UNC-CH Study Shows State Protects HMO Clients Poorly
...ation mechanisms.” The state earned its top marks for both its oversight of HMO premium rates and its financial solvency requirements, she said. It received “D-minuses” for both how much consumers participate in HMO governance and how consumers can get information about HMOs. “Infor...Crystal Structure Of gp120 Reveals HIV In Action
...which derives froman HIV infected individual, also marks the binding site for the chemokineco-receptor. Once gp120 binds to CD4, its shape changes in a way that enablesit to also bind the nearby chemokine receptor. Only then can the membranes ofvirus and human cell fuse and infection proceed. Havi...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...nd arm and loss of most speech. This trial marks a transition in stroke medicine from prevention anddamage-limiting efforts to restoration of lost brain function. While fetalhuman and fetal animal cell transplants have been tried for neurodegenerativedisorders, such as Parkinson's disease, with pr...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...on will be retained in memory. "This study marks the first time we've been able to peer insidesomeone's brain and predict on average whether or not you will later forgetsomething you are now experiencing," said Randy L. Buckner, senior author of thearticle and assistant professor of psychology in A...UCSF Study Finds DHEA Benefits Cardiovascular Function
...ionand re-established bloodflow. This year marks the third year in a row that UCSF's Vascular Lab, one ofthe few groups in the country researching DHEA's effects on heart disease, willpresent findings on the topic at the AHA conference. The UCSF group showedpreviously that DHEA dilates the coronary...... show little evidence of long-term use. All of the marks fromthe tools used to make them are well-preserved, and there is no evidence ofpolishing by handling that might lead one to believe that they were passed onfrom one generation to the next. This suggests that they were ritually buriedshortly after pro......of wire as fine as a hair. The development marks the first use of this technology, called ahigh-resolution region-of-interest microangiographic digital detector, forviewing devices, called stents, placed inside blood vessels in the brain. Thestents can prevent stroke by shoring up weak spots in ar......althcare servicesmost preferred by consumers. This marks the fifth two-year period in a row thatthe hospital has been identified as Southern California's gold standard inhealthcare. In addition to being chosen the most preferred healthcare facilityin the Los Angeles service area, consumers responding to th...New Vaccine Provides Protection From HIV In Monkeys
...nd SIV (simian or monkeyimmunodeficiency virus) -- marks a significant and promising step toward thedevelopment of an effective AIDS vaccine. The study results are reported in theMay issue of Nature Medicine by Dr. Harriet Robinson, Chief of Microbiology andImmunology at Yerkes Primate Center. In...Second Annual AIDS Vaccine Day Honors Volunteers Nationwide
...a 100 percent increase over four years ago. May 18 marks the anniversary of President Bill Clinton's 1997 commencementspeech at Morgan State University in which he announced the establishment of theVaccine Research Center at NIH. Currently under construction, the center isscheduled to open in the summer o......was basically in cubes, so there were plentyof cut marks and other defects that I had to airbrush out to arrive atacceptable images." Sylvius, includes more than 1,500 such images, organized into fourmodules: surface anatomy, sectional anatomy, a brainstem module and an indexlisting of some 200 ...Mayo Clinic study identifies brain changes in people likely to develop Alzheimers disease
...patients with a normal size hippocampus. The study marks the first time quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) hasbeen used to assess the risk of developing typical late-onset Alzheimer'sdisease in elderly patients with a mild cognitive impairment. The hippocampus is a part of the brain that plays a...Thunderstorms shed light in mystery of epileptic seizures
...archer at the Toronto Western Hospital. The study marks the discovery of the occurrence of a particular dynamic regime-- type III intermittency -- that takes place during seizures in patients withintractable epilepsy, a form of the disease that cannot be treated withmedication. Intermittency is characteri...NYU researcher unveils the scientist in painter Chuck Close
...d. Instead, Pelli's results suggest that when the marks exceed the critical 0.3degree size they are percei...ugh than his scientificcolleagues; the size of the marks in his block portraits increased by 15 percentper year from 1973 (0.4 cm) to 1997 (9 cm). He made s......urnal of the American College of Cardiology. "This marks the first time we've updated guidelines using the Internet," says.Thomas J. Ryan, M.D., of Boston University Medical Center, chair of the jointACC and American Heart Association committee responsible for the new guidelines."We wanted to publish the n...Myc's cancer-causing joy ride more reckless than previously believed
...ay a big role in making cells grow; the EMBO paper marks the first timescientists have identified the "brains" behind cyclin D's actions. Land's teamalso found that cyclin D can not only accelerate growth, which has been known,but also knock out the proteins that a cell normally uses to put the brakes ongr...UCSF Psychiatry Department receives grant to study innovative drug and substance abuse treatments
...eatment as usual: doctors or nursesnoticing needle marks on a patient's arms, treating them and giving them a referral to a treatmentprogram, said James Sorensen, PhD, adjunct professor of psychiatry and co- principal investigator whois based at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital Medical Ce...Repairing brain damage from stroke may be possible with brain cell transplants
...tayed the same over the six months. This work marks a transition in stroke medicine from prevention efforts and efforts to limit the damage from a stroke that occurred within hours to efforts to restore lost brain function from a stroke that occurred as long as six years before. "To be able to pro...New discovery may revolutionize treatment for pain related to surgery, illness and injury
...argeted groups of nerves, Filler said. This work marks an important advance, because drug treatment of nervous-system disorders is often hindered and sometimes precluded when the precise site of the injury or disease cannot be reached with adequate levels of pain medicine without causing unwanted side ef....... An abrupt change in the ratio of these hormones marks the event of ovulation. This signal was used to identify days of ovulation during 696 menstrual cycles. In previous reports, Wilcox and colleagues had shown that the fertile window spans six days, ending with the day of ovulation. In the new re...