Mothers have brains primed for care
...ood enables them to respond with a richer and more enhanced behavioral repertoire. A first-time mother must e...s to accommodate these new behaviors might include enhanced spatial ability to better navigate the environment and reduced fear and anxiety responses to leaving...Endocrine Society and Hormone Foundation call for increased research
...esearch, note the two organizations, could lead to enhanced understanding of the causes of and treatments for these debilitating conditions. These announcements follow the release of a report from the U.S. Surgeon General, which warns that by 2020 one in two Americans over the age of 50 will be at risk for ...Concerns about fertility affect treatment decisions in one-third of young breast cancer patients
...imate infertility risk, and highlight the need for enhanced communication between physicians and patients," said Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH, Medical Oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study. "A key challenge in discussing these i...Mayo Clinic research shows common airborne fungi cause chronic stuffy nose
...esponse to the fungi -- resulting in an abnormally enhanced response that causes troublesome inflammation and ...cent of chronic rhinosinusitis patients produce an enhanced immune-system response to one fungus in particular, Alternaria. Another kind of common fungus, Clado...Gene from 1918 virus proves key to virulent influenza
...that the [hemagglutinin] of the 1918 virus confers enhanced pathogenicity in mice to recent human viruses that are otherwise non-pathogenic in this host," Kawaoka and his colleagues write in the Nature report. Moreover, the viruses with the 1918 hemagglutinin gene caused symptoms in the mice - infection of th...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...ting the long-term effects of this change requires enhanced characterisation and understanding of the complex ...e damage Envisat's cross polarization gives it an enhanced ability to detect burn scars. Another group from the German-based Remote Sensing Technologies has b...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...eddies, and the Gulf Stream, represent a source of enhanced heat fluxes to the atmosphere that may cause the s...s product only for research purposes, providing an enhanced understanding of the life of a hurricane. However, analogous products are being produced and used op...New class of compounds promises to revive failing hearts
...ment doubled the dogs' hearts' ability to pump and enhanced their ability to relax between contractions -- a promising development. "Our previous work in collaboration with Dr. David A Kass (of Johns Hopkins) and Dr. David A Wink (of the National Cancer Institute) has shown that nitroxyl donors appear to be ...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...sts with new insights into tectonic motion, and an enhanced ability to calculate hazards arising when this slow motion speeds up, in the form of earthquakes or volcanic activity. The ten-instrument payload on Envisat includes an Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument designed to acquire radar im...July/August 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...e as the patient's primary care doctor rather than enhanced referral care in which the patient is referred to a separate mental health clinic. Physicians feel the integrated approach leads to better communication between doctors and mental health specialists (93 percent), less stigma for patients (93 percent...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
...rinking is occurring under the radar, we might see enhanced short- and long-term outcomes." - The Lifestyle Management Project (LMC) designed to reduce heavy drinking, associated negative consequences of acute intoxication, driving after drinking, and perceived drinking norms shows promise as bo...Serono receives FDA approval for Gonal-f RFF Pen to treat infertility
...ete portfolio of infertility products to allow for enhanced dosing flexibility and individualized treatment." Serono expects Gonal-f RFF Pen to be available in the US in Q3 of this year. Gonal-f RFF Pen is indicated for induction of ovulation and pregnancy in anovuluatory infertile women in whom the cause ...New data demonstrates that Benicar(R) and Benicar HCT (TM) achieve JNC 7 blood pressure goals
...mulates the release of another hormone that causes enhanced sodium and chloride (salt) retention, with a resultant increase in vascular water retention and blood volume, that also contributes to an elevation in blood pressure. BENICAR lowers blood pressure by blocking the angiotensin II receptor on the blood...Moderate exercise and simple dietary supplements significantly reduce risk of atherosclerosis
... to taking dietary supplements you have a markedly enhanced production of nitric oxide--in science, we like to call it a synergistic effect." The researchers studied six groups of eight-week-old LDL receptor-deficient male mice with high cholesterol over 18 weeks. The mice were randomly divided into three die...Yerkes researchers discover combination of drug therapies reduces cocaine use in primates
... determined fluoxetine (Prozac), a SERT inhibitor, enhanced the effectiveness of a DAT inhibitor in reducing cocaine self-administration. Howell's next step is to determine an optimal dosing level for this combination strategy in order to develop the best potential treatment for cocaine addiction....Weekly cycles of once-daily anti-HIV drugs could reduce cost of HIV treatment
...used by Dr. Dybul and his colleagues may allow for enhanced adherence compared with the twice-daily regimen that the researchers used in a previous study. In their paper, the authors conclude: "If the safety and efficacy of short-cycle SIT ultimately are demonstrated in clinical settings, it might prove to ...Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...rcent for those receiving caffeine. Despite their enhanced wakefulness, the caffeine-taking subjects reported feeling sleepier than their placebo counterparts, suggesting that the wake-promoting effects of caffeine do not replace the restorative effects gained through sleep. "Our results highlight the impa...New study: Small, frequent doses of caffeine best strategy for staying awake
...ercent for those receiving caffeine. Despite their enhanced wakefulness, the caffeine-taking subjects reported feeling sleepier than their placebo counterparts, suggesting that the wake-promoting effects of caffeine do not replace the restorative effects gained through sleep. "Our results highlight the impair...New asthma program in Detroit public schools may improve student grades and decrease absences
...eductive nature of the program activities may have enhanced the ability of the children to address science problems in general." In regard to asthma symptoms, children in the treatment group experienced 17 percent fewer days with asthma symptoms than the control group. In addition, children in the treatment ...MRI is better than PET for detecting small metastatic lesions in the liver
Contrast enhanced MRI should be the imaging method of choice for determining if patients with gastrointestinal cancer have disease that has spread into their liver, a new study shows. The study compared FDG PET to MRI and found that both diagnosed cancer metastases, h...