Scientists meet in Connecticut to discuss research findings
...of a teenagers life in the year 2025? The contest begins on Tuesday, June 20, 2:00 p.m. Winners will be announced at 4:30 p.m., South Campus Dormitories. The pitfalls and pleasures of Connecticut winemaking: Dr. Robert Bates of the University of Floridas Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, will de...Researchers create a strong new molecule in the fight against AIDS
...s, where the virus penetrates the body's cells and begins to replicate itself. The virus uses its own enzymes and reproduces itself through the body's own biochemistry. An early major step involves a viral enzyme called reverse transcriptase that creates the DNA of the virus. The next step involves the HIV ...New drug works well as sole epilepsy therapy for difficult-to-treat patients
... of seizure disorders, is a partial seizure, which begins in a localized area of the brain. Secondarily generalized seizures begin in one area of the brain and then spread throughout the brain. Drugs can often control epilepsy's symptoms, but as many as 20 percent do not respond to treatment. Trial Design a......n addition, researchers found that this protection begins soon after initiating use, and continues for at least 30 years after stopping use. Previous research has shown that women taking the older, pre-1980 oral contraceptives were less likely to develop ovarian cancer than were women who had never used th...NIH awards grant to UCSF and Kaiser to strengthen women's health research
...e a national reputation." Funding for this program begins this fall. UCSF and Kaiser will receive $500,000 each year for five years and will recruit locally and nationally for the program, Grady said. This new program builds on the research successes of both UCSF and Kaiser in women's health. Nationally an...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...rtant on two fronts," said Volpicelli. "First, it begins to identify that, for at least blocking the pleasure associated with drinking, doses higher than 50 milligrams may be helpful for some people. There seems to be a huge individual variability in how naltrexone is metabolized, so those people who may ...Study suggests greater pressure on family care as baby boom ages
...e shrinking labor pool as the Baby Boom generation begins to retire, may also spur employers and policy makers to provide more support for informal caregiving through such measures as flex time and employer-sponsored long-term care benefits, noted the researchers. "A better understanding of how demographic ...Environment contributes to drug tolerance
... at home, Cepeda-Benito says, the body, over time, begins to prepare itself, through learning, for the environment it is used to consuming the drugs in, resulting in a lessening of the drug's effects. "This is important because we know that tolerance is a symptom of drug dependence, and when you become tole...Duke eye researchers describe cascade of events that may lead to retinal degeneration
...cans. In the typical course of the disease, which begins in the early years of life, the rods begin to die in a process known as apoptosis, or programmed cell death. As night vision progressively worsens due to the loss of rods, the cones begin to die as well, which worsens the day vision. The wh...Interactive game could reduce heart attack deaths by teaching rapid response to symptoms
...rn to take better care of themselves. HEART SENSE begins with an upsetting sequence that is watched by the user. The scenario depicts a man who ignores heart attack symptoms, collapses, and must be rushed by ambulance to the emergency room, where it is too late to revive him. HEART SENSE continues with in...Gum disease higher in heart attack patients
...orded before and after treatment. Atherosclerosis begins with damage to the arterial endothelium, the inner protective lining of arteries of the heart. Studies have shown that the condition of the forearm endothelium is similar to that of the heart muscle itself. The study raises the question of whether ...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...ual health programs. Because smoking almost always begins during or prior to the teen years, the HSPP intervention covered virtually the entire age range of smoking onset, starting early (third grade), and continuing into high school (10th grade). Despite rigorous study design, faithful teaching of the prog...New research expands understanding of treatment for ADHD
...be closely related to ADHD symptoms. This research begins to explain how Ritalin works to treat ADHD, says NIDA Director Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D. And in doing so it helps us to better understand the biology of ADHD. Understanding this process can help doctors appropriately diagnose and treat children with the...... as the AAMC's task force on conflicts of interest begins its own deliberations in the near future, " said AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. The AAMC task force is being chaired by William Danforth, M.D., chancellor emeritus of Washington University. The November meeting was planned over the summer follo...Double-drug therapy may benefit some multiple sclerosis patients
...rmittent attacks and remissions before the disease begins a course of steady progression. Other less common forms include primary-progressive MS, in which the symptoms generally do not remit, and progressive-relapsing MS, which is characterized by obvious acute attacks....Researchers gain insights on pulmonary fibrosis
...tions or determine when the actual disease process begins and stop it." Other findings of the study include: Smoking was identified in 51 percent of cases; Exposure to environmental agents known to cause fibrosis, such as asbestos, silica or wooddust, was identified in 22 percent of cases; and Average a...Expert advises annual lung test for smokers during physical exam
...ough, sputum, and phlegm even before lung function begins to decline. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. behind heart disease, cancer, and stroke. By 2020, it is predicted to rank as the third leading cause of death. Approximately 100,000 men and women die from the disease annually in t......ehavioral Therapy for Treatment of PTSD in Women," begins July 1, 2001, and it will focus on military women. The principal investigators are Dartmouth Medical School Professors of Psychiatry Paula Schnurr and Matthew Friedman and their colleague Lt. Col. Charles Engel, Chief, Deployment Health Clinical Cent......ake Forest University Baptist Medical Center today begins enrolling healthy men age 55 and older in the largest-ever prostate cancer prevention study, to determine if selenium and vitamin E prevent prostate cancer. Launched by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and a network of researchers known as the ...