Contact: Carla Denly cdenly@support.ucla.edu 310-825-6738 University of California – Los Angeles UCLA, McGill study also shows women fare worse than men in most countries A new study by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and McGill University… Read More ›
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Does getting rich mean giving less? Research shows the more money you have, the more tight fisted you become
A study from UC Berkeley’s Dacher Keltner finds that isolation and a decrease in generosity occur as personal wealth increases Another study tracked a Mexican village and watched giving and community activities drop as wealth grew Since 1800, Americans have… Read More ›
Health Research Report 19 AUG 2013 – Video
Topics: Sugar is Toxic, Doubles the Death rates in mammals * Aug 13 Journal of Nature Communications 6 Months of Fish Oil Reverses liver disease in Children * Online Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition — The Fish Oil… Read More ›
6 months of fish oil reverses liver disease in children with intestinal failure, study shows
Contact: Amy Albin aalbin@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-8672 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences Children who suffer from intestinal failure, most often caused by a shortened or dysfunctional bowel, are unable to consume food orally. Instead, a nutritional cocktail of sugar,… Read More ›
Health Research Report 156 1 JUN 2013 (Synopsis)
In this issue: 1. Coffee consumption associated with reduced risk of autoimmune liver disease 2. Ginger compounds may be effective in treating asthma symptoms 3. The compound in the Mediterranean diet that makes cancer cells ‘mortal’ 4. Study finds… Read More ›
Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function, UCLA study shows
Contact: Kim Irwin kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2262 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences UCLA researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they… Read More ›
Research suggests popular diabetes drugs can cause abnormal pancreatic growth in humans
Contact: Enrique Rivero erivero@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2273 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences Individuals who had taken a type of drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes showed abnormalities in the pancreas, including cell proliferation, that may be associated… Read More ›
UCLA study could explain why some people get zits and others don’t
Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences 2 strains of acne bacteria linked to pimples, another to healthy skin The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone’s skin, yet one in five people is… Read More ›
Newly identified natural protein blocks HIV, other deadly viruses
EEV: 25-hydroxycholesterol/Statin? Contact: Enrique Rivero erivero@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2273 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences A team of UCLA-led researchers has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used as a weapon against deadly human pathogenic… Read More ›
Childhood obesity linked to more immediate health problems than previously thought
Contact: Amy Albin aalbin@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-8672 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences While a great deal of research on childhood obesity has spotlighted the long-term health problems that emerge in adulthood, a new UCLA study focuses on the condition’s… Read More ›
Obesity gene, carried by more than a third of the US population, leads to brain tissue loss
2010 study posted for filing Contact: Mark Wheeler mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2265 University of California – Los Angeles Three years ago, geneticists reported the startling discovery that nearly half of all people in the U.S. with European ancestry carry a variant of… Read More ›
Sleeping Brain Behaves as If It’s Remembering Something
In the background is an entorhinal cortex neuron that was studied. The blue-green trace shows neocortical slow oscillation while the yellow trace shows the persistent activity of entorhinal cortical neuron, even when the inputs from neocortex were silent. (Credit: Mayank… Read More ›
UCLA/Pitt scientists uncover virus with potential to stop pimples in their tracks
Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences Going viral to kill zits Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks… Read More ›
Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder : Rapamycin
Re-posted 2008 Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles UCLA mouse study offers hope for correcting how autism disrupts brain UCLA researchers discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction inflicted by a genetic… Read More ›
UCSB scientists examine effects of manufactured nanoparticles on soybean crops: zinc oxide and cerium oxide
Contact: Gail Gallessich gail.g@ia.ucsb.edu 805-893-7220 University of California – Santa Barbara IMAGE:These are soybean plants growing in a UCSB greenhouse.Click here for more information. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– Sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics contain tiny metal nanoparticles that wash down the… Read More ›
Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet
Public release date: 28-Sep-2011 -Requested Repost Contact: Kim Irwin kirwin@mednet.ucla.edu 310-206-2805 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed “deep and intimate” knowledge… Read More ›
Why Do Pertussis Vaccines Fail? It Suggest Corrupted Science
Original Abstract: Why Do Pertussis Vaccines Fail? James D. Cherry, MD, MSc Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Mattel Children’s Hospital University of California Los Angeles, and the Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles,… Read More ›
Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet
Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed “deep and intimate” knowledge of these particles’ cancer-causing potential, but… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 