HopkinsKimmelCancerCenter.org – Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used data from the whole genome sequencing of cancer patients to develop personalized blood tests for cancer they believe can help physicians tailor patients’ treatments. The genome-based blood tests, believed to be the first of their kind, may be used to monitor tumor levels [...]

HopkinsChildrens.org – Barton Childs, M.D., professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a legendary geneticist and teacher who influenced the practice of generations of physicians and shaped their understanding of inherited disease, died February 18, 2010 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital after a short illness. He was 93. “We [...]

OSU.edu – Highly fit multiple sclerosis patients perform significantly better on tests of cognitive function than similar less-fit patients, a new study shows. In addition, MRI scans of the patients showed that the fitter MS patients showed less damage in parts of the brain that show deterioration as a result of MS, as well as [...]

AAN.com – New research shows people who regularly take ibuprofen may reduce their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, according to a study that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 62nd Annual Meeting in April 2010. The research involved 136,474 people who did not have Parkinson’s disease at the beginning of the research. [...]

USDA.gov – Scientists have now reported new reasons for choosing “heart-healthy” oats at the grocery store. Nutritionist Mohsen Meydani, director of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, MA, led the research on the natural oat compounds, called avenanthramides. Meydani previously has [...]

IFT.org – New food research is suggesting that colored varieties of chickpeas and carrots may make qualify them as “functional foods” or even superfoods with special nutritional benefits. Colored chickpeas – a functional food Colored chickpeas have significantly higher antioxidant qualities than the regular cream and beige color varieties, according to a new study in [...]