Dr. Suraj Unniappan, along with Drs. Gonzalez,Perry, Ceddia, Reingold, Gao, Gaidhu, and Tsushima from York University (Canada) have been expanding their research on nefstatin-1, a brain protein. This protein was first described in Nature (2006) by Dr. Mori (along with 14 other researchers from Japan), where it was found to interact with receptors in the nucleus and hypothalamus.
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That truism that siblings of autistic kids likely to suffer from the disease? Consider it fact. (Previous studies provided data within a fairly wide range of 3 to 14%.) This according to a new study that will be published in Pediatrics (no longer in print), shortly.
Continue reading A different kind of big brother issue…
It is not atypical with spinal cord injury that the patient cannot survive without ventilator assist. The problem is complicated by the difficulty in repairing the damaged spinal cord.
Continue reading Spinal Cord Injury- No longer terminal???
A research examination of some 111 studies was effected by Drs. Kramer, Voss, Nagarnatsu, and Liu-Ambrose (first two from the University of Illinois-Urbana, the latter two from University of British Columbia) and published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. Obviously, literature searches do not provide new information. Rather, they serve to coalesce existing information into patterns and conclusions, as was provided by this compilation.
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I wish we did not have to do these kinds of studies. But, this one will help our troops, our athletes, car crash victims, and a whole bunch more. The US Department of Defense commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM, associated the the National Academies, where our best and our brightest serve voluntarily) to study traumatic brain injury(TBI). One of the problems is that we have not yet characterized the biomechanics of TBI, so this study was devoted to the treatment (nutritional aspect) of patients who suffer TBI.
Continue reading Hope for TBI patients
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Researchers at UC Davis published a survey in Epidemiology purportedly reporting on the effect of prenatal vitamins and their ability to preclude births of children with autism. Drs. Schmidt (2), Hansen, Hartiala, Allayee, Hooman, Tancredi, Tassone, and Hertz-Picciotto (UC Davis) reported that women who took prenatal vitamins BEFORE pregnancy (and during pregnancy) were ½ as likely to have a child with autism; those that had high risk mutations were associated with a 7 fold reduction.
Continue reading Autism, Vitamins, Gene Expression… Link?
Oh, I know I am going to tick a lot of you off right now. But, facts are facts- and, fantasies are ok, but not when they defeat your ability to grow your business. And, this common belief has been under my suspicions for decades. Now, the data demonstrates that my intuition was correct.
Continue reading You’ve got high hopes, high apple pie in the sky hopes…
Continue reading Thought your ulcers were a problem. What about Parkinson’s Disease?
