Discovery of pathway in learning impairment caused by liver disease may lead to drug treatment
... published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology . Researchers examined four groups of rats in their study: rats in which they constructed portacaval shunts (a treatment used to treat high blood pressure in the liver d...The role of ethnicity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
...y John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hepatology is available online via Wiley InterScience at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/hepatology . NAFLD, the most common liver disease in the U.S., is a condition associated with obesity and Type II diabetes in which fat accumulates in the liver. Although it is ben...CPR performance does not follow guidelines
...d ventilations during resuscitation episodes using online defibrillators. The study included 176 adult pati...hese aspects. Another approach would be to develop online tools that prompt the rescuer to improved performance. Audiotapes giving instructions on chest compr...A much-needed shot in the arm for HIV vaccine development
... Enterprise's scientific strategic plan, published online in the freely available, open-access global health journal PLoS Medicine . The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise is an international alliance of independent agencies and organizations conducting or supporting HIV vaccine research. In June 2004...AGI and USGS provide unique tsunami disaster relief
...ithout having to access individual maps, books, or online archives....Penn researchers add more evidence to demonstrate role of COX inhibitors in heart-disease risk
...e University of Washington and FitzGerald appears online January 17 in Circulation and in the January 25th ...lated paper from the FitzGerald group also appears online in the same issue of Circulation. Karine Egan, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the FitzGerald lab,...Innovative WSU graduate program deals with mental health, deafness
...gh the World Wide Web. He said Wright State has an online master's program in rehabilitation counseling, and this can be tied to the mental health and deafness program. The American Disabilities Act, which became law in 1990, has been a strong impetus for training individuals to accommodate deaf clients in ...MGH researchers find way of regenerating cells key to hearing
...pear in the journal Science and is receiving early online release on the Science Express website at http://www.sciencexpress.org . "These findings give us a potential stragegy for hair cell regeneration, which could have enormous implications for the treatment of hearing and balance disorders," says Zheng...A site for sore eyes: New target for allergies found under the eyelid
...a and hay fever. In a study published today in the online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation , Professor Santa Jeremy Ono and colleagues from UCL's Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital found that the macrophage inflammatory protein-1a, known as MIP-1a and located in the eye,...Exposed: Tobacco industrys' efforts to cast doubt
... gene called p53 are detailed in a study published online (Friday January 14, 2005) in THE LANCET. Damage to the p53 gene leads to uncontrolled cell division. Mutations in this gene are found in over 50% of all human tumours, including 60% of lung cancers. Benzo[a]pyrene, a potent carcinogen, was identifie...Alliance for Taxpayer Access asks NIH 'Who really owns publicly-funded medical research?'
...yer-funded research fully accessible and available online at no extra cost to the American public. In the long-awaited Enhanced Public Access Policy, NIH was expected to issue a call to action to each grant recipient to voluntarily submit her or his peer-reviewed scientific research results to PubMed Centra...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...ation, the nation's premier provider of reimbursed online doctor-patient communication services, today annou...ns/providers may be reimbursed $25 for RelayHealth online medical visits, or webVisits®, as part of a pilot program recently announced by Empire Blue Cros...Carefree people care less about cancer symptoms, endanger health
...ssue of Psycho-Oncology and is currently available online at the journal's web site. The study examined 69 patients diagnosed with rectal tumors and treated in the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. The patients were asked to indicate the length of two time peri...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
...emier open-access journal PLoS Medicine, published online January 11, 2005, suggests that an exclusive focus on one or the other of these alternatives will yield minimal benefits--failing to integrate the two approaches could have a catastrophic effect on the global toll of HIV/AIDS by 2020. In this modelin...Jefferson scientists help explain statins' effects in Alzheimer's disease
...e. They report their findings Jan. 11, 2005 in the online journal the Public Library of Science Medicine. Some epidemiological studies have found a link between people taking statin drugs to lower blood cholesterol and a lower incidence of Alzheimer's. Statins work by inhibiting an enzyme involved in chole...Gene vaccine protects mice against development of Her2/neu breast cancer
...erson Cancer Center. Their study, published in the online journal, Breast Cancer Research, on Nov. 29, 2004, showed that the vaccine protected 86 percent of experimental mice against HER2/neu-associated breast cancer, even though the tumors were implanted directly into mice. "This is an exciting strategy th...Mayo Clinic discovery on nature of rheumatoid arthritis lung disease may offer patients therapy
... lung disease. In a paper that appears in today's online version of the Jan. 13 edition of Arthritis & Rheumatism, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jtoc/76509746/ , the researchers report that RA lung disease may operate much differently from other forms of lung disease. If further studies suppo...Study suggests isolation of patients with MRSA does not reduce cross-infection in ICUs
...vM">German. Results of a UK study published online today (Friday 7 January 2005) suggest that the wid...ic." In an accompanying commentary also published online Friday January 7, Donald A Goldmann (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, Mass, USA) and...Outlook is bleak for the smallest premature babies: 80 percent have impairment
...th are invited to visit marchofdimes.com/share, an online community for families to share their stories....Magnetic resonance imaging deconstructs brain's complex network
...cine, led the study, which appeared in the Dec. 31 online issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. The research group included scientists from the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and the University of Islas Baleares, Mallorca, Spain. Chialvo and colleagues described how fMRIs ...