Diet, exercise, stimulating environment helps old dogs learn
...tioxidant diet solved the problem. Only two of the eight older dogs in the control group were able to do this task. Dietary intervention in the younger canines had no effect. "The combination of an antioxidant diet and lots of cognitive stimulation--which was almost the equivalent of going to school every ...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...San Diego (UCSD) has awarded more than $300,000 to eight projects led by faculty members of the Jacobs Scho... great promise, and while we are only able to make eight cash awards at this time, the Center will continue to work with all of the applicants to develop com...Penn study may lead the way for first medication to treat cocaine addiction
...r matching placebo tablets, that was continued for eight weeks along with twice-weekly cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Thirty participants were treated with Modafinil; and 32 were given placebo. The primary efficacy measure was cocaine abstinence, measured by urine toxicity testing. Secondary measur...Orqis receives FDA approval to expand clinical trial of Cancion CRS therapy to 40 centers
...pansion of the Cancion CRS TM clinical trial from eight to 40 medical centers nationwide, accelerating the trial's recruitment and enrollment efforts. The Cancion CRS therapy is a percutaneous cardiac recovery system being studied for its ability to create a "rest-to-recovery" environment for congestive h...Most alcohol-related plane crashes occur at night and in worsening weather conditions
...was listed as a contributing factor by the NTSB in eight of the 25 alcohol-related plane crashes, with BACs...er aircraft, air taxis, or private planes - within eight hours after having consumed alcohol, or with a BAC above 40 milligrams per deciliter. Only major ai...Sex habits of young women unchanged by morning after pill, UCSF study finds
... to avoid pregnancy for the duration of the trial, eight percent of women in each group became pregnant. About 40 percent of women in each group self-reported having unprotected sex at least once over the study period. Women's number of sexual partners and frequency of condom use were similar across all th...Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt ranked 8th in nation by 'Child' magazine
...owToday. The Children's Hospital was listed number eight in the nationfrom among 144 original applicants. The rankings also listed VanderbiltChildren's Hospital as seventh in the nation for pediatric cancerservices. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for Vanderbilt University MedicalCenter, Harry Jacobson,...Ethics of neuroimaging research to be focus of NIH/Stanford meeting
...in healthy volunteers. The issue is so timely that eight of the NIH institutes and two institute directors will be represented at the meeting. Illes said right now research groups handle these abnormalities, which they call incidental findings, in different ways. Some try to address all cases while others ...BMJ turns missing murder case documents over to FDA
...g the case of Joseph Wesbecker in 1994, who killed eight people at his workplace in 1989, while taking fluoxetine. He then shot and killed himself. In 1994, some of the relatives of the victims brought a civil suit against Eli Lilly, alleging that the company had known about the side effects of fluoxetine...Exercise combats metabolic syndrome in older adults
... a reduction of 41 percent. In the control group, eight participants no longer had the syndrome, while four new cases appeared, resulting in an overall reduction of only 18 percent. "Older people can benefit greatly from exercise, especially to reduce their risk for developing metabolic syndrome," said St...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...re applied to custom-made insoles for both feet of eight normal and six diabetic participants. Investigators measured and compared the plantar pressure distribution of five different support conditions, including shoe-only, flat insole, and three contoured insoles for the whole foot and for selected region...Combining hormones with external, internal radiation helps high risk prostate cancer patients
...nearly 200 men with high risk prostate cancer over eight years to see if adding external beam radiation and...e seed implants and external beam radiation. After eight years, nearly 94 percent of the men who had hormone therapy in addition to the two types of radiatio...Study explores antibiotic misuse
... The interactive kiosk, in use in four of eight cities in the study, runs through scenarios with patients describing familiar respiratory ills to a doctor, then asks the user questions such as whether antibiotics kill viruses. The correct answer: "No." The third year will determine whethe...Pfizer's antifungal medicine VFEND receives FDA approval
...sease Control and Prevention, candidemia occurs in eight of every 100,000 persons per year. Those at risk for disseminated Candida infections include patients with compromised immune systems such as stem-cell and organ-transplant recipients, surgical patients, and critically ill patients in the intensive c...Small band of nurses plays key role keeping germ threats at bay
...mately 500 to 700 people taking part in a total of eight or nine studies each year. Over it's 33-year history, the unit has vaccinated well over 10,000 people in hundreds of studies. Most of the new vaccines of the last 35 years first passed muster at the University of Rochester and the other VTEUs. In add...Overweight, boozy and depressed: Why we need healthy new year's resolutions
...om three per cent of men and women born in 1946 to eight per cent of men and 10 per cent of women born in 1958. And the figures were 13 per cent for men and 14 per cent for women born in 1970. Modern mothers are less likely to breast feed their children, says the report entitled 'Changing Britain, Changin...Size of myocardial infarct measured using MRI
...team measured the size of an m.i. in 13 dogs using eight different methods for analyzing pictures taken by a standard MRI, ranging from visual cues to varying strengths of a computer model called full-width at half-maximum. This computer method calculates the amount of damaged tissue by comparing MRI signa...Scientists discover recipe for life: eating the 'Polymeal' cuts heart disease by 76%
...y will also put off the onset of heart disease for eight years longer. The Polymeal includes wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruits and vegetables, almonds and garlic, eaten on a daily basis (but four times a week for fish). Scientists reviewed the medical literature on how much each ingredient cuts heart dis...Assessing the season: LSU hurricane experts learned lessons during Hurricane Season 2004
...perts on their toes. There were 15 named storms, eight of which became hurricanes. Six of those fell into the intense/severe category. Keim said that 10 named storms and six hurricanes is considered average. Two intense storms a year is average, he added. While there were an unusually high number of st...McGill researchers identify new way to reduce cholesterol levels
...d four times a day. This regimen was continued for eight weeks, blood samples were taken and lipid analysis was performed. "In comparison with plant sterols or exercise alone, the combination of plant sterols and exercise yielded the most beneficial change in the volunteer's cholesterol and lipid levels," ...