Cockroach allergens have greatest impact on childhood asthma in many US cities
...mp-mopping of hard floors, and regular cleaning of counter tops and other surfaces. NIH provided $7.5 million to researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and seven other research institutions, including the Data Coordinating Center at Rho, Inc., for the three-year study. ...Study finds indoor allergen levels vary, cockroach allergens cause more asthma symptoms
...alable bags, taking garbage out daily and cleaning counter tops and floors regularly. Study participants had suffered at least one asthma-related hospitalization or two asthma-related emergency room visits during the six months prior to enrollment in the study. They also had a positive allergy skin test to a...Pregnant women should exercise to keep depression away
...ise is recommended and seen as an effective way to counter or prevent these changes. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology endorses this and suggests 30 minutes of moderate exercise for pregnant women on most, if not all, days of the week. "These results can be used to guide the expectations of ...Researchers model brain's electrical storm during a seizure
...l stimulation of the affected area of the brain to counter the seizure as it's forming. "Our hope is to provide a model that can be used to evaluate potential seizure treatments so we can move beyond the need for lobectomies," said Szeri. The National Science Foundation and a Berkeley Fellowship from the U...Florida Department of Citrus responds to URMC's release on grapefruit-drug interactions
...consume grapefruit juice while taking any over-the counter medication. A patient can visit the web site, www.druginteractioncenter.org to look up their prescription drug and see if it interacts with grapefruit. In addition, we encourage patients to consult with their pharmacist or doctor about their pres...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) runs counter to current beliefs about these cells and could eventually lead to ways of preventing or treating hearing loss. The report will appear in the journal Science and is receiving early online release on the Science Express website at http://www.sciencex...What is driving the rise in over the counter drugs?
Switching of prescription drugs to over the counter availability is increasingly common, but what are ...prescription drug becomes a candidate for over the counter availability if it is used for a non-chronic condition that is relatively easy to self-diagnose and ...Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
...e Journal of the American Medical Association, run counter to the widely held belief that some people are able to "cheat death" through sheer willpower or perhaps by some other, unknown psychosomatic mechanism. DonnYoung, a biostatistician and research scientist in the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, alo...OTC treatment for acne as good as antibiotics
... week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how over the counter (OTC) benzoyl peroxide lotion is as good as prescription antibiotics for the treatment of mild to moderate facial acne. Facial acne is common among adolescents; antibiotic tablet treatment has been used extensively over the past 40 years. Concerns ex...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...artners of CSPGs and for finding targets to try to counter these proteins' effects in nerve regeneration." Semaphorins, including 5A, are a family of proteins that help direct growing nerves as they extend toward their eventual targets, largely by keeping nerves out of places they shouldn't be. "These protei...Surprise mechanism behind light-induced blindness
...but this week researchers report findings that run counter to the anticipated connection between light-induced retinal 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 p...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...re testing a promising vaccine that may help us to counter that threat should it re-emerge," Dr. Fauci said. After SARS was identified as a disease, researchers worked hastily to identify the cause of the mysterious respiratory ailment and to develop therapies and vaccines. By April 2003, NIAID-funded resear...Rolipram - a potential new treatment for Alzheimer disease
...a University, New York, propose a new treatment to counter AD-associated memory loss. The authors show that brief treatment of a mouse model of AD with a phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, rolipram, improves memory in both long-term potential and contextual learning both measurements of brain function. Rolipra...Abdominal fat decreases, insulin action improves when elderly take hormone
...on. This finding suggests that DHEA may be able to counter the increase in abdominal fat and accompanying increased risk for diabetes that very often occurs as we grow older. The study was conducted by Dennis T. Villareal, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and John O. Holloszy, M.D., professor of medicin...Researchers develop neural prosthesis allowing a monkey to feed self using only its brain
...r cortex, contains neurons that fire like a Geiger counter in different directions. The direction to which a neuron fires fastest is called its "preferred direction." Many motor cortical cells change their firing rate for each movement, and this activity from the many neurons is routed through the spinal cor...Promise of stem cells amplified
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24 -- Continuing to counter the dogma that once brain cells give out, they're gone forever, new evidence shows that newly created neurons may provide hope for treating a wide variety of disorders. Embryonic stem cells have been shown to restore movement after paralysis. And wi......, children and low-income families. "To counter the seemingly inevitable Americanized diet and protect the beneficial traditional Asian diet and physical activity patterns, a tailored campaign is strongly recommended for California's low-income, immigrant Chinese, Vietnamese and Hmong communities,...Air rather than oxygen for babies requiring ventilation after delivery
...in this week's issue of THE LANCET. The finding is counter to the long-held belief that 100% oxygen is better than air for babies requiring ventilation in the first few minutes of life. Between 510% of newborn babies require assistance with breathing after delivery. International consensus statements for re...AIDS toll in African heartland isn't always what people think
... their place in the household. "We're finding that counter to conventional wisdom, there aren't as many households completely disappearing," Weber said. "The number of orphans isn't as large as it was thought of. This is putting a more realistic balance on magnitude of the problem." The research also reveals......cant improvements in sensitivity in obese women to counter this increase in false-positive rates. Understanding the quality of mammography among obese women is important, especially since the American population is becoming more obese and obesity is a modifiable risk factor," the researchers write....