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...ts are put under and emerge from the experience no worse for the wear. This technique, in turn, called slow-magic-angle spinning magnetic resonance spectroscopy, or "slow MAS" for short, has provided researchers a new glimpse inside living tissue and cells that other biomedical imaging methods cannot rende...Ventilation in bars, casinos doesn't control health risk for hospitality workers
...icine. "This research clearly shows that it is far worse for your health to be a bartender or casino dealer in a smoking-permitted establishment than it is to be a turnpike toll collector," says James L. Repace, MSc., the study's author. "These workers breathe an average of 90% cleaner air after a smoke-f...University of Pittsburgh receives $10 million grant for head and neck cancer
...in most cancers and this damage is correlated with worse clinical outcomes. Previous research has indicated that mutant p53 also expresses non-mutant p53 peptides in tumors. When combined with dendritic cells, these p53 peptides may induce an immune response, decreasing the chance of cancer recurrence and ...UC Irvine scientists to develop vaccine to combat bioterrorism threat from deadly bacteria
...se in the United States would be devastating, made worse by how difficult it is to treat patients suffering from this disease." B. pseudomallei , an intracellular bacterium, grows and replicates within mammalian cells. After it has entered a cell, it is hard for antibodies to kill the bacterium without al...Possible new cure for psoriasis
...g from psoriasis, which is not contagious. What is worse than the changes to the skin itself is the stigma attached to the disease: 'During one of the periods when the disease is more intense many patients think that it is unreasonable to expect people to put up with their presence,' the Bonn cytobiologist...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
... and the pathogen can spread. That can make things worse when the patients carrying the resistant pathogens return to the hospital-island, as they often do. "When you release resistant bacteria into the community, I think it's a lot like polluting an ocean," Bergstrom said. "At first you don't notice,...Genetic mutation linked to more aggressive breast cancer found more often in African-Americans
...relate to tumor development and be associated with worse prognosis. The authors found that African-American women were four times more likely than white women to show significant alterations in a tumor suppressor gene, p53. However, the prevalence of alterations in other cancer-related genes, HER-2/neu, an...More aggressive breast cancer tumors found in African American women
...ow the patterns of alterations of genes related to worse prognosis differed between African-American and white women. They examined the breast tumors of 145 African-American and 177 white women and found that African-American women were four times more likely than white women to show significant alteration......ith necrotic spider envenomation can result in far worse outcome than most spider bites. The worldwide medical community would do well to relegate spider bite to the bottom of the list of differential diagnoses and consider the plethora of other conditions that manifest in dermonecrosis which have higher p...Increasing international insect threat to stored food
...ox of chocolates containing a single moth larva is worse than worthless," Mr Rees says. "It may result in a fine from the environmental health department, negative publicity and lost consumer trust in a brand, and legal action." Mr Rees says that the introduction of an insect to poor farming areas o...Commercialization deal boosts hope for new sickle-cell drug
...says Dr. Brugnara. "It's a vicious cycle that gets worse and worse." The rigid, sickled cells are unable to pass through small blood capillaries and so cannot deliver oxygen efficiently to tissues. Consequently, patients suffer from acute painful crises and numerous health problems, such as acute chest s...Droughts like 1930s Dust Bowl may have been unexceptional in prehistoric times, new study suggests
...speculate that the droughts could be all that much worse when you realize that it's not only climate change from changing CO2 content in the atmosphere, but also this natural variability out there that we don't fully understand."...It's a no-brainer: Prepare for West Nile virus
...a compromised immune system were associated with a worse outcome. The study's authors recommend that physicians follow the currently accepted WNV testing regimen. They also suggest that electrodiagnostic testing be performed in patients with unexplained weakness and in those who are critically ill to rule...Drug prevents chemotherapy-induced hearing loss, study finds
...s in. Once it happens, it's progressive -- it gets worse and worse -- and it's permanent." Hearing aids aren't as effective in young children with ototoxicity because ...Early predictor of breast cancer aggressiveness
...mpared to lower-grade tumors, and in tumors with a worse prognosis compared to those with a better prognosis. "Tumors from patients who died of breast cancer had significantly lower levels of ALCAM transcripts than those with primary tumors but no metastatic disease or local recurrence," write the research...$5 million grant funds partnership, studies of minority-based issues in reproductive health
...roids, the outcomes of those disease processes are worse for African-American women. We don't know the answer to why. Looking at an age-matched group of Caucasians and African Americans will help to establish baseline differences." Laurence Demers, Ph.D., distinguished professor of pathology and medicine,...Concerns remain about UVB damage to amphibians
...ogy commentary. "It appears the damage may be even worse than we originally thought a few years ago, and it's clear that rising levels of UV-B radiation, which could be caused by erosion of Earth's protective ozone layer, can play at least a part in the amphibian declines we're seeing around the world." M...Ritalin may improve Parkinson's symptoms, OHSU study says
...ding to the findings. In fact, six people reported worse balance while on paroxetine. Nutt's Ritalin study collaborators were Julie H. Carter, R.N., A.N.P., associate professor of neurology, OHSU School of Medicine, and associate director of the Parkinson center; and Gary J. Sexton, Ph.D., associate profes...Chromosome losses mean poor survival in childhood leukemia
...t additional chromosome abnormalities would mean a worse outcome." The retrospective study involved 249 children diagnosed with ALL between 1986 and 1996 by 10 medical centers in the United States and five other countries. The children had received intensive chemotherapy and their disease had gone into co...Newborn lambs' central heating system could aid fat busting in humans
...re overweight and in the USA the situation is even worse with more than 60 per cent of the population either overweight or clinically obese. "While researchers continue to investigate how to increase the body's natural appetite suppressants most of us at some point will have resorted to some kind of diet ...