Health News
Agricultural, health education goes global via cellphone animations
Published Date:December 10, 2012
Agricultural researchers and health educators are using cellphone technology to help those in the developing world address some of the most challenging issues they face. The initiative, Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO), delivers educational materials in the form of narrated, animated videos to a global audience.
Published Date: December 10, 2012
Scientists target bacterial sharing of antibiotic resistance genes
Published Date:October 24, 2012
The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae which can cause pneumonia, meningitis, bacteremia and sepsis likes to share its antibiotic-defeating weaponry with its neighbors. Individual cells can pass resistance genes to one another through a process called horizontal gene transfer, or by transformation, the uptake of DNA from the environment. Now researchers report that they can interrupt the cascade of cellular events that allows S. pneumoniae to swap or suck up DNA
Published Date: October 24, 2012
Scientists aim to put a pox on dog cancer
Published Date:September 10, 2012
Researchers report that myxoma a pox virus that afflicts rabbits but not humans, dogs or any other vertebrates so far studied infects several different types of canine cancer cells in cell culture while sparing healthy cells. The study adds to the evidence that viruses or modified viruses will emerge as relatively benign cancer treatments to complement or replace standard cancer therapies.
Published Date: September 10, 2012
Images on health websites can lessen comprehension, study finds
Published Date:August 27, 2012
Photos of happy, smiling faces on patient education websites may engage readers, but they also may have a negative impact on older adults comprehension of vital health information, especially those elderly patients who are the least knowledgeable about their medical condition to begin with, suggests a new study.
Published Date: August 27, 2012
Long-term hormone treatment increases synapses in rat prefrontal cortex
Published Date:July 9, 2012
A new study of aged female rats found that long-term treatment with estrogen and a synthetic progesterone known as MPA increased levels of a protein marker of synapses in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region known to suffer significant losses in aging.
Published Date: July 9, 2012
