Monday, January 23, 2012 An international team of researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and other institutions has uncovered 13 genetic loci, linked to immune function and DNA repair, that are factors in the age of onset of menopause. Menopause — the cessation of reproductive function of the ovaries [...]
MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) — Seniors in long-term care facilities have a roughly threefold increased risk for respiratory or gastrointestinal infections if they visit a hospital emergency department in the fall, winter or spring, according to a new study. Canadian researchers looked at 1,269 elderly residents of 22 long-term care facilities in Toronto, Ontario, [...]
After decades of work, researchers have discovered a new gene variant linked with a higher risk of developing hereditary prostate cancer. “We’ve been working in this area for 20 years or so, trying to figure out why prostate cancer clusters in some families with very limited success,” said William B. Isaacs, a professor of urology [...]