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Health Highlights – March 11th, 2010

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Health Highlights is a biweekly summary of particularly interesting articles from credible sources of health and medical information that we follow & read.

New Approach to Immune Cell Analysis Seen as First Step to Better Distinguish Health and Disease

Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish betw

Scientists Find New Form of Prion Disease that Damages Brain Arteries

Tuesday, March 09th, 2010

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cereb

Food Allergy-Related Disorder Linked to Master Allergy Gene

Monday, March 08th, 2010

Scientists have identified a region of a human chromosome that is associated with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a recently recognized allergic disease. People with EoE frequently have difficulty eating or may be allergic to one or more foods. This study further suggests that a suspected so-called

The National Health Observances Toolkit

Wednesday, March 03rd, 2010

To help promote certain health observances, the National Health Observances Toolkit provides information and ideas to engage the public in health promotion activities.

Childhood Asthma Treatment: Not One-Size-Fits-All

Tuesday, March 02nd, 2010

A new study has found the addition of long-acting beta-agonist therapy to be the most effective of three step-up, or supplemental, treatments for children whose asthma is not well controlled on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids alone. The study was designed to provide needed evidence for selectin

NHGRI Launches Online Genomics Center for Educators of Nurses, Physician Assistants

Friday, February 26th, 2010

An online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics was launched today by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The tool is part of NHGRI's effort to address the growing n