Blood transfusion poses CJD risk
..." A second study in this week's issue compared the degree of tissue infectivity (using the misfolded prion p...the French Atomic Energy Commission found that the degree of organ infectivity was similar regardless of the route of entry of the prion protein. Tonsil tissu...Carnegie Mellon statistics student honored for technique to aid in brain imaging
...xperiments," said Myers, who earned her bachelor's degree in statistics from Carnegie Mellon. She is from Billings, Montana....Teenage girls lacking in vitamin D
...sequences of dietary habits. For her 1995 doctoral degree at Boston University, she studied the relationship between fat intake and blood cholesterol levels in kidney transplant recipients. Vitamin D is an emerging area of medical research, says Sullivan. Medical scientists have yet to understand the who...Pain may interfere with depression improvement
...more than two-thirds of the patients reported some degree of pain at the start of their treatment. Twenty-five percent said their pain was mild, 30 percent had moderate pain and 14 percent said they had severe pain. "We believe a treatment model that incorporates assessment and treatment of both depre...Carnegie Mellon uses AFM to discover effects of experimental drugs on Alzheimer's plaques
...e sample solutions on mica sheets and observed the degree of protein aggregation using AFM. The m266.2 antibody proved much better than m3D6 at preventing the formation of amyloid fibrils. "Interestingly, we found that both antibodies interfere with the formation of protofibrils, or fibril precursors," not...Funding and distribution of inappropriate drugs add to rising global childhood malaria deaths
...rity, the reputations of both will be tainted to a degree that rich governments lose confidence and cease funding them". Amir Attaran comments: "The fact both agencies are violating their own policies, with knowledge that this will cause the 1998 promise to Roll Back Malaria to be broken, appears highly rel...Many Latino children well on their way to diabetes, heart disease
...d pressure. Interestingly this was independent of degree of fatness. In other words, decreased insulin sensitivity is driving the metabolic disorders observed in overweight children. Therefore, increasing insulin sensitivity in these children, researchers suggest, appears to be crucial for preventing chron...Are our brains wired for race or gender bias?
... One such example is "the name letter effect" the degree to which people exhibit a marked preference for letters in the alphabet that belongs to their own names. Seen in this context, "in-group" bias could be seen as yet another expression of this implicit bias toward the self. "Not only do we possess im...Study finds genital pain more common than believed
...pain or whose pain comes and goes often think some degree of pain in that area is normal and don't tell their doctors about it. In the study, surveys were sent to a random selection of women age 18 or older who had signed up to participate in Internet-based research through a service called SurveySpot. The ...Using fMRI technology to understand hyperlexia
...exia, a rare condition in which children with some degree of autism display extremely precocious reading skills. Appearing in Neuron, the case study uncovers the neural mechanisms that underlie hyperlexia, and suggest that hyperlexia is the true opposite of the reading disability dyslexia. Hyperlexia is...Nutrition 21 seeks FDA approval of diabetes-related health claims
...ons. Approximately 95 million Americans have some degree of insulin resistance and almost 1 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed every year. Nutrition 21 holds patents for the therapeutic use of chromium picolinate in addressing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. FDA has accepted the health ...Study reveals teachers' attitudes about having chronically ill children in the classroom
...e teacher. The responses were scored based on the degree of perceived impact for each issue, and the proportion of teachers with negative perceptions on each issue. The scores revealed an overall positive perception by school professionals about having children with chronic health conditions in the classro...Study suggests widespread environmental presence of Enterobacter sakazakii
...s a source for bacterial colonisation; however the degree of wider environmental contamination is unknown. Chantal Kandhai from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and colleagues used a refined isolation and detection method to investigate the presence of E. sakazakii in various food factories and ho...Cancers' love-hate relationship with proteins offers new treatment window
...line on Dec. 28. All cancers are caused to some degree by loss of genetic stability, according to Pandita. Genetic instability provides a chance for regulation of cell growth, cell division or other important processes to slip out of control, allowing a cancer to get its start. But too much genetic insta......articles are far more important in determining the degree to which they pose a health risk. Sioutas' interest in the field began in graduate school at Harvard, where he built his first particle concentrators. He currently holds nine patents on concentrators that can separate the tiniest particles of pollu...When alcohol consumption evolves from a 'social lubricant' into a 'crutch'
... situations if alcohol were not available, and the degree of relief attained by drinking alcohol. Participants were also asked about using alcohol during 11 specific situations: four were considered "social interactions," such as meeting people for the first time, and seven were "performance" events, such ...Natural plant oil does not improve eczema
...ales. The symptoms and signs improved to a similar degree in both groups, with a marginally greater improvement in the placebo group. The authors suggest that GLA is unlikely to offer any useful benefit in treatment of atopic eczema. This study, along with the recent decision of the UK Medicines Control Age...Study examines risk factors associated with colorectal cancer
...hol at or above moderate levels, or having a first degree relative with colorectal cancer, are associated with an increased risk for having serious colon polyps, according to an article in the December 10 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Colorectal cancer is the second lead...High blood-sugar levels indicate greater chance of death for critically ill patients
...gar in critically ill patients. Even a modest degree of hyperglycemia was associated with a substantial... clinical practice has been to tolerate a moderate degree of hyperglycemia in these patients. However, Dr. Krinsley says the findings from this study suggest ......lty concentrating and paying attention, and a high degree of restless and impulsive behavior. Although the problems may be less pronounced in adulthood, it is often a lifelong condition. There are three classifications of ADHD, which is based on the relative amount of attention deficit versus hyperactivity...