AN MP with a cleft palate will this week attempt to introduce a change in the law that could lead to fewer abortions on the grounds of disability. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health) Read the rest of this entry »

Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol. (Source: News-Medical News Feed) Read the rest of this entry »

A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital provides much-needed insight into the molecular mechanisms that cause arrythmia, or irregular heartbeat, and how it triggers sudden cardiac death, one of the nation’s leading killers. Their findings, published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could pave the way for the development of new, genetically-targeted therapies to treat and prevent fatal arrythmias. Read the rest of this entry »

The COMT gene - known already for its role in schizophrenia - has been found to play a role in preeclampsia, according to a report in the advance on-line issue of Nature. (Source: News-Medical News Feed) Read the rest of this entry »

(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have found a fast and effective way to investigate important aspects of human aging. Researchers at the University of Oxford and the Open University have discovered a gene in fruit flies that means flies can now be used to study the effects aging has on DNA. They demonstrate the value of this model in helping us to understand the aging process. Read the rest of this entry »

Study findings presented at the May 2008 Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting indicate that childhood and adolescent obesity negatively impacts vascular endothelial function, which relates to cardiac health. (Source: News-Medical News Feed) Read the rest of this entry »

Endangered tortoises airlifted from an Army base face other threats. As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher Kristina Drake approached with caution as a creature with weary eyes, a scuffed carapace and skin as rough as rhino hide peered at her from the edge of a dirt road just east of here. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science) Read the rest of this entry »

Dunfermline-based eyecare company, Optos has been awarded a European Commission inventor of the year award for its scanning laser technology Read the rest of this entry »

JUNEAU, Alaska — The results of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s prenatal testing were in, and the doctor’s tone was ominous: “You need to come to the office so we can talk about it.” (Source: washingtonpost.com - Health) Read the rest of this entry »

Federal court to hear two families’ claim that vaccines gave their boys autism. (Source: ABC News: Health) Read the rest of this entry »