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... and concluded that changing the name may have the opposite effect, resulting in confusion and requiring extensive re-education. In the research study, which included 61 healthcare professionals, 75 men with premature ejaculation and 48 partners, other terms that also were occasionally used by physicians to ...New research suggests two brain areas critical for short-term memory
...ost exclusively by the subiculum, which is exactly opposite from what was previously believed," said Deadwyler...er and then had to perform another behavior on the opposite side of the cage for 1 second to 30 seconds as a distraction. When the animal returned after the del...New compound may act to keep thyroid activity in check
...metabolic rate and cardiac performance, it has the opposite effect of thyroxine, according to a study by scien...d to find that T1 amine's effects on the body were opposite to those associated with thyroid hormone. Promoting close collaborations between chemists and biolog...Tumor suppressor gene family may be key to new colon cancer drugs
...g enzyme, called a tyrosine kinase, which plays an opposite role, turning a pathway on and accelerating cellular events. "If a bus' brakes are broken and they can't be fixed, another way to slow it down is to let up on the accelerator," explains Velculescu. "In this case, the faulty brakes are mutated tyrosi...Approach of holidays has no effect on time of death
...after Passover, while another study found just the opposite pattern. And a study in Israel found no patterns around major holidays at all, either among Jews or non-Jewish Israelis. Writing in the same issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, Gary Smith, Ph.D., of Pomona College analyzed Asian-American deaths in relat...Left brain damage may make people more vulnerable to infection
A major immunological difference between the opposite halves of the human brain is now confirmed in a st...s note that non-right-handed people could have the opposite reaction. Or they might show equivalent immunologic responses to right and left brain injuries. "Eve...Mouse study could aid vaccine designers
...and injected those cells into mice. They found the opposite of what they expected: cross-priming correlated directly with levels of whole proteins, rather than levels of peptides, expressed by the virus-infected cells. This new information could aid vaccine design, says Dr. Yewdell. "Our experiments indicate...Hormone therapy may still offer important health benefits to postmenopausal women
...cts of estrogen in the breast. However, it has the opposite effect in bones and the uterus, where it actually mimics estrogens. "Subtle differences in hormone structure and subtle differences in cells can make a tremendous difference in outcome. This is why the effects of the specific estrogens and progestin ...Female & black legislators more likely than others to prioritize children's health
... risen to committee chair positions, they found an opposite trend: a far lower percentage of bills introduced by chairs pertained to child health when compared with the bills introduced by non-chairs. And when they looked at what child health bills actually passed in the legislature and and received the gover...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...iments have shown that, in many cases, exactly the opposite is true," says Dr. Davis. "The design of previous experiments was flawed, effectively eliminating one important visual processing pathway in the brain." Dr Davis has found that information sources can be more efficiently processed when they belong to...Widely used breast cancer drug not linked to stroke
...lso been shown to reduce the risk of cancer in the opposite breast, as well as breast cancer recurrence. It also cuts breast cancer risk in half among women considered at high risk for the disease. However, tamoxifen use may have potential, serious side effects. One of those side effects, an increased risk o...Parkinson's patients get bilateral benefits with unilateral brain stim
...ally, leads are implanted on the side of the brain opposite to where the effect is needed. So leads placed on ...improved motor performance of the upper extremity, opposite side of stimulation, by approximately 30 percent," said Alberts. "But when we looked to see if they ...Accelerated heartbeart mystery: Is odd electrical wave the key?
...hysicians, the anti-tachycardia pulses produce the opposite effect: they trigger an even faster and more dangerous heartbeat. By electrically jolting cardiac cells in a lab and mapping the change in the electrical activity, biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins may have found an answer to this mystery. Writin...Latest Asian-American tobacco use data reported
...sus 25 percent. But the pattern was completely the opposite for Asian women," Tang said. "Those with the highest English fluency were significantly more likely to smoke than Asian women with lower English fluency -- 11 percent versus 4 percent." English fluency has often been used as an indicator for accultu...Exercising limbs protects brain cells affected by Parkinson's, study in rodents shows
...-OHDA causes movement deficits in the limbs on the opposite side. If a cast is placed on the animal's left forelimb, for example, and 6-OHDA is administered to the left side of the brain, the toxin would normally cause the right forelimb to be impaired. But this is not the case. Earlier studies by Timothy Sch...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...th a reasonable answer. A week after the exam, the opposite was true. "Other studies have suggested that elevated stress levels can actually improve some aspects of cognition, particularly working memory," said Jessa Alexander, a study co-author and a research assistant in neurology at Ohio State. "The result...News tips for Wednesday, November 10, 2004
... risk of organ damage. "Masked" hypertension the opposite of white coat hypertension is blood pressure that's actually lower in the doctor's office than the 24-hour average. A new study finds it's also riskier. Three hundred thirty-three patients taking anti-hypertensive drugs for at least a year were di...Study helps define headaches of whiplash
..., that are at greater risk of injury, and that the opposite is true for front-end collisions. This contradicts a common assumption that a rear-end collision will do the most damage to the back of the head and neck, Dr. Kumar said. They also found that mere awareness of an impending impact reduces the head-nec...Breast conserving therapy safe for hereditary breast cancer
...Society. However, the risk of breast cancer in the opposite breast is significantly increased. Breast conserving therapy (BCT), consisting of lumpectomy and radiation, has been demonstrated to be a safe, effective treatment for non-hereditary or sporadic forms of early breast cancer. However, for hereditary ...Tamoxifen's risks similar in African American and white women
...develop contralateral breast cancer--cancer in the opposite breast--depending on age and other factors. Tamoxifen has been shown to reduce the risk of contralateral breast cancer by 47% in women with early-stage primary breast cancer. However, the trials that demonstrated tamoxifen's benefits were done largel...