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Portable, less costly peritoneal dialysis shows no additional catheter risk factors
DALLAS — March 3, 2011 — Patients with end-stage renal disease who opt for peritoneal dialysis experience no greater risk of catheter infection than those who undergo hemodialysis, a retrospective study at UT Southwestern Medical Center has foun…
Dude, you throw like a crybaby!
A UCLA — University of Glasgow study of baseball tosses has found that body language is more likely to be judged as masculine when it seems to convey anger and as feminine when is seems to convey sadness.
Researchers videotaped actors, both mal…
Discovery of source of glycogen ‘manufacturing’ errors sheds light on fatal disease
Indiana University scientists have solved a perplexing mystery regarding one of the body’s main energy storage molecules, in the process shedding light on a possible route to treatment of a rare but deadly disease in teenagers.
The disease occur…
Signaling path in brain may prevent that ‘I’m full’ message, UT Southwestern scientists discover
DALLAS — March 1, 2011 — Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a signaling pathway in the brain that’s sufficient to induce cellular leptin resistance, a problem that decreases the body’s ability to “hear” that it is full…
