Brain differences in sheep linked to sexual partner preference
...pared brains among the three groups, they recorded marked differences. Research was focused on the preoptic hypothalamus, a region of the brain known to be involved in sexual behaviors and partner preferences; researchers identified a group of neurons there called the sexually dimorphic nucleus. "Interest...Marked crosswalks may pose risk to older pedestrians
A marked crosswalk is designed to guide pedestrians to a sa...et at urban intersections. Could the presence of a marked crosswalk actually increase an older pedestrian's risk of being struck by a motor vehicle? The answe...Asthma severity is variable and unpredictable
...nstitutes of Health. The key finding: patients had marked fluctuations in the severity of their asthma. At study baseline, all patients met the criteria for moderate-to-severe asthma, having a mean baseline FEV1 (a measure of lung function) of 64 percent predicted and asthma symptoms and albuterol use 6.0 d...Schizophrenia drugs linked to increased risk of heart attack
...y comparison was between thioridazine, which has a marked effect on the electrocardiogram, and haloperidol, which has less of an effect. "Overall, the risk with thioridazine was no worse than that with haloperidol. Thioridazine may, however, represent an elevated risk at high doses," said Sean Hennessy, Pha...Self-management program proves beneficial for macular degeneration patients
...who began the study with measurable depression had marked improvement in their mood and function. The results are reported in the November Archives of Ophthalmology. "Many people with macular degeneration experience not only the disability of vision loss due to this incurable disease; they also become anxi...Hospitals that don't follow heart attack care guidelines have significantly higher death rates
...better mortality rates. The researchers also found marked variation nationally in the treatments given to patients with heart attack. As one would expect, the larger hospitals and academic medical centers tended to more consistently follow the guidelines, Peterson said, adding however, that the results of t...Death rates lower in hospitals that follow heart attack guidelines
...oking cessation advice. Nationally, Peterson found marked variation in treatment for patients with heart attack, even for well-accepted standards of care, such as giving a beta-blocker within 24 hours. "Patients treated at lagging hospitals had only a 50-50 chance of getting it," he says. "In contrast, at...Starting beta-blocker before discharge in patients hospitalized for heart failure increases usage
...saving therapies," O'Connor said. Heart failure is marked by the inability of the heart muscles to pump enough oxygen and nutrients in the blood to the body's tissues. Also known as congestive heart failure, its many causes include coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, previous heart attack and valv...Inaccurate arsenic test kits jeopardize water safety in Bangladesh and India
...good water sits untapped in wells that are wrongly marked unsafe a dire disparity for countries where water can be more valuable than gold. A new study of wells in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, suggests the arsenic test kits used by field workers are frequently inaccurate, producing scores of incorrec...Genetics of familial atrial fibrillation revealed, Science researchers report
... in AF patients. "The mutation in KCNQ1 causes a marked enhancement of its function, tips the normal balance of the process, and renders the cardiac myocytes more susceptible to atrial fibrillation," Chen and Xu said. The KCNQ1 potassium ion channel was a suspect in the case of familial atrial fibrillati...Electronic job aid to benefit healthcare workers and patients
...raining has already resulted in fewer errors and a marked improvement in performance results among maintenance workers, Welch said. Beyond the patient's bedside, MedEPSS could have other applications in the healthcare industry. In a hospital's business office, for example, the same technology could be used...Occupation directly impacts a woman's retirement, study says
...erators and seamstresses. Interview results showed marked differences between the groups in attitudes toward certain aspects of retirement: Attachment to work roles and professional identity. The decision to retire meant the end of a significant chapter in the lives of the women in the professional group...Renal amyloidosis worsens the Familial Mediterranean Fever prognosis
... Renal amyloidosis is a chronic and fatal disease marked by the deposit of amyloid fibrils in the kidney. When caused by an inflammatory disease such as FMF the deposited fibrillar material is of the Amyloid A (AA) type and the condition in this instance is known as AA amyloidosis. AA amyloidosis can be ca...Fetal exposure to two chemicals cause of male reproductive disorders later in life
...the last ten years, US researchers have observed a marked increase in some male reproductive disorders, including undescended testicles, increased instances of testicular cancer, and decreased sperm count. In the last 20 years the rates for testicular cancer have grown almost five-fold in Denmark, yet neigh...Researchers find way to improve musical performance
... "These results show that neurofeedback can have a marked effect on musical performance. The alpha/theta training protocol has found promising applications as a complementary therapeutic tool in post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism. While it has a role in stress reduction by reducing the level of s...Brady announces collaborative grant to develop radiation injury treatment
...with spleen extracts of the tortoise, have shown a marked increase in activity," says Dr. Carroll. "Working with our Uzbek counterparts, we plan to decode the therapeutic components in those extracts, find out how they work and then incorporate them into modern medicine." The cooperative research anti-terr...Some autistic children make remarkable progress with intensive behavioral program, study suggests
...utistic by the time of this study. This suggests a marked improvement. Only one of the eight children showed emotional or behavioral problems at a level well above normal. Overall, the results of this study were positive for EIBI. But Mulick cautions against seeing EIBI as a cure-all. "We saw autistic...Drug may eliminate transfusions in patients with blood disorder
...ning treatment to treat hypersplenism, a condition marked by excessive destruction of one or more kinds of blood cells in the spleen. That patient received two transfusions preoperatively and one perioperatively. None of the original seven patients have received additional transfusions. All of the childr...JAMA study: Medicare coverage boosts cancer, cholesterol screening for previously uninsured adults
...nefit from cholesterol testing and treatment. "The marked increases in the use of mammography and cholesterol testing show distinct benefits for previously uninsured adults who gain Medicare coverage," said Dr. Ayanian, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at Harvard Medical School. "Extending M...New model predicts likelihood of prostate cancer prior to biopsy
...e up of lines representing individual risk factors marked off to scale and arranged in such a way that a numeric representation of the likelihood of cancer can be easily calculated. For example, a total score of 6.8 corresponds to a 10 percent likelihood of positive prostate biopsy. In developing the nom...