Researchers Uncover Clues About Gateway To The Brain
...dings suggest that doctors who want to treat brain ailments need toovercome both Pgp and MRP to succeed with drug treatments. Yet pharmaceuticalcompanies have primarily tested drugs that block Pgp function as treatments forcancers in the brain and elsewhere. "We don't know what might happen if youinhibit both...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
... recognized process of "re-wiring" occurs in brain ailments suchas stroke. Scientists' understanding of the wiring of the human brain has comeprimarily from studies of animals, which lack many of the higher brain functionsof humans. A nine-member team of physicists, computer scientists,neuroscientist...UF researchers show magnetic stimulation may be a safe alternative to shock therapy
...rnative medicine market as atreatment for multiple ailments -- from arthritis to back pain. Now a preliminary study, one of the first to provide scientific evidence ofmagnets' medical benefits, suggests magnetic stimulation may lead to a safe,revolutionary treatment for patients with clinical depression who d...Lack of sleep alters hormones, metabolism
...butcould also increase the severity of age-related ailments such as diabetes,hypertension, obesity and memory loss." Cutting back on sleep is an extremely common response to the time pressures ofmodern industrial societies. The average night's sleep decreased from aboutnine hours in 1910 to about 7.5 hours i......disease. While rare, TM can be triggered by common ailments like chicken pox or the flu, by auto-immune reactions to vaccinations or other as-yet unknown causes....Unergrad's invention may deliver life-saving medicine
...r DNA vaccines and other medications used to treat ailments ranging from cystic fibrosis to cancer. Krauland began making the particles last summer. First, he formed nascent aerosol particles by emulsifying DNA-containing solutions into polymer-containing solutions to produce tiny droplets. Using freeze-dryin......ple being screened for Alzheimers disease or other ailments affecting the brain such as strokes? The answer is NeuroGraph, a portable device that provides an almost instantaneous reading of brain activity and can swiftly detect differences from the norm. Developed with funding from the Office of Naval Researc...Young women at greater risk of death than men after bypass surgery
...than in men in this age group. However, additional ailments and heart-disease risk factors accounted for less than 30 percent of the mortality differences between young men and women....Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
...cluding cancer, not to mention a whole alphabet of ailments starting with AIDS, Alzheimer's, anthrax, and arthritis, can be treated by inhibiting enzymes. The enzyme selected for click chemistry's proof-in-practice was one of the first brain enzymes to be identified. Acetylchonlinesterase breaks down acetylch...Poor patients twice as likely to die from heart disease
...hey tended to be female, older and have such other ailments as hypertension, diabetes and heart failure. They were also less likely to receive medications that past clinical trials had demonstrated to be effective, and they were also less likely to receive revascularization procedures. However, once we contro...Vitamin C may help 'juice up' metabolism in older adults, offsetting weight gain
...xidative stress may contribute to many age-related ailments of older people, said Bell. A team of CU-Boulder researchers now believes oxidative stress may have played a part in previous observations of reduced resting metabolism in older adults. In 1998 and 2001, a group led by Assistant Research Professor ...Action needed to stop 'disease mongering'
...ongering can include turning ordinary processes or ailments into medical problems. For example, around the time that Mercks hair growth drug finasteride (Propecia) was first approved in Australia, leading newspapers featured new information about the emotional trauma associated with hair loss, say the authors...Aspirin steps up as anti-inflammatory for arteries
.... Even mild inflammation, which occurs from common ailments such as a cold, causes changes in blood vessels similar to those seen in people at high risk for heart disease. Researchers used a typhoid vaccine to cause inflammation in 17 healthy volunteers to determine if aspirin would prevent changes to blood v...Beta-blockers protect brain during bypass surgery
...more than 30 years for the treatment of such heart ailments as high blood pressure, chest pain, and heartbeat irregularities. Previous randomized clinical trials have proven the effectiveness of beta-blockers in improving outcomes for heart patients in general, and for patients undergoing cardiac and...Zebrafish: Drug discovery of a different stripe holds promise in COX research
...1 and 2 proteins that have a role in a variety of ailments including cardiovascular disease, some types of cancer, and arthritis. Furthermore, drugs that target the COX enzymes, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and selective inhibitors of COX-2, seem to act in a manner similar to humans. "We hav...Air pollution linked with risk for exercise-induced heart damage
... subtle than one between pollution and respiratory ailments such as asthma. But the new findings reveal the importance of avoiding outdoor exercise on hazy days. Mittleman says a better option is to exercise in air-conditioned settings since "most central air conditioning systems can greatly reduce this typ...No extra disease seen in chemical-exposed Gulf War veterans
...hat conflict. While psychological and physical ailments have been found in higher rates among military personnel deployed to the Gulf War arena, there is no difference between veterans who were exposed to low levels of chemical weapons and those not exposed, says Linda A. McCauley, Ph.D., of Oregon Health...U.S.-Russian team announces breakthrough in fight against tuberculosis
...he patients also showed a significant reduction in ailments symptomatic of tuberculosis, such as fever, chest pain, and dry coughing. The announcement is viewed as a milestone by the CRDF as the project is a successful example of what the foundation promotes: mutually beneficial scientific collaboration be...U-M School of Nursing team develops software to track work of nurses and results
...nt therapy he or she provided to help the physical ailments and might also note an educational plan to teach the patient how to function better at home. One goal of HANDS is to give health care professionals a more holistic sense of what's ailing a patient, what's been done, what's worked and what hasn't, sa......based devices that help doctors diagnose and treat ailments ranging from broken bones to cancer. The AAPM includes more than 4800 members dedicated to advancing medical technology. Medical physicists contribute to the effectiveness of radiological imaging procedures by developing new imaging procedures, impro...