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Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s

NIH study shows connections between glucose metabolism, Alzheimer’s pathology, symptoms.

For the first time, scientists have found a connection between abnormalities in how the brain breaks down glucose and the severity of the signature amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain, as well as the onset of eventual outward symptoms, of Alzheimer’s disease. The study was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Lao PDR to Improve Health and Nutrition Coverage

More than 1 million people across 14 provinces will benefit from project expansion

More than one million people across 14 provinces in Lao PDR will benefit from the expansion of the Health Governance and Nutrition Development Project (HGNDP).

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Brain’s Alertness Circuitry Conserved Through Evolution

Molecular method reveals neuronal basis of brain states – NIH-funded animal study

NIH-funded scientists revealed the types of neurons supporting alertness, using a molecular method called MultiMAP in transparent larval zebrafish. Multiple types of neurons communicate by secreting the same major chemical messengers: serotonin (red), dopamine and noradrenalin (yellow) and acetylcholine (cyan).

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This National Diabetes Month, be the center of your diabetes care

Statement from Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

More than 30 million people in the United States have diabetes – and each one is the most important member of their diabetes care team. This National Diabetes Month, I urge everyone with diabetes to make your care a joint effort between you, your loved ones and your health care team.

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Close to 3 million people access hepatitis C cure

World Hepatitis Summit 2017 calls for accelerated action to eliminate viral hepatitis

On the eve of the World Hepatitis Summit in Brazil, WHO reports increasing global momentum in the response to viral hepatitis. A record 3 million people were able to obtain treatment for hepatitis C over the past two years, and 2.8 million more people embarked on lifelong treatment for hepatitis B in 2016.

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Lawsuit Demands U.S. Restrictions On Formaldehyde In Wood Products

Groups claim EPA’s extension oversteps the agency’s authority and is illegal

On October 31, the New Orleans-based group A Community Voice and the Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stick to a firm and final deadline for compliance with the Formaldehyde Emissions Standards for wood products made, imported and sold in the United States.

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WHO report signals urgent need for greater political commitment to end tuberculosis

Tuberculosis remains leading infectious killer

Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%, according to the Global TB Report 2017, released by WHO, on October 30.

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How to develop vaccines and medicines that prevent and treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection

New guideline to facilitate development of vaccines and treatments out for consultation until April 2018

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has released a new guideline to support and facilitate the development of vaccines and medicines to prevent and treat infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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NIH study identifies new targets for anti-malaria drugs

The deadliest malaria parasite needs two proteins to infect red blood cells.

The deadliest malaria parasite needs two proteins to infect red blood cells and exit the cells after it multiplies, a finding that may provide researchers with potential new targets for drug development, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. Their study appears in the latest issue of Science.

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Substantial decline in global measles deaths, but disease still kills 90,000 per year

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A health worker marks a boy’s finger with ink, to show that he has been vaccinated against measles in India's Gujarat State.