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How Medicare Coverage Can Help – Gene Mutations Linked to Early-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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An international team has discovered that mutations in either of 2 related genes cause a severe and rare form of inflammatory bowel disease in young children. The discovery allowed the researchers to successfully treat one of the study patients with a bone marrow transplant.

NIMH Seeks More BRAINS

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The National Institute of Mental Health is seeking more BRAINS for 2010 by offering a second round of Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (BRAINS) (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-10-060.html). The program calls for innovative and groundbreaking research projects from early stage investigators to explore the complex mechanisms underlying mental disorders or novel treatments and prevention strategies.

Getting Your Eyes Checked – Mending Vision in Patients with Eye Vein Clots

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If the blockage is in a large vein, it’s known as central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). If it’s in small branches of a vein, it’s called branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). In some cases, the blockage can lead to fluid buildup in the center of the retina, or macular edema, a common cause of blindness.

NCHS Data Briefs

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Data Briefs are statistical publications that provide information about current public health topics in a straightforward format. Each report takes a complex data subject and summarizes it into text and graphics that provide readers with easily comprehensible information in a compact publication.

Wide Variety of Bacteria Mapped Across the Human Body

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By analyzing bacterial communities in and on several people, scientists have begun to create an atlas of bacterial diversity that documents the different types of microbes that thrive in distinct regions of the human body. This research sets the stage for determining how changes in bacterial communities help to cause or prevent disease.

Preeclampsia May Lead to Reduced Thyroid Function

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In the Norway study, women who had preeclampsia in their first pregnancy were 1.7 times as likely to have high TSH an average of 20 years later as women who hadn’t had preeclampsia. Women with preeclampsia in both their first and second pregnancies were nearly 6 times as likely to have high TSH levels.