who was driving, and saw his head bob a couple of times and fall on his chest.

In the ensuing minutes, Mrs. Lee recalls, she managed to avoid a crash while stopping the car, called 911 on her cellphone and tried to revive her husband before an ambulance arrived. But at the hospital, soon after learning her husband had died of a heart attack, Mrs. Lee's heart appeared to give out as well. She experienced sudden sharp pains in her chest, felt faint and went unconscious.

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Researchers Studying Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease

At Scott & White Memorial Hospital, a multi-disciplinary team of neurosurgeons, neurologists, neurophysiologist, neuropsychologists and a movement disorders specialist are offering hope to some Parkinson's patients with a treatment called Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).

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New 'Suicide' Molecule Halts Rheumatoid Arthritis

A researcher from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has invented a novel way to halt and even reverse rheumatoid arthritis. He developed an imitation of a suicide molecule that floats undetected into overactive immune cells responsible for the disease.

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