AVANT Atherosclerosis Vaccine Raises HDL, Reduces Atherosclerosis In Vaccinated Animals
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...I also noted a slight rise in the rate of stroke, increases in bothend-stage renal disease and heart failure, and a leveling in the death rate forpeople with coronary heart disease. These indicators signal the clear need forphysicians and patients to redouble efforts to prevent and treat hypertension. The JN...Cochlear Implant Increases Access To Mainstream Education
...bility for thedevelopment of verballanguage, which increases the chance of English literacy, and better educationaland vocationalopportunities." Francis and his colleagues reviewed the progress of 35 school-age (K-8)children withprofound hearing loss. Prior to implantation, 22 attended special educationc...Heart Experts Call For Action Against Missed Opportunities To Prevent Heart Disease In Women
...e higher than national recommendations. Diabetes increases a woman's risk of heart disease three to seventimes, compared with a two- to three-fold risk increase in men. Thus, it isimperative to step up efforts to identify women at risk and provide them witheffective treatment. "Although more women di...NASA Uses EAI Software In Groundbreaking Medical Application
...dvantage of3D graphics acceleration affordability, increases in bandwidth andnetworkproliferation, to create collaborative and distributed 3D real-timeinteractive simulations....Margin Width The Key To Control Of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Of The Breast
...treatment option. The benefit of radiation therapy increases as the margin widthdecreases - so that patients in whom the margin width is less than 1 mm show themost significant benefit from postoperative radiation therapy. In theintermediate margin width subgroup (1 to less than 10 mm) there was an 8 percentre...... researchers determined,however, that with similar increases in volume, women gain more intelligencethan men. "Women's brains appear to be more 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, ...New Findings On Dopamine Receptor Biology: Implications For Mental Illness
...s interaction with the D-4 receptorcan cause local increases in the fluidity of nerve membranes which can influencesynapse activity critical for normal cognition and attention. While researchers have long suspected that dopamine and folate contribute tomental illness, they have not been able to show how. Deth'...... showed a strong link between lapses in dosing and increases in bloodpressure, and overall there was a statistically significant inverse correlationbetween measured compliance and ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (r=0.37,p<0.05). The eDEM Monitor, a medication package equipped with an electronic micr...Controversy Over The Effects Of Passive Smoking
...ody's repair mechanisms. But even relatively small increases in plateletaggregation have been implicated in a substantially higher risk of heartdisease. Some research also suggests that passive smoking may boost plateletaggregation enough to create the extra heart disease risks found by themeta-analysis (Circu...Cocaine triggers heart attacks within one hour
...fter using cocaine, the user's risk ofheart attack increases nearly 24 times, according to the first large stud...American Heart Association. "Cocaine significantly increases the risk of heart attack in individuals who areotherwise at low risk," says Murray A. Mittleman, M.D...Mayo Clinic study reveals new information about incidence of Parkinsonism
...mwill have on our society as the number of elderly increases and we try to findresources to care for these people," says Dr. Bower. "It?s always been known that Parkinson?s disease is the most common cause ofparkinsonism, but we found that Parkinson?s disease itself accounts for only 42percent of all the cases...Circulation publishes phase I study of ENBREL in patients with chronic heart failure
... baseline while those on placebo had nosignificant increases in these measurements from baseline. ENBREL was welltolerated without any significant adverse effects. RENAISSANCE Trial Immunex Corporation (NASDAQ:IMNX) and Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories began a PhaseII/III clinical trial (called the RENAISSANCE Trial......hey also noted that if hormone replacement therapy increases the riskfor less commonly occurring tumors with a good prognosis, then the overall risksand benefits of hormone use in the population should be reexamined....Space plays havoc with your immune system
...ss of spaceflight weakens astronauts' immunity and increases their riskof passing infections to one another. The findings diminish prospects for crewedmissions to planets such as Mars, unless ways can be found to boost theastronauts' immune systems. Satish Mehta and his colleagues at NASA's Johnson Sp......mportant actions in adults. It regulates body fat, increases muscle massand capacity for aerobic exercise, and may support normal mood and cognition.Some effects are carried out by stimulating increased production of insulin-likegrowth factor-I (IGF-I) in the liver and other tissues. Secretion of growt...Hopkins study shows combined hormone therapy increases muscle, decreases fat in postmenopausal women
...emass. By contrast, estrogen alone yielded slight increases in both fat andmuscle. "Postmenopausal women often experience an increase in fat tissue and a decreasein muscle tissue," Dobs says. "These data show that estrogen-androgen therapymay improve body composition in healthy women, but further study is ne......daily self-injection. Estrogen treatment commonly increases bone mass in the spine by about sixpercent in the ...p bones, the researchersfound -- far in excess of increases achieved using current treatments. Sixtyfour percent of these women experienced bone mass restored ...WHO issues wake up call against microbial threats
...of the world. As the volume ofinternational travel increases by 50 percent every decade, prospects forcontaining future outbreaks are decreasing. "If these trends continue and our level of response remains the same, ourability to stop their international spread might soon disappear" said Dr DavidHeymann, WHO E...Major economic change can lead to an increase in deaths in car accidents
...dictable side-effect of the sudden affluence which increases car ownership. Dr Flaura Winston from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania along with colleagues analysed deaths from car accidents in East and West Germany from 1985 to 1996 - ie both before and after reunification....