Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
...des copied from an active cancer gene, may someday aid physicians and scientists in cancer detection and in determining the appropriate treatment for a cancer. "Patients might be able to avoid a great deal of worry and unneeded surgery if cancer gene activity could be detected from outside the body," sa...NIH panel issues State-of-the-Science statement on end-of-life care
...e, ethnicity, age, region, gender) differences, to aid in understanding health disparities in end-of-life care. Create new and support existing networks of end-of-life researchers and well-defined cohorts of patients to facilitate coordinated, interdisciplinary, multi-site studies. The panel release...Protein 'key' could aid search for cancer drugs
...he Dec. 8 issue of the journal Structure. It could aid drug makers in designing targeted therapies that b... that we studied, and we believe the work may also aid drug makers who are developing new forms of antibiotics." In the study, Shamoo and graduate stud...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...at could satisfy their needs. The tool should give aid workers fast, reliable access to geographical information. HUMAN has created a web portal that answers these needs by giving access to a complete mapping creation tool. The portal is available 24 hours a day and is accessible with a usual web browser...Low-glycemic load diet may improve ability to stay on diet longer
...0 kcal/d). Reduction in glycemic load may aid in the prevention or treatment of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. For example, insulin resistance decreased by more than twice as much with weight loss in the low-glycemic load vs. the low-fat group. "Composition of die...Alcoholics can have deficits in visuoperception and frontal executive function despite sobriety
...ot appear to take advantage of that information to aid the perceptual memory recall process. Sullivan and her colleagues plan to continue with their research. "We are currently examining visuoperception and visuoperceptual learning among individuals with alcoholism-related amnesic Korsakoff syndrome," s...Poor communities should decide their own priorities for aid
...scribes the case of a village that was asked by an aid agency what its priorities for development aid would be, the answer presumed to be a health centre, school or irrigation system. When the villages ...Antidepressant may help people stop smoking when used with nicotine patch
..., nortriptyline--an antidepressant medication--may aid in smoking cessation, according to an article in the November 8 issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to background information in the article, smoking is an important preventable cause of death. How...Genetic testing can identify ischemic and nonischemic heart failure
...a standardized and affordable test format, someday aid physicians in the diagnosis of heart failure and help determine which kind of therapy is best to use for the condition. In ischemic heart disease, the patient's arteries have narrowed and the heart cannot pump normally because blood flow (and thus o...Pitt researchers identify biomarkers of lupus which could lead to quicker and better diagnosis
...ly, most physicians rely on blood abnormalities to aid in the diagnosis of SLE, but according to Dr. Manzi, these tests are inadequate because they are not sensitive or specific enough. In the study, researchers used blood samples taken from each participant and analyzed them using flow cytometry t...NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
...ts identification of TB antigens and epitopes will aid in its own vaccine development. "It supports our scientific mission. The information we will gain from these studies will fuel new ideas, new projects, and give us reagents to pursue those projects," said Deborah Lewinsohn....Scientists discover enzyme crucial to HIV replication
...t HIV commandeers a human protein known as CRM1 to aid in this process. Rev and CRM1 together, however, are insufficient to explain how HIV flouts the molecular machinery that cuts and splices RNA before it leaves the nucleus. "Unspliced RNA is like an unwieldy ball of yarn," explains Dr. Jeang. "We foun...FDA approves Fosrenol(R) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients
...l- tolerated in clinical studies, and is likely to aid in simplifying the management of hyperphosphatemia for patients and physicians." The U.S. approval follows Swedish regulatory approval for FOSRENOL granted in March this year. Shire is pursuing further European approvals for this product via the Mut...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
...ch now indicates that marijuana-like compounds can aid a bevy of debilitating conditions, ranging from brain disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson's disease, to pain and obesity. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego....Several new techniques show promise for spinal cord repair
...rowth-inhibiting molecules present after injury to aid in spinal cord regeneration, nerve cells also can ...ination. Zymosan is an agent that is theorized to aid in the regeneration of neurons by escalating mechanisms responsible for neuronal regrowth. "Just as ...Promise of stem cells amplified
...ntists have used them to deliver GDNF, a factor to aid in the survival of neurons targeted by Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases. Another team has used them to seek and destroy brain tumor cells. And a Norwegian group has proved that even in adults, neural stem cells have the power to become functioni...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...tion." For example, the research will likely aid the development of "thought-controlled prosthetic ...ps of nerve cells in two regions of the brain that aid movement control. Nerve cells talk to each other by sending electrical signals. One common way to st...Study explores treatment for urinary incontinence among prostate cancer surgery patients
...ng training sessions using biofeedback as a visual aid to teach and assess pelvic muscle exercise performance. "The biofeedback machine is similar to an electrocardiogram in that it picks up electrical activity of the muscle and displays it on a monitor or computer screen," said Robinson. "The sensors a...Ephedrine and unheralded sudden cardiac death
...ated. Ephedrine was marketed for many years as an aid to weight loss and an enhancer of athletic performance, but has never been systematically studied, although it has been implicated in hundreds of adverse reactions. "As the cardiologist for the university's athletic department, I was interested in re......pplications. Some aim to generate tooth or bone to aid in healing, others focus on softer tissues like skin, but all are looking at the next generation treatment that involves having a patient's own body provide the building blocks for healing itself. ...