Teens and young adults the new frontier in cancer says US cancer specialist
...ag time increased. Adolescents and young adults feel they are invincible and tended to give poor information, especially to doctors untrained in reading between the lines. " Some of the most advanced diseases occur in adolescents. We have older adolescents with extraordinarily large masses of the breas...Mastectomy dramatically reduces breast cancer risk among women with BRCA1/2 mutations
... studies. "Women undergoing this procedure should feel confident that if they choose this risk management... Women undergoing prophylactic oophorectomy should feel free to make their decision about hormone replacement therapy based on quality of life rather than l...Researchers receive $9.2 million for heart failure studies
...rt pump more blood and help heart failure patients feel better? That is what the researchers hope to answer with four projects that comprise this new program. Stanley will lead a project that he said "will change the fuel that is used by the heart and see if we get an improvement in pumping function...AAAS survey: 80 percent of adults say we're hurting oceans
...gering the Earth's oceans, yet less than one-third feel empowered to influence positive change. This is a ...nly 31 percent of all survey respondents said they feel their actions could actually affect the health of the oceans, the survey also showed that Americans ...Dirty air from Asia can push U.S. air pollution to unhealthy levels
...culates for residents with respiratory problems to feel the effects. Jaffe said the 2001 and 2003 events have given greater gravity to a phenomenon he first reported in 1998. "It's gone from a geophysical curiosity to a point where we can now say that, 'Yes, this occurs at large-enough levels occasional...Mind Science Foundation announces Rare Consciousness Research Awards
...ife, and I plan to devote most of my time to it. I feel that the human mind has tremendous, unexplored potential and I want to go about the discovery and development of that potential in a scientific way," said Slick four years before his untimely death. "We initiated the Tom Slick Research Awards in Cons...Do we perceive using 'mindsight'?
...o correlation between how long it takes someone to feel the change, and the time taken to identify what it is. The two sometimes happened almost simultaneously, while at other times the subjects did not report seeing any difference until seconds after they were aware of it. Vision researcher Dan Simons o...Inherent mistrust of research institutions limits minority representation
...arget populations. The minority community needs to feel that without any racial discrimination from the system, the scientific knowledge gained through research will benefit them as well. Urban clinics can be used to recruit patients for trial a step that has already been successfully taken by the Nation...UT Southwestern researchers study benefit of exercise, medication on depression
...exa. "The majority of people who start on an SSRI feel better after they begin treatment, but they still don't feel completely well or as good as they did before they became depressed," said Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, ass...If airbags work well, then Mars landing sites can be chosen more boldly, says UB geologist
...aphy Working Group. "With the success of Spirit, I feel so much more confident about future Mars landers," said Gregg. "The airbags seem to be able to withstand quite a bit of trauma." Gregg remembers attending a conference presentation a few years ago by Matt P. Golombek, Ph.D., planetary geologist at t...JCI table of contents, January 2, 2004
... very least, perhaps we should avoid mouthwash and feel less guilty about eating hot dogs at the ball park." TITLE: Nitrite in saliva increases gastric mucosal blood flow and mucus thickness AUTHOR CONTACT: Jon Lundberg Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: 46-8-7287952 Fax: 46-8-332278 E-mail...Ten Chinese reporters receive AAAS Fellowships
...ns showed merit, and each of the applicants should feel tremendously encouraged by their accomplishments within the field of science journalism. The level of participation in this new Fellowship program speaks volumes about Chinese journalists' level of dedication and commitment to their craft. We were ho...Hope available for patients with anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome
...levels of oxygen to patients' tissues, making them feel tired. Many types of anemia exist, each with its own cause, such as an iron or vitamin deficiency, blood loss, chronic illness, a genetic or acquired defect or disease, or a medication side effect. Anemia can be temporary or long-term and can range...Scientists report on promising new approaches to induce cancer cell suicide
...ating human tumors that were grown in mice, and we feel these results are indicative of how the drug may act in humans." Mice that received ZD6474 showed a 10- to 25-day delay in growth in all of the tumors compared to control mice. The drug worked by blocking tumor angiogenesis, the process by which tum...Naked mole-rats bare pain relief clues
...in signals to the central nervous system. The rats feel no immediate pain when cut, scraped or subjected to heat stimuli. They only feel some aches. But when the rats get a shot of Substance P, pain signaling resumes working as in other ...Clinical trial patients don't care about study sponsors or physician conflicts of interest
... don't trust pharmaceutical companies because they feel they are being overcharged for medications," Braunstein adds. "But given a chance to get involved in the testing of a new drug that may provide them some health benefit, they want to do this."...Scripps scientists link ozone to atherosclerosis
...er "endothelial" walls of an artery. These plaques feel something like cartilage to the touch, which explains why atherosclerosis is commonly called hardening of the arteries. Over the last few years, evidence has been accumulating that the process of atherosclerosis has a significant inflammatory compone...Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered die-offs, spurred bird breathing system
... low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude. Now, a University of Washington paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which...Gene mutations that cause hearing loss discovered
...al that 20 years from now, when they will begin to feel the impact of the family hearing loss, we may know how to reduce the effect of the gene mutation." Initial identification of the gene was achieved at MSU. Additional mutations were found through collaborations with the University of Iowa and the Bayl...Egg-sharing does not damage a donors own chance of a baby say UK researchers
...so under way. "We need to know how a patient would feel if they did not fall pregnant and the recipient does, or vice-versa. There is potential here for joy, happiness, sadness and other emotions. So, it is particularly important to follow these patients up and we are currently providing an extensive ques...