New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...nstitute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern and an author on the PNAS paper. "This protein is only five nano...aques in patients may be too late," said Klein, an author on the PNAS paper who last year demonstrated that ADDLs specifically attack and disrupt synapses, th...Background 'DWI' checks effective
...kground checks for DWI histories," says lead study author and medical epidemiologist Guohua Li, M.D., Dr.P.H., a professor of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. "This study supports...Obesity and weight gain associated with poorer breast cancer survival
...Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study. "Researchers have also speculated that obesity acts on cancer by raising the body's levels of sex hormones such as estrogen, particularly in post-menopausal women. However, since smoking may promote the formation of less biologically ...Problems in the bedroom can indicate heart problems
...rdiovascular medicine," states lead researcher and author of the article, Kevin Billups, MD. "The earlier a man is evaluated for ED, the better the outcome for maintaining good erectile function and good cardiovascular health." Research suggests that medical evaluation for ED in patients needs to be integr...Wine drinkers live longer than beer guzzlers
...non-wine drinkers," states Professor Morten Grnbk, author of the article. This may be an important factor adding to the beneficial results of wine intake. The French are noted to have a relatively low rate of cardiovascular disease, despite high smoking rates and a typical high fat diet. The fact that the...Controversial Atkins Diet may be beneficial for people with epilepsy
... nutrition and epilepsy is in its infancy," states author Dr. Carl E. Stafstrom. "Aside from the ketogenic diet, nutritional modalities to treat epilepsy are premature. Nevertheless, as indicated in this review, several potential treatment adjuncts are on the horizon The potential benefits of dietary alte...Women, drinking to their health
...it," states Dr. Giovanni de Gaetano, corresponding author of the article published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. "We did not observe statistically significant differences between men and women, although a small advantage of women over men at the lowest amount of alcohol could be seen." This...Wisconsin scientists grow critical nerve cells
...assistant scientist in Zhang's group, and the lead author of the study. To determine the exact recipe for motor neuron growth, Li foraged labs worldwide to obtain the growth factors and other natural chemicals needed to guide cells from one stage of motor neuron development to another. But once past a certa...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
... actually cheaper in the long run, concludes study author John T. Chibnall, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Research by Chibnall and Raymond C. Tait, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, in Pain Medicine finds th...Study shows that diabetes increases risk of blood poisoning
...ne, according to Reimar Thomsen, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study. "Bacteremia ... is a life-threatening infection," he says, "and bacteremia with sepsis is the 10th most common cause of death in the United States." Dr. Thomsen of Aalborg Hospital and Aarhus University Hospital (currently with Vanderbi...UCSD-Salk team show protein's gene-silencing role in development of nervous system
... Journal of Biological Chemistry. Yeo is co-first author of the new study in Science, along with Soo-Kyung Lee, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Samuel L. Pfaff, Ph.D., associate professor, Salk Institute. Additional authors are Bora Lee, Ph.D. and Esmeralda C. Ruiz, B.S., Salk Institute....Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
... Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai and senior author on the study. "We knew a significant portion of patients with heart disease had an increased incidence of atrial flutter, but there weren't any explanations as to the mechanistic basis or the need for concomitant disease." Myocardial infarction, or ...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
... tale that mammograms hurt," says the study's lead author Alice Domar, PhD, Director of the Mind/Body Center...ard Medical School. Study coauthors include senior author Janet Baum, MD, and Aimee Eyvazzadeh, MD, of BIDMC; Sarah Allen, Kara Roman, and Rebecca Wolf of the...National Academies News: William H. Foege to receive Public Welfare Medal, Academy's highest honor
...gree from Harvard University in 1965. Foege is the author of more than 125 professional publications and has received numerous honorary degrees and awards -- among them the Mary Woodard Lasker Public Service Award, the World Health Organization's Health for All Medal, and Columbia University's Calderone Pri...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...depressant medications," said Dr. Trivedi, a study author and holder of the Lydia Bryant Test Professorship in Psychiatric Research. "The key is the intensity of the exercise and continuing it for 30 to 35 minutes per day. It's not for the faint of heart." The study, conducted between July 1998 and October...Activity not out of the question for people with chronic pain
...n than almost any other group," says Clauw, senior author of the study, which appears in the current issue o...h.edu/painresearch or call 866-288-0046. The lead author on the paper was Willem J. Kop, Ph.D., of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. ...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and lead author of the study, which was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Mental Health. Popular explanations of the racial gap in violence - "constitutional" differences in I...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
...is much later in life, said Velimir Matkovic, lead author of the study and director of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center and the Bone and Mineral Metabolism Laboratory at OSU Medical Center. The research is published in the January issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the...Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife strongly linked to risk of dementia
...all with equal access to medical care," said study author Rachel Whitmer, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif....Case definition for polyneuropathy developed to standardize research
...f Deaconess Billings Clinic in Billings, Mont. The author panel evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of the predictors of polyneuropathy and used an extensive literature review and a formal consensus process to develop an approach ranked by the likelihood of disease. According to the definition, the combinatio...