Nasal Spray Flu Vaccine By U-M Researcher Is 93% Effective
... The vaccine, which combines the core of the harmless influenza virus withthe covering from a virulent strain, is highly adaptable. "The core virus canbe stored until a flu epidemic breaks out and then 'retrofitted' with an outercovering that matches the virus causing the epidemic," Maassab explained. ...Three INEEL Inventions Win International Recognition
...ansport. Most importantly, this newbiopesticide is harmless to people, animals and the environment. It is derivedfrom a plentiful, renewable resource: common cereal grain. The Malt-based Antimicrobial product resulted from the discovery that malting ofcereal grains activates biological compounds that function...Cancer Added To Hangover Headaches
...ec. 29. Small amounts of acetaldehyde are rendered harmless in most people by an enzymecalled aldehyde dehydrogenase 2. A large percentage of Asians, however, lackthe gene responsible for making the enzyme and are known to be particularly prone to esophageal and liver cancers. The new research suggests that...Psychologist Detects Brain-Activity Changes In Maltreated Kids
...ld Emotion Research Laboratory, Pollak developed a harmless experimentthat children treat as a game, where they are shown pictures of a series offaces and asked to look for a specific emotion. If they are asked to look forhappy faces, for example, they will press a button every time such a faceappears on the ...New Vaccine Provides Protection From HIV In Monkeys
... Achieving protection with this vaccine, made with harmless componentsfrom a SHIV -- a blend of parts from HIV and SIV (simian or monkeyimmunodeficiency virus) -- marks a significant and promising step toward thedevelopment of an effective AIDS vaccine. The study results are reported in theMay issue of Natur...Heart valve disease increases risk of death, research shows
...that earlysigns of aortic heart valve disease were harmless if the valve was functioningnormally. But research by a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centercardiologist and colleagues at the University of Washington and Mayo Clinicsuggests that the condition significantly increases the risk of heart atta...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...pse (MVP)-aware of this quite common and typically harmless cardiac condition, but unhampered by symptoms that might interfere with a normal lifestyle. As a dentist and MVP patient, he knew that a dose of oral antibiotics was often recommended during dental work to guard against infection. Beyond that, his di...We do 'feel with the mind's eye,' confirm Emory researchers in Nature
...subjects performed the taskswhile researchers used harmless transcranial magnetic stimulation to transientlyblock the function of, first, various parts of the brain region associated withthe sense of sight (the occipital cortex), and then, the brain region mediating the sense of touch(the somatosensory cortex...... dose of the substance. Other patients received a harmless placebo capsule at the time of surgery. The relatively small study (24 patients total) was designed to test the safety and effectiveness of the procedure. The study, published in the November 2 issue of Circulation, found that there were no serious......ly life-threatening effects. Club drugs are not harmless fun drugs. While users of club drugs may think theyre taking them simply for energy to keep on dancing or partying, research shows these drugs can have long-lasting negative effects on the brain that can alter memory function and motor skills. When...Finding offers clue to understanding addiction relapse
...relapse when they are exposed to simple, seemingly harmless reminders of past experiences. But what causes the powerful cravings underlying this huge relapse problem? University of Wisconsin Medical School researchers are one step closer to the answer. They've found that the memory of drug use can alter an ar...War on bacteria could leave drug-resistant strains unchecked
...hem antibiotics for every infection." A truce with harmless bacteria is a good first step toward a solution. "Bacteria are a natural and needed part of life," says Levy. "Most live blamelessly. In fact, they often protect us from disease because they compete with and thus limit the proliferation of pathoge...Research shows way to boost morphine's pain-killing benefits
...en in rats, that simply by pairing morphine with a harmless opioid that facilitates endocytosis, they could eliminate the tendency for morphines benefits to wear off for the animals to become tolerant to its analgesic effects. The prevailing view had been that, far from being helpful, endocytosis was part of...Stanford researchers challenge value of widely used prostate cancer diagnostic methods
...lated to prostate cancer, but are rather caused by harmless increases in prostate size, commonly known as benign prostatic hyperplasia or BPH. Prostate cancer is being over-diagnosed and over-treated because of the misconception that PSA is primarily a reflection of prostate cancer, Stamey said. Levels...NICHD scientists develop vaccine against deadly hospital-acquired infection
...ccine or who receives the placebo, in this case, a harmless salt solution. From three to 40 weeks after the start of the trial, the vaccine reduced the occurrence of bacteremia by 57 percent, with 11 bacteremias in the vaccinated group (892 patients) and 26 in the control group (906 patients). After the 40th...Detecting breast cancer spread by white light - groundbreaking technology
...it. "The procedure involves feeding tiny pulses of harmless white light though a thin optical fibre onto the tissue surface at the site where cancer is suspected," he said. "Light scattered back from the tissue is picked up by a second fibre, which takes the light to a spectrometer where the intensities at di...St. John's wort ineffective for depression
...ve for this type of depression does not mean it is harmless to the body," said Califf. "Several studies have shown that St. John's wort interacts dangerously with several medications such as those used to treat HIV/AIDS, certain cardiac conditions and even those that keep the body from rejecting organs after ...Research in fungal pathogenesis offers new hope of vaccine strategies for immunosupressed patients
...icroorganisms previously believed to be relatively harmless have emerged as among the most dangerous. The fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, is a daunting example of this problem. For many individuals, this fungus can be routinely found on skin, in genitourinary sites, and in the mouth. For those suffering......t sometimes it can just strike out of the blue. A harmless breeze on the face can send some people into fits of excruciating pain. Others can even be irritated by the clothes on their back. This kind of unexpected and seemingly inexplicable pain is labelled "neuropathic" and occurs due to some sort of malf......y children, RSV usually develops into a relatively harmless upper respiratory infection. But in vulnerable children, such as these premature infants, the RSV infection is more likely to become a serious infection of the lungs. Thirteen of the children in the current study received monthly injections during th...