With any treatment of chronic disease, speed and precision are both essential. Danish scientists have created a new integrated data mining tool that extracts information from clinician’s notes and genetic info that can reveal links between health problems in a patient that would otherwise seem unrelated. The research report was published on August 25 in […]

Knowing how to deal with stress in the classroom and elsewhere can make a significant difference in performance, according to new research from the University of Chicago. Researchers found the cortisol, a hormone released in response to stress can enhance performance depending on the frame of mind of a student. Students can shange theor ourlooks […]

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA, detective Sherlock Holmes instructs Watson on the difference between seeing and observing: “When I hear you give your reasons, ” I remarked, “the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your […]

Memantine, one of the drugs presently used to treat Alzheimer’s disease is re-purposed, originally developed as an anti-influenza drug. It is a different kind of  Alzheimer’s treatment, used to protect the neurons from damage through its affect on Glutamate, a major neurotransmitter critical to communication between nerve cells in the brain. Researchers think that when […]

Celebrex, a commonly used anti-inflmmatory drug causes liver cancer cells to die by reacting with a protein setting off a self destruction chain reaction within the cancer cells according to a new study. A unique data mining/ preditive model was employed before the researchers considered Celebrex, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. It is a Cox-2 inhibitor […]