More choline during pregnancy and nursing could provide lasting cognitive and emotional benefits to individuals with Down syndrome and protect against neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a new Cornell study of mice. The findings, published June 2 inBehavioral Neuroscience, could help lead to increasing the maternal dietary recommendations for choline (currently 450 milligrams [...]
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More Choline for Pregnant, Nursing Women Could Reduce Down Syndrome Dysfunction, Guard Against Dementia
June 17th, 2010 
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Building a Better Flu Vaccine: Add Second Strain of Influenza B
April 5th, 2010 Vaccines likely would work better in protecting children from flu if they included both strains of influenza B instead of just one, Saint Louis University research has found. “Adding a second influenza B virus strain to the seasonal influenza vaccine would take some of the guesswork out of strain selection and help improve the vaccine’s [...]
Tags: Pandemic Flu, Like Seasonal H1N1, Shows Signs of Resisting Tamiflu
March 18th, 2010 If the behavior of the seasonal form of the H1N1 influenza virus is any indication, scientists say that chances are good that most strains of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus will become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug stockpiled for use against it. Researchers at Ohio State University have traced the evolutionary history of the [...]