New wireless imaging test identified the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in majority of patients
...dical Center. GI bleeds can occur due to ulcers, broken blood vessels, tumors, and diseases of the small intestine such as Crohns disease. However, conventional imaging tests often fail to find the source of the bleed because they cannot extend throughout the length of the entire small intestine. For ex...Yale researchers find potential target for treatment and prevention of osteoporosis
...rrible train wreck and walks away without a single broken bone, its members of this family," Lifton said. "They have extraordinarily dense bones and there is no history of fractures. You find this maybe once in a million people." Lifton said those family members with the genetic mutation have no symptoms. T...Medicine implants drastically reduce stroke complications
...propriate concentrations are maintained around the broken vessel using the newly-developed drug delivery system, says Kasuya. We show that this system is an effective, simple and safe treatment for preventing vasospasm....More Americans facing blindness than ever before
... cooperation of their authors. National data are broken down into state-by-state statistics. These are the most comprehensive data available on the prevalence of eye disease in America, said David S. Friedman, M.D., M.P.H., principal investigator of the study, and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Wil...USC researchers define role of protein, discover cause of chromosome damage
...he NHEJ pathway, explained Lieber, the ends of the broken DNA strands are trimmed and rejoined to one anothe...hat 5 to 10 percent of them will have at least one broken chromosome. Normally, of course, the NHEJ pathway works to fix those breaks. But the NHEJ pathway do...Gene linked to accelerated brain aging in healthy adults
... study," said Doraiswamy. "But when the sample was broken down by genetic makeup, the average loss of NAA across the age span was nearly three-fold higher in people with the APOE4 gene than in those who were not carriers of this gene." Thus, the researchers concluded that the brains of those who carry the A...Researchers closer to delivering new insulin pill for diabetics
...tly cannot be administered orally because they are broken down in the acidic environment of the stomach. To get around this complication, the engineers have made microscopic particles for drug delivery about a millionth of a meter in diameter, or roughly one-hundredth the width of a human hair. The particl...UF researchers: rural residents less apt to seek Alzheimer's care from family doctors
...ng babies to dealing with heart trouble and fixing broken bones. But when faced with the kind of memory difficulties associated with Alzheimer's disease, just a third of older rural residents with problems ask their primary-care health provider for help, compared with half of their urban counterparts, accor......k, it is like trying to open an office door with a broken lock you wont end up getting much work done. Type 2 diabetes is a complicated disorder that occurs when sufferers develop a resistance to otherwise perfectly normal insulin. The insulin secreting cells of the pancreas are unable to compensate by mak...Duke orthopedic surgeon bucks conventional wisdom; develops surgical approach for broken collarbones
... offers immediate treatmentfor patients with newly broken collarbones, but is finally providing relief for p...s malunions. "When I decided that I wanted to fix broken collarbones, everyone thought I was crazy andthat I would certainly ruin my career," Basamania recal...Breast cancer risk lower than women think; statistics by age, ethnicity give more realistic picture
...ng of the numbers, which become more accurate when broken down by race and ethnicity. This study also suggests that projections over a shorter time period, 5 to 20 years, may be more meaningful than the lifetime risk statistic. Lifetime risk is the likelihood that a newborn girl will develop breast cancer......and Wales between 1995 and 1998. The episodes were broken down into age groups, gender and time. Over 121,000 assaults were recorded. Almost three quarters were sustained by men, with almost half of these among men aged 18 to 30. Men over 50 were at lowest risk. The numbers of women sustaining injuries fro...Supplements that target fat loss … metals that protect themselves …
...ent. (AGFD 133, 10:50 a.m.) New material mends broken bones faster - Treatment for serious bone fractures could be quicker and less invasive, thanks to a new biodegradable material that could replace metal pins, screws and plates. (PMSE 288, 11:15 a.m.) Chemists and curators join forces to preserve O...New Jersey researchers receive national award
...nd that could both inhibit it and be absorbed, not broken down, by digestion," said Ondetti. Previously, researchers took a trial-and-error approach to discovering new drugs. "Their discovery of captopril represented the first example of rational drug design in the pharmaceutical industry," wrote BMS asso...New research reveals jury bias against whiplash lawsuits
...for the rest of your life. If you haven't lost or broken anything, don't expect much in the way of compensation from a jury of your peers. A new study by a nationally known expert on jury behavior finds that potential jurors are skeptical of people who file "whiplash" lawsuits. Valerie Hans, professo...Bad neighborhoods can cause depression
...ents with observable signs that social control has broken down. The daily stress associated with living in a neighborhood where neighbors are not trustworthy, and danger, trouble, and crime are common may produce feelings of depression," said study author Catherine E. Ross, Ph.D., of Ohio State University ...OHSU researchers discover new synapses in brain
...what happens when these lines of communication are broken and what we can do to repair them or prevent further damage."......tumor-killing activity in the test tube, but it is broken down too quicklyin the body to be useful in treating cancer. Two derivatives of camptothecin have proven more stableand are currently on the market. Curran's group first developed a free-radical synthesis of camptothecin. Now, the group is applyingth...The silent time bomb: divorce, health care and the baby boom generation
...mography of Aging. In short, something profound is broken with divorce, and it has effects even in the last years of life, sometimes decades removed from the divorce. The Hopkins study, co-authored with Barbara Steinberg Schone and published in Demography, studied the first wave of the Assets and Health Dyn...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
... in the home. Study participants were broken into three groups. All were requiredto attend group treatment meetings, asked to reduce the same amount of daily caloric and fatintake, and instructed to spend the same total amount of time exercising each day. Of...