Depletion of body chemical can cause memory, mood changes
...ediate relative with major depression. Researchers lowered the level of tryptophan in the volunteers' bodies, and memory tests showed impairment in their ability to recall and recognize words they learned during, but not before, the tryptophan depletion time period. However, the volunteers did better on foc...Nation's two largest medical specialty groups issue migraine treatment guidelines
...to be a significant cause of employee absences and lowered productivity. Migraines can sometimes be prevented or attacks made less frequent. Likely candidates for preventive therapy are patients who have two or more attacks a month producing disability lasting three or more days per month and/or who have tr...Nutrition advice makes heart-healthy diet more satisfying
...lesterol levels. The counseled group significantly lowered their cholesterol levels, improved their dietary intake and activity levels, and lost more weight compared to the usual care group. But the researchers said an even more important finding was that the counseled group experienced these healthy gains w...UF researchers report: Immunosuppressant drug prevents late rejection of transplanted kidneys
...hioprine, for a year to see whether either therapy lowered the incidence of late acute rejection, defined as rejection occurring beyond the first year after transplantation. They also assessed how patients who took either drug for two years fared. Compared with azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil was assoc...Vitamins C and E may enhance effectiveness of insulin for diabetes
...nd nitric oxide from attack. "Blood pressure was lowered to normal, and free radicals were not in sufficient numbers to degrade the sugars, proteins and nitric oxide," Vaziri said. "We think this shows that a diet rich in antioxidants may help diabetics prevent the devastating cardiovascular, kidney, neuro...Capturing airborne pathogens, breath tests for lung cancer
...he tissue layer is removed, the laser intensity is lowered again and used to image the next layer of tissue. Repeating the process many times for subsequent tissue layers, the researchers can stack together the images to produce a complete three-dimensional picture of the tissue sample. Outside the realm of...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
... later received supplemental amounts of folic acid lowered their risk of neural tube defects in subsequent pregnancies. As no educational campaign was likely to reach women within the first 25 days of pregnancy to urge them to take supplemental folic acid, the US government in l998 mandated folic acid be a...Diet as good as drug for lowering cholesterol, says study
...-reducing drug called lovastatin. The special diet lowered levels of LDL cholesterol - the "bad" cholesterol known to cause clogging in coronary arteries - in subjects by almost 29 per cent, compared to a 30.9 per cent decrease in the lovastatin subjects. The special diet combined nuts (almonds), soy protein...Eating peanuts helps keep heart healthy without weight gain
...el - a risk factor for cardiovascular disease -was lowered significantly. "We have learned that regular peanut consumption lowers triglyceride levels by as much as 24 percent - even in the group where peanuts were added to regular dietary intake," Mattes said. "We also saw no significant change in body weigh...FDA-approved drugs shown to lower Alzheimer diseaserelated protein levels in mice
...nly used NSAIDs, 8 FDA-approved drugs successfully lowered Abeta42 levels in mice at doses achievable in humans. Multiple forms of Abeta42 are generated from the Abeta42 protein precursor (APP) following cleavage with enzymes known as b- and gamma-secretases. Abeta40 is the most abundant, however Abeta42 is...JCI table of contents, 1 August 2003
...nly used NSAIDs, 8 FDA-approved drugs successfully lowered Abeta42 levels in mice at doses achievable in humans. Multiple forms of Abeta42 are generated from the Abeta42 protein precursor (APP) following cleavage with enzymes known as beta- and gamma-secretases. Abeta40 is the most abundant, however Abeta42...Substantial increase in breast cancer risk from combination hormone replacement therapy
... caused by the addition of progestogen against the lowered risk of uterine cancer. Comparing the risks is by no means simple, and women may well want to discuss options with their doctor." (quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper). In an accompanying Commentary (p 414), Chris van Wheel from the...Immunosuppressant everolimus significantly reduces life-threatening heart transplant complications
....0 or 1.5 milligrams per day (mg/d), significantly lowered the incidence of acute rejection episodes, as well as reducing the potential for cardiac allograft vasculopathy and the severity of the disease, when compared to the regimen using azathioprine (1 to 3 mg/kilogram of patient body weight/day). The st...Blood dilution during bypass surgery associated with kidney damage
...it has been thought that since body temperature is lowered during surgery, there were enough red blood cells in the diluted blood to satisfy the tissue's reduced need for oxygen. Stafford-Smith said that the physicians want to minimize the use of donated human blood to prime the heart-lung machine pump. Othe...University of Pittsburgh intestine transplant results reported at international meeting
...tute has resulted in less rejection, infection and lowered immunosuppression in its recent patients compared to those transplanted five and 10 years ago and the center's trend toward higher patient survival rates is continuing, according to clinical results being presented by a member of the Pittsburgh team ...New evidence eases some concerns about bone fracture risk with breast cancer drug
...ivalent to tamoxifen (possibly because anastrozole lowered oestrogen dramatically and there was some evidence that tamoxifen acted as an oestrogen agonist in a low oestrogen environment). It was potentially detrimental, Prof. Howell said, for patients to switch from tamoxifen to anastrozole so the advice was...Immune alarm system can both amplify and silence alerts, scientists find
...correct. CD2AP, the protein whose levels had been lowered in Shaw's most recent experiments, turned out to be involved in the synapse's ability to dampen signaling by pushing activated receptors on the surface of the T cells toward the lysosome, a kind of cellular garbage can. "We used the term adaptive co...Health disparities between racial groups affect joblessness
...rticipation in public assistance programs slightly lowered household income, especially among those aged 45 to 64. However, Bound says, income is more strongly affected by education: "Differences in education account for between 52 and 84 percent of the race/ethnicity disparities in income."...Surgeons offer new treatment for degenerative eye disease
...eye surgery," Toth stressed. "Fortunately, we have lowered the risk from about a 40 percent rate of retinal detachment to less than 10 percent. Double-vision or residual tilting may also occur, which we can treat with the use of special glasses or occasionally with additional muscle surgery." Age appears to ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for November 2003 (first issue)
... reduce cost ($39,967 down from $41,483), since it lowered antibiotic use per survivor (39 days versus 63). The researchers said that ventilator-associated pneumonia complicates the course of patients on mechanical ventilation in between 8 and 28 percent of the cases. The resulting disease has a mortality ...