Duke Study Suggests New Class Of Drugs Could Bypass Leptin Loop
...researchers say their study, reported today in the journal Nature,is the first to demonstrate how leptin initiates the burning of stored fat, a process thathas been postulated but never proven. In fact, their study shows that leptinis only the first step in a series of events that ultimately boosts fatmetabo...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...Brown study, whichappears in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics. "Cocaine-exposedinfants were more jittery, had more muscle tension, and were harder to movebecause they were stiff." Some cocaine-exposed infants were also drowsier andhad a weaker crawl than non-exposed babies. Napiorkowski and co-rese...Hospital Noise Disrupts Sleep For Patients, In The Critical Care Setting
...id. The study appears in the current issue of the journal Sleep. Althoughnoise pollution in hospitals has been recognized for years, there has been noconcerted effort to correct it, Millman said. In fact, the study's findings are part of a larger problem. Some ofMillman's previous research showed that pe...Routine Dental X-ray May Be A Valuable Tool In Stroke Prevention
...ph to detect carotid calcification after reading a journal article from 1981 that reported such a possibility. A panoramic radiograph is a wide-angle frontal X-ray taken during a patient's first visit to establish the initial condition of the teeth and surrounding bone and at periodic intervals thereafter a...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
... Their results were published recently in the journal FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) Letters. The other study author was Michael Delannoy, an electron microscopist....Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...r in the September issue of the British scientific journal Vaccine. During the 1930s, researchers discovered that using aluminum hydroxide to carry antigens into the body resulted in a greater production of antibodies than could be produced by the antigen alone. Antibodies are proteins made by the immune sys...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...c Biosensor,"was published in today's issue of the journal Science. According to M. Reza Ghadiri, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department ofChemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, TSRI, and studyco-author, "It is exciting to be able to adapt such inexpensive and readilyavailable mat...Some Good News In Treating Infection Common To HIV Patients
... results are reported in the November issue of the journal Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Bactrim is considered by the Centers for Disease Control to be the medication of choice in treating pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. However, there is a high incidence of fever and rash that forces up to a third of th...Benefits Of Annual Mammography Outweigh Radiation Risks Of Cancer
...editorial he wrote in the December issue of the journal Cancer , in which Swedish scientists reported the results of a study performed in Gothenburg, Sweden. The study showed that performing mammography screening in women between ages 39 to 49 every year and a half would result in a 45 perce...Study Finds Incidence Of Stroke Over 40 Percent Higher Than Previously Stated Figures
...nati Medical Center, and first author of theStroke journal paper, which is based on the Greater Cincinnati/No...in the US population," the scientists write in the journal report. The overall incidence rate for all first-ever strokes in people who werehospitalize...Hollywood Increases Film Portrayals Of People With Disabilities
... The study was published in a recent issue of the journal ExceptionalChildren and was funded in part by University College and the College ofEducation's Department of Teacher Education. Contact: Stephen Safran, (614) 593-4434; ssafran1@ohiou.edu . Written by Dwight Woodward, (614) 593-1886; dwoodwa......r changes, but an article in theMarch issue of the journal Pediatrics shows that in most children, the drugscause no major changes in behavior or reasoning skills. Both drugs have beenprescribed to treat asthma for decades. "For the most part, mainstream drugs used to treat asthma are safe-in this casesafe ...Snipping Inflammation In The Bud; New Agents May Provide Relief
...ess. Writing this week (March 5) in the scientific journal Nature, University ofWisconsin-Madison chemist Laura L. Kiessling describes a new family of compoundsthat packs a novel one-two punch that effectively inhibits the cellularprocesses that cause us pain. Inflammation is the body's response to irritatio...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
...ccording to an article inthis month's edition of a journal published by the Institute for OperationsResearch and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The study, part of a broader analysis of what scholars call anticipatoryimpression management, is based on data collected at three non-profit hospitalsin a sing......n Francisco in the March 26 issue of thescientific journal Nature. We may perceive pain as a continuum ranging from irritating tounbearable, but a UCSF research team led by Allan Basbaum, PhD, now has made thestriking discovery that -- biologically -- mild pain and more intense pain aredistinct and ...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...ions during therapy of 100-125 mg/dL." In a second journal report, Scandinavian researchers led by Terje R. P...t thisneeds confirmation in new trials. In another journal report, Chris Packard, FRCPath, D.Sc., and colleaguesdescribe their test of a daily 40-mg dose of pr...Metrifonate, A New Alzheimer Drug, Helps Behavior Problems
...e is lead author of a paper in the May issueof the journal Neurology that presents the results. Bayer Corp. funded theclinical research at 24 sites in the United States, including WashingtonUniversity School of Medicine. Morris reviewed the resulting data as anindependent scientist, without compensation from...Drug's Effect On Chromosomes May Explain Second Cancers
...d by Muller, was published in a recent issue ofthe journal Biochimica et Biophysica Acta . Etoposide is a member of a small class of drugs known as topoisomerase-IIinhibitors. These drugs work by blocking the action of an enzyme found incells known as topoisomerase II (topo II). The job of topo II is to un...Effective Obesity Treatment Likely To Require Targeting Of Multiple Weight Control Systems
...arch dating back to 1966 in the May 29 issue ofthe journal Science. The authors focus on the molecular signals that control food intake.The research review shows that the body has numerous integrated and redundantsystems for regulating weight, and that many pathways in the central nervoussystem part...Nitrosamines Play Important Role In Cancer Linked To Smoking
...ofChemical Research in Toxicology, a peer-reviewed journal published by theAmerican Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. First comprehensive review in a decade provides new insights on mechanisms ofcancer induction by nitrosamines in tobacco products A series of chemical compounds--know...