Multitasking Behaviors Mapped To The Prefrontal Cortex
...icular part of the brain isbeing used, there is an increase in blood flow to that area. The increase inblood flow means that there is an increase in the amount of oxygen-carryinghemoglobin in the blood...Second Annual AIDS Vaccine Day Honors Volunteers Nationwide
...in FiscalYear 1999, which represents a 100 percent increase over four years ago. May 18 marks the anniversary of President Bill Clinton's 1997 commencementspeech at Morgan State University in which he announced the establishment of theVaccine Research Center at NIH. Currently under construction, the center i...Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
...e2, 55 percent were myopic - more than a five-fold increase over the children whoslept in darkness during early childhood. "Our findings suggest that the absence of a nightly period of fulldarkness in early childhood may be an important risk factor in the futuredevelopment of near-sightedness," says R......ore efficient than men's in the sense thatan equal increase in volume produces a larger increase in processing capacity inwomen than in men," notes Raquel E. Gur, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiat...Livers From Children Are Going To Adults, University Of Pittsburgh Review Of National Data Reveals
... national livertransplant waiting list, despite an increase in the number of pediatric donors,an analysis of nearly 30,000 liver transplants performed in the United Statesshows. With fewer of these livers available for children, surgeons have been forced tolook at alternative options, such as those involvin...Kidney Transplant Recipients Require Less Long-Term Care If They Receive Well-Matched Donor Organs
...lants, the investigatorsdemonstrated a significant increase in the need for care within three years oftransplantation as the number of mismatched surface markers increased. "Although the transplanted kidney remains functional in patients withmore mismatches, the patient doesn't do as well, and that fa...Progress In Cancer-Vaccine Studies: Simpler, Safer Approach Producing Encouraging Results
...nts have been treated so far, theseoutcomes should increase enthusiasm for further development of vaccine-basedtherapies," said Gajewski. "Many investigators were starting to give up onvaccines as a treatment tool for metastatic disease and to focus instead onvaccines that might prevent recurrence for patient...Sniffing Out The Promise Of Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy
...cts it causes: thedecrease in VEGF production, the increase in IL12 production, the stimulation ofnatural killer cells and their products." One of its secondary effects is on monocytes-white blood cells which are theprecursors of macrophages. IM862 on its own isn't able to make a dent on theproliferation of e...Mayo Clinic Study Finds Costs For Cancer Clinical Trials Comparable To Costs For Standard Treatment
... leadingcancer centers in the United States, is to increase this number to 10 to 15percent, or 60,000 patients....New Procedure Makes A Successful Transplant Possible
...idney transplant waiting list. It cansignificantly increase their waiting time to receive a suitable donated kidney. For example, a person with a PRA of 50 means that half of the possible kidneysthat became available would be unacceptable. In 1993, patients with a low PRAwho received transplants had waited an...'Energy Density' -- Not Fat -- Is Key To Feeling Full While Managing Weight
..., celery, extra tomatoes and mushrooms to chili to increase bulk butnot calorie content. "People on diets often substitute pretzels for high-fat, high-caloriesnacks. But pretzels have a low-water content and don't fill you up, so you eatmore of them. A snack with higher water and fiber content, for ex...National Survey: Leg Crossing Is Taboo But Women Indulge Anyway
...of blood from your legveins up to your heart, will increase the pressure inside your leg veins andwill distend the veins in your lower leg and ankle," said Dr. Navarro. The Venastat survey on leg crossing in America found that men are nodifferent than women when it comes to acting against their own be...E-mail Is A Powerful Tool In Doctor-Patient Relationship
...reservations from doctors that email would further increase their workload, there is great potential to allow email contact with patients under appropriate circumstances....Family Support A Factor In Cardiovascular Responses To Stress
..., noting thatagreement between spouses added to an increase or decrease in blood vesselconstriction. "When it comes to reducing heart disease and stroke risks, people often tend tolook toward diet and exercise, the more physical risk factors," Light says. "Wecertainly think they may benefit if they also look ...Depression May Lower Your Sex Hormones
...ere depressive disorders impair sexualfunction and increase the risk of myocardial infarction and osteoporosis. "Previous studies of sex hormone concentration in depressed individuals hadyielded inconsistent and ambiguous results," said Schweiger. "Possiblybecause some patients in those studies were only mild...Stress Speeds Progression To AIDS
...edian on social support. "We showed that for every increase in cumulative average stressful life events -equivalent to one severe stressful event or two moderate stressful events - therisk of AIDS was doubled," Leserman says. Was depression a factor in AIDS progression as it was in decreased immunemeasures? ...Stress speeds passage from HIV to AIDS, support retards it
...omatic Medicine reports. "We showed that for every increase in cumulative average stressful lifeevents -- equivalent to one severe stressor or two moderate stressors -- therisk of AIDS was doubled," said Jane Leserman, Ph.D., of the University ofNorth Carolina School of Medicine, who headed the group of eight......is also non-linear (see Graph). The lightersmokers increase their risk of heart disease by 40 per cent. The pe...e best that can be said is thatpassive smoking may increase the risk of heart disease. Finding out for certainwill be "an intriguing and difficult problem". ......low blood levels of troponin T. Troponin Tlevels increase substantially within several hours after an unstable anginaattack and peak at 10 to 24 hours. Not all people with unstable angina haveelevated troponin T levels. However, for those who do, the drug abciximab incombination with angioplasty appears t...