New highly active agents against sandfly fever
...erally, the most active quinolines are those which carry a three-carbon-atom branch and an unsaturated (alkenyl) bond. Among these compounds, some proved especially active against parasites of the genus Leishmania, showing an efficacy equal to or higher than that of the reference drug for treating leishman...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
... body that fight cancer, although they have yet to carry out a detailed analysis in this respect....Gender bias in child growth evaluations may miss disease in girls
...s evaluation of boys who are short but healthy may carry its own social costs: "Evaluating and treating healthy boys reinforces the idea that their height is a medical problem, which may hurt the boys' self-esteem." Another factor, added Dr. Grimberg, is the fact that boys are more likely than girls to rec...Tiny superconductors withstand stronger magnetic fields
...rder to produce cables with the highest ability to carry strong currents and withstand strong magnetic fields," Bezryadin said. "The nanowire should not be too thick, in order to be less sensitive to magnetic fields; but it also should not be too thin, in order to be fully superconducting. A correct bala...The research assessment exercise is damaging UK medicine
...tions in academic staff is for staff in the NHS to carry an additional teaching burden, which is often difficult to fulfill. The authors write that the RAE should be abolished. They believe that research councils and major charitable foundations have efficient peer-review mechanisms, which can recognise an...... so that lone parents and long-term unemployed can carry part of their benefits with them into their often short-term jobs as the new pilot programmes for disabled people in England are successfully exploring and as has been the practice in the Republic of Ireland for long-term unemployed people for many y...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...humans by the year 2010," said Grill, who plans to carry out human experiments at Duke to follow up the research with cats. Today, people with SCI typically manage their bladders with catheters or an implanted device that empties the bladder by stimulating sacral nerves at the base of the spine. However,...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
...Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. "Our goal is to carry out basic research on how people learn and to connect scientists with the practitioners to effect meaningful change in the lives of students." Dartmouth's SLC, the Center for Cognitive and Educational Neuroscience (CCEN) draws from numerous faculty ...Drug treatment promising for halting Huntington's-related nerve death
...study, using the medium spiny neurons of mice that carry a copy of the mutated human huntingtin gene, Dr. Bezprozvanny and colleagues found that treatment of the cells in culture with the drug enoxaparin prevented inappropriate calcium release, and prevented cell death. Enoxaparin is an anti-coagulant tha...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...to seek organized exercise. To prepare, design and carry out this NEAT study over the past decade, Mayo Clinic brought together: 20 study participants who were willing to forgo Christmas peanut brittle, Halloween Milky Ways and all restaurant and home meals. Every meal had to be taken at the hospital, wi...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...rhoods with large minority populations tend not to carry narcotic pain medicines such as morphine. Green hopes that the new study, and others in the special issue of Pain Medicine, will continue to draw the attention of pain researchers and plant the seeds for further research in this area. "These finding...Older people with the 'Alzheimer's gene' find it harder to 'remember to remember' even if healthy
...ich switches on production of a protein that helps carry cholesterol in the blood. ApoE has three alleles and about one out of five people carry the e-4 allele. It makes homozygous carriers, who carry this variation on both of their ApoE genes,...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
...s than abdominal or vaginal hysterectomies and may carry a greater risk of damaging the bladder or ureter, the tube that leads from the kidney to the bladder. "There were conflicting data on which was the quickest operation to perform and this presumably relates to the prior experience with these procedure...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
... the market." Stafford noted that nearly all drugs carry some risks, but physicians and patients are generally willing to use them if the likely benefits outweigh the harms. Many people, for instance, are allergic to antibiotics and yet physicians accept this inherent risk in patients who have significant ...New network of gastrointestinal immune cells discovered
... to the interior of the intestine were not able to carry out one of their normal functions, taking up the harmless strains of E. coli that normally populate the intestine and transporting them to lymph nodes. Introduction of disease-causing salmonella bacteria into the gastrointestinal system of both gro...Reduced progression of atherosclerosis tied to statin drugs lowering fats, protein
...rgeted to reduce the active inflammatory state may carry additional benefits," he said. Dr. Michael R. Ehrenstein and colleagues in the department of medicine at University College in London wrote an accompanying editorial. The two articles confirm that reducing the inflammatory com...USC researchers find evidence that progesterone signaling influences ovarian cancer risk
...as well as a lower breast cancer risk in women who carry it. To see if the PROGINS allele did indeed confer...varian cancer risk by almost 3.5-fold in women who carry two copies of either haplotype, or one of each. Not only were these two particular haplotypes found ...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
...However such vaccines are so complex that they can carry carbohydrate targets for only a few specific strains of pneumonia bacteria," Tuomanen said. "So children are always under-protected, since there are so many different strains of these bacteria." Knowing the shape of CbpA will guide researchers in th...International gathering at UH examines top computer code
...terials used to construct the spacecraft that will carry men and women back to the moon and on to Mars," Pinsky said. Last January, President Bush mentioned the effects of space radiation as one of the crucial problems that has to be overcome for the progress of these types of future projects. UH's ongo...Risks from labor after prior cesarean delivery low, study reports
.... However, repeat Cesarean delivery also may carry risks beyond those posed by delivering vaginally after a prior cesarean delivery, explained the NICHD author of the study, Catherine Spong, M.D., Chief of the Institute's Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch. The risk for infection and other surgical c...