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Alternative Therapies
Herbal extract boosts fruit fly lifespan by nearly 25 percent, UCI study finds
Rhodiola rosea promotes longevity separately from dietary restriction ...
Can Wellness Cure?
UCSF Scientists Prove Benefits of Living a Healthy Lifestyle ... Full story
Driving and hands-free talking lead to spike in errors
UAlberta pilot study shows driving while talking on a hands-free cellular device leads to more driving errors than driving alone. ... Full story
Discovery helps show how breast cancer spreads
By Julia Evangelou Strait - Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread. The finding opens the door to drug treatments that prevent metastasis. ... Full story
Tick-Borne Lone Star Virus Identified through New Super-Fast Gene Sequencing
UC San Francisco Scientist Says New Approach Could 'Democratize' Viral Surveillance ... Full story
A tangle of talents untangles neurons
Brown’s growing programs in brain science and engineering come together in the lab of Diane Hoffman-Kim. In a recent paper, her group employed techniques ranging from semiconductor-style circuit patterning to rat cell culture to optimize the growth of nerve cells for applications such as reconstructive surgery. ... Full story
Substances in honey increase detoxification gene expression, team finds
CHAMPAIGN, lll. — Research in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious malady afflicting (primarily commercial) honey bees, suggests that pests, pathogens and pesticides all play a role. ... Full story
UM Study in JAMA Pediatrics Promotes Public Health Solutions for Intellectual Disabilities
In 2002, the Miller School’s Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., was intrigued by a question Sargent Shriver posed during a board meeting at the Mailman Center for Child Development. The statesman wondered whether the programs and policies he and his wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver had championed for decades to reduce the burden of intellectual and other developmental disabilities were actually working. ... Full story
One size may not fit all when it comes to cancer follow-up care
Queen’s University researcher Stephen Hall is examining whether follow-up visits for cancer survivors are working or if there is a better way to monitor patients’ health after cancer treatment. ... Full story
