UT Southwestern receives $1.78 million grant for obesity research as part of NIH Roadmap initiative
...-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The number of U.S. deaths attributable to obesity annually is estimated at between 285,000 and 325,000 people, second only to tobacco smoking as a cause of preventable death. "Obesity is a deceptively simple problem, as it is essentially energy input vs. energy output," Dr. M...Marijuana use could cause tubal pregnancies
...count for about 9 percent of all pregnancy-related deaths in the country. Risk factors include pelvic inflammatory disease, which can scar the fallopian tubes, and smoking. At the same time, surveys indicate that a significant percentage of young women regularly smoke marijuana. According to the 2002 Nation...9/11 search-and-rescue dogs exhibit few effects from exposure to disaster sites
...nted to participate. Despite rumors of numerous deaths of 9/11 search-and-rescue dogs, only one was confi...of these dogs and their expected lifespan, the few deaths that did occur were not statistically significant," Otto said. "We can't say that these findings pr...Zoonotic diseases - European scientists unite to fight diseases
...mitted from animals to man and each year cause 14m deaths worldwide (WHO). Such diseases include salmonella, rabies and cryptosporidia. In addition to the human pain and misery caused by these diseases the cost to the EU, is well in excess of 6bn/yr....Breaking new ground in germ cell guidance
...development and migration normally, and that their deaths did not display a significant increase in the molecular activity most commonly associated with programmed cell death activation of apoptosis mediator, caspase-3. Hanyu-Nakamura et al. pinpointed the site of the mutation to the locus for the guidance...Ventilation in bars, casinos doesn't control health risk for hospitality workers
...e years later, he estimated that 5,000 lung cancer deaths per year in the U.S. were caused by passive smoking, in a seminal study. Innovators Combating Substance Abuse is a national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that recognizes and rewards those who have made substantial, innovative contribu...Anti-cancer compound in vegetables found to block late-stage breast-cancer cell growth
...his year will account for 15 percent of all cancer deaths in women, and approximately 275,000 new breast cancer cases of various forms will be diagnosed. Improvements in treatments such as chemotherapy have led to an 88 percent survival rate in Caucasian women and a 74 percent survival rate in African-Ameri...Advances in tumor angiogenesis Dendritic cells co-opted to the dark side
...ing about 25,000 new cases a year and about 15,000 deaths annually in the U.S. "One of the problems is that it's diagnosed late and we don't have effective treatments for it. "Dendritic cells play a central role in the generation of antitumor immune response," says Coukos. "As a result, it was believed that...One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today
...-infected area, marked the houses in which cholera deaths had occurred, and in that way figured out that the water from the Broad Street pump was the culprit. While he was able to pinpoint the Broad Street pump as the source of the epidemic, he did it by much simpler means. He interviewed survivors and rela...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...ow we can finally get some idea of what causes the deaths of tiger cubs, which suffer a mortality rate of nearly 50 percent in their first year; if we can somehow improve their chances, we can make a big difference in helping the population to grow." Working near the Sikhote-Alin Zapovednik, the researcher...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
... cells. With 36,200 estimated new cases and 11,000 deaths in 2003, head and neck cancer accounts for 4 percent to 5 percent of all newly diagnosed cancers in the United States. More than two-thirds of head and neck cancer patients have a locally advanced stage when diagnosed, which has a poor five-year surv...Visiting African scientists collaborate with MBL scientists on infectious diseases
..., which are responsible for one third of all human deaths each year. The visiting scientists, called the Ellison Visiting Scholars, are here to take advantage of the Bay Paul Center's Global Infectious Diseases Program (GID). The Ellison program provides scientists studying infectious diseases, from both d...OneWorld Health compiles comprehensive state of infectious diarrhea treatments, potential solutions
...hildren, responsible for approximately two million deaths each year. Even more shocking, diarrhea contributes to the death of four to six million people of all ages every year around the globe. The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical in the U.S., is working to solve this probl...Improved nutrition could reduce malaria burden worldwide
A large percentage of child deaths related to malaria are attributable to undernutrit...n could prevent more malaria-related illnesses and deaths than previously thought. Their paper appears in the August 2004 supplement to the American Journal o...Embryonic stem cell therapy shows steady benefits in rebuilding infarcted heart
...st posted statistics, heart disease causes 700,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, with the number of adults d...s alone caused an estimated 17 million or 23.2% of deaths globally in 2000, WHO reported. A contributing cause of what some have called a pandemic is that i...New prostate cancer gene identified
...years, but prostate cancer was responsible for the deaths of almost 31,000 US men in 2001. It is the second-leading cause of cancer death in US men (after lung cancer.) The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 230,000 cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in US men in 2004; 98 percent of th......the USA, bee and wasp stings account for many more deaths than spider bites. Spiders can also be compared wi...the medical effects of car travel even though more deaths occur from motor vehicle accidents each year than from spider bites, and people take a great risk ev...U-M scientists find common virus in human prostate tissue
...le in prostate cancer the second-leading cause of deaths from cancer in American men. A team of scientists directed by Michael J. Imperiale, Ph.D., U-M professor of microbiology and immunology, have found DNA and proteins from the BK virus in prostate tissue with abnormal cell changes. Called atrophic l...New technique helps scientists reveal interactions between genes and drugs
... the drugs, demonstrated by higher numbers of cell deaths in response to low drug doses. The robot also highlighted cell lines with high resistance to the drugs where few or no cells were killed. In the future, patients whose cells are particularly sensitive to chemotherapy may be able to be treated wit...OHSU researchers discover possible method for early detection, prevention of premature birth
... responsible for a startling 80 percent of newborn deaths that are not associated with birth defects. By finding a method for quickly detecting one of the major cases of preterm labor and then treating it, we believe this finding could have a very significant impact and likely save young lives." To c...