Study finds certain compounds in beer, wine effective in slowing breast cancer cell growth
...ure to tryptan blue (0.4 percent). The colorant is excluded from live cells, and so the method allows simultaneously quantifying the number of cells (index of proliferation) and cytotoxicity (ratio between dead and live cells). In other experiments, 3H-thymidine incorporation was evaluated in each time and t...Successful therapy for head and neck cancer may lead to long-term circulatory problems
...ring orthostasis, and large cold pressor responses excluded sympathetic neurocirculatory failure. Taken together, the results therefore pointed to baroreflex failure from decreased afferent baroreceptor input to the brain, rather than loss of effector system functions. The results call for a prospective study...Lung cancer now leading cause of cancer death in women
...tudies for lung cancer prevention in the past have excluded women. The researchers believe it is critical that future lung cancer research specifically include a portion of women that reflects the true incidence of lung cancer in females. "Given these differences, it is critical that future lung cancer rese...Article examines reasons contributing to epidemic of lung cancer in U.S. women
...or lung cancer prevention and early diagnosis have excluded women. "... it is critical that future lung cancer research specifically include a proportion of women that reflects the true incidence of lung cancer in women." According to the authors, one of the most important challenges lies in avoiding the U.S....Vitamin C reduces level of C-reactive protein, finds UC Berkeley-led study
...o start with, likely due to existing illness, were excluded from the study. Participants were randomly assigned to receive a daily dose of a placebo, a vitamin C supplement of about 500 milligrams, or a mixture of antioxidants made up of vitamin C, vitamin E and alpha-lipoic acid. Neither the researchers nor ...Immediate mammogram reading may decrease stress associated with abnormal results
...ncer as a result of their screening mammogram were excluded from the study.) Three weeks after their mammograms, 50% of women who had a false-positive reading reported having symptoms of anxiety about the mammogram, compared with 28% of women with normal mammograms. Overall, 3 months after their mammograms, w...Bushmeat poses threat of simian retrovirus transmission to humans
...nt simian foamy viruses are involved, it cannot be excluded that the pathogenicity of foamy viruses with a particular simian strain might emerge in the human population after a long incubation period, and especially as life expectancy increases. Because of Wolfe and colleagues' findings, studies will now need...Bite-marks giving false impression
..." matches. What's more, in some cases the experts excluded the correct cast, saying they were certain it could not have made the mark. And there were examples where they assigned the wrong cast to a mark, a false match which in a real case could have led to a miscarriage of justice. Gould and Cardoza wouldn...Multi-center trial compares three medications in patients with heart failure
...rly, so clinically important differences cannot be excluded with certainty, according to the researchers. Massie noted that a second endpoint -- hospitalizations for worsening heart failure -- occurred significantly less frequently in patients treated with warfarin than in those receiving aspirin. "We were no...Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement
Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreements to protect health, argue researchers in this week's BMJ. Their call comes in the week that the European Union and the South American trading bloc Mercosur will continue negotiations towards a free trade agreement. Every da...Number of children linked to obesity for mom and dad
... Single or divorced individuals with children were excluded in the analysis. The number of children reported by the couples ranged from one to 19, and included both biological and adopted children. Of the sample, 79 percent were white, 12.5 percent were African American and 8.5 percent were Hispanic. The rese...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
...d morning predominance persisted after researchers excluded patients with stroke upon awakening whose exact time of onset couldn't be established. Of 431 ischemic stroke patients with known onset times, 42.2 percent occurred between 6 a.m. and noon. Another 29.9 percent happened between noon and 6 p.m.; 22....Medically supervised injecting centres should be piloted in the UK
...tres are targeted instead at homeless and socially excluded drug users, and are an essential part of a successful public health strategy....Genomics research: New genetic 'hit list' may underlie susceptibility to sudden cardiac death
...d only in specific ethnic groups. When researchers excluded the most common and established potassium channel variants, one in three blacks and one in seven whites studied were found to harbor at least one variant. Based on previous studies, a potassium channel mutation causing inherited long QT syndrome shou...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...to brain tissue), antiretroviral drugs are largely excluded by the barrier. Taking the first steps to determine how the virus may be affecting the brains of people taking antiretroviral drugs, Chao and her research team compared 39 people who tested positive for HIV who had been taking antiretroviral drugs fo...Study of deadliest form of stroke demostrates much lower mortality rates at high caseload hospitals
...erent hospitals. All non-emergency admissions were excluded from the study population to ensure similarity of health status among the study subjects. Researchers also analyzed a subset of 9,290 cases, representing 1,312 SAH centers, in order to control for the potential impact of combined variables (age, sex,...Liver transplants result in excellent survival rates for patients with liver cancer
...nited States between 1987 and 2001. Patients were excluded if they had undergone multiple organ transplantation, retransplantation, were less than 18 years of age, or lacked survival information. Of the remaining patients included in the final analysis, 985 had liver transplantation for hepatocellular carc...Rejection really hurts, UCLA psychologists find
...e included in the ball-tossing game, but they were excluded from the last three-quarters of the third round by...s. While the undergraduates later reported feeling excluded in the third round, fMRI scans revealed elevated activity during both the first and third rounds in ...Alcohol may compound its damaging effects through frontocerebellar circuitry
...fied and too restricted to the cerebral cortex and excluded brain stem structures such as the pons and cerebellum." Researchers know that two areas of neuropsychological functioning commonly compromised by chronic alcoholism are executive functions (such as problem solving, putting things in order, working me......ated for depression or other mental illnesses were excluded from the analysis. All of the patients took a standardized test to assess symptoms of depression the day before surgery as well as 6 months after surgery. The test is known as the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) survey, a 20-qu...