First, he discovered a gene that controls innate fear in animals. Now Rutgers geneticist Gleb Shumyatsky has shown that the same gene promotes "helicopter mom" behavior in mice. The gene, known as stathmin or oncoprotein 18, motivates female animals to protect newborn pups and interact cautiously with unknown peers.
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.New data suggest that Cymbalta (duloxetine HCl) 60 mg to 120 mg once daily delayed the onset of a new episode of depression in patients who had previously responded to the medication and who had recurrent depressive disorder, defined in the study as those patients who experienced at least three depressive episodes in Click here to read more.. »
Research funded by Asthma UK has led to the development of a vaccine treatment that can prevent asthma-like symptoms in mice.
Dr Noble and his team at King’s College London have been studying allergic mechanisms in mice and investigating whether it is possible to regulate the immune system’s response to potential allergic triggers. Sometimes the immune Click here to read more.. »
An early proof-of-concept study presented shows promising results for imatinib in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a severe, incurable blood vessel disorder.
Preliminary findings from a 59-patient, multi-center Phase II clinical trial suggest imatinib provides a treatment benefit, as demonstrated by a significant improvement in pulmonary vascular resistance and Click here to read more.. »
A predisposition to adult snoring can be established very early in life. Research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Respiratory Research describes possible childhood risk factors, including exposure to animals, early respiratory or ear infections and growing up in a large family.
Karl A Franklin from University Hospital Umea, Sweden, and a team of Nordic researchers questioned more than sixteen thousand randomly selected people from Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Click here to read more.. »
The landmark "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" report revealed major insights into bisexual behavior and orientation — without even using the word "bisexual" — when it was published 60 years ago by pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey and his research team at Indiana University.
The iconic "Kinsey Report" unveiled the seven-point Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, commonly known as the Kinsey Scale, as a tool to gauge a person’s sexual Click here to read more.. »
Conversations about the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan tend to focus on whether we should be there and how we can bring them to a close. What’s less discussed is how these conflicts will profoundly affect health care and academic medicine in the years to come.
The first event in a new series, the Stanford Health Policy Forum, will address Click here to read more.. »
