Study shows faces are processed like words
...ristics of the lips. Pelli concludes that context hinders identification and crowds what is to be identified. In a second experiment, the observers were presented with a context that proved to make recognition easier. Where letter identification was involved, the letters comprising the word to the left of ...Herb used to treat diabetes works like modern-day prescription drugs, study suggests
...o, poor compliance with diabetes medications often hinders the effectiveness of these drugs. It may be easier to get someone to take an herb with food or in a beverage, as opposed to a pill." The study appears in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Thirty-nine healthy adults p...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...and alternative approaches. Product inconsistency hinders health professionals' abilities to guide patients on the use of supplements and researchers' ability to study them. The report calls on Congress to work with stakeholders to amend the regulation of supplements to improve quality control and consumer...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
...ainst S. pneumoniae would solve a problem that now hinders our ability to protect children from this infection," Tuomanen said. Current pneumonia vaccines designed to protect adults against more than two dozen strains of S. pneumoniae do not work in young children. Adult vaccines are composed of pieces of c...NIH panel issues State-of-the-Science statement on end-of-life care
...d inconsistently, and often interchangeably, which hinders not just the research enterprise, but effective communication between providers and patients as well" said panel chair Margaret M. Heitkemper, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor and Chair of the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems at...New study shows phonics is critical for skilled reading
...and researchers have debated whether this helps or hinders reading, says Seidenberg. The voice, an example of how sounds continue to help readers determine meaning, actually helps us read, he adds. "This idea contradicts the assumptions of many "speed reading" courses, which tell readers to 'shut off' the v...Severe sepsis causes almost 10% of cancer deaths
...ients with cancer to become immunosuppressed. This hinders their ability to fight off infection, and makes them more at risk of severe sepsis than the general population. In general, cancer patients were nearly four times as likely to be hospitalized with severe sepsis than people without cancer. Patients su...Medical research suffers under data protection law
...causing serious damage. They describe how the law hinders their work on cancer and suggest that the Data Protection Act and the Human Tissue Bill should be amended to allow access to data for non-commercial medical research without informed consent. The Data Protection Act was intended to accommodate medica...Open-access publishing: The debate continues
...turies-old publishing model based on user fees now hinders communication; the author of another paper counters that there are many important questions that must be answered before the existing scientific and medical journal publishing system is thrown out. Pritpal S Tamber and colleagues argue (p 1575) that...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...ted applications of low doses of contact allergens hinders the development of the allergic reaction. They demonstrate that mice lacking IL-10 cannot achieve LZT to allergens, suggesting that this IL-10driven response may be utilized in allergic therapies. TITLE: Critical role of IL-10 in the induction of low...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
... those genes, so we could understand what helps or hinders cancer's progress," he says. "Now, while we continue those efforts, we must harness what we've already learned, and apply it in the lab and the clinic. That's what this center will help do." The center's founders also see it as a product of Michigan...Chronically ill kids put up defenses to hide depression
...ether defensiveness is an adaptation that helps or hinders children. By seemingly blocking out depression and anxiety symptoms, defensiveness may help children better deal with the practical demands of their illness. But the repression of their feelings may also result in the children ignoring important sign...UI-led study shows experimental anti-cancer drug also has anti-HIV properties
...nal of Biological Chemistry. Flavopiridol strongly hinders the cellular process known as transcription, a multi-step process which results in the production of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Cells use the genetic information encoded by these long RNA molecules to make proteins. Flavopiridol effectively blocks the a...How psychology helps improve medical decision making
...rs can be corrected, but it requires time and thus hinders efficient decision making....The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists releases latest findings at Annual Meeting
...ntists have developed a patented new compound that hinders sexually transmitted diseases in animals. In vitro tests suggests this new antimicrobial-contraceptive agent does not allow the transmission of the herpes simplex virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), chlamydia trachomatis or the virus that caus......oring a lost or decreased proteincalled E-cadherin hinders the ability of prostate cancer to spread. "The results of this study provide a potential new therapeutic strategy fortargeting invasive prostate cancer," said Hendrix, the associate director ofbasic research and deputy director for the UI Cancer Cent......y reduce the oozing and bleedingthat traditionally hinders liver surgery (2aBV3). Gail ter Haar of the RoyalMarsden Hospital in England (011-44-181-642-6011; gail@icr.ac.uk ) will reportencouraging experimental trials in which ultrasound removed the desired portionsof kidney, prostate, and liver tumors in ...