Harvard Medical School: News Alerts News about research and education at Harvard Medical School http://hms.harvard.edu/public/news/relsum.html http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:36:52 -0500 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:13:48 -0500 FeedForAll Mac v1.6 (1.6.0.9) Progression of Retinal Disease Linked to Cell Starvation Two types of cells—rods and cones—send signals to the retina when they detect light. Blindness occurs when these rods, then cones, die. This is the first study linking cone death in Retinitis Pigmentosa to a metabolic problem that suggests starvation.” <br> <br> More disease-related research at <a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/public/consumer/"><b> Consumer information</b></a><br> <br> http://web.med.harvard.edu/sites/RELEASES/html/120708_cepko.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:13:48 -0500 Happiness is a collective - not just individual - phenomenon Happiness spreads through society like an emotional contagion, cascading from one person to another up to three degrees, a new study finds.<br> <br> More disease-related research at <a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/public/consumer/"><b> Consumer information</b></a><br> <br> http://web.med.harvard.edu/sites/RELEASES/html/christakis_happiness.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:11:04 -0500 Researchers identify a potentially universal mechanism of aging
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