Hepatitis C at epidemic levels among young injectors in London
... the past 6 or 7 years, government drug policy has focused on drugs and crime, and has been successful in expanding specialist drug treatment, especially through referral from criminal justice. However, there is a need now to re-invigorate harm reduction policies that prevent transmission of HCV and HIV." T...Intervention boosts activity in kids, especially minorities
...ation's Scientific Sessions 2004. The intervention focused on moderate to vigorous aerobic activities designed to engage the children. They started physical education (PE) classes with warm-up exercises, such as jumping rope, and spent the majority of time on vigorous non-competitive games that the children...Following heart care guidelines saves lives
...e to the guidelines. The current analysis focused on the quarterly changes in guideline adherence and mortality rate changes at 315 hospitals from all of 2002 through September of 2003. During that period, a total of 21,588 patients had been treated. The hospitals were then divided into qua...Senior citizens at risk for pneumonia
The recent flu vaccine shortage has focused attention on elderly people's risk for infection. Like the flu, pneumonia can also cause serious health problems for older people. More than 900,000 cases of community-acquired pneumonia occur each year among seniors in the United States, according t...Signaling pathway may be key to understanding roots of hypertension
...rson University in Philadelphia and her co-workers focused on drugs known as alpha-adrenergic receptor blockers and angiotensin II receptor blockers (including ACE inhibitors), which block angiotensin over-production, and which can lead to high blood pressure. Both of these receptors normally bind to a class...University of Pennsylvania Health System launches life-saving eICU technology
...s UPHS to the forefront of cutting-edge technology focused on quality and patient care," says C. William Hanson, MD, Medical Director of the Penn E-lert program. "HUP and Pennsylvania Hospitals will set the mark on how to bring ICU care into the future, while at the same time, enhancing patient care." The...News tips for Sunday, November 7, 2004
...f the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) have focused on middle-aged or elderly patients until now. Investigators studied the effects of CR on 104 patients under than age 55 (average age 48, 73 percent male). They assessed baseline psychological and overall risk profiles. Results were compared to si...Columbia Univ. Medical Center wins highly competitive stroke grant from NIH
...erian/Columbia will be enrolled in clinical trials focused on treating stroke in its acute phases immediately after onset. "This grant validates the quality of our prior research and represents important opportunity for discovery of new treatment modalities for the 700,000 people in the U.S. who suffer str...GSA bestows Robert W. Kleemeier Award to University of Texas Health Science Center's Smith
...for the past 18 years. More recently, his work has focused on the role alterations in chromatin structure play in cellular senescence, which is now a particularly hot area of research in molecular biology. The award, created in 1965, is in memory of a former president of the society whose contributions to t...The anti-arthritic effects of bee venom
...obtained from human RA patients. Their experiments focused on melittin, bee venom's principal peptide. They observed melittin's power to block the expression of inflammatory genes, much like COX-2 inhibitor drugs used to treat RA. Melittin effectively reduces inflammation by inhibiting the critical DNA bindi...The effect of osteoporosis drugs on osteoarthritis of the knee
...om the changes of OA. The study focused on 818 elderly women 75 was the average age enrolled in the ABC Study, a long-term study of the factors that contribute to disability in the elderly being conducted at the University of Tennessee and the University of Pittsburgh. 411 of the subjec...Researchers discover potential skin cancer prevention target
...ges of skin cancer, intensive effort should now be focused on researching the proteins activated by STAT3, DiGiovanni said. The researchers became interested in the role of STAT3 when they learned it had been linked to wound healing, a process that shares many of the same features with the process of tumor p...Study of cancer trials finds significant safety improvement
...hat the studies were comparable, the investigators focused on published studies of single agents that had not yet received FDA approval and excluded those involving radiation therapy or treatment of leukemia or lymphoma. This strategy narrowed the study group down to 213 trials, enrolling aproximately 6,500 ...UK researcher uncovers clues to Alzheimer's disease
...as funded by the National Institutes of Health, he focused on amyloid beta peptide, a compound known to contribute to the senile plaques seen in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. The study compared amyloid beta peptide in an animal model to the same compound in humans and found both forms of the compound c...'Going through the motions' to better treat dementia
...holly owned subsidiary of the General Electric Co. focused on communication and information technologies for security, safety and lifestyle enhancements. The grant was awarded to Leibovici and the Center for Future Health through the Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer Care (ETAC) Consortium, which ...Technology points to possible targets for epilepsy and Alzheimer's drugs
...tions. For the epilepsy study, the researchers focused on patients whose seizures couldn't be controlled with medication who had surgery to remove a small portion of their temporal lobes, the part of the brain where the seizures originated. Tissue samples from two of these patients were compared with tis...New insights into hormone therapy highlight when estrogen best aids brain
... mice receiving continuous estrogen. Another test focused on object recognition, a type of nonspatial memory. The mice were presented with two identical objects, and one day later they were presented with one of these objects, along with a new object. On the second day, the investigators measured how long t......uman Genomics are major contributors. The analysis focused on Hispanic IRAS participants and their families brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, and children. In 811 Hispanic participants in the study, the results "are completely consistent" with the results among Caucasians, Bowden said. He said fifth-yea...Researchers identify brain protein that halts progression of Alzheimer's
... new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's, one focused on preventing the loss of the brain cells instead of treating the resulting symptoms." Johnson foresees a time when family members with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease could take a yet-undeveloped drug to increase transthyretin protei...Gender and sex hormones affect the brain's pain response and more, according to new studies
...ften in women than in men. Zubieta's research has focused on a particular neurochemical pathway in the brain--the mu-opioid neurotransmitter system--which uses endogenous chemicals called opioids (commonly known as endorphins and enkephalins) to send signals between brain cells to suppress the sensation of ...