Study shows patch therapy may be as effective as oral medications
...eoarthritis (OA) knee pain. The exploratory study involved a head to head comparison of applying the lidocaine patch 5% (Lidoderm) or taking celecoxib (Celebrex) 200 mg per day. In this study, results showed that at six weeks 54 % of patients treated in the lidocaine patch 5% (Lidoderm) group (N=56) and 62 %...UMaine study looks at infants and chronic nighttime crying
...or of Tokyo Kita Shakai Hoken Hospital. The study involved interviews with the parents of 500 infants, toddlers and children at a well-infant clinic in Tokyo. It is customary in Japan for parents to bring infants and toddlers into their sleeping quarters typically a mattress on the floor (tatami) to nurse a...UNC study: Most N.C. family practitioners engage in unrecognized community service
...spital also contributed to the research. The study involved mailing questionnaires to 489 N.C. family physicia...s. Over their lifetimes, the former reported being involved in almost 21 different volunteer activities while those working outside academia reported almost 17 ...The trust game: Measuring social interaction
...The measurements were done on 48 pairs of subjects involved in the rounds. Each subject was instructed separately in the rules of the game. One the investor received $20 during the first of the 10 rounds of the game. That person decided how much money to give the other subject. That sum was then tripled. Th...Public morally obliged to take part in scientific research, says leading ethicist
...ith suspicion and even hostility" by most of those involved in its regulation. The prevailing assumption is that only the insane, the reckless, or the excessively altruistic would ever dream of taking part in it. While history has proved that suspicion of doctors and biomedical research is well founded, he s...Early onset of puberty the EU gets serious
...ot of the problem. Two Swedish research groups are involved in the project, both from Karolinska Institutet. The onset of puberty is determined by a string of factors, such as environment, physiology and heredity, but just how they interact remains a mystery. It is also unclear why puberty is starting at ever...Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...data sources, tailored for the use of institutions involved in hydro-geological risk management. In Italy, the Ministry of the Environment is a national level SLAM user together with the Italian National Research Council Group for Hydro-geological Disaster Prevention (GNDCI), a research network advising the...OHSU scientists test medication to treat involuntary weight loss
...g weight regulation. Researchers at OHSU have been involved in a number of key weight regulation discoveries, including identification of specific cells in the brain that are crucial to weight control, and the possible connection between infant hormone exposure and lifelong weight issues. Another key role of ...... the question of whether or not serum uric acid is involved in causing CHD although it does suggest that serum uric acid levels are unlikely to be a major determinant of CHD. So although improving diet, losing weight, and controlling blood pressure may all contribute to reducing both one's risk of CHD and on...Suppressing the cells that trigger cat allergy
...articular, it is not clear exactly which cells are involved in modifying the immune response. Larche and colleagues investigated this pathway further by treating individuals who were allergic to cats with short synthetic peptides based on the major trigger for cat allergy and then measuring the clinical an...Advertising by academic medical centers may risk eroding public trust, says study
...cting patients, the most common marketing strategy involved an emotional appeal to evoke feelings of fear, hope, or anxiety about a health risk. The researchers also found that several of the advertisements promoted tests or services whose health benefits are unclear, such as full body CT scans, and all but o...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...se proteins are all manufactured by fat tissue and involved in atherosclerosis, the buildup of fatty deposits in the linings of blood vessels. In addition, the scientists also looked at two "good" proteins, leptin, which regulates energy metabolism, and adiponectin, which has anti-inflammatory effects. To gau...Novel therapy tested in mice could chase away cat allergies
... brake on the release of a key chemical from cells involved in cat allergy reactions. That chemical, histamine, brings on allergy symptoms such as sneezing, wheezing, itching, watery eyes and sometimes asthma. When a cat-allergic person touches or inhales a protein found in cat saliva or dander (small scales ...New estimates for the causes of child deaths worldwide
... "Counting the world's children is not all that is involved in making the world's children count. It is important to look at the single most important determinant of childhood death which has to be poverty. Childhood mortality is strongly inversely correlated with per-capita health expenditure. In today's wo...Can you read my mind? W.M. Keck Foundation funds innovative brain research at Carnegie Mellon
...nsion and makes predictions about the subprocesses involved in word and sentence comprehension. They also will demonstrate how reading different words and sentences will produce variations in brain activity and how dysfunctions in specific brain regions influence the function of the entire brain system. In ...UNH launches 2nd spinout company with NIH grants
...to a small space without the three magnetic fields involved interfering with one another." UNH has already fil...y Management, "because students can continue to be involved in the development of the technology and if the company takes off, it could be located right here in...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...atients have been very successful and all patients involved in the pilot made significant improvements. The CD-ROM proved to be particularly effective in reducing vomiting and laxative abuse. This is important, as research has revealed that an early reduction in vomiting is a good predictor of positive longer...Obtaining patient consent for clinical audit is unworkable without extra resources
... clinical audit database (PICANet). Their analysis involved patients admitted to five paediatric intensive care units in England during May and July 2003. Parents and guardians were given a short explanation and an information sheet. Then 24 hours later (or before discharge) they were asked for signed consent...Chemical decoy shows promise for slowing Alzheimer's by acting as decoy
...ing sugars that have increasingly been shown to be involved in many cell activities, including signaling and differentiation. Sialic acids are particularly abundant on the surfaces of brain cells but also found in lower amounts in the rest of the body. The researchers theorized that creating a polymer that ac...Epidemiologist Trichopoulos receives $5.8 million Department of Defense 'Innovator Award'
...racteristics and post-birth growth whether genes involved in hormone exposure and response may affect the association of perinatal characteristics with adult breast cancer risk Trichopoulos is well known for his research establishing a link between passive smoking and lung cancer, and was a 2004 recipient ...