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(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered in mice that the brain must create new nerve cells for either exercise or antidepressants to reduce depression-like behavior.

(St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center) Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center recently participated in a pilot study with the Montreal Neurological Institute that suggests a certain type of MRI scanning can detect when a patient is failing brain tumor treatment before symptoms appear.

The results of the study pave the way for a proactive treatment approach.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Researchers have discovered key details of how rheumatoid arthritis destroys bone, according to a study published in the Aug. 22 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The findings are already guiding attempts to design new drugs to reverse RA-related bone loss and may also address more common forms of osteoporosis with a few adjustments.

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes and spawn new species.

(Duke University Medical Center) Researchers at Duke University Medical Center appear to have solved at least a piece of a puzzle that has mystified physicians for years: why so many patients with asthma also suffer from GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease.

(University of Rochester Medical Center) University of Rochester Medical Center researchers found a new protein produced excessively in malignant melanoma, a discovery that is particularly relevant as skin cancer rates climb dramatically among young women.

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers have identified a set ofgenes in breast and colon cancers with a deadly combination oftraditional mutations and "smothered" gene activity that may result in poor outcomes for patients.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) An analysis of more than 100 patients has confirmed for the first time that darker-skinned patients benefit as those with lighter skin when given light therapy for morphea and related diseases, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers show.

(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) A study of how pediatricians prescribe asthma medications suggests that while most would readily increase a child's medication if needed, many are reluctant to taper off drug use when less might be best.

A report on the study, led by Johns Hopkins Children's Center researchers, appears in the July issue of Pediatrics.

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have uncovered how a gene, melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), induces a bystander effect that kills cancer cells not directly receiving mda-7/IL-24 without harming healthy ones, a discovery that could lead to new therapeutic strategies to fight metastatic disease.