Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
...top 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 someday find a rational way to targetand kill Reed-Sternberg cells without subjecting patients to serious sideeffects. That is...High-intensity physical training improves cardiovascular fitness in obese adolescents
... body composition of juveniles. The study included eighty 13-16 year old obese boys and girls of all ethnicities who were randomly assigned to receive either after school lifestyle education classes (LSE) by themselves, LSE combined with moderate-intensity physical training, or LSE combined with high-intens...Computer design yields better, more efficient therapeutic for preventing tissue damage
... A distributed computing environment consisting of eighty Linux-based computers was used for all the computational predictions, and the predicted new peptides were subsequently synthesized and experimentally validated in the Lambris laboratory at Penn....Even health professionals who treat obesity are biased against overweight patients
...l obesity conference in Quebec City. Three hundred eighty nine clinicians and researchers were given the Implicit Associations Test (IAT) and a self-report questionnaire assessing explicit attitudes, personal experiences with obesity, and demographic characteristics. The IAT is a timed measure of automatic...Bone cement only controls bacteria for a few days after the operation
...r. However, it has been established that more than eighty percent of the antibiotics can still be found in the bone cement years later. Knowledge about the release of the antibiotics could contribute to the development of new antibiotic carriers to control infections in orthopaedic surgery....FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...ients (with 95% Confidence Intervals) One-hundred eighty five patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing either hemodialysis(n=146) or peritoneal dialysis (n=39) were enrolled in two placebo-controlled, randomized withdrawal studies. Sixty-four percent of subjects were male, 28% black, 62% white and...Surgery without the scapel: U. Va. Health System marks fifteenth anniversary of Gamma knife
...) are also experiencing high success rates-- about eighty percent. Patients may also be potential candidates for the Gamma Knife if they have inner ear tumors (acoustic neuromas), pituitary tumors, epilepsy, movement disorders, pain from trigeminal neuralgia, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, dural malformatio...... among the four states that fared best: At least eighty percent of age-appropriate women have been screened in the last three years. (Three of the top four states had a screening rate of more than 86 percent). Their Medicaid programs cover HPV testing along with the Pap in routine screening of women age ...