Archive: 10/10/2013

Mobility limitation due to a lack of balance confidence

A fall and subsequent injury decreases a person's balance confidence and increases his or her fear of falling. People aged over 60 years who had sustained a hip fracture and had a lower sense of balance confidence, also experienced ...

Oct 10, 2013

Maintenance mechanism that prevents stem cells aging discovered

A team of researchers at the Molecular Neurobiology Unit of the University of Valencia, led by Professor of Cell Biology Isabel Fariñas, just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the results of a research that may ...

Oct 10, 2013

Want to get some sleep? Charge up by shutting down

Bedtime hasn't been this difficult since you were a toddler—throwing your tired self on the floor in a tantrum, insisting you weren't ready for the day to end.

Oct 10, 2013

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Study shows drug taking in team sports is not the norm

Athletes are less likely to be tempted to take drugs if they are part of a team, according to research from sport experts at the University of Stirling.

Oct 10, 2013

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Nursing intervention helps mentally ill people with HIV

(Medical Xpress)—Having trained nurses follow up on medication use with mentally ill patients who are HIV positive was effective both at improving the patients' quality of life and biological markers for the human immunodeficiency ...

Oct 10, 2013

New test for Down syndrome: Symposium outlines promising, less-invasive diagnosis method

A new, noninvasive screening test for Down syndrome would allow some women with high-risk pregnancies to avoid amniocentesis and in the future may provide detection early enough for treatment to improve some babies' cognitive ...

Oct 10, 2013

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Teva Pharma plans to cut about 5,000 employees (Update)

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. plans to cut about 5,000 employees mostly by the end of next year as part of a restructuring designed to slim the drugmaker's business and make it more efficient.

Oct 10, 2013