Mixed signals to blame for restless legs syndrome
...le urges to move and creepy-crawly sensations that characterize restless legs syndrome (RLS), a Penn State College of Medicine study reports. "Our previous studies established a physical cause for RLS showing certain cells in the brain were iron deficient," said James R. Connor, Ph.D., professor and vice chair fo...New way of controlling cholesterol may help treat Alzheimer's
...worsen the development of the amyloid plaques that characterize Alzheimer's disease. In addition, some epidemiologic studies have suggested that people taking statin drugs to control blood cholesterol have a reduced incidence of Alzheimer's. In 2001 Kovacs' team showed in cells that the activity of an enzyme...High blood pressure related decline in cognitive function affects adults young and old
... October issue of the printed journal. While they characterize the decline as "relatively minor and manageable in terms of everyday functioning," the authors underscore the importance of treatment for high blood pressure. In their study, younger individuals (18-47) performed at a higher level than older individu...UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
...der study, but also use new monitoring networks to characterize air pollution exposures down to the level of the neighborhood. The researchers will use a limited number of home and even personal monitors to estimate participants' pollution exposures. For example, the researchers will test exposures by putting mon...Study says widely reported side effect of chemotherapy may be overestimated
...atment function. In the first prospective study to characterize cognitive abilities of breast cancer patients before adjuvant chemotherapy, Dr. Christina A. Meyers and colleagues from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center collected neuropsychological profiles from 84 women with noninvasive breast c...Quality of life continues to change long-term after treatment for prostate cancer
...s their lifestyle. "The ability to more precisely characterize long-term quality of life among prostate cancer survivors is essential for several reasons. Newly diagnosed patients can consider this information when making decisions about their treatment options. And men who have already been treated can anticipa...MRI proves more sensitive than CT in detecting adrenal adenomas
...istory of cancer, we need to be able to accurately characterize these masses," said Dr. Israel. Most radiologists would probably say that chemical shift MRI and unenhanced CT are equivalent in characterizing adrenal adenomas, but this has not previously been thoroughly investigated, he said. This study suggests ...MDCT alone is effective in diagnosing spine injuries in blunt trauma victims
...ddition to detecting the fractures, CT was able to characterize them, making it much easier for the surgeon to operate if necessary," Dr. Rivas added. "It is standard trauma procedure to examine the spine of these patients," said Dr. Rivas. "Traditionally we've done a plain film examination, which could take 45...Alternative/supplemental breast imaging methods tested
...bin. This might help detect early tumor growth and characterize the stage of a tumor by learning about its vascular makeup....Anthrax survivors continued to have health problems one year after exposure
...fter the 2001 onset of anthrax infection to better characterize the somatic (affecting the body) symptoms, health status, and functional capacity of the bioterrorism-related anthrax survivors. The study included assessment of 15 of 16 adult survivors from September through December 2002 using a clinical intervie...Alzheimer's drug improves memory, cognition in MS patients
...arily on managing the physical manifestations that characterize the disease, yet an estimated 50 percent of the patients will also face varying degrees of cognitive impairment. Cognitive impairment can include difficulties with problem-solving, attention, learning and memory, and can lead to loss of jobs, social ...CNS cancers and other diseases: Using proteomics to identify unique protein 'fingerprints'
... developing field in which scientists identify and characterize proteins and protein fragments. The study is prese...h will be to use mass spectroscopy to identify and characterize the specific proteins that relate to each different disease category. The investigators then plan to...SSX, a new family of cancer vaccine targets
...the immunological triumvirate. Work is underway to characterize the immunogenicity of the other SSX family members, which were originally identified by LICR researchers in New York. "We believe that for a cancer vaccine to be effective, you really need to be able to induce, and monitor, the activation of all thre...Sedative may offer new direction in colon cancer treatment
... animals. Thaker says a lot more work is needed to characterize which "sub-type of GABA receptor may be important for the results seen in our experimental model as a cancer treatment, but these findings may offer us a new future direction."...New insights into devastating basketball foot injury
...-world" conditions, the Duke researchers wanted to characterize the stresses acting upon the bone, when they were most likely to occur, and if anything could be done to lessen the pressures. For their analysis, the researchers recruited 11 male college basketball players. Electronic pressure sensors capable of co...UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long mission
...e of Medicine has used a new method to measure and characterize bone loss caused by prolonged spaceflight. Study results appear in the online version of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, which can be viewed at http://www.jbmr-online.org . The researchers used three-dimensional x-ray computed tomography [...Diets high in fat and animal protein linked to increased risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...cer Research Center, each participant was asked to characterize her usual diet in the year prior to being interviewed. The FFQ collects consumption frequency and portion size data for approximately 120 foods and beverages and is periodically updated to reflect U.S. food consumption patterns and major market chang...New breast pap smear detects early cellular changes; May prevent onset of breast cancer
...ancers arise. The new "breast pap smear" will help characterize a cell as it transforms from normal to abnormal, and then eventually into a malignant cell, said Seewaldt. Understanding how cells behave very early in the process of becoming cancerous can help doctors assess a woman's potential cancer risk -- and h...University of Pittsburgh and French National Institute begin scientific collaboration
...ty of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is working to characterize the cells, Dr. Peault said. The future scope of the collaboration will expand beyond investigation of stem cells, however. Scientists from France and the University of Pittsburgh will be reviewing other programs such as hepatology, psychiatry, neurob......logy department worked for more than five years to characterize this cellular hybrid or "cybrid" model of the pathology of a Parkinson's brain cell. Using a process developed by U.Va. neurologist Dr. W. Davis Parker, Jr., Trimmer and her colleagues treated a human cell line (neuroblastoma) with a chemical that de...