The San Diego County Health Department received $750,000 for dementia research and services from the state of California, the California. The funding, originating from the California Healthy Brain Initiative and Local Public Health Partnerships program, totals $4.5...
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Regenstrief Institute & Indiana University Breakthrough Study Evidences Dementia Screening Doesn’t Harm Patients
Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine have conducted the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate the pros and cons of population screening for dementia. The Indiana-based research team discovered that no actual harm, as measured by...
Univ. of Virginia Center for Public Health Genomics’ Investigator Pursues Simple Genetic Test for Type 1 Diabetes
Researchers at the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) have developed a test that they think could predict the risk of type 1 diabetes. This would be a huge deal—preventing the situation where children are hospitalized in...
A Trial for Kids at Risk of Type 1 Diabetes was Scaled Back, Leaving Families in Limbo
At 19 years old, Sarah Hornak was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. It has been nearly 15 years since she learned she has the disease, a condition in which the body's immune cells attack the pancreas, the gland that regulates blood glucose levels by secreting insulin....
Stanford-Led Study Evidences Starting Colorectal Cancer Screening at 45 Saves Lives
A Stanford-led study found that increasing the participation of older adults in colorectal cancer screening would prevent more deaths than expanding to testing people in their 40's.Starting routine screenings at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease deaths by as much...
Kaiser Study Reveals Colon Cancer Deaths Rates Cut in Half From Screening
Jeff Garbeson from the Independent reports that a recent Kaiser study reveals that the death rate from colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of deaths in the U.S., has been cut in half by regular screening programs in the North American division of Kaiser...
Mt. Sinai & Rockefeller Univ. Use Blacklist Computing to Streamline Genetic Analysis
Icahn Medical School of Medicine, Mount Sinai and Rockefeller University researchers have discovered a new use for a long-standing computational concept known as “blacklisting” as reported in EurekAlert! The blacklisting process is typically used as a form of access...