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Variation in interleukin 7 receptor chain (IL7R) influences risk of…
Nature.com – Nature.com (subscription) – Jul 29, 2007
Top of pageDivision of Neurology Department of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital–Huddinge SE-141 86 Stockholm Sweden. Clinical Research Centre Mutation Analysis Facility Karolinska University Hospital SE-141 86 Huddinge Sweden. Neuroimmunology Unit Department of Clinical Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital–Solna SE-171 76 Stockholm Sweden. Danish Multiple Sclerosis Research Centre Copenhagen University Hospital DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark. Department of Clinical Immunology Rigshospitalet Copenhagen University Hospital DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark. Department of Molecular Medicine National Public Health Institute FI-00290 Helsinki Finland.
Is this why your baby’s up all night?
SooToday.com – Jul 29, 2007
Several evidence-based therapies exist and unlike medication none of them are suspect in the least for causing adverse effects to baby. “Given prenatally psychological interventions could instill a whole host of benefits that may carry-over to the child” ‘Connor said. “Still more clinical research is needed to see how we can best promote healthy pregnancies and healthy babies. “The ALSPAC study part of the WH-initiated European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood is funded by the Wellcome Trust the National Institutes of Health and the United Kingdom’s Department of Health Department of the Environment and Medical Research Council. *************************.
New Australian centre for obesity nutrition exercise and public…
News-Medical.net – Jul 29, 2007
The Institute will take a leading role in the battle to control the global obesity epidemic and lifestyle-related chronic diseases by providing a focus for advancing basic and clinical research public health and policy development. Director of the Institute of besity Nutrition & Exercise Professor Ian Caterson said “I am proud to announce the establishment by the University of Sydney of what we expect will become an internationally recognised centre of excellence dealing with some of the most pressing health issues of our time. “We know that the prevalence of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate particularly in children and adolescents. With this increased prevalence comes increased metabolic disease and an enormous burden on our health systems. Almost one in five Australian adults is estimated to be obese and almost two-thirds of men and half of the adult female population are classified as overweight.
