New test is first step in early detection of Alzheimer's disease
...ifficult to detect. Our BCA technology, which is a million times more sensitive than any other diagnostic technology, can accurately identify ADDLs, even in CSF." Amyloid -derived diffusible ligands or ADDLs (pronounced "addles") are small, soluble aggregated proteins. The clinical data strongly support a r...LA BioMed medical/research briefs January 2005
...rved in populations that encompass an estimated 20 million Americans including those with an advanced age, heart failure, malignancies, and AIDS. A significant portion of this reversal may be due to the overwhelming effect of the malnutrition-inflammation complex syndrome (MICS). Since two thirds of MHD pati...New non-hormonal hot flash treatment set for clinical trial
... of women with hot flashes is so large -- about 30 million women in the U.S. -- the University of Rochester, where I was working at the time, patented the discovery." Guttuso, meanwhile, published the first paper on this new use of an amino acid in the journal Neurology in 2000. He followed that with a pap...Monkey 'pay-per-view' study could aid understanding of autism
...y in autism -- a disease that afflicts more than a million Americans and is the fastest growing developmental disorder. In an article published early online by the journal Current Biology, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists Michael Platt, Robert Deaner and Amit Khera describe experiments in which...Hands-on or hands-free, using a cell phone while driving is not safe, researchers find
...results in 2,600 deaths, 330,000 injuries, and 1.5 million instances of property damage in the United States each year. Can hands-free devices reduce accidents, fatalities, or damage? No, say human factors researchers published in a special driver distraction section in Human Factors: The Journal of the Huma...Mayo Clinic discovers a key to 'low metabolism' and major factor in obesity
...ping a beat, food group or strange hankering. 150 million lines of data was downloaded from the data-loggers and analyzed. Committed study participants to clean their plates -- and scrape them, too, with a rubber scraper -- so every calibrated calorie that was served was also consumed. Custom-made, data-l...Animal study shows link between nicotine and atrial flutter
...ing condition that affects approximately a quarter million Americans each year. In an article published online in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology , researchers report a study that tested the effects of nicotine on hearts with healed myocardial infar...Satellite data reveal immense pollution pool over Bihar, India
...hern Indian state of Bihar. Blanketing around 100 million people, primarily in the Ganges Valley, the pollut...al climate and the health of the approximately 100 million people that reside within this pool." Di Girolamo said. "Our long-term goal is to better predict t...Olson family donates $1 million to Arizona Cancer Center
... Monday that he and his family will be making a $1 million gift to the Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona. The gift from the entire Olson family will benefit the Bobbi Olson Endowment for Ovarian Cancer Research. The endowment was established in the name of Olson's first wife, Bobbi, who succ...Reviparin effective in reducing risk of death after heart attack
...the January 26 issue of JAMA . Approximately 15.5 million cardiovascular deaths occur every year, according to background information in the article. Of these, about half are likely to be due to acute myocardial infarction (MI, [heart attack]). Although reperfusion therapy (restoration of blood flow), aspir...Exercise helps reduce symptoms of depression, UT Southwestern researchers find
...y 10 percent receive adequate treatment. Almost 19 million Americans are thought to suffer from depressive disorders. Other researchers participating in the study were from the Cooper Institute and from Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary.The study was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
... of drinking. The authors note that in 2001, 29.2 million injuries were treated in U.S. emergency departments. Of those injuries as many as 1.3 million are possibly attributable to drinking what is considered a nonhazardous amount of alcohol. The autho...Hearing aid signal not clear? Then switch frequency to FM, finds UCI study
...dings of the National Academy of Sciences. Some 30 million Americans have some form of hearing loss, and some 4 million of these people benefit from using hearing aids or cochlear implants. But limitation on sound qualit...Vaccinating school children and high risk groups is best strategy for slowing flu transmission
...dren and high risk groups would require around 120 million doses of vaccine per season, taking into account the fact that many high-risk people are never vaccinated. They recommend that the federal government guarantee the purchase and distribution of that many doses of vaccine each year in order to stabili...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
...tures of the hip, spine and wrist. An estimated 30 million American women either have or are at risk for osteoporosis. Though the risk of losing bone mass is part of aging, having the strongest skeleton possible as a youngster can tip the balance toward better bone health in later years, Matkovic said. The s...A global treatment for iron deficiency
...icated from developed countries, but more than 750 million children in the developing world have iron-deficiency anemia. According to an article by researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, published in this month's issue of the open access global health journal PLoS Medicine , a si...Early seizures after epilepsy surgery predict more seizures
...ct one percent of the U.S. population -- about 2.5 million people. During an epileptic seizure, nerve cells in the brain fire electrical impulses much faster than normal, often leading to muscular convulsions or loss of consciousness. Many epilepsy patients can be successfully treated with medications that p...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...der that pain is estimated to impact more than 100 million Americans, and will clearly impact independence and successful aging," she says....Study estimates number of excess cases of coronary heart disease caused by Vioxx
...alternative to Vioxx. They analysed data from 1.4 million people in California who had used NSAIDs from the ...xib (around 40,000 users), ibuprofen (just under a million users), naproxen (around 435,000 users), and rofecoxib (around 27,000 users). The investigators fou......S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1.4 million American suffer traumatic brain injuries a year, and 50,000 die from it. "Since this often occurs in young people and is long term, traumatic brain injury-related disability is a major cause of ill health worldwide," Alderson says....