A hormone better known for illicit use among athletes can help treat troublesome complications from the AIDS virus, but with potentially risky side effects, a small study found.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sleepiness can be controlled by a set of nerve cells in the eye, tests on mice suggest, offering a new target for drug developers that may lead to better sleeping pills, British scientists said on Sunday.
(Northwestern University) A dopamine imbalance triggers Parkinson's disease and drug addition -- two opposite diseases. How it worked to do this in the brain had been a mystery. New esearch shows dopamine strengthens and weakens the two primary circuits in the brain that control our behavior. This
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(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Aug. 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine explores the issue of organ donation after cardiac death. In the journal's Perspective Roundtable, Arthur Caplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Scho
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(University of California - Los Angeles) UCLA and Intrinsic LifeSciences, a San Diego biotech company, developed the first method to measure the hormone, hepcidin, which regulates the absorption of dietary iron and its distribution in the body. This new blood test will help clinicians manage chro
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have identified what they see as the leading cause of inherited colorectal cancer -- a genetic abnormality that makes a person about nine times more likely to get the disease.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A significant number of U.S. veterans back from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan begin abusing alcohol after returning, perhaps to cope with traumatic memories of combat, military researchers said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman who has never shown symptoms of infection with the AIDS virus may hold the secret to defeating the virus, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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