The American Diabetes Association Announces Successful 2014 Tour de Cure® Results That Will Help Stop Diabetes
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Alexandria, Virginia - The American Diabetes Association announced the results from a successful Tour de Cure® in 2014. The cycling event had more than 61,000 cyclists participating in 86 cities throughout the country, raising a total of $27 million to help fight diabetes. All the funds that were raised at the Tour de Cure events will go to support the Association's mission - to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
NIH launches tool to advance Down syndrome research
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Washington. DC - The National Institutes of Health has launched a subsite of DS-Connect: The Down Syndrome Registry for researchers, clinicians, and other professionals with a scientific interest in Down syndrome to access de-identified data from the registry. This Web portal will help approved professionals to plan clinical studies, recruit participants for clinical trials, and generate new research ideas using information gathered from the registry participants.
Brain recalls old memories via new pathways
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Washington, DC - People with anxiety disorders, such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), often experience prolonged and exaggerated fearfulness. Now, an animal study suggests that this might involve disruption of a gradual shifting of brain circuitry for retrieving fear memories. Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have discovered in rats that an old fear memory is recalled by a separate brain pathway from the one originally used to recall it when it was fresh.
In many cases, trigger finger can be safely and effectively corrected
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Rochester, Minnesota - Trigger finger happens as a result of inflammation and irritation around a finger tendon. Therapies such as rest, applying ice or heat, and splinting the finger usually are the first steps in treatment. But other options are available, including steroid injections and surgery.
Study links deficiency of cellular housekeeping gene with aggressive forms of breast cancer
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Dallas, Texas - UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have identified a strong link between the most aggressive type of breast cancer and a gene that regulates the body’s natural cellular recycling process, called autophagy.
Glucose levels can fluctuate for variety of reasons
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Scottsdale, Arizona - Unexplained elevations in your blood glucose values can be perplexing.
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