Reflecting on personal values offers protection from effects of stress, UCLA psychologists report
...g showing that reflecting on one's personal values reduces cortisol responses to stress. The implication is that value affirmation may make a stressful experience less so and, over time, this could potentially benefit one's cognitive functioning and physical health." Forty-five minutes after the stress test,...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
..., you could train them on another food source that reduces their chances of lead contamination, and that would be the marine mammals." At least one group of condors appears to be heeding that advice on its own, says Kelly Sorenson, executive director of the Ventana Wildlife Society (VWS) and co-author of the...Study links low selenium levels with higher risk of osteoarthritis
...r samples and see whether selenium supplementation reduces pain or other symptoms." Most people get enough selenium in their diets in the United States if those diets are varied and include foods that come from different regions, she said. "If you were just growing most of your own food in soil that did not ......e, which is shared by the pulling motors, strongly reduces the cargo velocity and leads to a highly nonlinear force-velocity relationship (PNAS, Advanced Online Publication, November 14-18, 2005). Molecular motors are nano-tractors for all kinds of cargo within the cells of living beings. They move in a step...Novel protein complex enables survival in hostile environment
...of certain key genes gave rise to the archaea that reduces sulfate, but do not make methane. "But it is equally possible that the sulfite reduction system was developed in another organism and the methanogens acquired the sulfite reduction gene via horizontal transfer from that entity," Mukhopadhyay said. R...Ozone levels may raise risk of underweight births
...isease and can affect the nervous system. The gas reduces hemoglobin's ability to carry oxygen where it is needed in the body; that may hurt the delivery of oxygen to a fetus. However, more research is needed to understand the roles of ozone and carbon monoxide in fetal development. "Fetal growth and birth ...Recycled or revamped therapeutics find novel anti-cancer applications
...iginally developed as an insecticide significantly reduces the growth of a specific class of pancreatic tumors. According to their results, analogs for the would-be insecticide benzoylphenylurea (BPU), and analogs with improved activity under clinical development at Johns Hopkins, inhibited growth by approxi...Studies show apo A-I Milano gene transfer and antibody therapy cut atherosclerotic plaque
...ection of the gene, carried by the virus, markedly reduces plaque buildup in mice. Advantages of this approach are that we would not need to produce the protein in the laboratory and there would be no need for repeated injections, as there is with the protein. With the animal studies confirming the effective...Researchers find pathways linking caloric restriction to aging process
...ust make the organism live longer overall, it also reduces the debilitating effects of aging and age-related diseases. Calorie-restricted mice don't just live longer, they live healthier for longer. "Caloric restriction is acting at the root level of the aging mechanism," said Kennedy. "If we can understand......Homogeneous Assay technology. This first milestone reduces but does not eliminate the technical risk associated with the research program being undertaken by Panbio. The company continues to work to meet the objectives of the operational plan and execution process that has delivered this milestone result wi...Pall filtration technology verified to remove arsenic from drinking water
...educing arsenic in drinking water. The new ruling reduces the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking...showed that the Pall AriaTM Microfiltration System reduces arsenic to undetectable levels (below 2 ppb), exceeding the EPA standard for the maximum level of co...Herceptin plus chemotherapy improves disease-free survival in early breast cancer
...how that Herceptin plus chemotherapy significantly reduces risk of disease recurrence in early breast cancer. Results were presented Thursday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium by Dr. Dennis Slamon, co-chairman of BCIRG, director of Clinical/Translational Research at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and ...AutovaxID-C introduced by Accentia Biopharmaceuticals
...ficant advance in personalized medicine because it reduces the possibility of cross contamination and allows segregation of patient specific vaccine batches. Further expected advantages include reduced manpower requirements, automated batch record generation and improved efficiency in facility design. "Cance...AutovaxID-C introduced by Biovest International
...ficant advance in personalized medicine because it reduces the possibility of cross contamination and allows segregation of patient specific vaccine batches. Further expected advantages include reduced manpower requirements, automated batch record generation and improved efficiency in facility design. "Canc...Researchers explain why badger culling fails to control cattle TB
...cology, the study reveals that even though culling reduces badger population density, it alters their behavio...cy for more than 20 years - increases movement but reduces density only slightly, so that cattle herds potentially encounter more badgers than in areas without...Pall blood filtration technology removes prions that can cause TSEs
...l Leukotrap Affinity Prion Reduction Filter System reduces both leukocytes and infectious prions. It was CE ...ropean countries. It is the first technology that reduces infectious prions from red cells, the most widely transfused blood component. Pall developed the pr...US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank
...oceed. Also, the use of frozen donor eggs greatly reduces any of the current health hazards from infectious disease transmission present when using donor eggs that have not been frozen. Egg donors for CEI are tested as required by the FDA for infectious diseases within 30 days of egg collection. Additionall...Optimal adjuvant radiation therapy associated with improved survival, meta-analysis shows
... have led to the conclusion that radiation therapy reduces the risk of recurrence of breast cancer but the effects on overall survival have been less clear. However, in some clinical trials, radiation therapy was given in inadequate or excessive doses or did not target an appropriate amount of tissue, inclu...New data show Ferriprox is more efficacious than deferoxamine
...vents iron-induced heart disease and significantly reduces the risk of early cardiac death in patients who undergo regular blood transfusions to treat thalassemia, a genetic disease that affects the body's ability to make red blood cells. Thalassemia is a life-long condition requiring patients to have blood......tion. Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory drug that reduces production of amyloid beta, and some studies have suggested that it may reduce the risk of AD. The researchers are also planning additional studies to identify why neurons start to divide when they are diseased and why entering the cell cycle appear...