Shark-Liver Substance May Slow Growth Of Brain Tumors
...squalamine, named for the shark genus Squalus, may find a role with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery in treating brain cancer and other solid tumors in people, say scientists from Hopkins and Magainin Pharmaceuticals, which processes squalamine and funded the studies. Hopkins scientists added squalamin...Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...mparethis to his normal, sober speech sample?" To find out, Pisoni and Chin sent Cummings samples of sober andintoxicated speech from four different people, gathered at IndianaUniversity. They include different types of speech, such as monosyllabicwords, tongue twisters, isolated sentences and passages o...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
...lls individually, a practice that many TB patients find inconvenient. Fixed-dosed combination individual drug therapy is more convenient because patients take multiple drugs at the same time in a single capsule. This treatment was more effective and less expensive than conventional individual drug therapy......uring gestation and infancy. The team did indeed find that the number of CD4+ T cells in the 17 HIV-infected infants they characterized with a thymic-defect profile averaged 536 cells per mm3 compared with 2,139 cells per mm3 in 42 HIV-infected infants without the profile and with 3,142 cells per mm3 in...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...he sounds produced in thecritical care setting and find ways to screen patients from noise pollution.The sounds came from various sources, such as loud voices, televisions,equipment alarms, intercoms and beepers. For the study, medical personnel at Brown University monitored overnight thelink between pe...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...iation treatment, the researcherswere surprised to find the regimen demonstrated substantial activity in thepatients. The result was tumor reduction in 70 percent of the patients withstomach cancers and 31 percent of those with pancreatic cancers. Most pancreatic and stomach tumors are hard to detect at...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
...t be blocking the vessel," she said. "But when we find it, patients should be referred to their physician immediately for a full work-up." Individuals should not consider it strange that their dentist would be the first to warn them about stroke, Carter said. "Many systemic diseases make their ...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
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...already available will improve doctors' ability to find the best mix for each individual patient, Dr. Kieburtzsays. The drug appears to be more effective than other dopamine agonists in reducing tremors and movement problems. Inaddition, unlike current drugs, pramipexole dihydrochloride does not caus...New Ultrasound Technique Is Alternative To Cerebral Angiography
... However, Hirsch noted, this new method will not find blockages lower inthe carotid artery where it emerges from the main artery leading from the heart....Planning Researcher Finds Best Neighborhoods Aren't Always Best At Preventing Infant Mortality
...ore closely studythose areas that defy the odds to find out what the odds-beatersare doing right so that their efforts can be applied to other at-risk neighborhoods. Aiding him in this research are health planning administrationgraduate assistants Nina Ruparel and Carl Mandley....Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...dt Institute of Radiology."It's important to first find out what a woman's thinking. Ifshe's not leaning t...rd getting a mammogram, the first step shouldbe to find out why." Skinner was primary investigator in a study of 253 women livingin two high-rise complexes...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...been previously appreciated," Kimsaid. "We need to find out in humans how active this transporter is and whetherwe can inhibit its activity. "HIV probably has multiple ways to hide out, and the one we'resuggesting is that Pgp protects it from drug exposure. Ultimately, the hope isthat if we can re...Heart Attack Survivors Can Lower Stroke Risk By Taking Cholesterol-Lowering Drug, Study Says
...uced the risk of a second attack. Both studies did find areduced heart attack risk and evidence that lowering cholesterol also lowered asurvivor's stroke risk. Each study used a different drug from a group called HMG-CoA reductaseinhibitors: simvastatin (Zocor) in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Surv...MIT Solution To Math Problem Could Lead To Better Dental Implants, More Resistance To Missiles
...tering upon impact with a missile. "What I find so exciting about this work is that what started as a puretheoretical curiosity has essentially led to a new field," Professor Sureshconcluded. The researchers have reported their work in the International Journal ofSolids and Structures (IJS...Chemist Turns To Self-Assembly To Create New Drugs
...rget molecule. "With our technique, we try to find molecules to bindreceptors in much the same way na... at Stanford, saysthat Miller's concept might also find a niche in the productionof next-generation chemicals other than drugs. "Basically all oneneeds to d...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...ee how general the approach is and we're trying to find theenzyme that cuts L-selectin from the cell so that we can understand more aboutthe process. The work of Kiessling's group was funded by the National Institutes of Healthand the Mizutani Glycoscience Foundation....Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
...n author of the paper. "Although our study did not find any ill effects from the aspirin, this drugdoes ha...Nellis added that previous large studies failed to find benefitfor the aspirin therapy and have been criticized as not testing women who wereactually at hig...X-ray Microscope Designed To Study Jet Engine Components Now Probes Tooth Dentin
... the structure and properties of dentin inorder to find methods and materials that will create a tighter, more permanentbond between the tooth and the plastic-based fillings now used to repair mostcavities. Metal alloys create a more durable restoration than newer plastic-based andceramic materials ...