Tag: disease

It's not only military intervention--economic foreign policies are coming under fire too.
As the International Monetary Fund meets in Washington, critics blame their policies of the conditions that led to the unrest in the Middle East.

ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2009) A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a way to rapidly manipulate and sort different cells in the blood using magnetizable liquids.
The findings, which will be published the week of December 7 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could dramatically improve the speed and sensitivity of tests used to detect cancer biomarkers, blood disorders, viruses and other diseases.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham), the University of British Columbia's Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics and the University of California, San Diego have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells (the electrical activity in the brain that allows nerve cells to communicate with one another) protects the brain from the misfolded proteins associated with Huntington's disease.

In contrast, excessive extrasynaptic activity (aberrant electrical activity in the brain, usually not associated with communication between nerve cells) enhances the misfolded proteins' deadly effects.

Because Americans are more likely to adapt to stress than quell it, millions are unaware their heart health is at rick. Chronic stress and coronary heart disease go hand and hand. Its linked to unhealthy cholesterol levels, hypertension, and a host of unhealthy habits that most of us turn to under duress.
Aside from all of this, if you're often in a bad mood it may be time to address your stress.
Studies maintain that hostility may trump the leading predictors of heart disease.

Reduce the possibility of a heart attack with lifestyle modifications.

More than anything else, how you live your life determines your likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD).

A painful and disfiguring disease affecting more than 100 million people worldwide could be wiped out by 2020, say experts.