Month: July 2015

Medicare Card, New NIMH strategic plan aims to focus, accelerate mental health research

Here’s some serious cute for your morning: Two bear cubs holding paws at Lake Clark National Park in Alaska. Lake Clark is home to a diverse population of wildlife, including brown bears. During the summer months, it’s common for visitors to see a gathering of bears along Lake Clark’s Cook Inlet. Photo by Mary Gretchen … Read more

Medicare Card, Prepare for Wild Weather

Medicare Card, NIH forms team of experts to chart course for the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative research network

Scientists have found that a compound originally developed as a cancer therapy potentially could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The team demonstrated that the drug, saracatinib, restores memory loss and reverses brain problems in mouse models of Alzheimer’s, and now the researchers are testing saracatinib’s effectiveness in humans. The study was funded by the … Read more

Medicare Card, Practice Good Health

Medicare Card, Circulating tumor DNA in blood can predict recurrence of the most common type of lymphoma

Medicare Card, Mesa Arch at Canyonlands

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Medicare Card, Allergy drug inhibits hepatitis C in mice

A National Institutes of Health-funded study found no statistical difference in the primary clinical measure — which assessed changes in function of six organs from before to seven days after surgery — between complex cardiac surgery patients receiving transfusions of red blood cell units stored for short (up to 10 days) versus long (21 or … Read more