Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
...ts temporarily unconscious during the surgery. The earlier study -- the results of which led to much discussion in the anesthesia community -- involved putting newborn rat pups in a static chamber, where they inhaled various anesthetics. The results of those studies showed evidence of increased apoptosis, or...Two years after gene therapy treatments, severe angina patients showed prolonged clinical benefit
...of the two year follow-up results of the Corautus' earlier Phase I study of VEGF-2 in patients with severe an...normal life. Guided by the positive trends in the earlier Phase I and IIA trials, we are now studying the safety and efficacy of VEGF-2 in a statistically sig...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
...hically significant CAD," Dr. Sola says. "However, earlier studies were conducted in an era when effective th...ween HIV infection and CAD that was noted in these earlier studies." In addition to Dr. Sola and Dr. Patel, the Emory research team included Tarek H...Laughter helps blood vessels function better
... says Dr. Miller. The current study builds on earlier research Dr. Miller conducted on the potential ben...ystem. Dr. Miller says certain factors in the earlier study may have affected the results. For example, he says it may be that people who have already had...Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
...cal would also be the most frightened. "But in our earlier research, we showed that some monkeys will become inhibited and freeze when they're frightened, especially when a predator is nearby and the monkey believes that it hasn't yet been discovered by the predator," Kalin says. "We observed that the greate...Curious female rats survive tumors longer
... is the opposite of the result Cavigelli saw in an earlier study with male rats.The males' stress hormones were lower in the curious rodents. "These results suggest that both elevated and dampened stress hormone production may be associated with disease resilience or accelerated aging," says the Penn State r...MRI better than current standard in assessing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer
... said Dr. Yeh. "In the future, we hope to use MRI earlier in the chemotherapy treatment to determine if the toxic therapy is reducing the tumor size. If it's not working, we can perhaps change the drug that's being used--in fact tailor treatment for each patient," she said....Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
...udy suggests that the disease may be initiated far earlier than previously known. Esophageal cancer is three to four times more common among men than women and about 50 percent more common among African Americans than among whites. Because esophageal cancer is usually diagnosed at a late stage, most people...African-Americans receive less aggressive heart attack treatment
...can-Americans and whites are narrowing compared to earlier periods, the gap remains an important public health problem. "Heart disease is a leading cause of illness and death in our country that disproportionately affects African-Americans," said Bertoni. "There is still work to be done to understand why thi...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...smoking," Bricker said. These findings build on an earlier study by Bricker and colleagues, published in the May 2003 issue of Addiction, which that found parents who quit smoking before their children reached third grade significantly reduced their child's odds of becoming a smoker by their senior year of h...Training could remove racial bias from police reactions
...cipated in one hundred and sixty test trials. The earlier trials revealed that the officers were more likely mistakenly shoot at an unarmed Black suspect than an unarmed White suspect. But in the later trails the officers were similarly conservative in their decision to fire at Black and White suspects. "...Genetic amplification (NAAT) test detects HIV more effectively than standard tests in urban study
...g for can identify people with acute HIV infection earlier when they may be most infectious and at risk for s... be referred for prevention and treatment services earlier before they develop clinical symptoms," Dr. Priddy says. "Early detection and intervention for pati...New imaging technologies can enhance orthopaedic outcomes
...ew imaging techniques allow for more sensitive and earlier detection of particle disease, with non-invasive and more precise quantification of bone loss, as well as detection of synovial reaction at the origin of the adverse biologic reaction," Dr. Potter said. The Hospital for Special Surgery offers one of ...Infectious microorganism linked to kidney stones and other diseases
...er compared to normal gravity on Earth, supporting earlier discoveries that microbes have radically different behavior in weightless environments. NB is also shown to possibly be an infectious risk for crew members living in close quarters. "The concept that nanobacteria are living organisms is still controv...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...rom the retina to the brain for interpretation In earlier research, Chen's team discovered several processes that they believed "locked up" the optic nerve's ability to regenerate. The first lock, they found, was the turning off of a specific gene BCL-2 which, when turned on, activates growth and regenera...UCLA study shows that people drink less alcohol as they age
...hey age--but drinking among those who were born in earlier years showed a faster decline than among people bo...ss," she said. "The kicker is that, over time, the earlier group had a faster decline. People who were born more recently reduce their drinking less as compare...When the brain, not the ears, goes hard of hearing
...hearing because of an aging brain. In addition to earlier findings of a specific type of "timing" problem that limits our hearing as we age, the group is now finding increasing evidence of a "feedback" problem in the brain that diminishes our ability to hear. This week at the annual meeting of the Associati...Referrals to palliative care come too late to improve quality of life for cancer patients
...ts and families about palliative care and increase earlier referrals to such programs," Dr. Ferrell said. "This study supports closer collaboration between oncologists and palliative care specialists, rather than simply a swift transfer from one provider to the other as the patient's condition declines."...Computer model being developed at Stanford may help surgeons better predict patient outcomes
...e of blood vessels adds more predictive ability to earlier versions of his simulation, which assumed rigid vessel walls for simplicity. "The physics of blood flow is so complicated that it is impossible to guess what will happen during a surgery," Taylor said. Medical professionals now have access to powerfu...Psychiatric disorders greatly underdiagnosed in hospital emergency departments
... Medicine Residency Program and colleagues confirm earlier reports that a significant psychiatric underdiagnosis is taking place. The researchers observed a psychiatric rate of 5.27% among the emergency department patients, a rate far below the national prevalence rate of 20% to 28%. Comparing national rate...