Mayo Clinic finds weight not a factor among women using fertility technologies to become pregnant
...the ability of the uterus to receive an embryo and carry a pregnancy to term. The Mayo Clinic study results...an affect a woman's ability to become pregnant and carry a pregnancy to term," says Dr. Tummon....The neighborhood matters: Packard Center scientists show cell environment is important in ALS
... standard animal models of ALS. Those mice or rats carry a mutant human gene -- called SOD1 -- that triggers a rare, inherited form of the disease in people. In these models, every cell carries a mutant SOD1 gene. The animals typically slip into death by the time they're six to eight months of age. But in ...It's the neighborhood that matters in ALS, according to medical researchers
...rons from degeneration when the neurons themselves carry the ALS mutation. Published in the October 3, 200...g the progression of ALS even when the nerve cells carry the mutant gene. Conversely, the findings that mice with mutant non-neuronal cells develop symptoms...Study: Racial, ethnic disparities seen in all types of pain
...rhoods with large minority populations tend not to carry narcotic pain medicines such as morphine. "Physician prescribing patterns, as well as patients' own attitudes and beliefs regarding pain, and socioeconomic factors, may all contribute to racial and ethnic differences in pain management," writes co-a...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...of women's health care and a routine that patients carry with them from one insurance status to the next more easily than getting mammograms. The researchers found that adverse effects, including less prevention, higher costs and more avoidable hospitalizations, lasted up to three years from initial enroll...Non-human molecule is absorbed by eating red meat according to study by UCSD researchers
...ibility of dietary absorption, it was necessary to carry out an ingestion study in healthy people. Because the researchers were hesitant to give a potentially harmful substance to humans, Ajit Varki volunteered to be the first subject, followed by Muchmore and Gagneux. When the three volunteers drank Neu5...Have parents behaved irrationally towards MMR?
...road crashes). Although injuries from road crashes carry by far the largest risk of the three, they have raised little controversy, says the author. In contrast, the alleged link between MMR vaccination and autism, and the small risk of vCJD both met with widespread concern from parents. He suggests that p...Nanoneurosurgery, search for E-T life, bioscan technology and home holograms at frontiers of optics
...Station, it's not always easy or cost-effective to carry a calibrated source to the optical instrument. Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have developed a scheme involving quantum mechanically entangled photons to accurately test optical equipment at remote locations. Giuliano S......juries to the muscle cells and to the vessels that carry blood to the heart," says Peter Macdonald, a cardiologist at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. In resting muscle cells, the distribution of ions across the cell membrane generates an electric potential. The waves of electrical activity that sweep acr...NIMH funds $1.98 million study of advance directives for patients with mental illnesses
... a 'living will,' or appoint someone they trust to carry out their wishes for treatment. People who know they have a serious psychiatric disorder should be able to do the same thing." The Duke team wants to find out why PADs are in such limited use and whether implementing such directives would help patien...Sensory cells for hearing and balance are fast-developing, UVA researchers find
...nsduction channels, like trap doors, are formed to carry calcium and potassium which together create an electrical charge sending hearing and balance signals to the brain; microscopic tip-links are formed that operate under tension to open the trap door channel; finally, tiny adaptation motors are formed t...Nevirapine sustains advantage over AZT during breastfeeding period
...collaborative research network whose mission is to carry out HIV prevention efficacy trials. HIVNET was established in 1993 by NIAID's Division of AIDS and has now been incorporated into the HIV Prevention Trials Network....Asthma at school is disruptive to routine underdiagnosed, often poorly understood, survey suggest
...t their schools have policies allowing children to carry rescue inhalers with them at all times, approximat...ts who are responsible and developmentally able to carry their inhalers and self-administer medications so that they become independent in their asthma manag...Lesbians' weight patterns may trigger more heart disease
Lesbians weigh more and carry more excess weight around their waistlines than their heterosexual sisters do, and these differences could place them at higher risk for heart disease, says a new study published in the journal Women's Health Issues. "Lesbians had a significantly hig...Two commonly prescribed diabetes drugs may cause heart failure and fluid buildup
...tion of physical activity; and Class IV, unable to carry on any physical activity without symptoms. Because the mean age of the patients in the study was 69, additional studies need to be undertaken to identify the patient groups at risk for these complications, the researchers noted. "We need further stu...Regional consortium of universities chosen for biodefense initiative
... benefit the public. This funding will allow us to carry out unprecedented research in a collaborative mann... resources, from basic scientists to those who can carry out clinical trials of developed vaccines and drugs. Our goal is to produce advances that will benef...UCSD researchers identify chromosome location for 2nd form of Joubert syndrome
...al recessive manner, which means that both parents carry the mutant version of the gene, while showing no signs of the disease themselves. To increase their subject pool for research, the Gleeson team focused on the Middle East, where families are larger and inter-marriage between cousins is an accepted cu...Study raises prospect of practical vaccine for metastatic melanoma
...d mixing it with specially equipped viruses, which carry a gene for a substance called granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF). The viruses invade the melanoma cells and deposit the gene there, causing the cells to begin pumping out GM-CSF. The cells are then re-injected into the patient...Infectious disease expert to speak at American Academy of Ophthalmology's annual meeting
...an 60 million people in the United States probably carry the Toxoplasma parasite, but very few have symptoms because the immune system usually keeps the parasite from causing illness." Toxoplasmosis can be life-threatening in immunocompromised individuals, but even healthy individuals can have permanent v...Children with sickle cell anemia often don't receive antibiotics to prevent deadly infections
...arriers of the gene. Children with two parents who carry the gene for the disease can develop sickle-cell disease. In people with the disease, the affected hemoglobin crystallizes and forms a rod shape, causing red blood cells to distort into sickle-like shapes. The cells tend to clog capillary blood vesse...