Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
...ing cystourethography, or VCUG, to see if urine is backing up into their kidneys. "Hypnosis was really the only thing that helped," said Miller. Many clinical reports suggest that hypnosis can make it easier to quit smoking, reduce the pain of cancer and giving birth and help reduce the stress of medical pro...Novel drug-antidote strategy provides greater control of drug action
...ed in Research Triangle Park, N.C. and has venture backing from the Durham-based Aurora funds. The company has licensed the antidote technology as well as the factor IXa aptamer-antidote pair, known as REG1, from Duke, and plans to initiate clinical testing of REG1 early next year. "An advan...Safer visual and auditory cues for elderly drivers is research goal
...e mid-to-high frequency sounds that signal a truck backing up or the approach of emergency vehicles. In addition to simply detecting warning signals, drivers need to be able to tell the difference between a signal that indicates simple status information, such as low fuel, and those that are intended to conv...New guidelines set standard on test to diagnose acid reflux, heartburn and other diseases
... prevents food or liquid within the esophagus from backing up into the throat, while the lower esophageal sphincter protects the lower esophagus from stomach acid and bile by opening only when food or liquid is swallowed. When a person is afflicted with esophageal problems such as acid reflux, heartburn, swa......re than 60Million. Merger has won across-the-board backing among stakeholders of both institutions because of...unification plan, which with substantial financial backing now secured, means that the Universities will forge ahead with merger in August 2004. "This merger ...Prostate cancer hormonal therapy may increase sexual and physical problems
...for early prostate cancer even though the evidence backing the effectiveness of ADT has been lacking. Patients deserve better information from randomized clinical trials to help them make [treatment] decisions, he concludes. Leaving them to ill-informed hunches is chancy medicine and the road to poor, expen...NYU researcher unveils the scientist in painter Chuck Close
...he second theory, as mentioned above, assumes that backing awayreveals the face because our eye optically blurs the blocks together. But thiswould predict a much smaller critical angle, about 0.1 deg, rather than the 0.3deg Pelli found. Instead, Pelli's results suggest that when the marks exceed the critica...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...so suggest that physicians should becautious about backing off from OI prophylaxis once it is indicated,despite early increases in CD4 counts." In the three-month analysis, Dr. Lederman's group found that the increase in CD4+ T cells couldbe attributed to both more memory cells (those that have encounteredHI...