Mayo Clinic research shows stroke rehabilitation best served by physical training
... About the Investigation Over the past 22 years, experimental evidence in animals suggested that treatment with stimulants such as amphetamines can positively affect recovery rate after strokelike brain injury by improving the ability to concentrate on a task or thought. However, applying these findings to huma...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...ally) to reach out and grab objects. "All previous experimental approaches of this type, including some of our own...object, multi-feature displays. By reassessing our experimental design to equally stimulate the two pathways we find that multi-object displays often result in bett...Mobile phone use and acoustic neuroma
...also be expected that these results will stimulate experimental research which will also contribute information of importance for the interpretation of the findings. The study was funded by the European Union Fifth Framework Program, "Quality of Life and Management of living Resources" (contract QLK4-CT-1999-015...Smart lights, nonstick implants and 100th birthday of electronics at science & technology meeting
...stability of the dots' magnetic properties. Their experimental data appears to indicate that the stabilizing interaction occurs between the dots and the metal (copper) surface on which the dots lie. The researchers will continue studying what appears to be a stable platform for future data storage. (Paper MI-We...Call for national collaboration on medical education research
...trengths and weakness of various observational and experimental research methods as a framework for conducting educational research in medicine. They propose that medical schools and residency programs support educational research and cooperate on multi-institutional studies in educational epidemiology that can ...Could skin cells become brain cells?
Results of an experimental study in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlight...ments: "This study provides a platform for further experimental studies and raises the possibility of generating nerve cells from an individual's own skin cells, th...Incentive-based intervention with nutritional component improves health status of children in Mexico
...een in the program during the previous year. "This experimental study showed improvements in height increments and anemia rates associated with exposure to Progresa, a program with a nutrition component, which covered about 2.6 million families by the end of the evaluation period and that today reaches 4.5 millio...Mouse study could aid vaccine designers
...infected cells to dendritic cells, and a number of experimental vaccines have been designed on this premise. But few studies have been done to determine if chaperoned peptides play any role in animal systems, notes Dr. Yewdell. If the chaperoned peptide theory is correct, infected cells that make the most peptide...New surgical device for long bone repair reduces X-ray exposure
...activities range from basic biomedical research to experimental device development and laboratory demonstrations. Szakelyhidi's design was passed on to Triad Semi-conductor of Winston-Salem, N.C. The company successfully developed a new surgical product with direction from Muelenaer. Plastics One, a Roanoke based...May/June 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...r trials are an important and increasingly popular experimental design but serious design and analysis implications abound. This article provides an introduction to the problems of analyzing binary data from clustered data in clinical research. Click here to view a pdf of the complete article....Duke scientists identify new way to block blood vessels that feed cancer growth
...se protective messages. They suppressed HIF-1 with experimental drugs given together with radiation therapy in animals with cancer. In doing so, they successfully inhibited blood vessel growth in tumors and, thereby, the growth of tumors themselves. The Duke scientists hope to test this potential new therapy plus...Alzheimer's pathology reduced, longevity improved in mouse model, Gladstone study shows
...an suppress key features of Alzheimer's disease in experimental models, researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) recently reported in the Journal of Neuroscience (May 12, 2004). Using well-established mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, the investigators examined how changing levels ...New research in atrial fibrillation
... in New York City. Radio frequency ablation is an experimental treatment that is currently having some success, according to Dr. Donahue. In this treatment, catheters (thin tubes) are put in the heart, and radiofrequency energy is used to isolate the area that causes the fibrillation. "In patients who have simpl...Novel vitamin discovery offers clues for cancer chemotherapy and lipid disorders
...ependent on NAD have been shown to prolong life in experimental systems. Brenner's laboratory at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was studying an enzyme involved in NAD synthesis that was similar to an enzyme implicated in cancer development. Their explorations revealed a nov...Dad's death helps national expert evaluate end-of-life care
...he same lines, Aetna has recently come out with an experimental program for seriously ill patients who are expected to live a year or more, enabling them to enroll in hospice while still receiving aggressive medical care.) Later on, his father was accepted into a hospice program although it wasn't clear that his ...Obesity reversed in mice by destroying blood vessels that service fat cells
...re Medicine, it took only weeks of treatment by an experimental drug to restore the normal weight of mice that had doubled their size by eating a high-fat "cafeteria" diet. Although the work has only been conducted in animals, the authors say it may one day lead to the development of targeted therapies to treat h...Experimental drug improves sleep in older patients, Wake Forest Baptist study shows
...h insomnia slept better and longer after taking an experimental sleep medication, according to research at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. W. Vaughn McCall, M.D., a sleep expert, presented his findings today (May 6) at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in New York City. Th...First multi-center trial shows cryosurgery successful at treating some early-stage breast cancer
...ancerous cells in small tumors. Although still an experimental treatment for breast cancer, these findings move cryosurgery one step closer to clinical application for early stage disease. As mammograms and other imaging techniques become more sophisticated, doctors are able to find breast cancer earlier, when t...Cancer gene therapy news backgrounder: New ideas fuel next generation gene therapy research
...ncer Center in San Diego), was the first to try an experimental gene "augmentation" program in patients. His idea ...e in lung tumors could be successfully replaced in experimental animals. The p53 gene, which normally acts as a brake against uncontrolled cell growth, is missing o...Highlights summarized for movement disorders research at 56th annual meeting
... PD. [S18.003] Parkinson's Disease Treatment An experimental treatment in a very small group of patients has created a very large amount of interest among movement disorder specialists. The treatment delivered GDNF (glial-cell derived neurotrophic factor) directly into the brains of five PD patients, using a ...