Animal study suggests safer immunization approach to Alzheimer's
...the UIC College of Medicine. Results of the study appear in the current issue of the Journal for Neuroscience Research. Two methods of immunization have been tried in Alzheimer's disease. In the first, called active immunization, researchers inject the antigen itself -- pieces of the sticky beta amyloid pr...Therapy, medication combination superior for children with obsessive-compulsive disorder
...ions have determined. The team's research findings appear in the October 27, 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Despite knowing that OCD is illogical, children and adolescents with OCD dwell or "obsess" on unwanted thoughts and perform repetitious actions or rituals in a compul...Racial differences, poverty linked to mammography use
...to be published Dec. 1 in the journal Cancer, will appear online Oct. 25 in the Cancer newsroom at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom . Electra Paskett, director of the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, led a team of...New technologies shed light on schizophrenia
...tinct types of cognitive malfunction. The findings appear in the October issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) uses a regular MRI machine to analyze the movement of water molecules in and around the fibers that connect...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...eurons throughout life. This same pattern does not appear to be similar in the male brain. Once the new brai... says Craft. "Instead, these sex differences would appear to be determined very early in development."...Advances in understanding brain circuits responsible for tics in Tourette's shed light on disorder
...ffects about one in 200 children. Symptoms usually appear between the ages of four and eight and include repetitive involuntary movements and utterances, or "tics." Tics vary according to where, how often, and how strongly they are expressed. They are often preceded by a sensory cue or "urge to tic" that ca...Lab study defines and blocks mechanism that lets brain tumors sidetrack immune response
.... Results of the study on cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) appear in the October 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology. While COX-2 inhibition has been considered an attractive anti-cancer strategy, results of earlier studies on a variety of tumors have been inconsistent, puzzling and sometimes seemingly contradicto...Strong-flavored onions show promise for fighting cancer
...monly consumed onion varieties. The new study will appear in the Nov. 3 print issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. Liu and his associates analyzed 10 common onion varieties and shallots for...Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer, study finds
...al. In addition, ducts that produced fluid did not appear to be related to the cancer in about half of the cancer-containing breasts. "Although further studies are warranted in women with early lesions, our results and those of others indicate that ductal lavage should not be recommended to high-risk women ...Ductal lavage may not detect breast cancer
...l. In addition, ducts that produced fluid did not appear to be related to the cancer in about half of the cancer-containing breasts. In an accompanying editorial, Carol J. Fabian, M.D., of the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, and colleagues review several other ongoing studies that ar...Whooping cough makes a national comeback
... coughing spells, it is typical for individuals to appear symptom-free. It is important for parents to know that adolescents generally exhibit different symptoms of the disease, often without the classic "whoop," making it difficult to recognize. While pertussis is threatening to all, this highly contagio...Physically fit children appear to do better in classroom, researchers say
... more laps it will make us smarter, but there does appear to be a correlation." Castelli noted that teachers who work closely with young and preadolescent children have long suspected a link between physical fitness and cognitive function. Anecdotal evidence is plentiful, she said, but empirical data to ba...Two novel agents work synergistically to treat lung cancer in animal experiment
... these two agents block two different pathways and appear to have tremendous potential to make an impact in the treatment of lung cancer patients. We are in the process of developing a clinical protocol, which we hope to move forward to patients in the near future," says Waun Ki Hong, M.D., head of the Divi...Telephone follow-up does not reduce rehospitalization for low-risk heart failure patients
...University School of Medicine. The findings, which appear in the Oct. 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, are at odds with past studies that show substantial benefits to specialized care management. The authors suggest that nurse care management does not measurably improve the health of clinically low-...Minimally invasive surgery for heart rhythm abnormality proven effective
...irst reported clinical trial testing the procedure appear in the October issue of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. "Our findings show that this technique is much easier to perform but works just as well as the more invasive approach," says principal investigator Ralph J. Damiano, M.D., th...Not all beers are created equal
...erms of a single bottle of beer," said Kerr, "they appear more substantial when applied to the six million gallons of beer sold each year in the US. For example, in 2000, using the corrected percentages results in about 10 additional standard drinks yearly for each person aged 14 or older in the U.S. Stat...Study: Brain battles itself over short-term rewards, long-term goals
...our universities found two areas of the brain that appear to compete for control over behavior when a person attempts to balance near-term rewards with long-term goals. The research involved imaging people's brains as they made choices between small but immediate rewards or larger awards that they would rec...Herbal, nutritional supplements linked to ocular side effects
...ocular migraine without headache. The side effects appear to be associated with large doses. Canthaxa...s deposits of the drug in the retina. The deposits appear to be absorbed over time, but take years to disappear. Visual changes from this nutritional suppleme...Angiogenesis therapy successful for peripheral arterial disease
...ads to the creation of multiple forms of VEGF that appear to provide therapeutic angiogenesis," Annex said. ...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...ma have not been separated. The findings, which appear in today's New England Journal of Medicine, put to rest a decades-long debate in the medical community, said Dr. Daniel Stromberg, assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern and the study's senior author. "The results demonstrate that th...