Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...This study certainlysuggests a possible reason for doing so, but more work is needed beforeguidelines should be changed." The study was supported by grants from the American Kidney Fund and the NationalInstitutes of Health. The report's co-authors are Meir Stampfer, MD, DrPH,David Hunter, MBBS, ScD, Joan...Extract from traditional Chinese herb enhances recovery in stressed cells
...y binding to free radicals andpreventing them from doing damage to the cells. But vitamins C and E are slowto penetrate the cell membrane. Vanden Hoek and his colleagues found out about baicalensis from Chun-Su Yuan,MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of anesthesia & critical care and clinicalpharmacology at ...Doppler ultrasound can reduce hospital stays
... morecomplete information about how the patient is doing intraoperatively." Specifically, those patients whose treatment was guided by Dopplerultrasound left the hospital in five days, compared to seven days forconventionally treated patients. These patients also started eating solid food-- a key ......uidelines because they're stuck in their old wayof doing things or have no motivation to change. Though few of the surveysanalyzed by Cabana and his colleagues looked at this factor, all of those thatdid reported it was a problem for more than 20 percent of doctors surveyed.Correspondingly, the authors say...Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
... site, http://www.lesbianstd.com . Researchers are doing so in hopes of attracting morevolunteers in this study of a much-misunderstood subject, the sexual health ofbisexual and lesbian women. This is the first study of its kind funded by theNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), on...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
... Dr. IJdo said. "The state of Connecticut started doing surveillance for ehrlichiosis in 1995,and each year the number of cases has doubled," he said. "Last year there weremore than 200 cases in Connecticut." Because the same tick is responsible for transmission of both organisms,ehrlichiosis can be expec...Age-related declines in mental function
...as (8 x 5) - 8 = 33; a combined task,consisting of doing math while remembering a list of words; and a control tasksubstituting circles and squares for letters and digits, to see which areas ofthe brain activate during visual processing without using working memory. The researchers analyzed the resulting P...Researchers uncover gene related to acute leukemia
...us models held that inv(16) simply kept AML-1 from doing its jobof turning genes on and off, Hiebert and colleagues now demonstrate that inv(16)joins with AML-1 to actively turn genes off, even those that AML-1 usually turnson. It is likely that inv(16) recruits other proteins to help it force AML-1 toalwa...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
...stamount. Also, women with treadmills doing shorter, multiple sessions ofdaily exercise lost m...ght by the end of the study than women doing the longer single dailysessions: 16.3 pounds compared to 12.8 pounds. "The ......we don't have a hand in," he said. "Our lab's been doing it all, initially funneling a large number of drugs (through testing) and winnowing them down." Orme's contract calls for testing approximately 10 promising anti-tubercular drugs each year, although he anticipates investigating perhaps twice that n...Medical scientists to begin clinical trials of promising cancer therapy
...in treating non-solid tumors, and that's why we're doing this work." Other physicians participating in the...nside cells. An inhibitor prevents the enzyme from doing its job and triggers programmed cell death known as apoptosis. The goal in chemotherapy is to kill ...... moving furniture, vacuuming, scrubbing the floor, doing laundry and unpacking groceries. The women were asked whether they could perform each task without difficulty, with modifications, or if they no longer attempted the task due to chest pain.Most of the women in the study said they could no longer per...Sex education learning tool finds global market
...Internet was performing this educational role, and doing it rather badly. With this program, students are able - in the privacy of their own rooms - to access pertinent and relevant information on these subjects. The language, graphics and design of the program are written in the idiom of the young, which...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...mson University has an outstanding track record of doing just that, providing value to society as well as financial value once technology is commercialized." Donating technology that is not consistent with the company's strategy, but that can be further developed and successfully commercialized and market...Missouri scientist takes 'rocky' road to NASA
...tion's Space Technology Hall of Fame. "I ended up doing all these seemingly unrelated things. And it's a long way from 'rockology,'" he said. "But they actually all have a fundamental straightforward relationship. They all deal with images." Rickman, 48, is one of the Marshall Center's leading researcher...Psychologist finds low-cost methods to prevent pharmacy mistakes
...n the final order. "Normally, when pharmacists are doing their work, they don't get a lot of feedback, so keeping records as a means for getting feedback helps them set goals and and makes them more aware. They find that very useful." Grasha also noted that improvements in accuracy didn't always require h...UF study shows pumping iron improves strength, independence in frail elderly
...rans Affairs Medical Center in Gainesville. After doing weight resistance exercises for as little as a mon...ry or adverse outcomes, and that they really enjoy doing it and get a lot stronger. It makes a big impact on the quality of their lives," said Meuleman, who ...Anger-prone people are more likely to have heart attacks
...ry and felt annoyed when not given recognition for doing good work. Individuals were given a score of 1 to 40 according to their answers to the questions. The average score was 16. About 8 percent of the individuals scored high, 55 percent scored moderate, and 37 percent scored low. Higher scorers were ...Northwestern chemist develops nanoplotter with parallel writing capabilities
...ter writing technique opens up exciting avenues of doing things differently, better and on a much smaller scale than they are today." Mirkin and fellow author Seunghun Hong, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern, report that the nanoplotter could be equipped with a significantly greater number of pe......nswered questions about why what chiropractors are doing is working or not working," Dr. Bove says. "All this pain research is directly relevant to what chiropractors do."...