Filatov Eye Institute contests validity of recent study
...enced hands. Todays technological advances, which compensate for eye movements during surgery, not only bring a...porated into current laser systems are designed to compensate for the effects of patient eye and head movements. Until now, surgeons kept the eye steady by asking...'Use it or lose it?' study suggests mentally stimulating activities may reduce Alzheimer's risk
...trengthening information processing skills to help compensate for age-related declines in other cognitive areas. The study does not, however, eliminate the possibility that people who develop AD in future years may be less prone, years before, to engage in cognitively stimulating activities. Notes Wilson, The a...Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
...that subjects can use visual and other feedback to compensate for inaccuracies in the mathematical model - in effect, to learn how to improve the brain's control of cursor movement, researchers said. "Our results demonstrate that a simple mathematical approach, coupled with a biological system, can provide effe...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...need to wear a special lens in their eyeglasses to compensate for the effect of the atropine, at a cost of about $50. Data from the study will provide valuable information about the course of amblyopia treatment and help determine whether factors such as age and refractive error should be considered in determin...Late-onset schizophrenia found to be distinct condition
...on relatively early in life, but some patients can compensate and so the symptoms may not appear until later in life when more cells are affected. Conversely, in some patients, just a few cells experiencing tauopathy may make cells misfire and patients symptomatic. He noted, however, that paraphrenia is not a p......generation in the brain, rather than attempting to compensate for loss after it has occurred. Mark H Tuszynski reviews one of these prospective therapies: growth factor gene therapy for Alzheimers disease, an approach that is currently the subject of a phase I clinical trial. 2. Within the past 12 months, patie...Enzyme halts muscle waste in mouse models of most-common childhood muscular dystrophy
... enzyme as he looked for other proteins that might compensate for the disabled dystrophin in DMD patients. Normally, CT GalNAc transferase acts as a chemical stimulant to generate scaffold-like tissue at the neuromuscular junction. In research reported earlier this year in the journal Developmental Biology (2...Study finds widespread sympathetic nerve damage in Parkinson's disease
...functioning sympathetic nervous system are able to compensate for the decrease in blood output by the heart because the brain responds by signaling the sympathetic nervous system to constrict the blood vessels. If the sympathetic nervous system is damaged, however, the blood vessels do not constrict and blood ......ermine how much advantages in education and income compensate for delayed first births and lower lifetime fertility a few hundred years down the road. The analyses appear in a recent article in the American Journal of Human Biology and a chapter in the forthcoming book, "The Biodemography of Fertility." "In an......ight, eating habits and lung function, in order to compensate for the fact that people who drink wine but not other types of alcohol are more likely to have a healthier diet, and are less likely to smoke, than people who exclusively drink beer or other types of alcohol. Its difficult to separate out red and wh...American Heart Association weighs in on fat substitutes
... for normal calcium absorption and metabolism. To compensate for this, the manufacturer must add these vitamins into olestra-containing foods. Little is known about potential interactions between olestra and medications and ingredients in food products that can affect fat-soluble nutrient movement and absorpt...Schepens is recipient of the most National Eye Institute funds in 2001
...e efforts underway. Innovative new devices to help compensate for vision loss and improve quality of life are also being developed and tested at The Schepens. According to Streilein, every one of the 28 laboratory scientists at The Schepens now holds at least one research grant from the National Institutes of H...Adolescents with inattention problems more likely to smoke
...ived from nicotine may help some smokers with ADHD compensate for their difficulties sustaining attention and concentration." Audrain and her colleagues interviewed 1,066 tenth-grade students from five high schools. The students completed a survey that assessed ADHD symptoms, as well as current smoking practi...Faulty gene may explain why some fall ill at high altitudes
...ferring the healthy eNOS gene to the human lung to compensate for the insufficient production of nitric oxide," he says. Abnormal constriction of vessels in the lungs appears to contribute to HAPE, and studies have shown that HAPE patients have reduced nitric oxide in their lungs. "We did this study to try to d...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
...e UW to explore ways in which computer science can compensate for diminished mental capacity. The Assisted Cognition Project is a collaborative effort by the UW, Intel Computers and Elite Care, a private company developing a state-of-the-art retirement community in the Portland area that utilizes so-called ubi...Substance found in sharks could lead to weight loss drug, research shows
...cessful because when people eat less, their bodies compensate for the reduced caloric intake by slowing metabolism; these people also tend to lose muscle and not fat, Zasloff said, adding that MSI-1436 could potentially counter these limitations. In previous studies, MSI-1436 was shown to correct Type II diabet...Investigational mesh 'jackets' studied as an experimental therapy for heart failure
... for any reason, the heart tends to grow larger to compensate for the reduced output. A cycle begins, resulting in numerous structural and functional changes, even down to the cellular level. The heart's muscle cells, called cardiac myocytes, become stressed and they literally stretch. The heart enlarges furthe...Brain can reorganize after traumatic injury
...icant TBI. "The brain is a flexible organ that can compensate for damage by engaging new systems to perform the same memory tasks," says Dr. Levine. "A major goal of clinical research is to find new ways of enhancing the recovery process, both through behavioral techniques and with drugs. Brain imaging studies ...What is the best way to fund the NHS?
...t income and company profits, makes it possible to compensate for imbalances across the economic cycle, they write. In contrast, social insurance seems less sustainable. Some people suggest that patients should pay more, but no evidence exists that charges deter only unnecessary use. It is also wrong to think t...Study suggests a possible link between high-starch diet and pancreatic cancer
...o produce larger-than-normal amounts of insulin to compensate and putting themselves at greater risk for pancreatic cancer. The new study explored whether women whose diets are heavy in foods that increase insulin production are likewise at elevated risk for pancreatic cancer. "Historically, cigarette smoking h...