Antisocial and aggressive behaviours represent a widespread and expensive social problem. Recent research has convincingly shown that there is a strong interaction between genetic inheritance and environment for development of personality and behaviour. It appears to be common knowledge that childhood maltreatment often causes psychiatric problems (e.g. depression or anxiety) or behavioural problems (e.g. aggression [...]

Two new genes associated with Alzheimers disease have been discovered in a British scientist led genome study.
In a separate study French researchers revealed links between a third gene and the disease.
The British study, led by Professor Julie Williams, is the largest ever Alzheimers genomewide association study and involved 16,000 individuals. Using a two [...]

A marker of the likely course of diabetic nephropathy (DN) has been found. An 18year study, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that Immunoglobulin M (IgM) is a reliable predictor of cardiovascular complications in DN patients.
Omran Bakoush, MD, PhD, led a team of researchers from Lund University, Sweden, who carried out [...]

Latest research on proton therapy highlights medical physics meeting next week in Anaheim
Proton therapy which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer is a hot topic at this years American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place from July 26 30 in Anaheim, CA. Ways to make [...]

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with scientists at the University of Louisville and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, have identified the target antigen PLA2R in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (kidney disease), which has implications for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease. These findings appear in [...]

The results of the LEAD6 study are published in an article Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet. The findings are presented at the same time at the American Diabetes Association meeting in New Orleans, USA. They indicate that taking liraglutide once a day is more efficient in controlling blood glucose in [...]

Thousands of international HIV/AIDS experts will convene in Windhoek, Namibia, next week for a fiveday meeting focused on HIV/AIDS, New Era reports.
Beginning next Wednesday, the 2009 HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting “Optimizing the Response Partnership for Sustainability” will tackle topics such as “the impact of the financial crisis on HIV/AIDS programming, maternal health, male circumcision, [...]

Health officials recently held a regional consultation in Kenya to examine mothertochild HIV transmission services and pediatric HIV/AIDS care in nine Eastern and Southern African countries, IRIN/PlusNews reports. The consultation hosted by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization included representatives from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and [...]

UroToday.com Angiogenesis is the process of new blood vessel formation in tumors, facilitating their growth. Endostatin is a cleavage product of collagen and is a potent inhibitor of endothelial cell proliferation and migration. Endostatin causes apoptosis in endothelial and tumor cells. Prostate cancer expresses angiogenic factors.
A missense mutation in the [...]