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TheraGenetics Limited, a personalized medicine diagnostics company that is developing and commercializing a portfolio of pharmacogenetic diagnostic tests to guide and improve the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, announced today an agreement with King's College London for its participation in the AddNeuroMed Consortium to identify biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease that can be used to determine patient response to medications. TheraGenetics will undertake a pharmacogenetic...

Scientists have shown that nicotine, which has well-known toxic effects and carries a risk of addiction, can actually benefit memory and attention.Their findings may help add six extra months of independent living to dementia patients, according to researchers at King's College London.Nicotine's memory boosting effects were seen through experiments on laboratory rats. Nicotine boosted the animals' ability to carry out a task accurately - particularly when they were also distracted,...

Your friend can eat whatever she wants and still fit into her prom dress, but you gain five pounds if you just look at that chocolate cake. Before you sign up for Weight Watchers and that gym membership, though, you may want to look at some recent research from Tel Aviv University and save yourself a few hundred dollars.A woman's waistline may have less to do with rigorous exercise and abstaining from sweets than it does with the genes of her parents, according to a new study by Prof. Gregory...

First study of its kind finds extra pounds are harder on menHealthDay News -- Smokers who quit should make an extra effort to avoid gaining weight because those extra pounds can hurt lung function, new European research indicates.In what appears to be the first major study to assess the impact of additional weight on ex-smokers' lungs, researchers from 13 countries, using data from more than 6,600 people in 27 countries found a strong link between the two elements, particularly in men.For...