Many patients can reduce serious heart disease risk factors without medication
...will be as successful with patients who have more marked elevations in cardiovascular risk factors than those of the participants in this study. However, the findings of this study clearly have important implications for helping physicians and patients translate national clinical guidelines on risk factor ...Effectiveness of safer smallpox vaccine demonstrated against monkeypox
...reads from person to person through the air and is marked by fever, head and body aches, rash and large, fluid-filled bumps on the skin. The last case of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949, and the last case in the world was in 1977. However, the smallpox virus still exists in laboratories and r...New eggs continue to develop in adult mice
...sed with age from birth to young adulthood,despite marked atresia (degeneration). The scientists went on to identify the presence of large cells on the surface layer of cells in the mouse ovaries that they proved to be germ cells (stem cells that are precursors to oocytes and are not associated with follic...A new hypothesis about Alzheimer's disease
...eimer's is a progressive neurodegenerative disease marked by memory loss, loss of language ability, loss of the ability to mentally manipulate visual information, poor judgment, confusion, restlessness, and mood swings. According to the Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center, a service of the Nat...UCSF scientists show prion shape affects nature of infection
...g yeast with the different conformations and found marked differences: Infection with amyloids formed at the lowest temperature led to the "strong," highly infectious [PSI+] strain, while infection with amyloids formed at the higher temperatures primarily produced an alternative [PSI+] strain, termed "weak...Doctor attacks South African government for failing women while spending billions on arms deals
...ave to rely on the state provision, which has been marked by "stagnation and even regression in the past ten years" according to Prof Apffelstaedt. "Mammography is largely limited to seven tertiary hospitals and breast cancer treatment has stagnated at the level of 1990. Newer drugs, notably aromatase inhi...Vitamins good for some older women/bad for others
...n of haptoglobin-1 and antioxidants was especially marked in women with diabetes. More ominously, antioxidants seemed to accelerate artery narrowing in diabetic women carrying a pair of haptoglobin-2 genes. Women without diabetes, however, experienced no negative effects from the antioxidants even if they ...Erectile dysfunction has devastating effect on morale
...distress to all those men who experienced it, with marked effects on their self-esteem and wellbeing. Personal relationships were badly affected, with almost a quarter of men thinking that they were "letting down their partners." Misery was generally suffered alone as many men felt unable to talk about it t...Jefferson researchers discover novel gene profile that may identify colon stem cells
...lized colon cells, says Dr. Boman. Colon cancer is marked by a change in the distribution pattern of proliferating daughter cells. Next, the researchers plan to use their novel gene profile to investigate cellular changes in colon cancer development. They also plan to use a different microarray to expand th...Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care
...on cancer cell lines, the researchers documented a marked reduction in cellular cAMP concentrations in colon cancer cell lines treated with Nembutal. In animal models, nude mice were injected in the cecum or spleen with KM12SM, a GABA receptor positive colon cancer cell line. Nea...Zinc supplements could help treat ADHD
...children taking the zinc supplements showed a more marked improvement in their condition after six weeks, compared with those taking the placebo. Although the children taking zinc sulphate were three times more likely to report that they were suffering from nausea, the frequency of other side effects did no...Multiple factors affect psoriasis treatment compliance
...xtent of involvement, with facial disease having a marked effect. It is likely that self-image is one of the bases for the association of skin and psychological disturbance and is reflected in the [quality of life measurements]."...Nitric oxide links bulk of sporadic and familial Parkinson's disease
...in's normal targets -- including itself -- are not marked for destruction as they should be. Second, any abnormal proteins can't be marked for destruction, either. Both failures likely contribute to protein build-up and the formation of pr...Parkinson's drug effective in treating restless leg syndrome
...atients switched to open-label pergolide exhibited marked improvements in PLMS arousal index. Nausea and headache were experienced more frequently with pergolide than with placebo treatment. "Our study demonstrates that pergolide substantially improves PLMS measures and subjective sleep disturbance associat...Drugs experts call for government backing to stop the spread of hepatitis C
...udy's authors, comments: "To date there has been a marked absence of targeted health education campaigns specific to HCV, and recently, a lack of national policy emphasis on the reduction of harm related to injecting drug use. "Now, with as many as 200,000 people infected with HCV in the UK, the vast majori...Some infants recognize, respond to social eating cues
... Watching the videotaped feeding, the researchers marked every time the mothers handled the food or fed the babies a bite and every time the babies fed themselves a bite. They also looked at how the babies behaved and ate during fussy moments. Babies who were difficult eaters or overeaters were more li...Average blood pressure levels on rise among American children/teenagers
... significant health issues in the young due to the marked increase in the prevalence of overweight children. Overweight and high blood pressure are components of the insulin resistance syndrome, a combination of multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the guideline...Attacking bipolar disorder in young adults boosts outcome, says Stanford study
...on American adults have bipolar disorder, which is marked by episodes of mania and depression that typically begin in adolescence or early adulthood and can last from days to months. Family history is a powerful indicator; Ketter said a member of the general population on average has a 2 percent chance of h...New UNC research finds high rate of chlamydia in U.S. young adults
...stant professor of medicine and epidemiology. "The marked differences in these sexually transmitted infections across racial and ethnic groups are disturbing," Miler said. "Our results provide compelling evidence that nationwide disparities in chlamydial and gonococcal infections are real rather than the re...Research in monkeys suggests estrogen therapy may lower androgens in postmenopausal women
...ormones in women. While aging is associated with a marked decline in androgens, others factors involved in adrenal androgen production are not well-known. Regulation of androgen levels may be particularly important in postmenopausal women because observational studies have shown that older women who have hi...