Robotic physical therapy improves movement long after stroke
...n to compensate for the loss and make little or no attempt to use the impaired limb, which leads to even more disability, says Fasoli. To test the theory that recovery could continue long term, Fasoli and other team members used a robot designed by MIT engineers for use in physical and occupational therapy......n, Gitchell and their coauthors also analyzed quit attempt data from two states with comprehensive tobacco control programs, Massachusetts and California, finding no significant change in quitting behavior from 1993 to 1999. Both states had rates that hovered around 40-45 percent for each of the years (1993...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
...ch) at the University of Miami, where he will also attempt to implant stem cells instead of the used nerve cells from the fore rib. The researchers attempted to repair three sorts of spinal cord damage in rats. The first, the dorsal, partial hemisection is comparable to a knife stab in the back in humans. Th...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...p or reverse those changes. A third project will attempt to determine why certain pain-relieving drugs are much more potent in women than in men. Those drugs act on cells in the spinal cord called cholinergic cells, the same kinds of cells affected by nicotine. One of these types of drugs, called metanicot...The effect of laws mandating bicycle helmet use
...s mandating the use of bicycle helmets in a direct attempt to lower the incidence of bicycle-related deaths, 75% of which are due to head injury. John LeBlanc and colleagues used trained observers to identify the rates of helmet use in Halifax before, during and after 1997, when helmet legislation was introd...Smokers disillusioned and over-optimistic about quitting
...on 13 March will prompt smokers to make a credible attempt at stopping so that they can live the life they would want if they had their time again, they conclude....NIAAA steps up search for brain mechanisms of alcohol abuse, alcoholism
...incipal Investigator: George F. Koob, Ph.D.), will attempt to identify neuroadaptive changes that occur in the amygdala, a brain region that makes up part of the brains reward circuitry. Entitled "The Neurobiological Basis of Excessive Drinking," this consortium will test the hypothesis that genetic differen...Regionalization of hospital caseloads may decrease mortality rates in pediatric surgeries
...impact on health care. This study is an important attempt to shed some light on how the organization of medical care may have impact on the effectiveness of that care....Certain behaviors can predict binge-eating disorders in teenage girls
... that it might be useful for prevention efforts to attempt to reduce girls' perception of the importance of their appearance as well as working on their overeating tendencies. The study followed more than 200 girls enrolled in the ninth or tenth grade at two unidentified private high schools in northern Cali...Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
In a first attempt to test a new general strategy for drug discovery, chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and TSRI's Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology created the most potent blocking agent known against an enzyme implicated in Alzheimer's disease. In......d Scriabin have been linked to synesthesia. In an attempt to describe what synesthesia is like, novelist and synesthete Vladimir Nabokov wrote that he saw the letter c as light blue; associated a with the look of weathered wood, and got a feeling like a sooty rag being ripped from the letter r. The synesthe...Accidental overdose with Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) carries a greater risk of death
...ith the remainder having accidentally overdosed in attempt to relieve their pain. They found that those patients who had accidentally overdosed fared less well than those who attempted suicide. This was surprising given that the levels of acetaminophen were much lower in the patients who had taken the overd...Mice lacking fat-making enzyme are leaner, more sensitive to leptin and insulin
... anti-obesity drugs work on the nervous system and attempt to reduce appetite. A DGAT1 inhibitor would offer an entirely novel approach by going directly to the source and turning off the tap of fat production. Maybe the next time Rip wakes up, a DGAT1 inhibitor will have transformed Americans into the slimm...Action needed to stop 'disease mongering'
...cked promotional activities for osteoporosis which attempt to persuade millions of healthy women worldwide that they are sick. Although these observations of disease mongering are selective and preliminary, the authors believe that more could be done to expose and reduce misleading wonder drug stories in the......ral implants of autologous myelinating cells in an attempt to repair demyelinated lesions. In this issue of TLN, Christopher Halfpenny and colleagues review the clinical and biological problems presented by multiple sclerosis disease processes, and the background to the development of myelin repair strategie...Call to action to tackle global health impact of child prostitution
...st-traumatic stress disorder; and 1.6 million will attempt suicide. Of the 2.3 million infants born to prostituted girls every year, the authors estimate that around 200,000 will die at birth, 237,000 will suffer complications due to maternal STDs, and 250,000 will be infected with HIV. Barry Levy comments:...Hungry children: more depression, suicide, low grades
...lways enough to eat, are five times more likely to attempt suicide, compared with well-fed adolescents. They also are four times more likely to suffer from chronic, low-grade depression (dysthymia), which is a high-risk factor for major depression, are almost twice as likely to have been suspended from schoo...Women suffering from anorexia are 50 times more likely to commit suicide
...trically ill were found to be at a greater risk to attempt suicide. Franko's research was chosen by the Acad... of the 246 subjects reported at least one suicide attempt during the course of the study, and of these, 32 made multiple attempts. Suicide attempts occurred ...Long-term survival results favor chemotherapy before surgery for locally advanced breast cancer
...sufficient downstaging of their tumor to permit an attempt at breast conserving therapy, or lumpectomy (segmental mastectomy). Of these, 22 (79 percent) had successful breast preservation, while six required complete mastectomy due to laboratory determination of cancer in the margins of surgery after lumpect...