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...otid calcification after reading a journal article from 1981 that reported such a possibility. A panorami...ch, which was supported in part by training grants from the National Institute for Dental Research....ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
... of antibodies to HIV) reduced transmission of HIV from infected pregnant women to their infants when adde... own health. It was anticipated that transmission from mother to child in a population of women with advanced disease, even when receiving AZT, would be si...Common Carbohydrates May Prove To Be Substitute For Dietary Fiber
... small amounts of theright foods? In a turnaround from previous beliefs, researchers are finding a growin... of benefits to human and animal digestive systems from certain formsof indigestible oligosaccharides -- naturally occurring groups of carbohydratescontaini...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...ontrol many biological processes within ourbodies, from the activity of enzymes to the signaling that take...parating the effect of protein-ligand interactions from changes inprotein-water and ligand-water interactions remains "one of the mostdaunting barriers to p......tients cannot withstand surgery and do not benefit from chemotherapy. They are usually given six months to... As a result, the image acquisition rate has risen from one frame every two minutes to one per second. The addition of a three-camera array allows ...Laser Offers Hope For Heart Patients With No Alternatives
...and the blood in the chamber keeps the laser burst from travelingany further. Depending on the ex... balloon angioplasty. In a bypass procedure,veins from the leg are used to redirect oxygen-rich blood around blockagesand directly to heart muscle. In ang...UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...card” sprinkled with 13 letter grades ranging from two “A”s to two “D-minuses.” O...e number of licensed full-service HMOs skyrocketed from 10 to 23, with several HMO license applications pending review.” HMO enrollment here grew ste...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
..., compared a total of 116 first and second graders from two elementary schools. One school was battered by peaks of up to 90 decibels of noise every 6.6 minutes by low-flying planes passing overhead. The other school, closely matched for ethnicity and percentage of children receiving subsidized school l...Researchers Gain Insights Into Drugs Used For Manic-Depression
Many people who suffer from bipolar disorder, ormanic-depression, seem to resp...ects. Some three million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder,consisting of major bouts of depression followed by episodes of mania thatmay lead ...Guidelines Offer Ways To Curb Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
...reatment by antibiotics in 29 percent of cases, up from about 2 percent in 1975. Responding to the growing health concern, the N.C. Statewide Infection Control Program at the UNC-CH School of Medicine has prepared guidelines for preventing and controlling the spread of two of the most prevalent antibiot...Substance from Grapefruit Juice May Make Medications Safer
...medications. One of the most interesting findings from the University of Michigan study is that, after taking grapefruit juice, CYP3A4 levels were virtually the same for everyone in the study. This is important because, normally, there are large differences in CYP3A4 levels between individuals, which, i......, and see it as something used to sell everything from books and beer to clothes and makeup. It's a good ...That way children get culturally acceptable values from their parents." Condoms and AIDS prevention present special problems. Americans can't seem to look a...... loads. Partially developed with internal funding from GTRI, the system usesa set of structurally constra...a search, because the search is roughly de-coupled from thesize of the database. The system also can mark cases similar to theexample it is reviewing, so th...Antimicrobial "Bug Spray" Found In Human Lung Cells
Hopkins scientists studying lung damage from cystic fibrosis (CF) have found a natural "bug spr... the first such compounds were identified in cells from frog skin and cow throats by researchers at other institutions Young Hee Ko, a research associate in...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...e immediately after an injection and is eliminated from the body hundreds of times faster than presumed. "...n used as an adjuvant to boost the immune response from vaccines. Currently, it is the only adjuvant approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in...New Drug For Parkinson's Disease Proves Effective, Study Finds
...vement. Parkinson's, which afflicts adults ranging from ages 40 to 80,results in uncontrollable tremors an...ochloride does not cause lightheadedness resulting from a noticeable drop in blood pressure when a patient stands up. Dr. Kieburtz says that's probably beca...Milk Extract May Heal Wounds And Smooth Wrinkles
...ject-a world first-is the brainchild of scientists from the CSIRODivision of Human Nutrition, who are now ...entists have extracted their wound-healing extract from the left-overliquid (whey) which remains when milk is turned into cheese. They say 1,000litres of wh...TB Prophylaxis Unnecessary In HIV-Infected People With Anergy, Study Suggests
...) but without confirmedTB infection do not benefit from preventive treatment with a front-line TB drug,a study supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases(NIAID) has found. The study is reported in the July 31, 1997 issue of The NewEngland Journal of Medicine. "Clinicians who c...Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
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