Cancer-causing drug safe and effective in treating eye disease
...s is difficult to treat, and many patients find it hard to cope with the side effects of long-term steroid therapy. Although chlorambucil may become the preferred treatment for patients with severe, non-infectious uveitis, the authors don't recommend the drug for long-term use. What is gratifying, Goldste...Researchers question conventional wisdom on 'mini-strokes'
...fferences in the causes of TIAs and stroke. It was hard for us to believe that those events were caused by blood clots forming and dissolving in the same part of the brain again and again, explains lead researcher Tom S. Olsen, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the department of neurology, Gentofte University Hosp...Sky-is-the-limit challenges have strongest effect on the heart
...participated. Those who had the freedom to work as hard as they chose and who had the strongest incentives had the greatest cardiovascular responses, the researchers found....ORNL helping make tomorrows soldiers all they can be
...that is as flexible as my football jersey but gets hard as steel when a bullet or knife is pushed into it. The material has some kind of chemical in it that lets fresh air pass through it but stops and destroys chemical warfare agents . . . "If I do get injured, the suit automatically inflates over the wo...New relief for morning sickness
...usy and may be low in spirits, anxious and find it hard to do everyday things. Our results have shown that as little as one acupuncture treatment can significantly change the way these women feel. We found that traditional acupuncture reduced nausea throughout the trial with dry retching being reduced fro...Link found between kids sleep, behavior problems
... day, to wake up feeling unrefreshed, or to have a hard time waking up. All these can mean a child has sleep-disordered breathing, which can affect the quality of their sleep. Scores for snoring frequency and severity, and for sleepiness and sleep-disordered breathing, were tallied for each child, to all...New website to could stop intensive care beds going to waste
...n spare beds can be outdated, inaccurate or simply hard to find. These problems can result in critically ill patients being transferred large distances at great risk to their health. One tragic example of these problems occurred in the UK, where a road traffic accident victim died while on a journey of ov...USC researchers define role of protein, discover cause of chromosome damage
...of double-strand DNA breaks we were looking at are hard to repair. Even if you put the two ends together the best you can, you usually lose a couple of nucleotides along the way. And so every time we get an oxidative free radical hit, which happens several times per day per cell, we lose a little info. Ev...Mayo Clinic study examines frequency of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD)
...lay-administered diagnostic interview. "We took a hard look at this condition from a number of angles to help pinpoint the occurrence rates," says Dr. Barbaresi. "The results from this study provide much needed baseline information for comparison with populations in other communities. We believe this inf...Delaying disability in elderly
...air, participants extended their knees, pushing as hard as they could against a device to measure the force. Walking speed was evaluated by walking for four meters. Participants who continuously took ACE inhibitors had a significantly lower average decline in muscle strength (-2.2 lb) over the three ye...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
...mselves. That was certainly true for me. I had the hard facts about breast cancer, but that was about it. I had no idea how it would affect me emotionally and I wanted to talk to others who had been through the same thing," Dr Ann McPherson, a general practitioner from Oxford in the UK, tolda news briefin...People suffering from epilepsy continue to lack a good quality of life
...urvey data released today reveals that people with hard to control epilepsy experience a poor quality of l...with epilepsy, especially those whose seizures are hard to control, need to have access to current information about all appropriate treatment options," sai...Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) issues first recommendation to FDA
... in-process dosage unit analysis (of tablet cores, hard gelatin capsules or other solid dose forms) be considered as an alternative to routine blend sampling analysis to satisfy the agencys good manufacturing practices (GMP) requirement to demonstrate adequacy of mixing to assure uniformity and homogeneit...Agricultural fungicide could cause irreversible immune system damage
...obably below what her group tested in the lab, Its hard to know what real-life levels for phenyltins are, she noted. In the near future, Whalen, in collaboration with Bommanna Loganathan, Ph.D., of Murray State University in Kentucky, hopes to test blood samples of agricultural workers who have been expo...Magnetic fluids offer hope for damaged retinas
...the fluid to be moved to areas of the eye that are hard to reach, according to the researchers. The treatment appears promising in laboratory studies, says Judy Riffle, Ph.D., head of the research team and a chemistry professor at the university. Animal studies could take place within a year and human stu...Children as young as 5 have gender bias when it comes to picking a musical instrument
... just cannot pick a feminine instrument. It is so hard for them that it just astounds me," she said. How these stereotypes develop is unknown. It could be based on the size or shape of an instrument or the sound it makes, Repacholi said. "What makes a flute a feminine instrument its high-pitched soun...Though rare, victims of lightning strike may suffer
DENVER, CO As if being struck by lightning wasnt hard enough on a person, in rare cases, ongoing complications of the nervous system result in involuntary movement disorders. Among lightning-strike victims, researchers have discovered involuntary movement symptoms including uncontrollable blinking and ...'Cell death' mechanism identified, may lead to improved treatment
...he cell actually kills itself. Our lab is working hard to discover the specific pathways by which apoptosis occurs in virus-infected neurons, and to identify which pathways might serve as promising drug targets....Racial disparity in cancer survival: Are other factors at work?
... the study's first author. "In our study,we took a hard look at this issue to determine if the poorersurvival in blacks was due to other causes like heartattack, stroke or diabetes, rather than more aggressivecancer." The study was conducted to determine if there was evidencein the literature of racial di......you have around 100 million cells and it'd be very hard to position each and every one," she says, suggesting that encouraging smaller numbers of different types of liver cells to self-assemble may help. But there's another enemy waiting in the wings. "Currently, there's no way of keeping these implants ...