Cattle: Latest Weapon In The War On Cancer?
...cancer is forced to expendmore energy in trying to get through the extra-cellular matrix, making itfar more difficult for it to spread, or metastatise." The factors go by the family name of glycosaminoglycans æ or GAGsfor short. Dr Harper and researcher Xiaoyi Qui from Beijing's Tiantan Hospitali...Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...riers to being tested. "Telling women they should get mammograms isn't enough," saysCelette Sugg Skinner... beingbumped, bruised or fondled is less likely to get breast cancer "If you think you have protected your breasts from being bumpedand bruised and that's ...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...ry-expensivetherapy by reducing the dose needed to get enough of the drugs into thebloodstream, where it ... the drugin the bloodstream so that the drug would get into to the CD4 lymphocytes andkill the virus," Kim said. "Pgp may prevent enough of the drug from g...Survey Finds Increasing Popularity Of Acute Stroke Teams In U.S. Hospitals
...y or rural hospitals first, one of our goals is to get the wordout that they can benefit from having thes... the same kinds ofpatients repetitively, they will get better at treating them," he said....Survey Finds Acute Stroke Teams Gaining Prevalence
...roke team is that by doing something alot, you can get better at it," says Alberts, director of the Stroke Acute CareUnit at Duke. "If you have a stroke team with a set group of staff, then thosepeople will see the vast majority of strokes and they will improve their strokecare." Gaining...MIT Solution To Math Problem Could Lead To Better Dental Implants, More Resistance To Missiles
..." Professor Suresh said. "So they indent the gear, get the propertiesof the first layer, then machine away some material from the surface and indentit again. And they have to keep doing that process. With our theory and themicroindentor they can just indent the gear once." Professor Suresh noted ......hing method last November while thinking ofways to get his dermatology residents to sharpen their observational skills. Heteamed up with Linda Friedlaender, curator of education at the Yale Center forBritish Art, to develop a tutorial that used highly detailed original works ofart. Students are assigne...Hollywood Increases Film Portrayals Of People With Disabilities
...ple with impairments in society. "I try to get my students to reflect on whether there is a realitybase," Safran said. "We are a society of film viewers, and special educationprofessionals can use movies to promote critical viewing skills and anunderstanding of people with special needs." ...Study Finds Aspirin Does Not Prevent High-Risk Cases Of Preeclampsia
...estudies that have positive findings are likely to get published in the medicaljournals while those with negative findings are not. In all, the researchers studied 2539 women at high risk of preeclampsia. The women were between their 13th and 26th week of pregnancy. Of these, 1254were given 60 ...Exercise, Classroom Instruction Cut Kids' Cholesterol, Study Finds
... how little actual physical activitytheir children get at school nowadays," Harrell said. "Most middle-aged andolder people in this country were far more active when they were children than kids are now. Our study was to see if we could make a difference in one of the major risk factors for heart disease...Radio Frequencies Used To Kill Inoperable Liver Tumors At Penn's Cancer Center
...surgical extraction next to impossible." To get at those formerly inaccessible tumors via radio frequency ablation, surgeons use ultrasound as a visual roadmap to guide a needle-sized probe directly into the center of the cancerous tumor. Once inside the tumor, the tip of the probe is carefully op...Effects Of Physical Activity On Preterm Birth
...g projects and might have to walk often inorder to get to the grocery store or reach public transportation. However,leisure time activity, such as exercise appeared to reduce the chances of awoman delivering prematurely. Women who exercised moderately to strenuouslymore than sixty days throughout their...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...The younger patients werenearly twice as likely to get plasmapheresis, to get it early and to survive. The study was initiated after a personal friend of Bennett develop...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
...inis. But they don'tthink "can these new therapies get through the doorway?" says Rakesh Jain, the A.Werk...indings suggest that such candidate drugsmay never get a chance to prove their cancer-killing powers because they havebeen engineered too large for the mic...... function of premature infants' lungs so that they get off the ventilatorearlier. Although steroids have been used to treat ventilator-dependentpremature infants who were developing chronic lung disease at one month of age,recently they have been used much earlier in an attempt to prevent chronic lung d...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
...benefit do individuals who have had a heart attack get from reducing their low-density lipoprotein, (LDL), or 'bad' cholesterol levels from low to very low levels, (below the recommended 100 milligrams/deciliter)? Is it considerable, small amounts or none?" asks Scott M. Grundy, M.D., Ph.D., who wrote a...Some Young Children May Grow Out Of Peanut Allergy
...in life seem to grow out of their reaction as they get older, say Dr Jonathan Hourihane et al in this week's BMJ. Based on findings from research conducted at the University of Southampton and South Manchester University Hospitals, the authors stress that children who seem to have a peanut allergy ...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...wed by researchers all over the world, the faculty get valuable feedback about the quality of their propo...Faculty don't have extra money on grants to try to get preliminary data for their next proposals," he said, "so the university needs to reinvest." Now in i...Chemical Society's Highest Award Goes To Ronald Breslow
...as magic," he remembered. "You'd mix twothings and get something entirely different." A nonprofit organization with a membership of more than 155,000 chemists andchemical engineers, the American Chemical Society publishes scientific journals,convenes major research conferences, and provides educational, ......ou can make a significant difference when patients get involved in their owncare," says William Bria, M.D., co-director of the U-M Asthma-Airways Clinic. "There probably is not a chronic disease that wouldn't benefit from thisapproach, including diabetes and heart disease. It pays off over and over ando...