Heart failure patients with worst heart function are good candidates for pacemakers
...d correctly, the car will still move but will have worse fuel economy. Likewise, the heart that's out of "sync" will still pump blood, but not efficiently. The idea behind treatment is to use the pacemakerto stimulate the part that gets the signals later to improve the heart's overall performance. Using...Fruit fly model could explain how mosquitoes carry malaria: new drugs and vaccines on the horizon
... to determine whether the parasites grow better or worse when a particular gene is missing." By identifying factors that are critical to the parasite's survival inside the mosquito, these experiments may lead scientists to drugs that prevent the parasite from growing in the mosquito. Weak points in the par...Rum and 'coke' combo far worse on the brain, study shows
...at people who "do" both cocaine and alcohol risk a worse loss of brain function than those who frequently u...D., who led the research team. "That two drugs are worse than one is something you'd expect. But very little science exists on how using both drugs affects t...UF researchers find painless electrical stimulus helps restore hand movement for stroke patients
...ng up a piece of paper or grasping a pencil -- or, worse yet, preparing meals. Now he can anchor a piece of steak with a fork to cut it and once again clutch an apple. The turnabout came after McClellan participated in a University of Florida study that used a slight electrical current to painlessly stim...Computer model to predict toxic algal outbreaks
... million per year, so the problem is probably much worse now," Mr Bowden said. "I'm looking at improving the forecasts used for salinity, which could be used in conjunction with other models. "If you knew a few weeks in advance that a large volume of highly saline water was moving down the Murray, wate...The power of the mother-child bond
...the room of the preceding difficult task performed worse that the other two groups. Mennella said that exposing rat pups to a sandpaper texture and children to a difficult task could both be classified as "arousing, emotionally salient" situations. "Associative learning in the context of these very emot...New antioxidant vitamin RDAs better, but not good enough
...nough vitamin C, he said, and the numbers are much worse for vitamin E and the elderly. And raising the standards will only increase the number of people who "officially" have inadequate nutrition. "However, these rdas are important, and should be taken seriously," Frei said. "They are the basis for foods...Special four-day symposium on MTBE and drinking water
...o MTBE and whether they are likely to be better or worse in this regard. (B. Hartman, Transglobal Environmental Geochemistry, Solana Beach, Calif.; ENVR 79; Tuesday, March 28, 9:50 a.m., Hilton Imperial B, Ballroom Level. See page 106 in the final program.) Effects of environmental conditions on MTBE...Pain drug reveals what most already know - men's and women's brains are simply different
... first shut off, orinhibit, neurons that make pain worse and then, further down the circuit,exciting cells that shut off pain messages. Morphine is one of a dozen drugs that target the so-called mu opioid receptorin the descending pathway. The kappa drug used in the study is one of severalforms of kappa k...Asteroid devastation possibly worse than feared
...rs said, theoretically might cause similar or even worse problems with ultraviolet exposure. The ozone depletion would be less, but there would also be less of a protective dust cloud. "Part of what were trying to stress here is that with an asteroid collision, there will be many synergistic effects on the...Plankton are not affected by ozone depletion
...'re keeping up," he says, "but if the problem gets worse who knows?"...Playing the odds: Can you stop abusing alcohol at 10 years and be OK?
...ther, said Beatty,overall the alcoholics performed worse on the tests than the non-alcoholics. There were nodifferences, however, between those who had abused alcohol for more, or less, than 10 years. "This study has critically important clinical and rehabilitative ramifications," said Sullivan. "People w...Researchers find volcanoes are bad for your health...long after they finish erupting
... and explosive eruptions. The problem is made even worse in volcanoes such as the Montserrat one as the pyroclastic flows can produce giant plumes (up to several kilometres in height) of fine ash. Ash falls from such a volcano can persist for months or even years. The Soufriere Hills volcano began erupting...Formosan termite may be top concern of entomologists of the new millenium, according to report
...unter said, however, that new studies indicate far worse is to come. "Their expected northern range in the U.S. extends from Washington State in the west to Massachusetts in the east," he said. Native to China, Formosan termites have been found in Japan, Guam, Sri Lanka, Hawaii and South Africa. They were...Genes pertaining to 'maleness' evolve more rapidly than their non-sexual counterparts
...ng better for the organism as opposed to something worse or nothing at all, which would be the case if the changes were just random mutations." The title of the paper, "Rapid Evolution of Male Reproductive Genes in the Descent of Man," makes reference to Charles Darwin's book Descent of Man. "I chos...Molecular repair of ruptured discs
... and protrudes into the spinal cord-in essence the worse it is-the more likely it is that it will resorb by itself." Haro wanted to put these two observations together and probe the role of MMPs and disc/macrophage interactions in disc resorption, and Matrisian had the perfect tools: knockout mice that lac...Side effects of prostate cancer surgery far less when performed by specialist
...ata collection. It appeared that patients reported worse side effects when they answered via an anonymous patient questionnaire than when they reported directly to the doctor. When asked directly, some doctors hypothesized, patients may not be as forthcoming with the truth because they don't want to disapp...... that, although some saturated fats are definitely worse than others, food sources are so intermingled that it is a nonproductive exercise to separate "bad" from "benign" saturated fats in everyday diets. The research was part of the Nurses' Health Study and tracked instances of fatal heart disease and n......sed by many pollutants--making the effects of some worse andsome less harmful," said Lewis. "Without knowing how chiral pollutants will beaffected, environmental measures aimed at reducing the effects of pollution arebeing formulated virtually in the dark." Since Lewis estimates that about one-four......'s chromosomes, where it may not work as normalor, worse still, can disrupt other genes-potentially causing developmentalabnormalities. While occasional "mistakes" are tolerated in animal experiments, thedanger of causing congenital defects is one of the reasons why germline genetherapy for people...