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...million Americans suffer from mitochondrial disease. But because defects in the mitochondria may underlie an astonishing range of very familiar illnesses, researchers are beginning to suspect that the real number is vastly higher. In the past few weeks alone, reports have come out in Cell, Nature and the Journal of Neuroscience implicating the mitochondria as factors in diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Indeed, says Dr. Vamsi Mootha, a Harvard Medical School researcher who won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant in 2004 for his work on mitochondria, "it looks like they're really important in diabetes, hypertension...
Sources: Amnesty International; USA Today; American Council on Education (2); Wall Street Journal (2); NASA...
...site to be temporarily inaccessible due to heavy traffic. Yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Protection (HCCP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), features a risk index for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoperosis, and stroke. An article about the site published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday caused 22,000 people with unique IP addresses to try the site in a two-hour window, according to Webmaster of HSPH Deane Eastwood. The spike in the number of site visitors slowed down HSPH’s Web site until site administrators temporarily took down Your Disease...
...negative advertisement campaign, Healey’s support plummeted last week from the 33 percent she held in the Oct. 12 7NEWS/Suffolk poll to 26 percent, while Patrick’s numbers climbed from 46 percent to 53 percent. Political observer and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal, Robert Winters, credited Patrick’s success in the polls with his campaign’s swift response to the ads and Healey’s failure to follow up with positive ads about herself. “If you didn’t couple that with a continue campaign especially...
...that, it’s going to be a long time, years, maybe tens of years,” he said, adding that “a treatment would be even further down the line.” The study appeared in the Nov. 1 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. —Staff writer Yifei Chen can be reached at chen13@fas.harvard.edu...