NIAID spearheads collaborative network for clinical research on immune tolerance
... multiple sclerosis, andwill pursue better ways to measure immune tolerance in humans. Eventually, thenetwork will expand into clinical trials in immune modulation to treat asthmaand allergic diseases as well. Researchers have long sought ways to improve the success of organ, tissue andcell transplantation....National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...mage analysis usingsoftware developed at UNC-CH to measure molecules of interest in prostatetissue. "In this country, almost 40,000 men are still dying of advanced prostatecancer every year," Mohler said. "Since the 1940s when we learned that thecancer goes into remission when androgens are taken awa...Baby walkers may impede child development
...age, and again threemonths later, using a standard measure of physical and mental development. Parents provided information on when the infants achieved developmentalmilestones, such as sitting, crawling, and walking. All of the infants scored within established norms, the researchers say. Nevertheless, thos......e height of a person, is considereda more accurate measure of obesity, Bell said. It is calculated by dividingbody weight by the square of the height. In the general population, a BMI of 30is considered obese and 35 is considered morbidly obese.A corresponding definition of obesity for pregnant women has n...MRI breakthroughs could lead to new tests for heart disease
...he successful use of MRI tovisualize blockages and measure blood flow in vessels leading to the heart. Withcolleagues from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, theyreported that in a study of 30 patients who had both MRI scanning and cardiaccatheterization, the MRI was just as effective as ca...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
...nough to implantsuccessfully and we can accurately measure immune response." Three other children who received transplanted thymus tissue later died,the researchers said. Two were on a ventilator at the time they were treated andthe third required a ventilator soon after transplant. They all developed...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
..., figured out how to usethis labeling technique to measure the amount of acetylcholine receptor proteinat individual synapses. In the current study, the researchers determined how receptor concentrations onsingle muscle fiber cells changed with time. "No one had previously monitoredthe turnover of membrane p...Duke team seeks novel vaccine strategy for HIV
.... "We can look at newvaccines in a monkey and can measure antibodies and T cell responses, but thechallenge remains in seeing how effective the vaccine is in blunting infection." One major limitation of the SIV model is that the outer membrane of SIVis different from that of HIV, so if the goal is c...Northwestern researchers present findings at Neuroscience Meeting
...icago at (773) 868-8052. Northwestern researchers measure memory -- and the loss of it Neuroscientists at Northwestern University are a step closer to learning howmemories are stored in the brain and how memory sometimes fails in both healthypeople and those suffering from neurological disease or brain in...Home blood pressure measurements are usually acceptable
...spective observational study) Asking patients to measure their blood pressure at home avoids the problem of "white coat hypertension" where blood pressure rises in the presence of a doctor, and in most patients is sufficiently accurate, says a paper by Battegay et al in this week's BMJ. In a sample of 54 p...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...tulberg system, a UI investigative team set out to measure how well surgeons agree with themselves and how well they agree with each other when using the system. The UI investigators also wanted to identify and quantify any sources of nonrandom error. The UI study involved nine individuals representing three...Depression linked to death among heart failure patients
...tly higher scores on the self-rating scale used to measure depression than did those who survived. Furthermore, 25 percent of the depressed patients died, compared to 11.3 percent of the non-depressed patients. The research was supported by the Central Hospital in Rogaland and Hjertelaget Research Foundatio...Female medical students more patient-centered
...a Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale (PPOS) to measure students' attitudes and orientations toward patient-centeredness. The scale combines dimensions of two different, yet complementary perspectives of patient-centeredness. The first perspective is concerned with the practitioner's interest in or willi...Hostility, coercion, sexism among causes of harassment in military
... men," he said. The studies used a sophisticated measure of sexual harassment, focusing strictly on actual behaviors, that was developed by Louise Fitzgerald, a U. of I. professor of psychology and of women's studies. Researchers looked at what led to higher and lower rates of incidents, whether the condi...Stereotypes of aging may have significant effect on gaits of older persons
... speed. A person's usual walking speed is a common measure of overall fitness and physical function and has b...devices in attached ankle straps. This way, he can measure natural stride-to-stride variations. Typically, the time a foot spends in the air for each step, kno...The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists releases latest findings at Annual Meeting
...garding direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA). To measure the impact of DTCA, University of Mississippi researchers polled physicians regarding how pharmaceutical ads influenced patient requests for advertised prescriptions. A few of their findings follow: Half of the physicians polled feel pressure to ...... women, a new questionnaire appears to be a better measure of quality of life scores that may identify worsen...tific Sessions. "Many of the instruments we use to measure the impact of heart disease symptoms on quality of life have been developed primarily in studies of ...Heart disease begins at a young age
... blood pressure, smoking, and body weight index (a measure of obesity) -- showed that age was associated with the degree of atherosclerosis independently of the other risk factors. "This study of individuals with no known heart disease demonstrates that heart disease begins at a very young age and well-devel......atients' performance on treadmill tests, a test to measure heart function, improved similarly in both treatment groups. Measurements of cardiovascular and overall clinical function also improved. Side effects were minimal and included diarrhea and mild dizziness.But improvement was also seen in death rates...