Contrary to previous findings, smoking is detrimental to patients with Alzheimer's
...eighed by the increase in tangles. The paper will appear also in the Feb. 22 print edition of PNAS. Alzheimer's disease is a slow, progressive disease and the most common cause of dementia among the elderly in the United States, affecting 4.5-5 million adults -- 10 times more than those affected by Parkins...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...omotes bone mineral density in women. The findings appear in the February Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The study was conducted by Delia Scholes, Ph.D., of the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle, Washington, and her colleagues. To conduct the study, the researchers measured hip, spine, a...UCI study uncovers how plaque in neck artery leads to stroke-inducing blood clots
...e strokes are caused by blood clots. Study results appear online in Stroke, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association ( www.strokeaha.org ). "Plaque growth in the carotid artery is the most important surgically correctable cause of stroke," said Fisher, the study leader. "However, there has ...Auditory test to help identify learning impaired
...ur experience, children with these timing deficits appear to benefit most from remediation strategies involving computer-based auditory training. We anticipate that our partnership with Bio-logic will be fruitful in making this objective marker of auditory function available to clinics and private practices...Rehabilitation can restore some vision after stroke
...on loss did not occur in most instances. Patients appear to benefit by continuing the training rather than stopping after a certain period of time. "The improvement remains stable in most patients," he said. "Continued therapy, however, is helpful to further improve the outcome." Patients with vision los...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
... actually improves certain abilities: Older people appear to be better and faster at grasping the big picture than their younger counterparts. "Going into the study, we knew that ageing changes the way people see the world," says Allison Sekuler, one of the senior authors and a Canada Research Chair at McMa...Substance protects resilient staph bacteria
...ort of the study, led by Michael Otto, Ph.D., will appear in the March edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation and is now available online. Collaborators, all scientists at RML in Hamilton, MT, include Stanislava Kocianova, Ph.D.; Cuong Vuong, Ph.D.; Yufeng Yao, Ph.D.; Jovanka Voyich, Ph.D.; Elizab...New treatment rivals chemotherapy for lymphoma, U-M study finds
...sease-free after five years. Results of the study appear in the Feb. 3 New England Journal of Medicine . "The results of this treatment, which essentially takes only one week to complete, rival any kind of treatment that's been used for follicular lymphoma, including chemotherapy regimens that take months...Inflammatory cells highly promising target in NF 1
...er the skin. In most patients, the tumors begin to appear in adolescence or adulthood. A patient may develop hundreds of neurofibromas over a lifetime. Some NF 1 patients also develop numerous light brown (caf-au-lait) spots on the skin, enlargement and deformation of bones and curvature of the spine (scoli...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
... -- and cancer cells only. Their research findings appear in the current issue of Nature Biotechnology http://www.nature.com/nbt/ . The researchers harnessed the viral trait for attacking and commandeering cells, and then redirected the virus to attack diseased, rather than healthy cells. The work was don...Neoadjuvant and adjuvant systemic therapy for breast cancer give equivalent survival, study finds
...y or endocrine therapy--for breast cancer does not appear to affect survival or disease progression. However, women who receive systemic therapy and radiation therapy without surgery may be more likely to experience a recurrence of their cancer compared with women treated with chemotherapy later, according ...$10-million study explores men's role in transmitting HPV
...artners during sex. In men, genital warts appear as growths or bumps on the penis, scrotum, in or around the anus, or groin. Warts may be raised or flat, single or multiple, small or large. Sometimes they are so small that they can't be seen by the naked eye. Some people only have one episode of...Nanoscale diagnostic sets sights on Alzheimer's
...Klein and his colleagues suggests that ADDLs first appear in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's. If the BCA process can identify the markers before symptoms develop, doctors may be able to combat the illness in its nascent form when treatments may be most effective. In the first steps of the BCA process, un...Penn study shows how next-generation diabetic drugs could work more selectively
...of the drug's action on fat cells." These findings appear in the January 28th online edition of Genes & Development and will appear in the February 15th print issue. Knowing how to turn a gene off may permit researchers to develop ...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...llection of teams at this level of expertise don't appear anywhere else in the world."...Mayo Clinic researchers identify new form of muscular dystrophy in adults
...im new therapies. The report on the discovery will appear in the Jan. 26 online version of the journal Annals of Neurology ( http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/78504407 ). The Mayo Clinic researchers found that any one of three mutations in the gene that supplies the instructions for creati...Whole-body CT screening costs overshadow benefits
...At this time, whole-body CT screening just doesn't appear to be a good use of healthcare funding."...Hearing aid signal not clear? Then switch frequency to FM, finds UCI study
... music and certain spoken languages. Study results appear this week in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some 30 million Americans have some form of hearing loss, and some 4 million of these people benefit from using hearing aids or cochlear implants. But limitatio...New leukemia drug shows promise in overriding all Gleevec resistance
... targeted parts of the BCR-ABL protein that didn't appear to be mutating and adapting to Gleevec. "We developed ON012380, a compound that specifically inhibits BCR-ABL by blocking a different site in the protein, which is essential for its activity. As a result, ON012380 was found to induce cell death of ...Clinical trial participants fare no better, no worse than other patients
..."The bottom line is that the effects of treatments appear most of the time to be similar inside and outside of trials, and participation in trials doesn't appear to be associated with greater risk than getting the same treatment outside of a trial," reports Andr...