Washington, May 19 (IANS) The 57-year-old lawyer had completed the tough New York Times’ Saturday crossword puzzle for years. But one Saturday morning, he just couldn’t find words to fill in the squares. He had been attacked by a brain virus.

In Chicago, an 83-year-old woman began parroting the same phrases over and over. When her doctor asked her how she was, she replied, “I am fine. I am fine. I am fine.”

Washington, May 19 (ANI): In what may open new ways to study how Alzheimer’s disease causes life-robbing loss of memory in humans, scientists at the University of Georgia say that their latest study suggests that rats can be used as nonhuman models to study how “episodic-like memory” works.
“This research shows that rats remember the time at which they encounter a distinctive event, in addition to what the event was and where it happened. These experiments provide insight into the memory system that retains the time of occurrence of earlier events,” said Jonathon Crystal, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology’s Neuroscience and Behavior Program in UGA’s Franklin College of Art and Sciences.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Many young children who get a severe skin rash develop asthma later. Now, researchers from Washington University have shed light on what leads to progression from eczema, or atopic dermatitis, to breathing problems.

London, May 19 (ANI): A mother was told to stop breastfeeding her baby boy by a swimming pool in Nottingham as it breached a leisure centre’s strict poolside ban on food and drink.

Laura Whotton was left fuming when a member of staff said she could not feed 11-week-old Joshua by the pool at John Carroll Leisure Centre.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A new drug-free treatment has been found to benefit patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma, say researchers.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): A new study has found that girls with a history of childhood abuse are at a risk of early menarche or onset of their menstrual periods before age 12 years.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Researchers have found that low levels of a particular gene make colon cancer patients resistant to celebrex treatment.

Washington, May 19 (ANI): Women are more susceptible to smoking’s lung damaging effects than men, says a new study.