The News Review:
- Alzheimer’s Drug May Someday Help Head Trauma Victims
- ‘A purifying medicine for mankind’
- Blocking Protein May Help Ease Painful Nerve Condition
- Heavier drinking linked to increased risk of prostate cancer
Alzheimer’s Drug May Someday Help Head Trauma Victims
U.S. News & World Report
He and his colleagues first conducted tests that showed that brain injury in mice resulted in substantially more amyloid peptide than normal. They then found that amyloid peptide production after brain injury was reduced in mice that received an experimental agent called DAPT one of the first gamma secretase inhibitors developed and the basis for some Alzheimer’s disease drugs now in clinical trials. The researchers said that their findings which are published online in Nature Medicine suggest that this class of drugs could do something no other drug has been able to do — prevent the long-term and continuing damage that often follows serious brain injury. “This is an exciting finding that we hope can be readily tested in patients with traumatic brain injury” Burns said. Georgetown University has applied for a patent for the technology involved in the research the news release said. More informationThe U.
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‘A purifying medicine for mankind’
The Epoch Times
If people can follow these laws then society will be quite harmonious. The chaos in the world is all caused by its people. Shen Yun’s presentation is a purifying medicine for mankind. Ceng said “The entire performance was very beautiful. The performers’ dancing skills are very solid. It is not an ordinary performance.
Blocking Protein May Help Ease Painful Nerve Condition
Science Daily (press release)
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis showed that blocking the dual leucine zipper kinase (DLK) gene inhibits degeneration of ailing nerve cell branches possibly preventing neuropathy. "Neuropathy can become so extraordinarily painful that some patients stop taking their chemotherapy regardless of the consequences in their fight against cancer" says co-senior author Aaron DiAntonio M.
Heavier drinking linked to increased risk of prostate cancer
National Business Review
reviewed 35 studies examining the relationship between alcohol and prostate cancer risk to discover that people who consume more than 14 drinks per week – heavier drinkers – are roughly 20% more likely to develop prostate cancer than light drinkers. Medicine Hat News reports study co-author and University of California professor Kaye Fillmore saying "It’s a real killer. It certainly is in Canada and the United States. "It’s a real problem in the scientific community because all of the candidates we typically look at to predict diseases of this nature like smoking diet and exercise and exposure to chemicals they have not produced very good results" says Fillmore.
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