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First Long-term Study Among Individuals Not Infected with EBV Suggests EBV Infection Likely to be a Cause of MS, Not a Consequence

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The Best Practice Series in Bipolar Disorder is a series of 3-4 minute videos featuring top physicians discussing the best ways to diagnose and treat Bipolar Disorder based on the most recent key findings.

The first installment of the Best Practice Series in Bipolar Disorder discusses the best practice for diagnosing the disease. Join Dr Joseph Goldberg and learn the DIG FAST method of diagnosis.

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Dianne Gray, who lost her 14-year-old son, Austin, to a rare disease, says fighting an unresearched illness can be an isolating experience for families, and she's trying to do her part to make it easier.
A N.C. couple lost one daughter to a rare disease and could soon lose another.

In honor of Sunday's second-annual Rare Disease Day, Gray is speaking out about her family's experience in the hopes it will draw attention to the challenges of rare diseases and help families in similar situations.

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Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH, discusses a study of parental attitudes to end-of-life pain management for children with terminal cancer. Read more: http://www.dana-farber.org/abo/news/p...
Dr. Wolfe is Division Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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New findings are challenging the current understanding of how non-neural brain cells contribute to brain signaling, by showing that calcium levels in these cells do not affect synaptic activity.

Università “Sapienza” Az. Policlinico Umberto I°

Superior School of Pain Medicine

Project for a coordinated care of posthraumatic pain

Israel- Rome- Palestine

Prof. Rosanna Cerbo

Responsible for Pain Medicine Centre

Abstract :

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/researchers-proceed-develop-...

Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have taken a significant step forward in developing a vaccination approach to reverse the neurological damage seen with Parkinson's disease.

The findings appear in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology, a leading scientific journal in the field of immunology.

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Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a protein from a soil bacterium used to kill insects naturally on organic crops is a highly effective treatment for intestinal parasitic roundworms. These parasites, which include hookworms and whipworms, infect about two billion people in underdeveloped tropical regions and are cumulatively one of the leading causes of debilitation worldwide.

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Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides' ingenious answer, at TEDxBoston, is a foolproof tool that can be manufactured at virtually zero cost.

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8417&utm_source=feedburner&...

MADISON - A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has developed a new approach for creating powerful nanodevices, and their discoveries could pave the way for other researchers to begin more widespread development of these devices.

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8419&utm_source=feedburner&...

In a newly published study, Swedish and American scientists show how the Omega-3 fatty acid DHA can serve as both sword and shield in the fight against certain forms of cancer. The new findings on the mechanisms behind this two-sided effect give hope of one day using DHA as a complement to cytostatics in the treatment of children with neural cancer.

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Depression is a chronic illness that affects millions of Americans. Dr. Descartes Li, director of the UCSF Bipolar Program and co-director of the UCSF Electroconvulsive Therapy Service, explores what emerging treatments tell us about how the brain works.

http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/

http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/34/1/

It’s like Hollywood in the fish room of the animal biology department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dave Ernst, the lab tech, points the camera through a peep hole in a black plastic drape towards a small fish tank, while behind him, postdoc Katie McGhee dips a net into a larger tank of juvenile three-spined sticklebacks, ready to pick out the day’s first star. “C’mon, who wants to be famous?” she clucks, transferring a fish via a plastic beaker to the smaller tank to be filmed. The camera rolls.

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57199/

Mitochondrial genomes are not uniform across cells of the body as previously believed, but vary between different tissue types, according to a study published online today (March 3) in Nature.

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Bone marrow failure may begin earlier than previously thought.

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A non-pathogenic bacterium is capable to trigger an autoimmune disease similar to the multiple sclerosis in the mouse, the model animal which helps to explain how human diseases work. This is what a group of researchers from the Catholic University of Rome, led by Francesco Ria (Institute of General Pathology) and Giovanni Delogu (Institute of Microbiology), have explained for the first time in a recently published article on the Journal of Immunology.

http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8398&utm_source=feedburner&...

Landmark discovery will lay the path for energy-efficient, cost-effective creation of nanocrystals for potential applications in biomedicine, bio-imaging and production of 3D movies and displays

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57183/

Embryonic neurons transplanted into mice can induce a period of flexibility in a relatively rigid older brain, suggesting a possible mechanism to repair damaged brain circuits, according a study published this week in Science.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) whose CD4 cell counts are below 500/mm3, mortality is increased if antiretroviral therapy is delayed until TB treatment is finished, according to research from South Africa.

TB is the most common opportunistic infection and the most frequent cause of death in HIV-infected patients in developing countries, the authors say. In South Africa, nearly three-quarters of TB patients are co-infected with HIV.