Modest drinking likely to benefit post-menopausal women
..., even though they gave the women less to drink to compensate for lower body weight and slower metabolism of alcohol. Ten men aged 45-64 and nine post-menopausal women aged 49-62 were enrolled in the study. All of the subjects participated in a beer-drinking and non-alcohol-drinking phase, each lasting three we......em isn't working, and drug or gene therapies could compensate for those deficiencies. "Understanding that this protein is so important, we can now work on ways to repair it when defective within the cells, or to boost its ability to respond," Dr. Terzic concludes....Doppler-guided fluid administration during surgery improves outcome
...ers are administered to patients during surgery to compensate for blood loss and to maintain blood pressure. Physicians add these fluids in response to changes in blood pressure, urine output or heart rate. Instead of this reactive approach, the Duke researchers proactively used an esophageal Doppler monitor (E...Calcium-blocker drug slows artery clogging better than beta blocker
...the heart's tendency to beat faster as it tries to compensate for weakened pumping ability. Allowing the heart to maintain a slower rate lowers blood pressure. Calcium channel blockers interfere with calcium's role in the contraction of these muscles. This causes the muscles to relax, lowering blood pressure...Brains of elderly can compensate to remain sharp, study indicates
...metry reduction occurs largely because the elderly compensate for reduced capacity in one hemisphere by activating the other hemisphere. "Basically, the dedifferentiation theory holds that this bilateral activation reflects a detrimental process in aging, like other forms of age-related decline, such as atrophy...Pharmaceutical industry still failing health needs of less-developed countries
...high prices and patent protection are necessary to compensate for high development costs of innovative products, there are doubts about the figures that form the basis of these claims. David Henry comments: "The international pharmaceutical industry manufactures and distributes many good drugs, displays genero...Alcohol-damaged brains 'recruit' new brain regions to perform simple tasks
...ng - the study has found that the brain appears to compensate for alcohol-induced damage by "recruiting" other, unexpected brain regions. "We know from neuropathological studies that the two parts of the brain that are most often damaged in chronic alcoholics are the cerebellum and the frontal lobes," said Pete...Chaos theory may help explain patterns of alcohol abuse, studies suggest
...e will be followed by a decrease that doesnt quite compensate for the initial increase. After a few of these cycles -- two steps into relapse and one step back -- drinking could easily be out of control. Warren said these results are obviously very preliminary because they are a case study of a single person. O...Yale researchers identify two types of childhood reading disability
...pe with higher cognitive ability (poor readers who compensate for disability), and a more environmentally influe... question in reading disability: why some children compensate for their reading difficulties, while others continue to struggle to read. Brain activation patterns...Short-term dyslexia treatment strengthens key brain regions
...ders, and that specialized instruction can rapidly compensate for some types of reading deficits. Dyslexic children in this study had above average intelligence but scored approximately 30 percent lower than average on standard reading tests. The dyslexic children and a group of good readers of the same age und...Freshman eating binge is real, with national implications
...ause, Levitsky points out, humans do not appear to compensate for between-meal snacks. If the campus weight gain is indeed related to the rise in obesity nationwide, "then it should be possible to study various methods and techniques that might prevent the freshman weight gain in the hope that they might be ef...Anemia is risk factor for physical decline in older adults
...ition, anemia may cause blood vessels to dilate to compensate for lower oxygen levels. This can cause changes to the cardiovascular system, including congestive heart failure. Anemia is typically a result of cancer or kidney disease or other conditions. But, about 30 percent of cases in older adults are not re...Hygiene is most potent force in tackling deadly diseases
...ned priorities and trade-offs how one measure can compensate for another which isn't available in a given setting between alternative strategies of disease control," says scientist James Lloyd-Smith. Healthcare workers comprised an alarmingly high proportion of SARS cases 61 per cent in Hanoi and around 50 p...False memories, failing recall are not an inevitable consequence of aging, research suggests
...y and test techniques that could help older adults compensate for age-related exaggerations in memory illusions....American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for September 2003 (second issue)
...s. He pointed out that most people can adequately compensate for abnormal breathing mechanics, at least part of the time. The study appears in the second issue for September 2003 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine....School PE lessons don't reflect kids' activity levels
...education is timetabled at school because children compensate out of school, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Over seven days, researchers measured the physical activity of 215 children from three schools with different sporting facilities and opportunity for physical education in the curriculum. School 1, a p...On the horizon of glucose monitoring: A review
...bration curve. Frequent calibration is required to compensate for any changes in tissue hydration, body temperature, and hemoglobin level and for medications that might absorb infrared light. "This method can establish trends but is not reliable enough to determine day-to-day changes in insulin administration,...Study shows melatonin supplements may make standing a hazard for the cardiovascular-challenged
...r nervous system responses that enable the body to compensate for the drop in blood pressure when a person moves from a seated to standing position," Ray said. The study titled, "Melatonin attenuates the sympathetic nerve responses to orthostatic stress in humans," was published in the Sept. 15 issue of the Jou...T cell lifespan during HIV infection
...tion and not the result of a mechanism striving to compensate for the loss of T cells directly killed by the virus. The increased degree of memory T cell turnover results in a lack of long-lived memory T cells available to assist newly infected cells. The authors did however demonstrate that HAART was able to a......protects itself by remodeling its blood vessels to compensate for the higher pressure. This vascular remodeling, said Jennings, probably explains the blood flow differences observed with the brain scans. For that reason, blood pressure medicines that specifically address vascular changes -- such as angiotensi...