NIAID initiates trial of experimental avian flu vaccine
...avian influenza, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National ...nnounced today. Sites in Rochester, NY, Baltimore and Los Angeles will enroll a total of 450 healthy adults. The clinical sites are part of the NIAID-spon...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
1. Fish Oil and -Amyloid in the Mouse Giselle P. Lim, Frdric Calo...Oliver Ubeda, Norman Salem Jr, Sally A. Frautschy, and Greg M. Cole Low levels of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) have be...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
... who have normal cervical cancer screening results and negative tests for human papillomavirus (HPV), a s...ns in the United States have been recently updated and now advise using an interval of 3 years between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who ha...Study finds factors linked to substance use disorder relapse among health care professionals
... is best achieved through continuing group therapy and regular attendance at mutual help groups. Data on the incidence of relapse and risk factors contributing to the likelihood of relapse after initial treatment for substance use are...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...llergy-like symptoms could get the test they need, and the right treatments for their symptoms, from thei...an easily be administered in a physician's office, and the test results are easy to interpret. Instead of testing for allergies, most family physicians are...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
... Sudan found a high number of deaths from violence and disease, according to a brief report in the March ...nst civilians in the west of Sudan started in 2003 and has continued. "More than 1.5 million people (25 percent of the population of the region) are now sc...Extreme exertion, emotion can spark repeat heart attacks
...with a history of heart disease, physical exertion and emotional stress can trigger heart attacks, some of them fatal. Authors Philip Strike and Andrew Steptoe of University College London point out that the triggers for heart attacks may be qui...Chronic fatigue patients show lower response to placebos
...ysis by Dr. Hyong Jin Cho of King's College London and colleagues, 19.6 percent of patients with chronic ...re. Myriad symptoms include severe malaise, muscle and joint pain, sleep and mood disturbances and headache. The symptoms continue for at least six months ...Depression linked to insomnia in HIV patients
...review, says that "given the prevalence of anxiety and depression reported in HIV infection, it is not su... last stages of HIV infection with full-blown AIDS and those who have suffered some kind of brain impairment as a result of the disease are also more likel...UW research shows risk factors for relapse among health care professionals who abuse drugs
...lapse. "A family history of substance use disorder and the presence of co-existing psychiatric disorders,...ts were originally gathered between January, 1991, and December, 2001. Domino became interested in the problem of drug use among health care professionals ...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...tional Institutes of Health. With $300,000 awarded and another $2 million anticipated in NIH Small Busine... Transfer grants over the next 2 years, Professor, and now CEO, Bill Hersman launched Xemed LLC to commercialize the technology he developed for polarizing...Definition of persistent vegetative state available from American Academy of Neurology
...ublished a practice parameter about the assessment and management of patients in the persistent vegetative state. This parameter includes definition and diagnosis information. It is publicly accessible at www.aan.com . The direct link opens as a .pdf f...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...aneous Coronary Interventions (PCI), pre-published and accessible on the ESC Web Site(1). According to t...ary syndromes (ACS) than before. Recent technical and pharmacological improvements have developed PCI into a procedure that can be safely and effectively ...Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
...ool of Public Health, George Washington University and St. Michael's Hospital, in Toronto, Canada. The Ho...5-44, there is a need for further research on risk and opportunities for prevention," said Andrea C. Gielen, ScD, ScM, lead author of the study and deputy ...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...lling to take a cervical cancer vaccine themselves and would allow it to be administered to their childre... on their willingness to accept it for themselves, and their daughters and sons. It is the first study to examine women's perceptions of a vaccine for bot...Kandel pays tribute to Hubel's and Wiesel's 25-year partnership and work in neurobiology & vision
...ens when two brilliant neuroscientists from Sweden and Canada decide to form a partnership that lasts for two decades and remains obsessed on a single line of research: the brain's ability to see? The answer: A 1981 Nobel...African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...investigators from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Cancer Institute has found that Afric...e survival rates for 168 African-American patients and 997 Caucasian patients with Stage III, Stage IV or recurrent endometrial cancer were analyzed and co...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...Our studies suggest that using therapies to target and inhibit the function of mutant v599EB-Raf protein could prevent the spread of melanoma and halt tumor growth for those melanomas containing the B-Raf mutation," said Gavin P. Robertson, Ph.D....Infant vernier acuity is comparable to that of adults
...lication of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). The data from this study als...amounts of spatial phase displacement between them and measuring an individual's ability to gauge the displacement between the stripes. Angela M. Brown, V...Recovered king of beasts returns to his home, thanks to unique operation
...he Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has recuperated and has returned to his cage and to his sister, Delilah. "The meeting between Samson and his sister Delilah was joyous and emotional...