by Deborah Mann Lake, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Something as simple as a phone call could be a way to alert health care providers and caregivers that an elderly person suffering from dementia may be spiraling down to dangerous self-neglect, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). To test their premise, Sabrina Pickens, Ph.D., MSN,...
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A new ‘atlas’ of genetic influences on osteoporosis
A ground-breaking new study led by researchers from the Lady Davis Institute (LDI) at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) has succeeded in compiling an atlas of genetic factors associated with estimated bone mineral density (BMD), one of the most clinically relevant factors in diagnosing osteoporosis. The paper, published in Nature Genetics, identifies 518 genome-wide loci,...
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Researchers uncover gene that regulates fat accumulation and obesity
With both a normal diet, and a a high-fat diet, a lack of Panx1 increases cell size. Top rows show lower magnification (scale bar = 0.1 mm) and bottom rows are the insets showing higher magnification of the same image (scale bar = 0.05 mm). B. Credit: University of Western Ontario As obesity continues to...