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A call to neuroscientists to help reveal root causes of chemobrain

13.06.2018 Health Problems

A substantial fraction of non-central nervous system cancer survivors, especially those who have received chemotherapy, experience long-lasting cognitive difficulties, including problems with concentration, word-finding, short-term memory, and multitasking. Though well documented, cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI), known colloquially as chemobrain or chemofog, remains a mystery regarding its underlying neurological causes. In a Forum paper published June 12 in the journal Trends […]

CDC: invasive MRSA more likely among injection drug users

13.06.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Injection drug users are more than 16-fold more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, according to research published in the June 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Kelly A. Jackson, M.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues examined the effect of the opioid epidemic on invasive […]

Alicia Silverstone's 7-year-old tried to make out with her after seeing Clueless

12.06.2018 Kids Health

I guess we all wanted to make out with Alicia Silverstone after seeing 1995 cult classic Clueless, so maybe it’s not that weird that her 7-year-old son, Bear Blu, tried to French-kiss his mom the first time he saw the movie. I mean, OK, it’s still kind of weird and borderline Oedipal, but maybe that’s Hollywood, man. Silverstone was a […]

The Best Baby Carriers on the Market in 2018

12.06.2018 Kids Health

What did we ever do before baby carriers? JK. They’ve been around since the dawn of time — and they’ve only gotten fancier. Babywearing is often a parent’s go-to when little ones are fussy (or sleepy or on the move or want to face forward or… anything, really). Also, babywearing makes traveling and shopping way easier because you don’t have to […]

Genetic discovery will help clinicians identify aggressive versus benign bone tumors

12.06.2018 Health Problems

The first genetic marker for the bone tumour, osteoblastoma, has been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators. Whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing of human bone tumours revealed that a genetic change that affects the transcription factor, FOS, is a hallmark mutation of osteoblastoma. The results, published in Nature Communications, will help clinicians correctly distinguish benign osteoblastoma […]

Newly-approved therapy provides improved quality of life for midgut neuroendocrine tumor patients

12.06.2018 Health Problems

Midgut neuroendocrine tumors are a rare type of cancer that develops in the small intestine and colon. Roughly 12,000 people are diagnosed with this disease each year. In January, the United Stated Food and Drug Administration approved Lutathera, a first-of-its-kind peptide receptor radionuclide therapy. The injection consists of a somatostatin analog combined with a radioactive isotope that directly targets neuroendocrine […]

Smoking and diabetes linked to brain calcifications

12.06.2018 Health Problems

People who smoke or have diabetes may be at increased risk of calcifications in a region of the brain crucial to memory, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Dementia is a major public health problem that affects tens of millions of people worldwide. One focus of dementia research has been the hippocampus, a brain structure […]

Living with neighborhood violence may shape teens’ brains

12.06.2018 Health Problems

Flinching as a gunshot whizzes past your window. Covering your ears when a police car races down your street, sirens blaring. Walking past a drug deal on your block or a beating at your school. For kids living in picket-fence suburbia, these experiences might be rare. But for their peers in urban poverty, they are all too commonplace. More than […]

Cancer: More targeted use of immunotherapy

12.06.2018 Health Problems

Doctors are increasingly fighting cancer by stimulating patients’ immune systems. SNSF-supported researchers have now discovered a method for predicting the likelihood of treatment success. Immunotherapy changes a patient’s immune system to allow it to attack cancer cells and either destroy them or at least keep them from growing. But the therapy only works for a minority of patients. Researchers supported […]

A single control center for sleep and wake in the brain

12.06.2018 Health Problems

Until now, it was thought that multiple brain areas were needed to control sleep and wakefulness. Neuroscientists from Bern have now identified one single control center for the sleep-wake cycle in the brain. The findings are of great importance for finding new sleep therapies. Every night we spend several hours asleep and every morning we awaken to go about our […]

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