NIH holds conference to assess evidence on management of menopauserelated symptoms
...e-related symptoms. A careful examination of these strategies for symptom management is urgently needed to provide women and their health care providers with options that will best control their symptoms and restore their quality of life. The conference presentations and discussions will focus on the following ...Will aid to poor put wildlife at risk?
...s use natural resources, we can formulate holistic strategies to protect wildlife and natural resources and promote the welfare security of local people." WCS President and CEO Steven E. Sanderson said: "To say poverty alleviation and conservation must go together is the easy part. To solve the problems of poor...Genomic analysis to become tool for studying trauma patients
...sponses are generated, and we've tried a number of strategies to block or weaken them, but so far we've had relatively little success." As scientists' picture of how multiple genes interact to produce inflammatory responses becomes more complete, they may be able to develop more effective ways to dampen those r...RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide
...mal metabolism and physiology and in designing new strategies for intervention in the form of gene therapy, Leontis said....DNA 'packaging' linked with cancer
...elieve that their findings suggest new therapeutic strategies for combating cancer. "Many current forms of chemotherapy target DNA directly and are associated with significant side effects," Folberg said. "We're developing methods of manipulating the genome that may be non-toxic and still highly effective." O...From gene discovery to preventing eye disease in retinitis pigmentosa
...of this repair mechanism may lead to new treatment strategies based on augmentation of innate repair." "The potentially damaging effects of environmental light have been well-studied and discussed in the past," adds Jacobson. "Now, we have clues that a specific subgroup of patients may be far more vulnerable to...Trio of leukemias share a single mutation
...ortant for these high-throughput genome sequencing strategies to have large numbers of patients, we needed to recruit about a hundred patients for each disease," said Gilliland. "It would be hopeless to do that at even a large medical center. So, we presented this problem to the patient advocacy group, and ther...'You can't buy conservation,' suggests survey of Africa's rain forest parks
...arks, no one had ever audited how successful their strategies are," said Struhsaker. "Our approach was not the i..." he said. Such protection entails law enforcement strategies that must adapt to the specific threats to each park," said Struhsaker. Thus, they may range from me...Institute of Medicine advisory: Spinal cord injury treatment
...nal Academies, identifies promising approaches and strategies to accelerate the development of cures for spinal cord injuries. The report also recommends ways to ensure that new discoveries in neurobiological research are efficiently and effectively translated into actual patient treatment. Advance copies wil...A bacterial genome reveals new targets to combat infectious disease
...details of this relationship may help identify new strategies for controlling diseases caused by filarial nemato... these results may quickly lead to new therapeutic strategies against these parasites....Components in grapes inhibit enzyme key to proliferation of cancer cells
...cultures and the target enzyme for new anti-cancer strategies -- helps to identify which flavonoids in grapes and red wine are most responsible for anti-cancer qualities, said Mary Ann Lila, a professor in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences. Flavonoids are a group of organic compound...AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner registers 'strong concerns' over suppression of science films
...end, we invite your feedback regarding the support strategies that would prove most useful to your institutions. We applaud the efforts of science centers to remain true to the mission of providing quality science programming for all. Further, we encourage all centers to follow the example of the Fort Worth Mus...Ecologist plays critical role in first global ecosystem study
...d strengths and weaknesses in ecosystem management strategies worldwide, and developed integrated scenarios of the future. Carpenter co-chaired the "scenarios" group, with assistance from Elena Bennett, a UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher in ecology. With an international team of ecologists, economists, sociol...In asthma, it's not the drugs but the inflammation that increases cardiovascular risk, damage
...l models. Improved short- and long-term clinical strategies seen for asthma-CVD co-risks In the short term this should lead to "improved management strategy of acute coronary syndrome patients with clinical history of asthma. And in the longer term, identification of the precise cause of cardiac changes indu...Short-term social stress may benefit immune response to infection
... it would aid in the development of more effective strategies for vaccination against influenza and possibly other diseases. Ms. Wiesehan is a graduate student working on a joint DDS/PhD degree in the in The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. n addition to his appointment in the College of Dentistry...For sardine and anchovy, El Nio events do not always have the same effects
...o these events. In order to analyse these adaptive strategies and explain the fluctuations observed in sardine and anchovy populations, the scientists chose an overall approach. This took into account a whole range of available data: climatic, biological and ecological, at different time-scales (3 ). They put f...Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs
...ycle should assist in devising suitable prevention strategies against Ebola epidemics....Australian kidney researcher applauded
... for new therapies to develop new technologies and strategies to treat kidney disease. "With about 7,500 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients in Australia receiving dialysis at a total cost of AU$375 million per annum, kidneys available for transplantation do not meet demand," she said. "The kidneys not only...Why do amyloid diseases strike different tissues?
...ality Control While work pursuing new therapeutic strategies has continued in the Kelly laboratory, he and his colleagues have also been asking basic questions about the biology of amyloid diseases. Particularly, they are interested in discovering what controls the onset, tissue selectivity and progression of ...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher receives NSF CAREER award
...t of unique micro-analytical systems and detection strategies that can be used in the areas of biomedical research, medicine, agriculture, biodefense, and other areas that benefit from proteomic investigations. CAREER grants are the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early career development activities...