Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...dementia as a result of strokes. If the medication proves effective, it could improve the condition of patients or at least slow the progression of Alzheimer's symptoms, said psychiatry research nurse administrator Doris Svetlik. The most common symptoms of the disease are memory loss, confusion, difficulty...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...United Kingdom. If the enzyme replacement therapy proves successful and gains FDA approval,Synpac will continue to manufacture and market the drug. Commenting on the FDA action, Chen said, "After treating patientswho have very little hope and working on this therapy for so many years,I look forward to wor...Enhancing Night Visibility Using UV Technology To Be Tested On Virginia Tech's Smart Road
...n to be safe," says Dingus. If a UV system proves beneficial, researchers in the Virginia Techcenter will help develop policies and procedures to deploy safer equipment androad markings, according to Aaron Schroeder, senior research associate with thecenter who will facilitate the deployment phase....World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
... the stroke patient's brain. If the phase I trial proves successful,the next step would be a multi-center trial," said Lawrence Wechsler, M.D.,director of the UPMC Stroke Institute, professor of neurology at the Universityof Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a co-investigator on this trial. "Use of......equently diagnosed cancer in the United States,and proves fatal for some 40,000 men each year. At present, there's no provenway to prevent the disease. USC/Norris researchers have long led research on the role of the male hormonesandrogens in spurring prostate cancer growth. Ross and his colleagues first...Jefferson Physician Warns Further Study Of DHEA's Safety Needed
...osterone levels monitored. "Whether or not DHEA proves to slow the aging process, as it may well do," he writes, "it is not without its potential dangers." Much more needs to be learned about the actions, applications and misapplications of this powerful and all too easily available hormone. Dr. Go...Clinical Trials Announced Using Non-Invasive Innovative MRI To Diagnose Breast Tumors
...n't have the trauma of a biopsy...If the technique proves successful, how exciting!"he concluded. Prof. Degani's breast cancer research at the Weizmann Institute of Science is supported by Sir David Alliance, CBE (United Kingdom); German-Israeli Foundationfor Scientific Research & Development: The Lynn and ...Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
...lished in 1974, and the present anniversaryedition proves that the study holds up remarkably well over a quarter of acentury. What was original then, and is still unfortunately uncommon today, isthe effort to link the particulars of individual lives to the vast currents ofhistorical change. Much psychologic...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...ia, Pa., and Washington, D.C. Ifthe Italian system proves equally effective, Kalkstein says, warning systems maybe launched in Shanghai, China, and elsewhere. "In my opinion, heat is a leading cause of weather-related mortality, which maydirectly cause more deaths each year than lightning, tornadoes or hurr...Evidence For A Heart Failure Epidemic Released
...CC) scientificsessions in New Orleans. "This study proves the theoretical conclusions from Framingham and other studies -- that when we look from a health system perspective, there is a chronic heartfailure epidemic being experienced by large health systems across the U.S.today," says Peter McCullough, M.D....Transplant Pioneer Thomas E. Starzl Most Cited Researcher In Clinical Medicine Over Past 17 Years
...contributions are no less important. This ranking proves that he haslaid the foundation for new discoveries in the field," said John J. Fung, M.D.,Ph.D., the professor of surgery and chief of transplantation at the Universityof Pittsburgh's Starzl Transplant Institute....New book on osteoporosis covers preventing and treating 'The Aging Disease' in consumer language
...o Lane, and pneumonia is often a complication that proves fatal. "Prevention of osteoporosis means prevention of low bone mass, and lifestylefactors are important. Our decisions on diet, medication, vitamin supplements,even the type of exercise we choose, will affect progression of the disease,"Lane em...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...s over a period of years," Thompson says. "If that proves to be the case,I would like to see everyone over 65 get an abdominal ultrasound so that thosewith abdominal aortic aneurysms can receive drug therapy instead of needingsurgery or dying unexpectedly from a ruptured aneurysm."...NIH study to evaluate role of MRI in emergency diagnosis of heart attack & stroke
...h CT scans indetecting acute hemorrhages. If MRI proves to be as good or better than CT forseeing blood, MRI alone will replace both tests in most stroke patients. Another study will involve the development and testing of strategies to extendthe "window of opportunity" for optimal str...Dental students help close care gap at Indian reservation
...withthe dental students. If the externship project proves to be successful, it could be expanded to include other dental schools and additionalreservations, Tommasone said. He believes it could also serve as a prototype program for recruiting dentists and physiciansto serve at Coast Guard facilities and wit...New coating could lead to safer, more convenient asthma drugs
...gs -- if a University of Florida-developed coating proves assuccessful in humans as it has in rats. The coating, developed by team of researchers in UF's colleges of pharmacy andengineering, covers tiny drug particles contained in many asthma inhalers with apolymer 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. The...Are the signs of dyslexia in a newborn baby?
...Molfese. Even if the brain wave technique proves reliable, the question of howpotential dyslexics should be treated remains controversial. Molfese saysinfants who test positive could wear a special hearing aid that accentuates thedifferences between speech sounds. Some research has suggested that d...Mini-motor models nature, advances miniaturization technology
...(NIGMS), whichsupported the work. "One is that it proves we understand, at least in somesense, how nature might convert chemical energy into controlled motion." Such knowledge may help scientists understand the molecular motors in musclesand the thread-like hairs called cilia inside lungs and other organ...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...able to prevent the rapid growthof metastases that proves fatal for so many of these patients." Additional co-authors of the study are Dai Fukamura, MD, Yves Boucher, PhD, andChae-Ok Yun, PhD, of the Steele Laboratory; Gerald Soff, MD, of NorthwesternUniversity; Carolyn Compton, MD, of the MGH Pathology De...UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
...before receiving shock therapy," he said. "If rTMS proves to be a safer treatment, patients may nothave to wait as long before being treated."...