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Killer’s DNA Won’t Explain His Crime

Sandy Hook and other mass killings have left people wondering how someone could engage in such behavior. Scientists say that genes can indeed predispose a person to mental illness or violence. But genetic variants alone can’t explain why someone commits mass murder.

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Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects of aging on muscles

Is aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues less able to maintain and repair themselves? A new study from MGH investigators and collaborators at King’s College London describes how muscle repair is impaired during aging and a strategy that may rejuvenate aging tissue by manipulating the environment of muscle stem cells. Mass General News Releases [...]

Treatment Does Not Explain Slightly Increased Opportunistic Infections in JIA

WASHINGTON – Opportunistic infections in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis are rare,but they occur at a significantly higher rate in JIA patients than in unaffected children,according to…

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Diabetes:Unhealthy lifestyle and obesity explain half of socioeconomic differences in T2DM

Nature Reviews Endocrinology 8,625 (2012). doi:10.1038/nrendo.2012.174

Author:Iley Ozerlat

The incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is known to be inversely associated with socioeconomic status,but the cause of this association is unclear. Silvia Stringhini and colleagues now report that health behaviours and BMI can explain almost 50% of this association.In this [...]

Response to Potency of Office Blood Pressure From Hydrochlorothiazide and Chlorthalidone Fails to Explain Cardiovascular Events [Letter to the Editor]

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Potency of Office Blood Pressure From Hydrochlorothiazide and Chlorthalidone Fails to Explain Cardiovascular Events [Letter to the Editor]

Hypertension On-line First

The Association Between Orthostatic Hypotension and Nocturnal Blood Pressure May Explain the Risk for Heart Failure [Letter to the Editor]

Hypertension On-line First

Response to the Association Between Orthostatic Hypotension and Nocturnal Blood Pressure May Explain the Risk for Heart Failure [Letter to the Editor]

Hypertension On-line First

Studies Explain Why That Itch Needs Scratching (CME/CE)

RALEIGH,N.C. (MedPage Today) —The itch-scratch cycle in humans tracked to specific regions of the brain,including areas related to reward,pain sensation,and addiction,functional brain imaging studies showed. MedPageToday.com –medical news plus CME for physicians

Genes May Explain Why Some People Turn Their Noses Up at Meat

If you don’t like the taste of pork,the reason may be that your genes cause you to smell the meat more intensely,according to a new study.

Duke University Medical Center scientists,working with colleagues in Norway,found that about 70 percent of people have two functional copies of a gene linked to an [...]