Increasing MRSA in California jails
... inmates serve longer sentences, jails are locally maintained facilities where the average sentence is one year or less. This population flux increases the chances of MRSA being commuted into the jail or out to the community. This study, the first longitudinal study of MRSA in a jail setting, investigates the c...Arsenic remedy for arsenic poisoning?
...ity levels of the two enzymes within 72 hours, and maintained its positive effects for up to 30 days. Distilled water had no effect on either enzyme, and alcohol alone actually increased the activity of AST. The authors write: "It is quite amazing that such microdoses of a potentized homeopathic drug which is p...Heart risks more likely if hostility increases with age
...ome less hostile with age. About 18 percent either maintained their level of hostility or became more hostile over the years. People who had a highly hostile personality in college were at significantly higher risk of smoking, drinking, suffering from depression and believing that life, family and career were t...Environmental influences found to have role for development and function of the pain system
...member" a peripheral injury even when isolated and maintained in vitro. The spinal cord was isolated from contro...ental inflammation of one paw. The spinal cord was maintained in vitro and the responses of the nociceptive circuitry analyzed by electrophysiologically recording...Immune memory from smallpox vaccination lasts more 50 years, according to Emory research
... addition, individuals vaccinated against smallpox maintained anti-smallpox antibodies in their blood for at least 60 years after vaccination, with no indication of decline between 1 and 60 years. In humoral immunity, the body's first line of defense against infection is antibodies produced by B cells, which ...Regeneration of insulin-producing islets may lead to diabetes cure
...mmune system re-education therapy, all of the mice maintained normal glucose control, while their untreated littermates soon became diabetic. However, close examination of pancreatic tissue from the treated mice revealed markers from the donor cells only in the islets of those who had received spleen cells wit...Fosrenol shows significant reduction in serum phosphate in Chinese end-stage kidney disease patients
...OL (lanthanum carbonate) significantly reduced and maintained phosphate levels in a study of Chinese end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients with hyperphosphatemia, according to data presented at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 36th Annual Meeting. The 11-week study, presented by Professor Wu-Chang Yan...OHSU researchers study recent monkeypox outbreak
...st smallpox back in their childhood may have still maintained cross-reactive resistance to monkeypox infection ...dence of whether protective antiviral immunity was maintained since childhood. In their current study, Slifka and his colleagues are tracking monkeypox exposure i...Laboratory studies show a natural protein analog may fix insulin-making cells isolated from pancreas
...investigators found that the islets in both groups maintained their shape and structural integrity for one day. However, a progressive loss to the structure of the cell and the numbers of actual cells was observed among islets not treated with GLP-1, with the number of viable cells reduced by 45 percent by day...Physical activity key to maintaining independence say University of Pittsburgh researchers
...ntly active or were inactive. This association was maintained even after adjusting for health status. "Functional status relates directly to what people can do for themselves, so having a high functional status means the person is more likely to be able to live independently," said Jennifer S. Brach, Ph.D., ass...Brain's 'daydream' network offers detection for Alzheimer's diagnosis
...sient initial activation, Alzheimer's participants maintained an above-baseline activation throughout the task period." The study also identified a number of other significant differences in the timing and magnitude of changes in default network activity among young adults, older adults and older adults with ea...Age-related muscle loss linked to protein interplay, says Stanford researcher
...d rest. "If you presume that normal muscle bulk is maintained by gradual replacement of muscle tissue by satellite cells and that gradual replacement is diminished in older people, that would lead to atrophy," Rando said. "Figuring out atrophy in one of the pathways could relate to the others." Rando said his t...Study suggests driving restrictions are not necessary for users of methadone, buprenorphine and LAAM
...ndence. Some jurisdictions restrict driving while maintained on methadone and there is a possibility that these restrictions might be extended to buprenorphine and levo-alpha-acetyl-methodol (LAAM). Such a restriction may limit use of treatment modalities in clients who drive. Thirty-four patients stabilize...Yesterday, today and tomorrow: Mount Sinai researchers are making sense of episodic memory
...g events," explains Dr. Ferbinteanu. "These cells maintained spatial selectivity, but this activity depended upon where the animal had just been or where it intended to go." Therefore, the hippocampus can support episodic memory by creating patterns of cellular activity for events within a temporal context. ...Phone counseling helps smokers quit
...and had access to a 24-hour automated support line maintained by the drug manufacturer. The more intensive program, a telephone counseling program, was based on smoking-cessation plans recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service. Participants received up to five telephone calls and had access to a toll-f...Drug prevents diabetes recurrence after islet cell transplantation
...ood glucose tests showed that the LSF-treated mice maintained healthy glucose levels, without immunosuppressants...n, for more than 65 days. Mice treated with saline maintained healthy glucose levels for just six days. After researchers removed the kidneys, tests showed that ...Moderate-fat diet is kinder to heart than low-fat diet, study by UB researcher shows
...eek weight maintenance phase, moderate-fat dieters maintained their levels of beneficial cholesterol (HDL), improved the ratio of HDL to total and non-HDL cholesterol and lowered the concentration of triglycerides, also harmful to heart health. Low-fat dieters experienced an initial drop in triglycerides, but ...UCSF launches comprehensive HIV website in South Africa
...en, Children, and HIV" are resources developed and maintained by the UCSF Center for HIV Information, or CHI. The center's director is Laurence Peiperl, MD, who is also editor-in-chief for HIV InSite. Once the South African "mirror server" is up and running, it will dramatically increase access and decrease dow...Cancer vaccine using low affinity epitopes proves successful in mice
...vaccinated with the modified low-affinity epitopes maintained tumor immunity, while mice vaccinated with high-affinity epitopes died after challenge with tumor cells. These studies highlight the importance of rational epitope selection for effective cancer vaccines....Gene therapy technique could aid islet transplants for diabetes, says Pittsburgh study
...s, rats whose islets had been pre-treated with HGF maintained blood glucose levels 200 mg/dl lower than the control animals. Since rats live for approximately two years, this could equate to a decade or more in a human. Surprisingly, however, in control studies, completely normal rats treated with the triple-d...