Jefferson Lab medical imager spots breast cancer
...y, "In women with dense breasts, it's very hard to pick out even large anatomic abnormalities." Stan Majewski, Jefferson Lab Detector Group Leader and principal investigator on the instrumentation part of the project, led the team that designed and built the PEM unit. He says PEM imaging works differentl...Major review of subway systems suggests potential for significant health and safety hazards
... reduce the likelihood of all types of crime, from pick pocketing to subway pushing." The paper examines other safety hazards as well, including injuries, air pollution and vibration. Findings of the report, "Health and Safety Hazards Associated with Subways," by Dr. Gershon will appear in the March Jour...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
...ncrease quit rates, compared to benefit plans that pick up only part of the tab or that offer no cessation benefits at all, according to a new review of studies. Smokers receiving full benefits were one-and-a-half times more likely to quit successfully and nearly one-and-a-half times more likely to try qu...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
... different types of cells. "Another approach is to pick factors that are good candidates and see if any of them or some combination recapitulate the effect of the younger blood," Rando said. His group is now looking for likely targets. He said that for some degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or mus...Methamphtetamine's ruinous effects on children documented in Midwest study
...researchers. The professionals and caregivers who pick up the pieces often lack the knowledge or resources to deal with the children's trauma and its consequences, the study found. "These kids are at a very high risk for mental health and substance-abuse disorders, and yet we have very little descriptive...Mayo Clinic researchers create 'obedient virus'; First step to use measles virus against cancer
...receptors. And they also show that we can take our pick as to what new receptor we target and send the virus after it." How They Did It Using bioengineering techniques, the team reprogrammed the measles virus to seek a cancer cell to bind to instead of its natural binding partner. Then they invented a...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
... an electrode on the baby's head via the vagina to pick up fetal heartbeat, which is translated into a pattern. Although obstetricians know certain heart rate patterns indicate stress, "it's a pretty big leap from seeing these patterns to knowing for sure that oxygen delivery to the baby's brain is being ...Early learning leaves lasting changes in brain, Stanford owl study shows
...neurobiology, showed that young owls could quickly pick up new skills that leave older owls baffled. What'...e the young owls learn a new skill they can easily pick it back up as an adult. "This work shows the importance of investing in childhood experiences," said...Infants, children prefer sounds over pictures and only slowly become visually oriented, studies find
... sounds, it is difficult to explain how they could pick up language." Sloutsky recently published two related papers on this research. One article, co-authored with Ohio State graduate student Amanda Napolitano, appears in the December 2004 issue of Child Development. A second paper, in the September 2004...Broad-based vaccination of wild mice could help reduce lyme disease risk in humans
...h B. burgdorferi. Normally, uninfected tick larvae pick up the bacterium the first summer of their two-year life cycle while taking their first blood meal from infected small animals, such as the white-footed mouse. The white-footed mouse is considered a key animal reservoir for Lyme disease. One year lat...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
... working to develop a reliable blood test that can pick out women with subtle, inherited genetic risk factors that put them at higher risk for breast cancer. Specifically, the test would screen for proteins that signal genetic defects associated with faulty DNA repair. Women who harbor such genetic mutati...Marine snail study gives insights into human brain
...mediate rapid reflexes. "If you try to pick up a goldfish, it seems to swim away from you quickly," Glanzman said. "What really happens is the fish has an extremely rapid escape response -- a reflex that causes the fish to bend its body in a 'C' shape, and then pushes it away from you, and the...Brain remapping may be key to recovery from stroke
...ogy requires implanting electrodes in the brain to pick up movement-producing signals from neurons. A computer then translates those brain signals into commands instructing a robotic device to move. "As we get a better understanding of what areas in the brain are involved in the remapping process, we'll ...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
... the best way to prevent those cancers is to never pick up a cigarette, or to throw them away. But while the 45 million people in the United States who have quit smoking have reduced their risk of developing lung cancer, the genetic damage caused by smoking does not entirely disappear, M. D. Anderson rese...Lab study defines and blocks mechanism that lets brain tumors sidetrack immune response
...ls, highly specialized "antigen-presenting cells," pick up debris left behind when cells die. When they take up and process debris from tumor cells, they should present these antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), cancer killing cells, instructing them to attack the tumor cells. If functioning properl...Research news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
...t into the habit of participating in intramural or pick up games -- the difference may be health benefits for years to come." Wetter, A., Economos, C., Osteoporosis International, 2004, 15: 799-806. "Relationship between quantitative ultrasound, anthropometry and sports participation in college aged adult...Listening in on the whispering heart
...ensors on the implantable cardiac telemetry system pick up the heart's electrical pattern and send out a continuous radio signal, which is picked up by a notebook computer fitted with a receiver. With this set up, the researchers could record an electrocardiogram directly on to the computer without the ne...New early warning system can predict life-threatening events in hospitalized children
...ctive tool that less experienced nurses can use to pick up on subtle changes before they turn into a life-threatening event, Dr. Duncan said. Once a child is identified as being at risk of a life-threatening event, doctors try to determine the cause, and based on that information, determine how to best tr...Smokers welcome help in quitting when offered at clinic visits
...n smokers and other minorities were less likely to pick up their patches than were white smokers, despite the greater initial interest in treatment among African American smokers. On average, participants reported using patches for 5.7 of the eight weeks recommended. Sixty-nine percent of eligible partic......Development Goals today? Would it not be better to pick only a few areas where clear disease causation and a high disease burden is proven and commit to immediate and specific Europe-wide legislation? In a supplement to last month's Pediatrics, the summarised evidence helps such priority setting: a ban of...