African-American women with endometrial cancer have more aggressive cancer than Caucasian women
...inct and different patterns of gene expression may characterize advanced endometrial cancers in African-American and Caucasian women, and that these underlying molecular differences may partially explain the racial disparity in survival outcome. More information about the studies can be found in the manuscripts: ...Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny
...fessor of chemistry at NAU has two main goals: to characterize the diversity of tattoo inks, and to determine if any inks pose health threats in the form of heavy metals or other potentially dangerous chemicals. Overall, the study covers 17 inks from five different manufacturers. "We chose to study five differen...Fewer false alarms when mammographers have greater experience screening healthy breasts
..., they also were 50 percent less likely to falsely characterize a mammogram as abnormal. In addition, the study found dramatic variability in physician accuracy. For example, physicians on average detected 77 percent of cancers, but for individual physicians the detection rate ranged from 29-97 percent. The avera...Cellular porthole connects odors to brain
... without NKCC1 and are now attempting to clone and characterize the chloride transporter to get a better sense of how chloride is required for odor detection....Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...suddenly emerges from the random fluctuations that characterize normal brain activity. The strong waves moving across the cortex may cause sudden, unpredictable sensations or uncontrollable movements during a seizure. "Normal brain waves would resemble jagged lines with no apparent pattern or order on an electro...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
... live longer and feel better. Our study sought to characterize the extent to which women use this easily accessible therapy, as well as the disparities that exist between different groups of women," said lead author Jeffrey S. Berger, M.D., chief resident at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Berger and col...Falling in love in three minutes or less
...ually interact. Their findings might or might not characterize long-term dating relationships. Their findings will be presented in an upcoming issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior . Hurry Brands LLC, the parent company of HurryDate, did not fund Kurzban and Weeden in their research, but they d...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
...). The MMHCC was established in 1999 to design and characterize mouse models that more accurately reflect the way that human cancers develop and respond to therapy. The research groups comprising the MMHCC at 24 lead sites connect more than 50 institutions in the US and abroad and focus on mouse models for cancer...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...how ageing affects vision and the brain. If we can characterize what is happening to our brains as we age, we'll be in a better position to help seniors see better for longer," says Sekuler....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
... the 145-item food frequency questionnaire used to characterize diet during pregnancy, took a scratch test to determine allergic reactions, had blood antioxidant levels measured, and completed all follow-up health questionnaires about their children at 6, 12, and 24 months of age. The investigators related that,...Colorectal cancer screening underutilized
...olonoscopy is the most sensitive test. In order to characterize the use of the various screening tests in the population and their association with cancer stage, Gregory S. Cooper, M.D. and Jonathan D. Payes, M.S. of the University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University reviewed the screening ...Surprise mechanism behind light-induced blindness
...al degeneration and accompanying blindness. To characterize the mechanism of photoxicity due to constant light, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine studied this phenomenon in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. The researchers, Drs. Seung-Jae Lee and Craig Montell, found that t...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...eering program, Athanasiou's team will continue to characterize and compare tissues grown from adult animal cells. In growing their samples, Athanasiou's team will sort out the complex regime of biomechanical cues and growth factors that are needed to coax cells into producing TMJ cartilage. They expect tha...How are we doing? Researchers aim to measure national well being
...society are faring. The method offers a new way to characterize the daily life experience of individuals, aimed at...of the enjoyment scale. The scale was then used to characterize the effects of a variety of circumstances. For example, sleep quality had a large effect on the enj...Antibiotic rifampicin shows promise for fighting Parkinson's disease in lab tests
...prevent the formation of the protein deposits that characterize Alzheimer's disease, which are composed of a different protein from alpha-synuclein. In addition, epidemiological studies of leprosy patients have indicated that patients treated for several years with rifampicin had a lower probability of developing...The NIH funds network to study drug-induced liver injury (DILIN)
... definitions and instruments to identify and fully characterize cases of drug-induced liver injury. With a systematic way of classifying drug-induced liver injury, researchers will be able to analyze the epidemiology and clinical issues of liver injury and collect biological samples that can be used to study the ...HHS awards $10.4 million to fight AIDS on three continents
...a and research infrastructure needed to accurately characterize the epidemic are lacking," noted NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. CIPRA tackles this problem by providing support, including training, tailored to the specific needs of the recipient country. "We hope that research conducted under the auspices o...Following heart care guidelines saves lives
...ting in-depth interviews at different hospitals to characterize why some are refractory to change, with a goal of helping them get better." ...Delays in test result reviewing common
...patient safety. While our survey did not directly characterize the clinical importance of these delays, the fact that physicians 'wished they had known about' these results earlier strongly suggests that many of these results might have changed patient management."...Less risks for patients participating in early phase cancer drug trials
...humans. The major objectives during phase 1 are to characterize the agent's toxicity profile and to determine a dose and schedule appropriate for phase 2 testing. Patients who chose to participate may experience significant risks with limited chance to benefit. Over the last decade, cancer drugs under develo...