New study shows abuse homicides more common than records reveal
...gainst children would help in determining where to direct preventionefforts," Herman-Giddens said. "Factors that appear to put African-Americanchildren at three times the risk of dying at the hands of caregivers than whitechildren should be distinguished from the effects of social class andsocioeconomic sta...New imaging method in development to show Alzheimer's progression
...hat amyloid formationprecedes neurodegeneration, a direct proof is lacking, Lansbury notes. For thatreason, he says, "we sought to elucidate the relationship between amyloidformation and neurodegeneration by designing amyloid probes that could be usedto measure brain amyloid noninvasively" and compare the ...New laser treatment allows patients to swallow and breath easier
...e photosensitivity, which means patientsmust avoid direct sunlight for between 30 and 60 days after the surgery. "We recommend that these patients wear dark sunglasses, a wide-brimmedhat, turtleneck, long sleeves, gloves and long pants if they must go out duringthe day after the surgery to protect...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...e whether the Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteriaplays a direct role in the development or advancement of atherosclerosis. For more than 40 years, researchers at Wake Forest have pioneered in thestudy of atherosclerosis, finding that first the pigeon and then the monkey wereideal animal models that would ......ar later when the students moved into sixth grade, direct observations ofthe student's behavior and written diaries by the students were added to theother measurements of peer nominations, self-report measures and students'behaviors rated by teachers to assess the changes in bullying behavior. "Our findi...Study reveals how brain controls eating in normal rats
...lly. In the body, leptin comes from fat cells in direct proportion to the amount of stored energy. Thicker thighs, flabbier arms and a bigger belly mean more leptin is circulating in the blood stream. Studies in both people and animals have shown that lack of leptin triggers a voracious appetite. When lep...Scientists provide first detailed maps of wiring circuitry in the living human brain
...mined thatthe brain areas joined together and that direct fiber connections exist betweenthe areas. Finally, the researchers identified complicated connections betweenseveral brain areas involved in higher level thinking skills such as speaking,paying attention, and multiplying numbers. The fiber bu...New research on Tourette's syndrome
...lised. A psychologist in Canada hasfound the first direct evidence that their tics are intentional, coordinatedmovements made in response to some irresistible urge, rather than involuntaryspasms. The symptoms of Tourette's range from excessive twitching to extremebouts of inappropriate swearing. Do......has witnessed violence, and to refer the family to direct interventionservices. LINC will also work with the San Francisco Neighborhood LegalAssistance Foundation to assist families by providing them with legal services. LINC includes a training component for those who most often come into contactwith traum...Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center adds new dimension in radiation treatment
... that attachesto a linear accelerator to focus and direct the radiation beam generated by theaccelerator. The mMLC can be used in traditional radiation therapy conducted over a period ofdays or weeks to expose a tumor to repeated doses of radiation. It also can beused to perform radiosurgery, which may be ...Cedars-Sinai Medical tip sheet for Sept. 21
... that attachesto a linear accelerator to focus and direct the radiation beam generated by theaccelerator....Stress and social support linked to prostate cancer
...ychosocial factors promote prostatedisease through direct physiological pathways," said Arthur A. Stone, Ph.D., headof the study. Investigators at State University of New York at Stony Brook's medical schoolstudied 318 men who had been recruited through a prostate cancer-screeningprogram. Each man was test......cts. It ranks 13thamong public medical schools in direct NIH funding and 32nd in total researchfunding among the country's 125 medical schools....... use of an inhaled therapy that deliversits effect direct to the site of major viral replication. A further benefit of the high concentrations achieved in the respiratory tractis that the possibility of development of resistance to the drug is reduced.Other influenza anti-virals have been of limited clinic...New radiation treatment for large tumors
...this technique, we're finding that not only is the direct effectof the radiation good, but it also produces in tumors products that act asagents to kill other cancer cells," he said. Such an effect is not found withconventional treatment. "In the past 12 years, we have adapted that technique and us...Alcohol researchers confirm molecular culprit of alcohol-induced liver damage
... of animals lacking TNF-alpha receptors provides a direct way to testthe hypothesis that this cytokine is important in the initiation and progressionof alcohol-induced liver injury," said senior study author Ronald Thurman,Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and nutrition at the UNC-CH School of Medicine. Acco...Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor
... they are in abody. With a plastic lattice to help direct their growth, cells can beencouraged to grow in predefined shapes, just as the vine-covered barn givesshape to vines. Between September 1996 and January 1997, Freed and Vunjak-Novakovic with NASAcolleagues achieved the first such results when they gr...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...nd from around the United States. Kim will direct the Immunoanalysis Core. It will allow for sophisticatedanalysis of genes and proteins in both animal and human samples through a systemrelying on standard and fluorescence microscopy and image analysis usingsoftware developed at UNC-CH to measure mo...We do 'feel with the mind's eye,' confirm Emory researchers in Nature
...eption. We decided to see if we could obtain more direct evidence forthis." The Emory group then used positron emission tomography (PET) to showthat a region of the cerebral cortex associated with sight is engaged whenhumans attempt to distinguish orientation via delicate touch, as in thefingertip g......d to cost more than $14.5 billion annually in both direct and indirect costs to the U.S. economy by the year 2000, asthma causes more than 100 million days of restricted activity among people with asthma, and there are more than 500,000 hospitalizations related to asthma each year. About IL-4 Interl...