Rx for drug dilemmas: Tailor the copayment to the patient
...ed on new heart disease prevention guidelines that divide patients into groups based on their blood cholesterol levels, diabetes treatment plans based on blood sugar levels, or heart failure groups based on physical ability. But even if the patients' cholesterol or blood sugar levels go down or their sympto...New pilot study suggests flaxseed and low-fat diet can be protective against prostate cancer
... forthe men on the diet, their tumor cells did not divide as quickly and there was a greater rate ofapoptosis (tumor cell death) in this group. With such a short-term dietary intervention, the researchers said they did not expect to see adifference in tumor biology between the diet-treated patients and ...Hospital researchers identify gene important in certain cancers
... of their respective genes, then mutated cells can divide and proliferate unchecked, allowing development of a full-blown cancer. Ongoing research by the hospital research team is aimed at discovering functions for the other FOR proteins. Once the roles of the proteins in both normal and cancer cells are es...O.R. model could reduce high death rate among kidney dialysis patients by up to 20%
...e optimal dose for different patients, the authors divide those receiving dialysis into three classes of diabetics, and three of non-diabetics. The authors also factor overall for the relative efficiencies of low-, medium-, and high capacity dialysis centers. The study looks at several alternate policies th......information about the way embryonic neuronal cells divide and travel to end up in the right place at the right time in order to make the proper connection in the adult brain, said Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, M.D., Ph.D., UCSD assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine and co-author of the Neuron paper. As ...UNC-CH to lead $34 million effort to see if girls can become more fit
...ext seven years, while the other universities will divide the other $25 million. All participating universities will produce research papers when the study concludes. Other UNC-CH faculty involved are Drs. C.E. Davis and Diane Catellier of biostatistics, Dr. Dianne Ward of nutrition, Dr. Robert McMurray ...A new ion channel involved in cell proliferation: evidence for its oncogenic potential
...he cells and their death. A cell shouldexclusively divide when the conditions require that it does, and this...It is easy to imagine that, sinceall cells have to divide and eventually die sooner or later, the presence of theproteins implicated in cell cycle control is ...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...entually dies, what results isa cell line that can divide indefinitely. And depending on its genetics canbecome cancer. Two years ago, the UNC researchers decided to determine if the test-tubefindings would apply in people. They took extra Pap smears from 120 women whohad been referred for colposcop...Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
...ke angioplasty. Most significantly, the guidelines divide heart patients into categories thatpredict how well bypass will work for them based on their heart condition, ageand other factors. "We used the most current knowledge about bypass to give doctors and patients away to evaluate all the possible risks ...NSF award to five Georgia universities for new Science and Technology Center
...the largest ever received throughEmory, which will divide the funding with its partners in the consortium. "This grant recognizes and endorses the extraordinary collaboration betweenthese Atlanta area schools, whose resources and synergy do so much to make thisa great city," says Emory President William M. ...Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
..."We determined that if IL-13 wasmaking these cells divide and grow, we simply had to deprive them of IL-13 andthey should stop dividing," said Dr. Mak. "It worked. In about eighty hoursReed-Sternberg cells in a test tube almost completely stopped growing. Thisdiscovery gives us great hope that we will some...New Research Points The Way To Restoring Noise-Induced Hearing Loss In Mammals, Including Humans
.... Inbirds, these support cells have the ability to divide and proliferate into newsupport cells and -- in the second step -- into new hair cells. However, the support cells in the sensory epithelium of the postnatalmammal are terminally differentiated, or incapable of dividing andproliferating, as t...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...rowth factor that stimulatesimmune system cells to divide and multiply, with a cancer vaccine made fromspeci...tumor. Then IL-2 induces those T-cells to rapidly divide and proliferate." The fact that interleukin-2 works at low doses in combination with the U-Mcancer v......lumetric sculpting once it dries out and begins to divide along its internalconcentric structure. The absence of faces on most of the statuettes is not a matter of omission orneglect. In fact, the featureless faces were carefully and laboriously worked bypolishing and other means to create an absence of de...Cedars-Sinai Surgeons Present TeleSurgery
... these kids wake up essentially painfree. We don't divide any muscle. Instead, we simply split the fiber with theselittle tools." Robert J. McKenna, specialist in thoracic surgery at Cedars-Sinai, willdemonstrate a video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) lobectomy, starting at 10a.m. Lobectomy, the removal...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...iology atShands. Because children's cells divide rapidly as they grow, they are far moresensitive than adults to the chromosome-damaging effects of radiation. Theincreased frequency of exams piqued Hintenlang's curiosity, so she beganresearching the doses newborns were receiving. She found...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...t the virus could escape to the brain, continue to divide there and live on." Kim said he would next like to measure the levels of protease inhibitorsin the cerebral spinal fluid of patients to determine -- at least indirectly --whether a similar relationship exists in humans. Another potent...