Stress blocks effects of medications in heart disease
... all participants reported angina after treatment, almost 90 percent of the more highly stressed patients did so. While patients overall showed an average of 5.5 fewer ischemic episodes after treatment, the more highly stressed persons averaged an improvement of only 4.4 fewer episodes. The researchers s...UM researchers discover 'key' to blood-brain barrier
...ain barrier is like a gateway to the brain. It is almost always locked, keeping out many diseases. Unfortunately, it also keeps out medications as well. Almost nothing can pass," explains lead author Alessio Fasano, M.D., professor of pediatrics and physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medici...Managed care plans not always better for preventive medicine, says UCSF study
...up/staff" managed care plan- one in which patients almost exclusively see doctors within the HMO. In1990, 40 percent were enrolled in this type of plan, whereas only 12 percentwere in 1997. Today, most patients use more open types of managed care plans,which "tend to be much more loosely managed," and les...New understanding of a key control mechanism in the brain
...lementary functions even if they seem different in almost every other way (i.e., they can identify neurons descended from the same "ancestors"). "I-neurons can trace family trees of neurons. In other words, they could help us to work out how neurons are related to each other. This could one day enable us t...BioMed Central -- freedom of information for the science community
...highly-priced'archival' journals, which are bought almost exclusively by libraries. Theresearch reports themselves are highly-formalized articles whose formreflects the limits of the printed-paper format. We believe that newtechnologies can make the publishing process so much more efficient andflexible in b...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
... the third most common developmental disability -- almost as common as Down's syndrome. But because of the broad differences in severity of the disease, doctors have difficulty diagnosing it with certainty. Some children simply talk later than normal, while others have severe withdrawal with self-destructiv...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...ure stronger. Now comes a generation where divorce almost is the norm and the family safety net is tattered. While some economists blame social programs for the demise of the traditional family, Pezzin sees social programs as more of the cure than the disease. It may require changing those programs, however...Gene therapy reverses heart disease in mice
...d and untreated animals, and we can say there were almost zero of the fatty deposits in the blood vessels of the gene therapy group," says senior author Nicolas Duverger, Ph.D., of Gencell in Vitry/Seine, France, a division of the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer. "Our first thought was to see if...Studies: New imaging technique improves X-rays of breast tissue
...ssful, then in 10 to 20 years, it is possible that almost every X-ray imaging apparatus in the world would be replaced by a DEI apparatus. This feeling of excitement is magnified by the fact that we have such an outstanding team, not only in scientific ability but also as colleagues and friends." The U.S. ...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
... 1960s, unlike those used in most other countries, almost all U.S. medicines were synthetic. "Then a curiou...mand them. By the late 1990s, annual sales reached almost $4 billion here. "But all was not well in herbal America," he said. "The Food and Drug Administrati...Hospital stays of three days for uncomplicated heart attack
...ed in the GUSTO I trial (1990-1993) and found that almost 60 percent had "uncomplicated" or low-risk heart attacks. That meant they did not suffer a second heart attack, have recurrent angina, need emergency bypass or balloon angioplasty, experience heart failure, stroke, shock or die within the first thre...Study finds some bottled water has more bacteria and less fluoride than tap water
...high as the most contaminated tap water sample and almost 2,000 times higher than the purest tap water sample. Technicians at the Ohio Department of Health Laboratories in Columbus tested the water samples, which the researchers coded by number to eliminate the potential for bias. Despite the high bacteri......omponents on the surfaces of cancer cells that are almost unique to cancer," Danishefskyexplained. Vaccines mimic these components, training the immune system to see cancer cells as athreat. Several vaccines developed by Danishefsky's research team are about to enter Phase II and III clinicaltrials. The tea...Cancer-preventive potential of white tea
... expensive varieties of tea, white tea is produced almost exclusively in China. It belongs to the same species (Camellia sinensis) as other tea plants, but has a higher proportion of buds to leaves. The buds are covered by silvery hairs, giving the plant a whitish appearance. Some teas are processed more ...Nanostructures for drug delivery
...such as talc, as filler, but reducing the material almost to molecular scale to create what he calls "nanofillers." To do this, he took advantage of the natural structure of silicates, which under a microscope have a layered appearance, like a pack of cards. The atomic bonds between the layers are weak, al...New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of nuclear workers
...umulative radiation doses of five rem or more were almost three-and-a-half times more likely to die from mul...ired after 1948, the scientists found. Blacks were almost five times as likely as whites to have developed the illness, although only five cases were found am...Computerized prescription system reduces errors caused by bad handwriting
...are system) developed one of the first POE systems almost 30 years ago. While today's systems are far more sophisticated than those put in place in the 1960s, the concept remains similar: providing physicians and residents with an automated prescription system that seeks to prevent errors while also creati...NHLBI study shows relationship between sleep apnea and hypertension
... at least 10 seconds). These breathing pauses are almost always accompanied by loud snoring. The most common treatment is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a procedure involving use of a face mask which forces air through the nasal passages. Behavioral changes, especially weight loss, are usual...Care of mentally ill prisoners well below NHS standards
...ing staff had received mental health training, and almost a third had not had nurse training. None of the doctors in charge of inpatients had completed specialist psychiatric training. Most prisons kept patients unlocked for around 3.5 hours a day rather than the 12 hours required by current prison servic......n identical twins have a higher incidence of OCD-- almost 90 percent -- than fraternal twins, where the odds of both havingthe disorder is close to 50 percent....