BOSTON, July 31 (UPI) — Boston researchers say they have linked resting-state brain connectivity and spontaneous pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia.
Vitaly Napadow of Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues at the University of Michigan enrolled 36 female subjects –18 fibromyalgia patients — mean age of 38.9 — and 18 healthy subjects as controls with [...]

BALTIMORE, July 31 (UPI) — University of Maryland researchers say discovery of a chemical in the brain that appears to reduce cognition could lead to pills that make people smarter.
The work on kynurenic acid could also be used in the development of treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, The Baltimore Sun reported. But any drugs [...]

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., July 31 (UPI) — U.S. researchers advise using highly sensitive fecal occult blood tests to economically screen for colon cancer.
Researchers at RTI International in Research Triangle Park, N.C., say the colonoscopy is the most accurate method for detecting colorectal cancers early. However, the fecal occult blood tests may offer [...]

MIAMI, July 31 (UPI) — Health officials are warning South Florida residents that mosquitoes carrying dengue fever can breed in a few ounces of water, even indoors.
Ed Bradford, head of mosquito control in Palm Beach County, said he found Aedes aegypti breeding in one family’s bathroom, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Friday.
“They were in [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 31 (UPI) — A U.S. researcher says post-menopausal women taking some diabetes drugs may be at greater risk of bone fractures.
Dr. William Herman of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes taking a group of drugs called thiazolidinediones — including rosiglitazone and [...]