10-11-11 Developing countries should act now to head off their own obesity epidemic, says a global policy group. 一个全球决策组织称,发展中国家应立即采取行动阻止肥胖流行病的蔓延。 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says obesity...
10-11-11 The death toll from cholera across Haiti has risen to 644, as aid workers fight to contain the spread of the disease in the capital, Port-au-Prince. 海地霍乱死亡人数已经上升至644,救援人员正在全力制止该疾病在首都太子港的蔓延。 At least 10,000 people...
10-11-08 Lupus(狼疮,天狼座) puts children at higher risk for coronary artery disease(冠心病) when they become adults, but routinely using statins(他汀类药物) doesn't provide enough benefit to warrant their regular use in children and adolescents, acco...
10-11-08 New research from Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) suggests that up to 40 percent of scleroderma(硬皮病) patients will not be correctly diagnosed with the disorder using a new automated commercial screening test. The findings of the stu...
10-11-05 Today, individuals with lupus(狼疮) nephritis(肾炎) benefit from better treatments than a decade ago, according to a review appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The article suggests that patien...
10-11-03 A team of scientists from Japan and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have created a new mouse model that confirms that mutations of a protein called beta- synuclein(同型核蛋白) promote neurodegeneration(神经变性) . The...
10-11-01 Curcumin(姜黄素) , a chemical that gives curry(咖喱) its zing(活力,生命力) , holds promise in preventing or treating liver damage from an advanced form of a condition known as fatty liver disease, new Saint Louis University research suggests....
10-10-30 Two University of Florida researchers and their international colleagues have used mathematical models(数学模型) and maps to estimate the feasibility of eliminating malaria(疟疾) from countries that have the deadliest form of the disease. Andrew...
10-10-27 Type 1 diabetes (T1D), formerly known as juvenile(青少年) diabetes, is a multifactorial(多因子的) disease of complex etiology(病因学) characterized by the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic(胰腺的) beta cells. In addition to genetic suscep...
10-10-26 Heavy smoking in midlife is associated with a 157 percent increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and a 172 percent increased risk of developing vascular dementia(血管性痴呆) , according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the Archi...