CK2 protein sustains colon cancer cells by sabotaging ability to commit suicide
...cogene report. "We've shown in some detail how CK2 helps cancer cells survive the natural tendency for abnormal cells to self-destruct, as well as how to block CK2 and permit the cell to undergo apoptosis. In doing so, we've begun to map out a strategy for making cancer cells more likely to self-destruct."...Researcher explores ways to make hypnosis a more effective therapeutic technique
...gure out what sort of instruction or encouragement helps subjects gain greater benefit from hypnosis, this knowledge could help therapists put hypnosis to better use for clients who want to manage anxiety, lose weight or make other positive changes. It might also settle certain theoretical controversies. A...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...Disease and Stroke. "We know that aspirin therapy helps women who have cardiovascular disease live longer and feel better. Our study sought to characterize the extent to which women use this easily accessible therapy, as well as the disparities that exist between different groups of women," said lead aut...Biochemical marker aids prognosis in liver transplant patients
...ring serum sodium in potential transplant patients helps to better predict those with a poor prognosis. The results of this study appear in the March 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Tra...Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
...le where one drink leads to many more. "Naltrexone helps people have more control over the use of alcohol. For me, that's the fundamental issue of what addiction is: impaired control." However, this approach requires a substantial change from the abstinence-only philosophy that goes back at least as far as...An implanted nerve stimulator helps drop foot sufferers walk faster and better
...have developed an implanted nerve stimulator which helps patients with drop foot to walk much better. Over 500,000 people suffer from a stroke each year in Europe and 10% of stroke victims are left with drop foot, which causes severe walking problems. Drop foot is a chronic condition, often caused by a st...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...feedback based on their answers; and a module that helps them resolve their ambivalence about whether to change their drinking." Hester said the DCU program can help users decide whether or not they want to change their drinking, and to consider what goals of change whether stopping or cutting back migh...Electronic medical records reduce hours, cut cost
...al guidelines to patient's electronic medical data helps flag potentially serious clinical errors or deviat... health management and data analytics company that helps health plans and self-insured employers take full advantage of evidence-based medical knowledge to i...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
...iar with articulating ethical values. Our approach helps them with this second task, especially when there are ethical disagreements," Kaldjian said. "At the very least, we have to let each other know the basis of our disagreements, otherwise decision-making styles can be paternalistic and based more on a...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
...simple, early visual processing tasks--it actually helps us see things better. The NYU study in Neuron shows the neural basis of this effect. It identifies an increase in neural activity in areas of the brain that respond to the attended stimulus--that is, to the information that is selectively processed a...New brochure helps explain treatment for gynecologic cancers
...rapy as part of their treatment. The brochure also helps patients find support groups and information on clinical trials....Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...nhibit another is reduced. That sort of inhibition helps young people find an object hidden among clutter, but it can make it hard to tune into the clutter itself. When the young brain sees big, high-contrast bars, it effectively tunes out because there is no object hidden in the bars. But older brains do ...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...he point of care can have an impact. This program helps bridge the gap between what we know and what we do." Co-authors for both studies are Dawn G. Albright; Michael Frankel, M.D.; Irene Katzan, M.D.; Ali Malek, M.D.; Mathew Reeves and Scott E. Kasner, M.D....Association publishes blueprint to strengthen stroke care from prevention through recovery
... improvement program Get With The GuidelinesStroke helps hospitals ensure patients are consistently treated and discharged according to evidence-based medicine by providing tools that shows how well the staff is meeting stroke treatment goals. A stroke system could magnify such quality improvement measure...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
...their environment is a positive feedback loop. It helps rats keep their whiskers on an object, enabling them to gather an uninterrupted stream of sensory information. Nguyen commented that positive feedback loops make engineers "squeamish" because, if uncontrolled, they can create a vicious cycle. For ex...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2005 (first issue)
...t of high altitude-induced pulmonary hypertension, helps to improve pulmonary gas exchange, and limits altitude-induced hypoxemia (deficient oxygenation of the blood). Researchers measured the effects of oral sildenafil on altitude-induced pulmonary gas exchange in 6 normal subjects. The 6 men, along wit...Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer
...e in question is usually found in immune cells and helps trigger the activation and proliferation of the cells. These sequences have also been found in proteins from some other cancer-causing viruses such as Epstein Barr virus and Kaposi's sarcoma virus, but what role this sequence plays in cancer develop...First US kidney cancer vaccine trial underway at Columbia
...le IL-2 stimulates all T-cells, the Trovax Vaccine helps IL-2 selectively target only cancer cells, reducing side effects by not targeting and unnecessarily killing normal cells. Trovax has shown promise in similar trials conducted in Europe in colon cancer. About Trovax Trovax belongs to a class of med...... Copenhagen, who analyses rsted's results while he helps to plan Swarm. "By making magnetic measurements in space we get new information about the Earth, from the molten core deep under our feet, through the mantle, to the crust on which we live. And then we go on upwards into the upper atmosphere, through...Older people with the 'Alzheimer's gene' find it harder to 'remember to remember' even if healthy
...E), which switches on production of a protein that helps carry cholesterol in the blood. ApoE has three alleles and about one out of five people carry the e-4 allele. It makes homozygous carriers, who carry this variation on both of their ApoE genes, eight times as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease a...