Duke Study Suggests New Class Of Drugs Could Bypass Leptin Loop
...r proven. In fact, their study shows that leptinis only the first step in a series of events that ultimately boosts fatmetabolism, according to study authors Sheila Collins and Richard Surwit. Leptin was identified last year as a protein that regulates body weightvia appetite suppression. But the complex...AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
... For some patients, AIDS is double jeopardy. Not only is their depletedimmune system unable to fight inf...tDr. Clay Smith. Smith said he hopes not only to save these patients, but to answer somefundamental questions about the viability of bone marrow t...Digital Speech Analysis Tests Sobriety
...ity as to whether thespeaker was intoxicated. The only stumbling blocks could be recording quality and le...lly, really lucky, and you found somethingthat you only ever saw in intoxicated speech ... then you would be ableto just do it on the fly," Cummings said. "...Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...vas said the death rate for these newborns fell by only 11percent. Hamvas said the study shows there are a variety of other reasonspremature infants die. "Because of this effective therapy, we have reducedone cause of death. But we're now unmasking other types of problems verylow birth-weight infants migh...Chemists Develop Probe To Detect Changes In Imaging Agents Inside Body
...d also about developingsensors. We're probably the only group in the world with thosetwo skills." The sensors are tiny carbon fibers, the same graphite fibersused to make lighter tennis rackets and golf clubs, coated with athin layer of polymer. The package then becomes a probe which canbe inserted direct...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...ia produces 80 percent of the world's opiates, yet only a minuscule amount of oral morphine was prescribed to cancer patients last year," says Grossman. "Because of limited financial resources as well as widespread concern about uncontrolled use of narcotics, governments in developing countries historica...Discovery Hints At Multitude Of New Targets For Drugs
... The drugs could causethe same receptor to trigger only certain of its normal effects in the body,but not ...ists believed that this conformationalchange could only produce an on-off response. Some of the new findings supported that early view. The researchers fou...Alzheimer's disease center seeks patients for new drug studies
...of 30 medical centers across the nation -- and the only one in North Texas -- testing propentofylline, an ...nd the United States. UT Southwestern again is the only North Texas testing center. Researchers expect to enroll about 15 patients in the 24-week trial. The...Tacrolimus Stops Rejection Of Kidney Transplants
...re lost to repeated or uncontrollable rejection to only two to four percent, a significant advance. This multi-center report confirms an earlier kidney study from the University of Pittsburgh that found nearly identical results. Previous studies in liver transplant recipients have also demonstrated a simi...Study Demonstrates Safety & Effectiveness Of Asthma Drug
...prescribed inhalant drug, albuterol,should be used only on an as-needed basis for patients with mild asthm...S. Hershey MedicalCenter. Puffing on the inhalant only during an attack of coughing or wheezing issufficient for mild asthmatics, according to Zwillich. Da...Scientists Produce New Anti-Malarial Compound
...uring malaria patients in China.But plants contain only small amounts of the substance, makingthe drug expensive and impractical. The Hopkins researchers have previously developed syntheticversions, or analogs, of artemisinin; the synthetic drugs havebeen shown to cure malaria in monkeys. The new compound...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
"Health policies that seek only to save money in the short term ultimately may be ... "Our findings show that health policies that seek only to save money in the short term ultimately may be both inferior to and more expensive than a more co...Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...t of such an increasein retirement age in that not only would expenditures not be made, but personswho did...ple tax rate change has to be done.Or if you do it only by a tax increase, then you get a very high tax burdenthat could potentially slow down the growth of...Fertilization Protein Structure To AID in Leukemia Treatment
...ing protein, called CD38, which in normal cells is only present in early stages of their development. Because a CD38 molecule has a remarkable similarity to the cyclase protein, Stout and his collaborators think that CD38 molecules also pair up to create an internal cavity. However, unlike cyclase, CD38...A Surgical Semiconductor Laser With More Precision And Power
...imes as powerful as current devices. Currently the only way for semiconductor lasers to produce such power...one-watt laser, but a semiconductor laser requires only five watts to produce thesame power. Since they can be mass-produced, semiconductor lasers usually c......tulated that certain strains of the AIDS virus not only deplete mature CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in infants, b...t group were more likely to show abnormalities not only in their cell-mediated immunity but also in their immunoglobulin and antibody production (humoral im...UW, Siemens Unveil New Panoramic Ultrasound Imaging Application Using Programmable Technology
...making it safer than X-rayimaging. Also, it is the only practical medical imaging technology thatfunctions in real time to display anatomical movement and blood flow. Ultrasound imaging systems are technologically complex and historically weredesigned and built from single-purpose hardware components with...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...inai Hospital in Baltimore. The infants were given only a 1-ccdrop of sugar-solution at a time -- not enough to swallow butenough to taste. While the babies were videotaped, they receivedone drop of solution every 10 seconds for five minutes and werethen observed. After tasting the sugar solution, the pos...Benefits Of New Diet Drug Don't Outweigh Risks
...oss personnel. Levitsky concluded that Redux not only produces a relative small weight loss but also may.... We also know these changes in lifestyle will not only lower body weight but also reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer as well. "Yet, Amer...ACTG 315 Preliminary Results: Drug Cocktail Restores Partial Immune Function
...proliferation assays (to assessimmune memory), was only partially restored. The team is still evaluating thevirologic effects of HAART on lymphoid tissue. Follow-up studiesalso will examine immunologic function after longer term HAART,and after changes in therapy for participants who fail to respond. Dat...