Archive: 20/04/2016

Last known Ebola patient discharged in Guinea

Guinea's health authorities and the medical charity treating the last known Ebola patient in the country said Wednesday he had been discharged after successfully recovering from the disease.

Apr 20, 2016

Scientist models Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in adult stem cells

Studies performed by a Sanford Research scientist using an innovative stem-cell model for a fatal developmental disorder is the focus of a recent study published in Nature Medicine. Kevin Francis, Ph.D. uncovered unique cellular ...

Apr 20, 2016

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Senior adults can see health benefits from dog ownership

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults of all ages should engage in 150 or more minutes of moderate physical activity per week. Among adults 60 years of age or more, walking is the most common ...

Apr 20, 2016

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IADR/AADR publish advances issue on ICCC recommendations

The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published an issue of Advances in Dental Research on the International Caries Consensus Collaboration's (ICCC) recommendations for carious lesion ...

Apr 20, 2016

Detecting when the most common skin cancer turns dangerous

A biomarker associated with basal cell carcinoma may help signal which tumors will be more aggressive, a new U-M study finds.

Apr 20, 2016

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Mapping neurons to improve the treatment of Parkinson's

Because billions of neurons are packed into our brain, the neuronal circuits that are responsible for controlling our behaviors are by necessity highly intermingled. This tangled web makes it complicated for scientists to ...

Apr 20, 2016

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Patients at high risk for psychiatric symptoms after a stay in the intensive care unit

Results of a multi-institutional national study of nearly 700 people who survived life-threatening illness with a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) suggest that a substantial majority of them are at high risk for persistent ...

Apr 20, 2016

High prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency in large population of kids with type 1 diabetes

During the past two decades, vitamin D status, defined as serum concentration of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, has emerged as a predictor of key clinical outcomes including bone health, glucose metabolism, cardiovascular health, immune ...

Apr 20, 2016