Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...ut significant hope that spinal cord patients will eventually be able to regain much of the ability to move that they have lost. For paraplegic patients this could lead to a return of sensation and movement to some leg muscles, potentially allowing them to stand and making movement easier, while tetraplegics (p...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...ter to current beliefs about these cells and could eventually lead to ways of preventing or treating hearing loss. The report will appear in the journal Science and is receiving early online release on the Science Express website at http://www.sciencexpress.org . "These findings give us a potential stragegy ...Jefferson scientists help explain statins' effects in Alzheimer's disease
...plaques in the Alzheimer's brain. The results may eventually help provide new targets for anti-amyloid drugs to help treat Alzheimer's disease. They report their findings Jan. 11, 2005 in the online journal the Public Library of Science Medicine. Some epidemiological studies have found a link between people t...Antibiotics protect nerves in mice by turning on genes
... problem in ALS, it's not surprising that the mice eventually succumbed to weakness and paralysis despite treatment, he says. "If we can find drugs that protect against other causes of nerve death in ALS, the combination might offer a real therapy, much like using drug combinations to treat cancer," says Rothst...Residual tumor cells are a barrier to targeted cancer therapeutics
...y, the investigators found that nearly every tumor eventually progressed to a state that was no longer dependent... therapy provide a means for cancers to escape and eventually recur. When tumors shrink in response to therapy, they leave residual cells that ultimately give ris...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for January 2005 (first issue)
...all individuals with beryllium sensitization would eventually develop granulomatous disease. They also wanted to expand their follow-up to more recently identified sensitized individuals. The study appears in the first issue for January 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of...Drivers with epilepsy are on the road again
...for fear of losing a job, or having their licenses eventually taken away. "The survey results [further] highlighted the need for cooperation between the driving authorities and JES for further amendment of the regulations as well as the importance of education for the public, patients and professionals," stat...Sudden death from stress linked to wonky signals in the brain
...eart and could ultimately induce an irregular, and eventually fatal, heartbeat. Dr Peter Taggart from UCL's Centre for Cardiology says: "Some people are at risk of sudden death from stress, mainly people who already have heart disease. In these cases the combination of heart and brain irregularities means th...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
...sful medical treatment, ultimately understood, and eventually defeated by scientific innovation is being told a ...ld loosen starting about 5 years after surgery and eventually fail completely. There were many theories about the cause of that loosening, several which focused ...Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
...according to Nair. It's possible that anthocyanins eventually could be incorporated into new products, such as pills or specialty juices that people could take to help treat diabetes. Such disease-specific products may take several more years to develop, he notes. Scientists in Nair's laboratory have even deve...Research in yeast yields missing link in DNA maintenance machinery
...paired. Such damage can lead to unstable cells and eventually to cancer. "We knew that at least one gene involved in the INO80 complex had been linked to cancer," said Shen. "This research helps provide a potential mechanism to account for those cancers." The researchers, led by post-doctoral scientist Ashby ...New clue to nerve growth may help regeneration efforts
...specific nerves begin connecting between what will eventually be two sections of the brain. Because the accurate extension of these nerves requires semaphorin 5A, Kantor was able to identify key molecules that interact with it. He found that CSPGs bind semaphorin 5A to prevent nerves from extending across a no...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...SARS cases were in China, Hong Kong and Singapore, eventually cases also occurred in Canada, Europe and the United States, according to WHO. There were 27 probable SARS cases in the United States. No U.S. residents died of the disease, according to WHO....New study links lead exposure with increased risk of cataract
...ad, the compound circulates in the bloodstream and eventually concentrates in the bone. The Harvard researchers ...proteins present in the epithelial cells, and this eventually results in a cataract," she said. The Harvard researchers are among the first to use bone lead in st...Increased suicide rate is possibly linked to chemicals released from nearby asphalt plants
...thers, he said, adding that the study findings may eventually suggest yet another risk factor for suicide making further study all the more important. Weisler and Davidson both emphasized the need to educate residents of the affected areas about mood and anxiety disorders as well as substance use disorde...Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
...estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers in mice eventually being used in medical imaging centers. In addition to a mammogram, a woman could be tested with a genetic probe another way, he says, to screen suspicious lumps. It could also be used to detect precancerous zones, as in ductal carcinoma in situ, and...New study in NEJM suggests levodopa may slow progression of Parkinson's disease
...ase, and almost all patients with the disease will eventually need to take it. But there has long been controve...s characterized by tremor, stiffness, slowness and eventually poor balance control. The symptoms are due to loss of nerve cells in the brain that contain "dopamin...Physicians may need to dig deeper when treating HIV-related lymphomas
...n these individuals. We expect that our study will eventually serve to change the way in which patients with AIDS-related Burkitt lymphoma are treated."...Dec. 7 tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine
...e a mechanism linking sleep loss to overeating and eventually to overweight and obesity. Writers in an accompanying editorial say that millions of Americans are overweight, and the usual suspects are fast food, high-fat food, too much food, and too little exercise (Editorial, p. 885). It might be possible that ...Pitt research shows NASA sleep-wake scheduling guide may need to be changed
...ired by NASA's protocol. Because of that, subjects eventually experienced a massive flattening in the amplitude of their circadian temperature rhythm indicating that the biological clock was not doing its job properly. This led to significant disruptions in sleep and lowered alertness while awake. More research...