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The Income Gap In Assisted Suicide

... mental or behavioral disorder. In all cases except Parkinson's disease, more women than men committed suicide. In the 65-94 years ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2014 - 10:09pm - 0 attachments

How Hackers May Control Your Brain In The Future

Several years ago former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had his doctors disable the wireless capabilities of his heart’s pacemaker to thwart any assassination attempt by hacking into his implant’s software. The ongoing revelations of the many ways th ...

Article - Eric Leuthardt - Feb 9 2014 - 12:56pm - 0 attachments

Metabolism And Brain Activity Linked

... have roles in diseases of aging, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the new study shows they also play important roles in the healthy ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 1:10pm - 0 attachments

DDT Linked To Alzheimer's Disease

... to a similar article from 2009, linking DDT to Parkinson's Disease. DDT was introduced as a pesticide during World War ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2014 - 11:33am - 0 attachments

Undermine Science By Redefining It

... he declared animal research was going to cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and stroke if liberals against animal research would ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2014 - 11:19pm - 0 attachments

MitoQ Antioxidant Knocks Out Mouse Version Of Multiple Sclerosis

... help treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Studies evaluating its helpfulness in treating those diseases are ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2013 - 3:16pm - 0 attachments

A Wrong Molecular Turn For Amyloid Fibrils Leads Down The Road To Type 2 Diabetes

... in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and in prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jacob and mad cow ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2013 - 5:26pm - 0 attachments

Raw Milk Not Worth The Risk - Study

As a kid, I drank raw milk. It didn't kill me. If I got sick from it, I have no idea, kids get sick from lots of things and just want to get back to playing baseball, we weren't thinking about how we got ill. But you shouldn't drink raw milk , even ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 13 2013 - 12:42pm - 0 attachments

Folding: Bad Proteins Branch Out

A method to model the way proteins fold, and sometimes misfold, has revealed branching behavior that may have implications for Alzheimer's and other aggregation diseases.  In an earlier study of the muscle protein titin, Rice chemist Peter Woly ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2013 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

95 GeV: A 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast

Recently, a gamma-ray burst occurred with an optical flash that peaked at magnitude 7 on the astronomical brightness scale, easily visible through binoculars. It is the second-brightest flash ever seen from a gamma-ray burst.  On April 27t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2013 - 12:16pm - 0 attachments