Ovarian Hormone Could Play Key Role In Easier, Safer Childbirth
...ted into the blood in thelast half of pregnancy in both species, heidentified its physiological roles. In addition to its effects on the cervix,relaxin prepares mother rats and pigs for nursingtheir young by promoting the development of the mammary glands and nipples,Sherwood's team discovered. Sherwood i...Pairing Two Drugs With Angioplasty May Offer Best Success In Treating Heart Attacks
...angioplasty totreat their heart attacks. Combining both together, and adding a second'super-aspirin' drug ... SPEED is the first trial to test the use of both drugs with angioplasty,a procedure that presses plaque obstructions against an artery wall by inflat...This Week's Forecast May Be A Heart Attack
...ip between weather conditions and heartattacks -- both fatal and nonfatal -- among 250,000 men ages 25 to 64 living inand around Lille, France. Philippe Amouyel, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at Lille UniversitySchool of Medicine in France, reports that an 18° F (10° C) decrease in thete...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
...ing moreextensive dietary assessments and studying both arthritis severity andprogression. Jordan and her colleagues also will study such nutrients as Omega 3fatty acids, vitamin D, vitamin K and others. "Among strengths of the current study are that we looked at not justosteoarthritis patients, b...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...tates. In the most extreme cases, cities that had both high income inequality and low average income, recorded a mortality rate of 139.8 deaths per 100,000 more than areas with low inequality and high average incomes. Lynch's presentation, "Inequality and Mortality in Metropolitan Areas in the U.S.," beg...UCSF Study Finds DHEA Benefits Cardiovascular Function
...k that needs to be done to make sure thehormone is both safe and beneficial, Zellner said.No human studies examining the cardiac effects of DHEA have been completed,which is essential before any recommendations involving the drug can be made,Zellner said. The study was funded by the UCSF Foundatio...Beta Blocker Significantly Improves Heart Failure Survival
... meet thebody's demands, is an increasing problem both in the United States and inEurope. It affects at least four million people in the United States, with about400,000 new cases diagnosed each year. It results in almost one millionhospitalizations each year and is the most common discharge diagnosis in...Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
...ne, but are accepted parts of patient treatment by both conventional andalternative practitioners. Since more patients are embracing alternative therapies, there's a needfor clinicians, within the scope of the ethics of their practice, to find a wayto bridge the gap between their reliance on conve...Low Socio-Economic Status Heart Patients Need More Than Just Aggressive Cardiac Procedures
...e hospital sickerthan high SES patients, and while both groups experienced small but markedimprovements after either revascularization procedure, the functional status oflower SES patients remained significantly impaired one year after treatment. "We expected all patients to feel bad at the beginn...Famous Faces Activate More Parts Of The Brain
...lable for memorization. "When you access both verbal and nonverbal information about an itemsuch as a famous face, you get activation of both sides of the brain," saysWilliam M. Kelley, a graduate student at Washington University School ofMed......ntities needed for commercial production. However, both burley and oriental varieties of tobacco also performed well in protein production. "That means it looks as though we have great flexibility in regard to varieties," she said. "That, in turn, means that we won't necessarily be limited to any partic...Researchers Splice Severed Spinal Cords
...d his colleague, assistant professor Dr. Riyi Shi, both of Purdue'sCenter for Paralysis Research in the School of Veterinary Medicine, will reporttheir findings Thursday (11/12) in Long Beach, Calif., at the 18th annualmeeting of the Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine. Borgensalso has...Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
...e are Drs.Thomas C. Ricketts and Thomas R. Konrad, both of the Sheps Center, and Stephen S.Mick of the University of Michigan. Researchers analyzed the geographical distribution of primary-carephysicians - doctors specializing in family and general practice, internalmedicine, obstetrics and gyneco...First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
...alone, psychotherapy alone, and the combination of both inpatients with chronic depression. Zoloft is one of four medications in use, including Prozac, Paxil andCelexa, that belong to the class of drugs called SSRI's, selective seretoninre-uptake inhibitors. The drugs block re-upt...Physicians Study Whether "Super-Aspirin" Prevents Alzheimer's
...ting painkillers likeibuprofen and aspirin inhibit both cox-2 and cox-1, a closelyrelated enzyme. For years physicians believed that knocking outcox-1 helped patients feel better, but now most doctors believethat cox-2 is the real pain-causing culprit in many illnesses.Currently drugs targeting cox-2 are ...Tobacco Will Kill One Third Of Chinese Men
...pattern of disease caused by smoking varies widely both within China and between China and the developed world. Of deaths caused by tobacco in China, 45 per cent are from chronic lung disease, 15 per cent from lung cancer and five to eight per cent from each of oesophageal cancer, stomach cancer, liver c...Discovery: Experiments Confirm Novel Eye Pigment Controls Circadian Rhythm
...vision. Severing the optic nerve abolishes both vision and circadianphoto-response, the scientist said. However, because pigments for vision andcircadian clocks occur in different parts of the retina, some blind people who have lost the part of the retina containing opsins stillretain the cryptoch...WFU And IntraVec To Develop Innovative Cancer And HIV Treatments
...red by Chen that masksthe docking sites for HIV on both macrophages and lymphocytes. Taken together,the new processes address both early and later stage HIV infections. When the research was first reported last year, Chen s......hose with a higher level of majordepression, since both samples had identical scores on the depressionmeas...da more gradual improvement, but after four months both groups showed similarclinical improvement. A major purpose of this study was to assess the ...