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New treatment helps obese patients to feel full
In the race to develop drugs to fight obesity, researchers have found a possible new treatment to help obese patients "feel full" and have lauded it a success.
Study paves way for further research on brain evolution
The neocortex is the part of the brain that enables us to speak, dream, or think. The underlying mechanism that led to the expansion of this brain region during evolution, however, is not yet understood. A research team headed by Wieland Huttner, director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, now reports an important finding that paves the way for further research on brain evolution: The researchers analyzed the gyrencephaly index, indicating the degree of cortical folding, of 100 mammalian brains and identified a threshold value that separates mammalian species into two distinct groups: Those above the threshold have highly folded brains, whereas those below it have only slightly folded or unfolded brains.
British man in coma after being bitten by mosquito in the U.S.
A man in Britain is in a coma after being bitten by a mosquito carrying a rare and potentially fatal virus.
Natalizumab (Tysabri) reduces vision loss in MS patients
According to a study that appears in the April 17 issue of Neurology, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that natalizumab (TYSABRI), a drug that slows disability and reduces relapse rates in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), also reduces vision loss in patients with relapsing MS.
Also in Global Health News: Cholera death in DR; TB vaccine study; Rising food prices
"Dominican Republic on Sunday confirmed that a 53-year-old Haitian man has become the country's first death from cholera and announced the immediate start of a broad disease control and monitoring operation" around the eastern town of Higuey where he was being treated and later died, Latin American Herald Tribune reports (1/24).
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