Alzheimer’s patients who suffer from diabetes or hypertension might die sooner than their counterparts who do not suffer from these two diseases.

 According to a report published in the 4 Nov issue of Neurology, diabetic Alzheimer’s patients were twice likely to die sooner than the ones who did not suffer from diabetes. Hypertensive Alzheimer’s patients were two and a half times more likely to die sooner than the Alzheimer’s patients who did not suffer from hypertension. 

Growth hormone treatment might help in increasing upto 8 cms height in child’s final height. Swedish researchers have claimed that it might increase 20 cm height in few cases.

Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland, MD, PHD, professor of pediatrics at the University of Gothenburg, was the study's lead author. The researchers conducted study on 151 children. Some of these children were given no treatment; others two different doses of growth hormone, given for an average of nearly six years. The effects and results were followed over a period of up to 20 years, until they reached their final height.

A proposal to distribute medical marijuana by a private group has been approved in northern Detroit suburb. 

The opponents’ arguments that medical marijuana would increase crime and recreational use of the drug were discarded by the voters. 63% voters in Michigan favored the proposal.  

The proposal would be implemented later this month. This means, patients suffering from cancer, hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, glaucoma and other illnesses to grow would be allowed to possess and use marijuana.

Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics at Oxford University have identified the gene responsible for speech impairment in children.

The gene is called CNTNAP2. Scientists say that the gene appears to play a role in inherited, common speech impairments. CNTNAP2 has also been associated with more autism and attention hyperactivity disorder.

Researchers have found that the risk of sudden cardiac death is the highest in the period of 30 days after a heart attack. The study by researchers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., shows that this short period plays a crucial role in the long term survival and health of patients.

A study carried out by the North Dakota Department of Health and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that people, who ate wild game or animals killed by bullets, had higher levels of lead in their blood.