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• Link between estrogen and tobacco smoke: Estrogen may help promote lung cancer
• Children: Better protection from influenza with improved vaccine
• Scientists find increased ApoE protein levels may promote Alzheimer's disease
• DNA marker indicates if ovarian cancer treatment will be successful, study suggests
• Early warning system for seizures could cut false alarms
• ‘Positive stress’ helps protect eye from glaucoma
• Nearly half of cancer survivors died from conditions other than cancer
• Caffeine and exercise may be protective against skin cancer caused by sun exposure, study suggests
• Golfers can improve their putt with a different look: Visualize a great big hole
• Young girls more likely to report side effects after HPV vaccine
• Autistic kids born preterm, post-term have more severe symptoms
• Promising vaccine targets on hepatitis C virus
• Infection linked to dangerous blood clots in veins and lungs
• How a cancer drug leads to diabetes-like state
• New hormone for lowering blood sugar
• Obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking, study suggests
• Former pro pitcher now keeps 'strike zone' in proteins
• Bilingual children switch tasks faster than speakers of a single language
• Arteries under pressure early on: Mice fed a high-fat diet show signs of artery damage after only six weeks
• Activity in brain networks related to features of depression
• New compound targets key mechanism behind lymphoma
• Point when negative thoughts turn into depression identified
• What do ADHD and cancer have in common? Variety

Link between estrogen and tobacco smoke: Estrogen may help promote lung cancer Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:38 PM PDT The hormone estrogen may help promote lung cancer -- including compounding the effects of tobacco smoke on the disease -- pointing towards potential new therapies that target the hormone metabolism, according to new research.

Children: Better protection from influenza with improved vaccine Posted: 03 Apr 2012 04:37 PM PDT An intranasal vaccine that includes four weakened strains of influenza could do a better job in protecting children from the flu than current vaccines, new research shows.

Scientists find increased ApoE protein levels may promote Alzheimer's disease Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:21 PM PDT Scientists have enhanced our understanding of how a protein linked to Alzheimer's disease keeps young brains healthy, but can damage them later in life -- suggesting new research avenues for treating this devastating disease.

DNA marker indicates if ovarian cancer treatment will be successful, study suggests Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:21 PM PDT Researchers have discovered that blood can help determine the best treatment plan for patients with ovarian cancer.

Early warning system for seizures could cut false alarms Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:19 PM PDT Biomedical engineers have devised seizure detection software to significantly cut the number of unneeded electrical pulses an epilepsy patient receives from brain implants.

‘Positive stress’ helps protect eye from glaucoma Posted: 03 Apr 2012 02:19 PM PDT Working in mice, scientists have devised a treatment that prevents the optic nerve injury that occurs in glaucoma, a neurodegenerative disease that is a leading cause of blindness.

Nearly half of cancer survivors died from conditions other than cancer Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:23 AM PDT Although cancer recurrence may be the overriding fear for many survivors, nearly half of survivors from a recently presented study died from other conditions.

Caffeine and exercise may be protective against skin cancer caused by sun exposure, study suggests Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:23 AM PDT The combined effects of exercise plus caffeine consumption may be able to ward off skin cancer and also prevent inflammation related to other obesity-linked cancers.

Golfers can improve their putt with a different look: Visualize a great big hole Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Golfers looking to improve their putting may find an advantage in visualizing the hole as bigger, according to a new study.

Young girls more likely to report side effects after HPV vaccine Posted: 03 Apr 2012 11:00 AM PDT Younger girls are more likely than adult women to report side effects after receiving Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine. The side effects are non-serious and similar to those associated with other vaccines, according to a new study.

Autistic kids born preterm, post-term have more severe symptoms Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their symptoms, according to new research.

Promising vaccine targets on hepatitis C virus Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:44 AM PDT Scientists have found antibodies that can prevent infection from widely differing strains of hepatitis C virus in cell culture and animal models.

Infection linked to dangerous blood clots in veins and lungs Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT Obesity, smoking and diabetes are among the most common risk factors linked to blood clots. But a new study has identified another big risk that isn't on the list -- infection.

How a cancer drug leads to diabetes-like state Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT Scientists have discovered why diabetic-like symptoms develop in some patients given rapamycin, an immune-suppressant drug that also has shown anti-cancer activity and may even slow aging.

New hormone for lowering blood sugar Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:43 AM PDT New evidence points to a hormone that leaves muscles gobbling up sugar as if they can't get enough. That factor, which can be coaxed out of fat stem cells, could lead to a new treatment to lower blood sugar and improve metabolism, according to a new report.

Obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking, study suggests Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:42 AM PDT Obesity adds more to health care costs than smoking does, reports a new study.

Former pro pitcher now keeps 'strike zone' in proteins Posted: 03 Apr 2012 09:42 AM PDT Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but Elih Velázquez-Delgado, who gave up pro ball for science, does. The doctoral student is about to publish his first academic paper on caspase-6, an enzyme that's causally involved in Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.

Bilingual children switch tasks faster than speakers of a single language Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:20 AM PDT Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. However, the study also found that bilinguals are slower to acquire vocabulary than are monolinguals, because bilinguals must divide their time between two languages while monolinguals focus on only one.

Arteries under pressure early on: Mice fed a high-fat diet show signs of artery damage after only six weeks Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:20 AM PDT High fat diets cause damage to blood vessels earlier than previously thought, and these structural and mechanical changes may be the first step in the development of high blood pressure.

Activity in brain networks related to features of depression Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:19 AM PDT Depressed individuals with a tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts, i.e. to repeatedly think about particular negative thoughts or memories, show different patterns of brain network activation compared to healthy individuals, report scientists of a new study.

New compound targets key mechanism behind lymphoma Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:17 AM PDT Scientists have come one step closer to developing the first treatment to target a key pathway in lymphoma.

Point when negative thoughts turn into depression identified Posted: 03 Apr 2012 08:15 AM PDT Negative thinking is a red flag for clinical depression. Stopping such thoughts early on can save millions of people from mental illness, according to new research.

What do ADHD and cancer have in common? Variety Posted: 02 Apr 2012 01:28 PM PDT According to new research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is more than one disorder. It's an entire family of disorders, much like the multiple subtypes of cancer. The research, which highlights various versions of the disease, each with differing impacts, demonstrates that there is likely not going to be a "one-size-fits-all" approach to treating patients.

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