An alternative to bone-marrow donation
...ns, this would remove the need to find genetically matched human bone-marrow donors for patients with leukemia, immune deficiencies and autoimmune diseases. ES cells are cells derived from embryos that have the potential to grow into many different cell types. Richard Burt and colleagues identified the m...Exercise improves cancer survival, reduces cancer risk, scientists say
...Shanghai Cancer Registry. The control population, matched according to age, was randomly selected from female residents of Shanghai. The women were asked about the amount of walking and cycling for transportation, intentional exercise and household activity in which they engaged as adolescents age 13 to 1...Fetal heart monitoring ineffective at diagnosing cerebral palsy
...ere born with white matter brain injury. They then matched those infants with 40 babies who were delivered at the exact same gestational age and in the same manner. All babies were born at Hopkins between the ages of 23 and 34 weeks. The researchers then scrutinized fetal heart monitoring data to se...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2004 (first issue)
...OPD patients with a nonvertebral fracture who were matched with 6,817 COPD control subjects without a fracture. (In COPD, patients have persistent obstruction of the airways, associated with either severe emphysema or chronic bronchitis. Most such illnesses result from years of cigarette smoking.) Treatme...Detection at a distance for more sensitive MRI
...In the encoding phase, a radiofrequency (RF) pulse matched to the energy difference between the two states knocks the target nuclei atilt, causing their spin axes to precess around the field lines like off-center toy gyroscopes. The exact precession rate is characteristic of each chemical species ?? ubiquito...Atherosclerosis more common, progresses quicker in HIV patients
...ars. They were compared with 63 uninfected adults matched for age and gender. Protease inhibitor drugs are a common treatment for people infected with HIV. The researchers used ultrasound to measure intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid arteries, which are in the neck and supply blood to the brain. ...Researchers to pinpoint relationship between obesity-associated diabetes and heart disease
... at epidemic levels in the United States, has been matched by a rise in diabetes, a deadly combination that increases heart disease risk by two to five times. Research has shown an association between obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes, and it's believed that insulin resistance plays an important role ...Bite-marks giving false impression
...ly exonerated when DNA on the victim's clothes was matched to another man. The prosecution expert - who was...oza told the conference that the experts correctly matched 98 per cent of the clay marks and 84 per cent of those on skin. On the face of it, this is a good re...Heart attack patients face 25% lower death risk if hospitals follow national care standards
...ovement we've demonstrated in Michigan is at least matched by the opportunity that remains," he says. "We need to move from a culture of missed opportunity to a system that guarantees quality and accountability."...Thursday, March 4, 2004 news tips
...in subjects 37-97 years old. Each cancer case was matched to two subjects of the same generation by age, sex and whether the subjects already had documented coronary or cerebrovascular disease at the date of the cancer diagnosis. Within 6 months of follow-up, 44 men and women suffered a coronary event, half...Coeliac disease may predict schizophrenia
...For each case, they randomly selected 25 controls, matched by year of birth and sex, and identified any history of coeliac disease, ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease in cases, controls, and their parents. They found a moderately strong risk relation between coeliac disease and schizophrenia. However, th...Research examines treatment goals for acromegaly patients
...dal surgery for acromegaly and 20 healthy subjects matched for age, sex and body mass index. Subjects were evaluated using a series of tests that measured plasma glucose, GH, plasma IGF-1 and blood pressure. Dr. Serri's results suggest that even GH measurements of 1 g/liter following glucose load, whic...Effectiveness of chickenpox vaccine decreases after one year
...For each case subject, two controls were selected, matched by both age and pediatric practice. The researchers found that although the overall effectiveness of the vaccine was 87 percent, there was a substantial difference in the vaccine's effectiveness in the first year after vaccination (97 percent) and in...Sun exposure behaviors matched to dose of UV radiation received
..., continuous UVR measurements need to be taken and matched to time of day and activity of the dosimeter wearer. Elisabeth Thieden, M.Sc. (Pharm), of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues examined individual UVR dose patterns and sun exposure in 285 Danish volunteers with healthy skin rangin...Young people prone to type 2 diabetes exhibit alterations in mitochondrial activity
...aring them with insulin-sensitive control subjects matched for age, weight, height and activity. "There is a strong relationship between lipid content in the muscle and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle," said principal investigator Gerald I. Shulman, M.D., professor of internal medicine and cellular &...Database on blood and marrow stem cell transplants now available online
... a curative therapy for patients who do not have a matched donor." To ensure patient and donor privacy, none of the clinical information in the database contains personal identifiers such as birth dates. The available data include patient and donor MHC types, ethnicity, age and gender as well as the descript...Stroke news tips for Friday, Feb. 6, 2004
...s identified 227 women ages 15-44 with strokes. A matched group of 392 healthy women served as controls. Pre-stroke medical histories including cholesterol data were obtained in interviews, and current total cholesterol (TC) and HDL-C levels were measured. Sixty-seven percent of the cases and 94 percent o...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...periences, noting bothersome noises that were then matched against the decibel readings. Patients in the thoracic surgery unit typically have had operations involving the lungs or esophagus, and the average length of their hospital stay is five to 10 days. "We wanted to experience the patient's perspective, ...High levels of certain protein in blood associated with development of colon cancer
...2) were selected from the cohort for each case and matched by age, sex, race, and date of blood draw. The res...ersons who subsequently developed colon cancer vs. matched controls. Among rectal cancer cases, CRP concentrations were not significantly different from contro......f whom also suffered from major depression and 15 matched healthy controls. A new radioactive tracer (FCWAY), developed by NIH Clinical Center PET scan scientists, binds to the receptors, revealing their locations and a numerical count by brain region. Subjects also underwent structural MRI (magnetic reson...