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Children With Asperger's Syndrome - Children With a Disorder or Just With Different Cognitive Style?

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What do Jane Austen, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Michelangelo, and Mozart have in common, apart from their brilliance of course? Asperger's Syndrome. It is an autism spectrum disorder characterized by marked impairment in social interaction and non-verbal communication, and restrictive and repetitive pattern of behavior and interests. But have no doubt, children with a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/aspergers-syndrome.htm" target="_blank" ...

Fish Oil may Protect Alcoholics from Neurodamage, Dementia: Study

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Omega-3 fish oil might help in reducing the risk of brain cell loss and eventual dementia in alcoholics, finds study. Many human studies have earlier shown that long-term alcohol abuse causes brain damage and increases the risk of dementia; however, the new study found that fish oil compound protected brain cells exposed to high levels of alcohol, against inflammation and neuronal cell death. The study was conducted by Michael A. Collins, PhD, Edward ...

Quiz on Pregnancy Exercises

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Exercises during pregnancy have a beneficial effect on the mother and the baby. Test your knowledge on pregnancy exercises by taking this quiz.

Neurologic Response Associated With Placebo Effect Characterized

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A neurological network that may predict patients with Parkinson's disease that are likely to have a favorable response to sham surgery has been identified by scientists. Parkinson's disease is the second most common neurological disorder, affecting almost 10 million people worldwide. While there is no cure for this disease, many patients are able to successfully manage their symptoms. Surgical interventions appear to provide relief for some patients. ...

World's First Vaccine Against Heart Disease Soon

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If all goes well, scientists will soon introduce the world's first vaccine for heart disease that can significantly lessen plaque buildup in the arteries. Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology in the US have entered into the final stage of developing the much-awaited vaccine, confirming significant arterial plaque reduction in concept testing in mice. As part of the study, Klaus Ley, a pioneer in the field of vascular ...

Little Impact of Politically Driven Legislation Targeting Dangerous Dogs

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A PhD student of psychology at the University of Lincoln, Rachel Orritt, says that dog bites present a "public health risk of unknown magnitude but no scientific evidence upon which to base a reliable UK estimate has been obtained in the past two decades." She also says that discussion by medical professionals about the impact of dog-human interactions "sometimes ignores the health benefits concomitant with dog ownership" with one writer in The emBMJ/em suggesting ...

Causes of Death in People With HIV Shifting

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Reduced risk of death from AIDS-related causes, cardiovascular disease and liver disease in HIV-positive adults in seen in high income countries, reveals a large international study published in emThe Lancet/em. The study which involved nearly 50 000 HIV-positive adults receiving care and antiretroviral therapy (ART) at more than 200 clinics across Europe, USA, and Australia found that overall death rates have almost halved since 1999, while deaths due to AIDS-related ...

Distinguishing Restaurant Food in Terms of Homemade or Industrial Fare

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France is having to pull out the stops to help foodies distinguish homemade dishes from industrial fare in restaurants, despite its elaborate culinary tradition on UNESCO's cultural heritage list. In a country where the mere publication of food guides triggers full-blown media storms, authorities this week launched a "homemade" label for French eateries following complaints that these were increasingly passing off boil-in-a-bag or microwaved ready meals as restaurant-quality ...

Longer Life of People With HIV

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People with HIV in the world's rich countries now live nearly as long as those who don't carry the AIDS-causing virus, with the drugs that have cut overall death rate in half, said researchers Friday. Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) has cut the death rate from about 18 per 1,000 people between 1999 and 2001 to nine per 1,000 per year in 2009-2011, according to data from 200 clinics in Europe, the United States and Australia. "These findings provide further ...

First Local Case of Mosquito-Borne Chikungunya in US

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The first person in the United States, a Florida man who has not recently traveled outside the country, is reported to be infected with the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus locally, officials said Thursday. The viral infection causes fever and joint pain, which can be severe, as well as headache, muscle pain, joint swelling and a rash, experts say. Until now, the United States has only recorded cases of people coming back into the country with the virus ...

Pitt-led Study Suggests Cystic Fibrosis is 2 Diseases, 1 Doesn't Affect Lungs

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Cystic fibrosis must be considered as two diseases- one that affects many organs including lungs, and other than doesn't affect the lungs at all, researchers claim. The research, published online today in emPLOS Genetics/em, showed that nine variants in the gene associated with cystic fibrosis can lead to pancreatitis, sinusitis and male infertility, but leave the lungs unharmed. People with CF inherit from each parent a severely mutated copy of a gene called ...

'good Mothering' Hardwires Infant Brain

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Researchers observed videos showing mother rats protecting their pups and matched them to their brain's electrical readings, and found how mother plays a key role in growth of the baby's brain. Reporting in the July 21 edition of the journal emCurrent Biology/em, the NYU Langone team showed that the mother's presence in the nest regulated and controlled electrical signaling in the infant pup's brain. Although scientists have known for decades that ...

Kidney Donation may be too Expensive for Potential Donors With Low Income

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Living kidney donation has declined over the past several years and this has caused concern and is poorly understood. A study appearing in an upcoming issue of the emJournal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)/em identifies low income as an important barrier to living donation, and more importantly, implies that this barrier is becoming more difficult to overcome over time. The findings suggest a need to better understand the financial barriers to ...

Brown Fat Believed to be at the Root of Cancer-related Wasting Syndrome

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Patients with advanced diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS and cancer die of a condition known as cachexia, which is also known as the wasting syndrome since it causes extreme thinness. Cachexia is the direct cause of roughly 20% of deaths in cancer patients. While boosting food intake doesn't help, and no effective therapies are available, new research in the Cell Press journal iCell Metabolism/i points to a promising strategy that may stimulate weight gain and muscle ...

Tightly Controlled Protein Placement at the Centromeres Needed by Faithful Cell Divsion

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The cells of the human body go through a number of divisions, right from the fertilized egg to an adult. During division of any of the body's roughly 30 trillion cells, DNA from the initial cell must be split precisely between the two resulting cells. Critical to successful cell division is the integrity of the centromere-a region of DNA on each chromosome where the cell division machinery attaches to segregate the chromosomes. For the segregation machinery to recognize this ...

Study Says Healthy Foods Off-Limits for Women Due to Digestive Issues

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In a survey conducted by Beano, majority of women reported that dairy, whole grains, fruits and vegetables are out of the question for them because they can pose digestive issues, with nearly one in five respondents indicating it had been more than a month since they truly savored a meal without worry. The reason? Painful gas, bloating, cramps, and diarrhea that can occur for millions of women when they eat these foods, severely limiting what they can consume. ...

Work Status Linked to Vision Loss

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It has been found that vision loss could be linked to a higher likelihood of not working. People who do not work have poorer physical and mental health, are less socially integrated and have lower self-confidence. The authors analyzed employment rates by vision impairment in a nationally representative sample of working-age Americans. The study included 19,849 participants in the 1999-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...

Signaling Pathway Plays a Key Role in Embryo Development

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It has been found that a signaling pathway that was believed to play a little role in embryogenesis could be a key player in the formation of the front portion of developing embryos. Moreover, signals emanating from this region-referred to as the "extreme anterior domain" (EAD)-orchestrate the complex choreography that gives rise to proper facial structure. The surprising findings, reported by Whitehead Institute scientists this week in the journal emCell Reports/em, ...

New Study may Map the Path of Discovery of an Anticancer Agent

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A new research has been published today that could map the path of discovery to the development of an anticancer agent. "What began with the question 'what makes a particular aggressive form of breast cancer cells keep growing?' turned into 10 years of systematic research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it," says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer ...

Use of Cancer-Causing Arsenic in Rice to be Limited

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In order to protect the consumers of rice, the governments have now agreed upon the first international standards that limit the use of cancer-causing arsenic in rice. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the top global decision-making body for food standards, issued the decision at its ongoing annual meeting in Geneva. "Arsenic is an environmental contaminant. It occurs naturally and is taken up by plants from the water and soil when they're growing, ...

Random Nature of Metastasis Revealed in New Study

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A new study has shown for the spread of a cancer tumor from one part of the body to another could occur through pure chance, not genetic mutation. Physicists from the University of Dundee and Arizona State University have used a statistical model to show that the formation of a new secondary tumour-commonly known as a metastasis-could just as likely derive from "common" cancer cells that circulate in the bloodstream, as from "specialist" cancer cells. Their ...

One Third of Cancer Patients Killed by a 'fat-burning'

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It was just a couple of years ago that the importance of the transformation of white fat into brown fat was understood. Most fat in adult humans is white-white adipose tissue-and we know that its main function, but not its only function, is to store energy (those love handles). Brown fat, however, is burned to produce heat; baby fat and the fat of hibernating animals is like that. In the context of the current obesity epidemic, white fat has been labelled bad fat, while brown ...