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Catherine Skinner Wins Australia's Third Gold Medal In Rio
Victorian shooter Catherine Skinner won a gripping sudden-death final this morning to become Australia’s third gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. After a sluggish start against Kiwi Natalie Rooney, Catherine, 26, showed nerves of steel to claw her way back, nailing the last three clay targets to win by just one shot. It […]
Study provides promise in search for simple, early test for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Indiana University have found early evidence that tiny snippets of genetic material called microRNA may help with early detection of conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. The study, published June 18 in Scientific Reports, found that changes in microRNA are detectable in mice long before they start to show symptoms from neurodegeneration. These microRNA […]
Novel drug therapy partially restores hearing in mice
A small-molecule drug is the first to preserve hearing in a mouse model of an inherited form of progressive human deafness, report investigators at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The study, which appears online in Cell, sheds light on […]
Azithromycin cuts pulmonary exacerbation in CF with early Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(HealthDay)—For children with cystic fibrosis (CF) and early Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) infection, the risk of pulmonary exacerbation is significantly reduced with the addition of azithromycin to tobramycin inhalation solution (TIS), according to a study published online June 11 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Nicole Mayer-Hamblett, Ph.D., from the University of […]
Change in brain cells linked to opiate addiction, narcolepsy
Two discoveries—one in the brains of people with heroin addiction and the other in the brains of sleepy mice—shed light on chemical messengers in the brain that regulate sleep and addiction, UCLA researchers say. In 2000, UCLA researchers discovered that human narcolepsy is caused by a loss of roughly 90 percent of the 80,000 brain […]