UCSF Study Finds DHEA Benefits Cardiovascular Function
...nd decreases sharply withage -- does indeed have a link to conditions including aging, heart disease andcancer, said UCSF cardiology research fellow Christian Zellner, MD, whoconducted the study under the direction of UCSF Stanford Health Carecardiologists Tony Chou, MD, UCSF assistant professor of medici...New Chest Pain Evaluation Method Saves Lives, Prevents Costly HospitalizationFor Some Patients
...ation, including a full copy ofthe news release, a link to the New England Journal of Medicine article andother information will be available at Mayo Clinic's journalists' website at www.mayo.edu/news ....Visual Environment Can Affect Even Healthy Eyes --- Nature Works With Nuture For Good Vision
...kes include trying to determine what mediates this link between the two eyes, in hopes of developing treatments for children with defects such as strabismus. Is the untreated eye changing just to keep the physical length of the eyes in lockstep? Or is the untreated eye reacting instead to the quality of...Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
...till unfortunately uncommon today, isthe effort to link the particulars of individual lives to the vast currents ofhistorical change. Much psychological study continues to treat individualbehavior as if the person lived in an historical vacuum; many historicalnarratives lose the individual in the sweep of...Scientists Link Body Weight Regulation And Immune System Control
...plies that this moleculecould provide a functional link between regulation of energy and the immunesystem." Barsh's team, working in collaboration with Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan of theDana-Farber Cancer Institute, showed that the mahogany protein is made insidethe cell and is quite large -- consisting of 1,...UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
...f Medicine, said other studies exploring a dietary link to autism orschizophrenia have been less than convincing, and the notion has notgenerally been accepted in the field. "Autism and schizophrenia certainly are distinctly different disorders,"Leventhal said. "I think the best hypothesis sitting...Socioeconomic Status Linked To Enlarged Hearts, Heart Disease Risk
...ticipants, however, hostility was not an important link betweensocioeconomic status and cardiovascular reactivity, according to Gump andMatthews. Low socioeconomic environments are likely to promote the development ofcardiovascular reactivity to stress, perhaps as a way of being prepared to dealwith threa...Dental Researchers Retract Statement Indicating Hydrogen Peroxide May Be Cancer Promoter
...ere mistakenlyinterpreted as being suggestive of a link between the use of hydrogen peroxideor hydrogen peroxide-containing pharmaceuticals and oral precancerous lesions orfrank cancerous lesions in humans. "Briefly, this study utilized the hamster buccal-cheek-pouch model, andconsisted of painti...Can We Prevent Hearing Loss In Elderly Women?
...can Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is the first to link vitamin status to hearing loss. "This line of research has quite a bit of potential in identifying modifiable risk factors for age-related hearing loss" says Mary Ann Johnson,PhD, and Robert J. Nozza, Ph.D., lead authors of the study from University ...ENBREL (Etanercept) Patient And Physician Support Web Site Launched
...phonecounselors are available at 1-888-4ENBREL. A link to the Arthritis FoundationWeb Site is also provided. Approximately 2.1 million Americans suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, anautoimmune disease that can strike at any age and affects three times as manywomen as men. ENBREL is the first in a class o...NIAID Renews Funding For Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...AIDS. When the discovery of HIV and itssubsequent link to AIDS occurred shortly thereafter, the focus of the studyshifted toward investigating how the disease progresses and how to prevent it. The MACS originally was composed of clinical research centers at theinstitutions mentioned above and at the Univ...To Drive Or Not To Drive? New Criteria For Those With Epilepsy
... first to examinespecific seizure risk factors and link them with driving mishaps. Thisapproach, the researchers say, may be more effective in reducing auto deathsthan the policies state motor vehicle administrations now use which, the studyalso found, a significant number of epilepsy patients ignore. M......A study published in 1994 that examined a possible link betweenbeta-agonists and increased risk of death from asthma concluded that themedication itself was not responsible for asthma deaths, but rather the greateruse of beta-agonists was principally a marker for more severe asthma, whichitself was associ...Postpartum Help Needed To Keep Recent Mothers From Resuming Smoking Habit
...he baby is born,"McBride said. Besides cigarettes' link to diseases like lung cancer and emphysema, there areknown risks during pregnancy. Pregnant smokers are more likely to have lowbirth weight babies and complications during birth. Their babies are at higherrisk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and ...Newly Updated HIV Treatment Guidelines For Adults And Adolescents Available On The World Wide Web
... The revised Guidelines also include a hypertext link to a brief discussion ofthe controversy surrounding the use of the drug hydroxyurea in the treatment ofHIV infection. In addition, tables and charts in the Guidelines have beenupdated and reorganized in a more user-friendly way. In the near future...Irritable Bowel Syndrome The Focus Of Three UNC-CH Reports At Digestive Diseases Conference
...rders, also confirmed earlier findings of a strong link between childhoodsexual abuse and the development of IBS during adulthood. "Physicians shouldrecognize the discovery of abuse in IBS patients as a marker that the patientis at significant risk for depression and suicide," Whitehead says. "Thesepatie...New Findings On Dopamine Receptor Biology: Implications For Mental Illness
...iversity professor Richard C. Dethhas discovered a link between dopamine receptors and cognition that could opennew avenues for the treatment of conditions like schizophrenia and attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder. The findings are published in the May 1999edition ofMolecular Psychiatry. The breakth......ed to having it done. Theresearch 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 p......he results from our current study are the first to link stressfullife events with progression to AIDS," Leserman says. At 5 1/2 years into the study, 33 percent of the men had developed AIDS - thatis, their CD4 immune "helper" T cell count dropped below 200 or they developedan AIDS clinical condition. "A...