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(May 24, 2012 - Insidermedicine)
From Hamilton - Scientists from McMaster University may have made a major discovery in the fight against cancer, according to a report published in CELL . Researchers engineered a robotic system capable of identifying cancer fighting compounds. They found that the drug thioridazine was able to kill cancer stem cells without adversely killing healthy ones.
From California - Childhood obesity significantly raises risk of a disorder that can cause blindness, according to a report published in the Journal of Pediatrics . Studying nearly 1,000,000 children from 11-19 years old, researchers found that extremely obese children were 16x more likely than those of a normal weight to develop paediatric idiopathic intracranial hypertension, while moderately obese children were at 6x times increased risk and overweight children were at 3.5x increased risk.
From Boston - New research published in Neuron describes how a diet can reduce seizures in some epilepsy patients. Scientists identified a protein, known as BAD, that affects cellular metabolism in the brain, a discovery that explains how a diet high in fats and very low in carbohydrates can dramatically reduce seizures in epileptics who are non-responsive to drug therapy.
