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Good vibrations: Aging bones may benefit from a good shaking
02-19-2007 · EurekAlert!Researchers at Griffith University are investigating a novel, low intensity interventionthat they believe may help reduce hip fracture risk in the elderly.
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- Exercise and mental stimulation bothboost mouse memory late in life
08-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Physical exercise is known to be good for the aging brain, but what about mental stimulation? Does enrichment that helps older people work well for the young and middle-aged, or do they need something else? A report in the August issue of Behavioral Neuroscience tells how, in an animal experiment, older adults appear to benefit from either or both mental and physical enrichment. For the young and middle-aged, exercise is key.
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- Discovery of good -- and bad -- liver stem cells raises possibility of new treatment
02-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
Many scientists believe up to 40 percent of liver cancer is caused by stem cells gone wild. Despite years spent looking, no one has ever found these liver "cancer stem cells." Now, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center report discovering both types of stem cells, and by comparing their genetic "signatures," they found evidence to suggest that a new type of experimental drug might offer benefit in treating liver cancer.
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- Fused nasal bones helped tyrannosaurids dismember prey
05-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose finding demonstrates how a fused nasal bone helped turn the animal into a "zoological superweapon."
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- Osteoarthritis May Be Sign Of Faster 'Biological Aging'
10-02-2006 · ScienceDaily
Osteoarthritis, the degenerative inflammatory bone disease, may be a sign of faster "biological aging," suggests research published ahead of print in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The authors base their findings on a study of almost 1100 people, aged between 30 and 79. Most of them were female twins.
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- Researchers discover new gene responsible for brittle bone disease
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
A team of researchers has identified a new genetic mutation responsible for osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a condition that makes bones much more likely to break, according to a study published today in the journal Cell. Victims may experience just a few fractures in a lifetime or several hundred beginning before birth. The number of Americans affected is unknown, but estimates range from 20,000 to 50,000.
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- Bad to the bone: UD research to shed light on osteoporosis
11-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
Ten million people in the US are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation. UD scientists are now leading research that will shed light on how osteocytes -- the cells encased inside your bones -- sense external stimuli and communicate with cells on the surface, signaling them to either build more bone or remove existing bone.
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- First human trial tests stem-cell-based treatment for heart attacks
03-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
Previous research on the efficacy of stem cell therapy for heart repair has shown possible benefit from mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) -- cells found in bone marrow that create connective tissue, bone and cartilage. A study presented today at the American College of Cardiology's Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit reveals the results of the first human trial using MSCs for the treatment of myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack).
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- Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, June 19, 2007
06-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
In this issue: 1. Women with Diabetes left behind in overall drop in death rates in the US, 2. Substance in soy products increased bone density compared to placebo, 3. Meta-analysis showed that acupuncture has no meaningful short-term benefits in pain or function compared to Sham control trials, 4. Different ways to describe the benefits of treatments influence patients' willingness to accept the treatments, and 5. Two views on stopping randomized trials early because of apparent benefit.
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- Genetic mutation explains form of brittle bone disease
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
A newly identified gene mutation helps explain a subset of cases of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, whose origin had until now remained mysterious. Identifying the new mutation is important because children with the disorder, whose bones break easily, are sometimes mistaken as victims of child abuse -- particularly those who do not carry the genetic mutation known to cause most cases of brittle bone disease.
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- MIT researchers probe bones' tiny building blocks
05-24-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In work that could lead to more effective diagnoses and treatments of bone diseases using only a pinhead-sized sample of a patient's bone, MIT researchers report a first-of-its-kind analysis of bone's mechanical properties.
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