Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...ive two samples for comparison. "Now, if you ever got really, really lucky, and you found somethingthat you only ever saw in intoxicated speech ... then you would be ableto just do it on the fly," Cummings said. "But I haven't seen anythinglike that yet." More importantly, researchers have to compare t...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
... The babies who were sick enough to needsurfactant got it, and it saved the same number of black and white babies." The mortality rate for all infants is about 2.5 times higher forblacks than for whites. After the introduction of surfactant, theresearchers found that black premature infants were three ti...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
...archers tested liquid dietary formulas on pigs and got the same resultsas with the rats. By adding fish oil that contains anti-inflammatory fattyacids, protective action was increased even more. Fahey suggests that peoplehospitalized with bowel disease might benefit from their results. In a third study,...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...at various locations and watched to see which ones got out. They used the same approach to see the effects of tumor shrinkage. Even if drugs are designed that can get through pores, they will face an uphill battle once they get inside a tumor. The pressure exerted by the material surrounding tumo...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...t from the NIH. "It was the seed money that really got the whole thing off the ground," Lockwood said. Si...iasm and self-confidence begin to go down. When we got the MPPP award, we were perked up because now we knew we could really get some work done." With some...Polish Dumpling-Like Particle Has Potential In Drug Delivery
...s. You must call them that', And that's how they got their name," Wooley says....Drug's Effect On Chromosomes May Explain Second Cancers
...r. Initially, the results were negative. “We got discouraged when we found that topo II didn’t act ontelomeres,” said Muller. Eventually, they tested etoposide. “Itwas positive beyond all belief. It knocked our socks off; we thought itwas a mistake.” Next, they looked for the e...Study Finds St. John's Wort Can Cut Alcohol Consumption
...ues at the SkipperBowles Center for AlcoholStudies got the same results with two different strains of rodents -- P rats andfawn-hooded rats -- and also when they continued the experiments up to 15 days. "We don't know yet whether the compound will work in human alcoholics,but we are optimistic," ...UCSF Researchers Seeing Increased Rates Of Unprotected Sex Among San Francisco Gay Men
...may feelthe AIDS epidemic is over, or that if they got infected there would be a cureavailable before they got sick. Lack of condom use also might be due to adesire to trust the partner, she noted. In 1996, the......oup, none of the five men with precancerouslesions got cancer. This finding, though in a small sub-group of the men, wasstatistically significant, leading researchers to write, "finasteride isunlikely to be useful and may even be harmful in men with PIN." "If finasteride were to have had an anti-cancer e...Epilepsy Drug Found To Stop Cocaine's Effects In Animals
...beth Moler. ?We want Americans to know that we've got thebest scientific minds in the country working hard to halt the destruction oflives and communities caused by drug addiction. Today's announcement offers thethrilling prospect that we may be closing in on a major science-based victory." "T...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
...tatin," Crouse said. Patients in the study got one of four treatments: 40 milligrams or 80milligrams of simvastatin (Zocor, manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.). or 20milligrams or 40 milligrams of atorvastatin (Lipitor, manufactured by the ParkeDavis division of Warner-Lambert Co., and marketed bo...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...archers estimated exposure to UV-B theparticipants got when they traveled to areas outside the Eastern Shore. The results of the study are especially important for children,according to West, because they have many years of exposure ahead of them, andthe effect of sunlight exposure appears to be ......came available in a generic version around 1980,it got new life in the United States after 1992 when it was paired with anotheranti-obesity drug, fenfluramine. The drugs were combined to cancel out thetendency of one to act as a stimulant and the other as a depressant. They werejoined "for what they did ......anted more than physicians recommended and usually got it.To avoid unnecessary suffering and expense, all but two babies who died hadlife-sustaining therapy withdrawn when it looked like they were failing. "An issue that naturally arises is what the best way is to cut down onthis problem which ...Study Shows Potential For Quelling AIDS Nerve Pain
...ternational AIDS Conference inGeneva, the patients got injections of either a moderate dose of lab-createdNGF, a higher dose or a placebo. Throughout the 18-week trial, the team askedpatients about improvements, had them rate their pain and took otherneurological measures. The result, says McArthur, wa...Elderly Patients May Be Undertreated For High Cholesterol, Wake Forest Doctor Says
... the National Cholesterol Education Panel actually got them,said Curt Furberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chairman of the Department ofPublic Health Sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Furberg said he was concerned about the findings. He is nationalprincipal investigator of...Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Leads To Lower Child IQ Scores, Language Skills
...ention," said Lester. "But to do that you've got to believe the money has to bespent." Researchers analyzed information on more than 800 school-age childrenfrom eight studies. Lester worked with Linda L. LaGasse, assistant professor,and Ronald Seifer, associate professor, in the ...Changing Drug Delivery For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Increases Effectiveness, Lowers Costs
...ds of those patients noticed improvement when they got the methotrexateby injection," says Barbara Ostrov, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics andmedicine at Penn State's College of Medicine. "When our cost analysis wascompleted we found that it was 78 percent cheaper for patients to be treatedwith a......egroups, she found that patients in the group that got the most relief were significantly younger thantho... that had some relief, but side effects. Those who got the most relief also hadshorter histories of BMS and got relief with lower doses of clonazepam than ...