Archive: 22/12/2015
Toxic secretions from intracranial tumor damage the inner ear
A new study at Massachusetts Eye and Ear showed that in some cases of vestibular schwannoma, a sometimes-lethal tumor often associated with neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2), secretions from the tumor contain toxic molecules that ...
Dec 22, 2015
Researchers identify molecule with anti-inflammatory properties in maple syrup
Arthritis and other inflammatory diseases could someday be treated with medication containing a molecule from maple syrup. Université Laval researchers demonstrated in a recent study that quebecol, a molecule found in maple ...
Dec 22, 2015
Women can take blood thinners and hormones without higher blood clot, bleeding risk
New research published online today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), is the first to demonstrate that women on blood thinners can take estrogen-containing contraception or hormone replacement ...
Dec 22, 2015
Mental time travel—an exclusively human capacity
Are humans the only ones who are able to remember events that they had experienced and mentally time travel not only into the past but also the future? Or do animals have the same capacity? To a certain extend, according ...
Dec 22, 2015
Clinton announces $2 billion effort to cure Alzheimer's
Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday a $2 billion annual effort to cure Alzheimer's disease by 2025, calling for doubling federal spending to combat the illness.
Dec 22, 2015