Non Hodgkin Lymphoma Is Focus Of Cancer In Iowa Report Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is one of the most rapidly increasing types of cancer diagnosed in the United States with new diagnoses having more than doubled since the 1970s. However, over the past 10 years, mortality rates have begun to decline, indicating that progress is being made in its treatment.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSmoking During Pregnancy Linked To Low Baby Birthweight Babies whose teenage mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from low birthweight (LBW) than babies whose mothers did not smoke, according to a study in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Associate Professor Elizabeth Sullivan and Denise Chan from the University of New South Wales studied the association between smoking in pregnant teenagers and baby birthweight.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comResearchers Report Neublastin Virtually Restores Complete Long Term Sensory Motor Function In Preclinical Studies Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB), in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona and Tufts University reported in the April issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience that in preclinical studies, injections of the protein neublastin promoted the regeneration of damaged sensory nerve cells and produced virtually complete, long-term restoration of sensory and motor function.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMitosis Gets Harder Thanks To New Gene Discovery A biological process taught to every pupil studying GCSE science has just become a little more complicated thanks to a new discovery just published.Scientists from the University of Bath have found that a protein called RASSF7 is essential for mitosis, the process by which a cell divides in two.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHealth Profession Must Act On Environmental And Social Change, Australian Medical Association The
health profession needs to actively advocate for Government action on climate change and economic inequalities to ensure the survival of humanity, according to an article in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comResearchers Answer Troublesome Question Of Why Some Genetic Association Studies Have Failed Replication Attempts A team of researchers from Harvard School of Public
Health (HSPH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and elsewhere have described a possible reason why some studies have been unable to replicate associations between genes and traits - namely that the strength of a gene/trait association might vary with age and that current study designs typically fail to take that into account.
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