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A sheriff's deputy in Minneapolis, Kansas was caught on film using a Taser gun on an elderly Alzheimer's sufferer. The patient had reportedly attacked another nursing home resident and had refused to go to the doctor.

(Duke University Medical Center) Duke Health researchers have identified a drug-like small molecule that, in animal experiments, appears to be an effective treatment for a genetic disorder called Prader-Willi syndrome.

(New York Institute of Technology) Understanding how the nervous system of the roundworm C. elegans works will give insights into how our vastly more complex brains function and is the subject of a paper in Nature Method...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Drugs capable of activating silenced genes improve survival and growth outcomes in a mouse model of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rar...

The 21st Century Cures Act is the new powerful law signed by President Obama last week. The act not only aims at giving a boost to medical research, but also intends to support people's fights against cancer, mental heal...

(Baylor College of Medicine) Scientists have discovered that networks of inhibitory brain cells or neurons develop through a mechanism opposite to the one followed by excitatory networks. Excitatory neurons sculpt and re...

A study conducted by scientists from Liverpool John Moores University, U.K. indicated that runners who register high mileage while running experience more neuromuscular changes compared to low mileage runners. These chan...

(North Carolina State University) Researchers have developed a synthetic version of a cardiac stem cell. These synthetic stem cells offer therapeutic benefits comparable to those from natural stem cells and could reduce ...

(University of Michigan) Researchers at the University of Michigan have had initial success in mice using nanodiscs to deliver a customized therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of colon and melanoma cancer tumors.

The water supply in Lindon City, Utah, has been hit by E. coli, prompting the city to issue a boil water advisory for drinking water on Dec. 23. The order is said to still be in place as of Dec. 25 until further notice.

A veterinarian working at an animal shelter in New York has contracted a rare form of bird flu. Officials said the vet may have gotten the infection from the respiratory secretions of sick cats being treated at the shelt...

The rising level of air pollution is resulting in increased cases of asthma and other lung-related diseases. Researchers in Japan have uncovered the series of molecular events that can help explain the relation of allerg...

Cardinal Health, the Ohio-based pharmaceutical company, has agreed to pay $44 million as its settlement against the allegations of suspicious shipment of painkiller drugs. The company was charged with shipment of drug ox...

(University of the Basque Country ) Mouth infections are currently regarded as the main reason why dental implants fail. A piece of research by the UPV/EHU has succeeded in developing coatings capable of preventing poten...

(American College of Physicians) Financial penalties levied under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program lead to the poorest performing hospitals to achieve the greatest reductions in rea...

(New York University) Emotional experiences can induce physiological and internal brain states that persist for long periods of time after the emotional events have ended, a team of New York University scientists has fou...

(University of Michigan Health System) A health care reform idea originated by University of Michigan faculty will get a major test among members of the nation's military and their families, thanks to a provision in the ...

(Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research) The use of proteasome inhibitors to treat cancer has been greatly limited by the ability of cancer cells to develop resistance to these drugs. But Whitehead Institute researc...

(Osaka University) Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Japan, report a new molecular mechanism that could explain the cause of some autoimmune diseases.

(Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) Scientific research over the past decade has concentrated almost exclusively on the 2 percent of the genome's protein coding regions, virtually ignoring the other 98 percent. Invest...

(University of Virginia) A new study demonstrates that automated monitoring systems that identify 'regime shifts' -- such as rapid growth of algae and then depletion of oxygen in the water -- can successfully predict ful...

(EurekAlert!) News releases about the fight against Zika, a happy sex life, and dogs were among 2016's most popular on EurekAlert!, a science news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Scien...