Inflammation may cause preterm labor and fetal deaths
... Case School of Medicine. They found if receptors responding to the presence of dead or living bacteria in the placentas of mice can be blocked, the number of preterm deaths will decline by nearly half. Yiping Han along with Hongqi Lui from the Case Western Reserve dental school and Raymond Redline from the ...New survey documents the headaches of computerized medicine
...thodology could have produced biases because those responding to the survey tended to be information technology staff with a clinical background. The power shifts in question tended to be away from physicians and to administration or information technology staff, so respondents may not recognize their own gain ...Reading a face is tricky business
...n the vagaries of instinct, your brain is actually responding to real information about others that bubbles just beneath your consciousness. The study included tests to determine whether study volunteers had a tendency to experience anxiety, particularly in social situations. Those who tended to be socially a...Support for chromosomal theory of cancer found in cancers' development of drug resistance
...d to a drug, only to find the cancer suddenly stop responding and begin to grow again. In a paper responding to Duesberg's in the same issue of Drug Resistance Updates, Tito Fojo of the National Cancer Institu...Lancet study shows gene therapy for Parkinson's disease is safe and some patients benefit
... advanced stages of the illness and were no longer responding to medicines when they signed on for the experimental therapy. The study was conducted by Andrew Feigin, MD, director of Neuroscience Experimental Therapeutics at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and his colleagues in collaboration with P...Study: Donated embryos could result in more than 2,000 new embryonic stem cell lines
...ption or for medical research. The 1,020 couples responding to the survey currently control the disposition of between 3,900 to 5,900 embryos. Nearly half of the respondents (49 percent) indicated they were somewhat or very likely to donate their frozen embryos to medical research. When asked about stem cell ...Another sexual attraction is possible ...
...n emitting sex attracts conspecific members of the responding sex. Moth odours (pheromones), though less conspicuous for us humans, are also signals by which females guide males towards them, even on the darkest nights. Such mating recognition systems tend to be very specific, hence they are thought to play a m...Latest data shows MabThera provides significant, sustained relief from symptoms of RA
...ing the benefit of providing subsequent courses to responding patients. Long-term safety of MabThera Further pooled data examining the safety of MabThera when used long-term revealed that the safety profile of MabThera remained consistent with a low, unchanging rate of serious infections in 1053 patients...Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success
...hormonal tweaking of the eggs. "The females are responding to cues that predict something about the future environment, but we're not sure yet exactly what that is," Lancaster said. "Orange-throated neighbors may indicate a trend in the frequency of orange-throated lizards within the population or in the ove...Minister Lunn announces $39.6M for next phase of mountain pine beetle response
... between the federal and provincial governments in responding to the impacts of the beetle, the Honourable Murray Coell, British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, joined Minister Lunn for todays announcement at the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria. This infestation is changing the landscape of thi...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...made single-unit recordings from IC and AI neurons responding to auditory tones. In awake animals, first-spike timing variability increased in AI compared with IC neurons, indicating a reduction in temporal precision of firing. AI temporal precision improved during anesthesia, but many trials evoked no firing w...PET accurately identifies esophageal cancer patients' positive responses to chemotherapy
...on tomography (PET) accurately identifies patients responding to chemotherapy for esophageal cancer, noted German researchers at the 54th Annual Meeting of SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals. "This is the first study to apply PET results from early metabo...Every moment counts: Predicting treatment responses earlier for brain tumor patients
...after starting the treatment whether patients were responding well to the drugs bevacizumab and irinotecan. This...take months before it's known whether a patient is responding to treatment, said Chen. A brain tumor is an abnormal mass of tissue that grows and multiplies unc...JCI table of contents -- June 1, 2007
...t deficient or incompetent but, rather, capable of responding to environmental exposures. These conclusions have important implications for determining when immune responses to environmental exposures begin. TITLE: Antigen-specific immune responses to influenza vaccine in utero AUTHOR CONTACT: Rachel L. M...Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system
...t deficient or incompetent but, rather, capable of responding to environmental exposures. These conclusions have important implications for determining when immune responses to environmental exposures begin....Mule deer moms rescue other fawns
... when coyotes attack fawns, with mule deer mothers responding to both whitetail and mule deer calls, even when their own fawn stood next to them. In contrast, the whitetail mothers responded only to their own species' call, and only when they could not see their own fawn. "The fact that mule deer ran to the ...Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
... to reverse the adverse trends or the challenge of responding to climate change will be more difficult....Anti-inflammatory drugs interact with HRT, and more
...s/plme-04-05-harper.jpg Caption: Brain regions responding to hyperoxia during a 2 minute period CONTACT: Ronald Harper University California Los Angeles Neurobiology 10833 Le Conte Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763 United States of America +1 310-825-5303 +1 310-825-2224 (fax) rharper@ucla.edu Vaccin...Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest
...ws them to key in on the bee colonies without bees responding to their attack," the researchers report. Complicating the issue is the yeast that grows in the hives. The researchers found that this yeast only produced IPA when it grew on pollen. Even pollen substitute, a food sometimes provided for bees, did not......t-output devices. "When scientists observe animals responding differently even to the same external stimuli, they attribute this variability to random errors in a complex brain." Using a combination of automated behavior recording and sophisticated mathematical analyses, the international team of researchers sh...