Purdue 'stealth compounds' attack cancer cells
...leotide because it is breaking down the components almost as quickly as it processes them." Borch says his group's new method has the advantage that there is no premature breakdown in the bloodstream, and it carries out the process very quickly. Purdue has filed for a patent on the new technology. Bor......e of the BPH patient. Also, side effects should be almost nil from the minimally invasive technique, and treatment costs could be lowered, Larsen says. His new endoscopic method uses an improved radio frequency (RF) "leaky-wave" applicator to deliver a uniform heating pattern along the length of the gland. ...Study: crime, lack of PE, recreation programs lead U.S. adolescents to couch-potato lifestyles
...ng those reporting no school physical education to almost 50 percent among those having PE five times a week. "There has been extensive discussion of the need to increase physical activity, and PE classes in school have been a major target," Popkin said. "This is the first major national study of the impo...Women medical school faculty perceive gender bias, sexual harassment
...ry or threats -- occurring frequently (reported by almost 30 percent of female faculty). More than half of responding female faculty reported being sexually harassed by a superior or colleague, compared to 5 percent of men. These negative experiences do not necessarily restrict a woman's career advancement,...Risk map will help predict encephalitis outbreaks
...ouis encephalitis epidemic in Florida this year is almost nonexistent, says a medical entomologist with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. New York City also will likely be spared a repeat of last summer's epidemic of West Nile virus, a close relative of St. Louis encep...Eating disorders more common among girls with diabetes
...and without type 1 diabetes Eating disorders are almost twice as common in girls with type 1 diabetes as in non-diabetic girls of the same age, putting them at increased risk of complications, according to a study in this week's BMJ. Canadian researchers surveyed over 1,400 young women aged between 12 and...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
... marrow. In one patient, 17% of her liver cells -- almost one in five -- carried the Y chromosome, some 13 months after she received the transplant. The finding suggests that the liver normallyadds new cells over time because the woman's liver was not damaged by the bone marrow transplant, says Dr. Theise. ...Lescol® XL effectively manages all major lipid parameters
...arry an increased risk of cardiovascular events of almost 40 percent. Hence the increase of up to 18.7 percent in HDL-C yielded by Lescol® XL is clinically meaningful. The data confirmed that Lescol® XL 80 mg provides significantly improved efficacy with a similar safety profile when compared to Le...Babies born at night are at greater risk of early death
...-8: observational study Babies born at night are almost twice as likely to die as babies born during the d...m and 6.59am - defined as night time births - were almost twice as likely to die as babies born at any other time. A clear link between time of birth and deat...Ritalin helps children with ADHD maintain normal reaction time
...n-ADHD children, all of whom had an average age of almost 9 and standardized IQs of about 94. All of the ch...the answers differed, untreated ADHD children took almost 700 milliseconds longer to respond correctly during a switch between the two questions than they had...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...helps perpetuate a predictable outcome. "Men seem almost irrelevant," said Heimer. "Fathers get a strong clue that they need not be responsible." The expectations for young unmarried mothers also are relatively low. The NICU staff argue that it is necessary to accommodate different lifestyles with varying...... an animal's skin when it is eaten. Its scraggly, almost frail-looking stem produces a brilliant yellow flower cluster and it grows readily in rock quarries and in marginal areas such as roadsides, where little else grows....Beer found to contain potent antioxidant
...ctive than antioxidants found in citrus fruits and almost four times more effective than antioxidants found in soy products, Buhler said. Combined with vitamin E, xanthohumol has even greater antioxidant activity, he noted. The compound's chemical structure could explain its added potency, Buhler said. As ...Passive smoking at work increases rate of sick leave among employees
... take medicines. The total sample survey comprised almost 10,000 officers, all of whom were healthy, just over half of whom had never smoked; 14 percent of these were women. Non-smoking men exposed to passive smoking at work for more than a year were twice as likely to take time off and over 30 per cent mor...Major new study finds long-acting calcium channel blockers inferior to other antihypertensive drugs
...g enzyme) inhibitor. The blood pressure change was almost identical for the CCB and the non-CCB treatment groups. "Blood pressure reduction, by itself, contributes substantially to protecting the heart and preventing blood vessel disease, which is the goal of antihypertensive therapy," said Michael H. Alde...California labor market is strong, but workers in poor health don't benefit, UCSF study reports
... take jobs have less than a high school education, almost half have at least some college. About a fifth hav...rty level, despite their employment. Surprisingly, almost half of these workers are men. Almost two thirds are in their prime earning years of 25-54, and more...NIH awards grant to UCSF and Kaiser to strengthen women's health research
...y renowned women's health scholars can be found in almost every school, department and research unit at UCSF. This breadth of expertise is supported by a nationally recognized clinical program in women's health, a commitment to the promotion of women as leaders, efforts to restructure the medical school cur...Study shows farm work appears to protect against breast cancer
...ed States in 1972, can still be measured in people almost 30 years later, he said. A concern has been that DDT and certain other pesticides can mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen and may promote breast cancer. Even during years when DDT was in use, from 1945 to 1972, scientists still found a ...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
...mproves The Odds Peregrine combines Livermores almost 50 years of radiation physics expertise with advanced computer architectures to produce a system that determines radiation dose information in minutes. Peregrine relies on a mathematical technique called Monte Carlo to track radiation. It simulates...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000
...oadly adopted, use of this water heater could save almost 1 percent of the country's energy consumption. [Contact: John Tomlinson] NUCLEAR ENERGY Next-generation safe power plants . . . An ORNL team will receive more than $1.1 million over the next three years to develop technology for reliable and au...