Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes, which can lead to a wide range of diseases
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Los Angeles, California - A range of diseases - from diabetes to cardiovascular disease, and from Alzheimer’s disease to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - are linked to changes to genes in the brain. A new study by UCLA life scientists has found that hundreds of those genes can be damaged by fructose, a sugar that’s common in the Western diet, in a way that could lead to those diseases.
National Kidney Foundation and American Heart Association Join Forces against Epidemic High Blood Pressure
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New York - The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA) announced a milestone collaboration to counter the epidemic of cardiovascular and kidney disease in the U.S. This partnership represents a major joint effort between these two longstanding health organizations to combat this public health problem.
Healthy diet may reduce high blood pressure risk in pregnancy-related diabetes
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Dallas, Texas - Women with pregnancy-related diabetes (gestational diabetes) are at greater risk of developing high blood pressure later in life; however, a healthy diet may significantly reduce that risk, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension.
Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind
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Bethesda, Maryland - Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., will present “Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind” at the seventh annual Stephen E. Straus Distinguished Lecture in the Science of Complementary Therapies. Dr. Davidson, known for his work studying emotion and the brain, will present research on transforming the mind through meditation, thereby altering the brain and the periphery in ways that may be beneficial for mental health, physical health and wellbeing.
New Mathematical Model May Help Better Define Roles of Environmental and Intrinsic Factors in Cancer Initiation
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New Orleans, Louisiana - A mathematical model that takes into account the number of mutations required to initiate a specific type of cancer to estimate mutational activity, rather than cancer initiation, as the elementary event (as reported in two studies last year, one of which generated the "bad luck" hypothesis) may help better define the contributions of environmental factors and cellular factors in cancer initiation, according to data presented here at the AACR Annual Meeting 2016, April 16-20.
NIH study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness
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Washington, DC - The long-held approach to predicting seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness may need to be revisited, new research suggests. Currently, seasonal flu vaccines are designed to induce high levels of protective antibodies against hemagglutinin (HA), a protein found on the surface of the influenza virus that enables the virus to enter a human cell and initiate infection.
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