New study on OTC progesterone health risks in women published
...hemselves to similar risks without the counseling, screening and supervision that accompany the use of prescription products....Microchip saves rare turtle from soup-pot
...cation of the turtle. Following a routine health screening and examination, the turtle was then transported from Vietnam to Cambodia, where it will be soon be released into familiar waters of the Sre Ambel River. WCS works with the National Fisheries Department of Cambodia to protect turtle nesting beaches a...APS oxytocin/vasopressin conference: 13 highlighted presentations
...iological approaches that could lead to post-natal screening methods to identify babies with possible FAS or related diseases. These include monitoring urine flow and its vasopressin content. They also found some indication, or at least possible correlation, that vasopressin could serve some function in cognit...Choline during pregnancy may avoid, reverse some Fetal Alcohol Syndrome nervous disorders
...ological approaches that could serve as post-natal screening methods to identify babies with possible FAS or related diseases," John Claybaugh, head of the Tripler team said. In addition, Claybaugh said there is some indication, or at least a possible correlation, that vasopressin could serve some function in ...Researchers identify new genes that regulate aging
...earchers have identified 23 new longevity genes by screening the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans , a small worm that is used as a model organism in genetics studies. The findings are reported in the inaugural issue of PLoS Genetics . Each of the 23 genes somehow normally acts to reduce longevity, wherea...Enzyme deficiency may contribute to liver cancer, Mount Sinai research indicates
...e that this finding has important implications for screening and early detection. The American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 667,000 new cases of liver cancer worldwide in 2005, with 83 per cent of them occurring in developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia. The disease is also more pr...Penn researchers discover key to how SARS virus infects cells
...icine and Engineering at Penn. While independently screening for inhibitors, Diamond's lab found a cathepsin L inhibitor called MDL28170, which Bates and Simmons tested for efficacy in inhibiting SARS coronavirus infection. The cellular cathepsin enzymes have many other roles within the body, including mediati...Case/UHC/EXACT sciences researchers show positive impact of gene marker on DNA stool test
...ed that the current gold standard for colon cancer screening is the colonoscopy, where a scope with a camera a...ternative approach that could help facilitate mass screening for the 80 million Americans over age 50 who are at risk for colon cancer." He emphasizes that death...Other highlights in the August 3 JNCI
...eate more sensitive non-invasive colorectal cancer screening methods that are cost-effective and can detect adenomas. They also discuss potential technical problems of fecal-based DNA testing. Contacts: Article: Goerge Stamatis, Case Western Reserve University, 216-368-3635, george.stamatis@case.edu Edito...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2005
...gnostics, drug discovery and ultra-high throughput screening applications. The project was funded initially through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program and more recently by DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research. [Contact: Ron Walli, 865-576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov] ELECTRON...Other highlights in the August 17 JNCI
...c Factor Whether breast cancer is detected during screening mammograms or detected in other ways may help defi...nts are less likely than white patients to receive screening and diagnostic tests and some treatments. A 2001 study, published in the Journal of the National Can...UC Riverside researchers discover model organism for studying viruses that affect humans
...used to generate additional C. elegans strains for screening chemical compounds that inactivate RNAi suppressors associated with avian flu, HIV and others....NFCR - Prostate Cancer Foundation unite with Burnham Institute to expedite cancer drug discovery
...ancer, and develop new methods for high throughput screening with chemical compounds and high-throughput imaging of spheroids. "We are grateful to NFCR and The Prostate Cancer Foundation for their vision, partnership, and support this project," said Dr. John C. Reed, President and CEO of The Burnham Instit...JCI table of contents September 1, 2005
... cellular processing identified by high-throughput screening AUTHOR CONTACT: Alan Verkman University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA Phone: 415 476 8530; Fax: 415 665 3847; E-mail: verkman@itsa.ucsf.edu View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=24...Detecting anthrax proteins at ultralow concentrations
...hope this system will lead to a method for rapidly screening agents that inhibit the binding of LF or EF to these pores," says NIST's lead investigator John Kasianowicz. Live anthrax antibodies seem to do exactly that. When antibodies were present in the test solution and then LF was added, the current flow re...Bird flu claims critically endangered mammal
... on poultry and human health, and there has beenno screening of mammals in that region. The discovery of avian flu in a newfamily of mammals highlights the possibility that the virus may be capableof infecting other mammal species." The flu virus is already known to be capable of infecting a number of birdspec...Dye imaging ID's oral lesions likely to become cancer
...rst steps in designing and implementing an imaging screening program that dentists and oral hygiene professiona...in British Columbia form a potential Province-wide screening network that will forward high risk patients to special care facilities. "With enough training of t...Researchers identify molecular anchor that allows bacterial invasion of central nervous system
...er. Through a process that involved generating and screening thousands of Streptococcus mutants in a laboratory model of the human blood-brain barrier, the researchers found that a gene called iagA (short for invasion association gene-A) played a central role. By producing a fat-sugar complex that anchors LTA,...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...gency personnel. The Report also calls for focused screening of children exposed to radioiodine for thyroid can...workers for non-thyroid cancers. However, existing screening programs should be evaluated for cost-effectiveness, since the incidence of spontaneous thyroid canc...UT Southwestern researchers develop screening test for cells that activate immune system
... are the first to create a large-scale, cell-based screening method that identifies which compounds activate im...omise for future cancer-fighting vaccines. The new screening technique can scan thousands and even millions of compounds to identify those that activate dendriti...