Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, April 6, 2004
...ng adults at low risk for CHD events to detect the presence of severe coronary artery stenosis or to predict coronary heart disease. This recommendation applies to screening with resting electrocardiography, exercise treadmill test, or electron-beam computerized tomography scanning for coronary calcium....Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
...in the home and asked people not to smoke in their presence were 15 percent and 8 percent less likely to smoke...verified through saliva tests that checked for the presence of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine. Fifty-one percent of the students were male and 90 percent whe...Herbal supplements' testing topic of discussion at chemistry meeting March 30
...lack of widely available testing methods or by the presence of too many different competing test methods that may give different results for the same product. ( AGFD 102 , Tuesday, March 30, 1:30 p.m.) Health benefits of herbal foods : Navindra P. Seeram, Ph.D., Center for HumanNutrition, School of Medici...Blood test for liver cancer risk
...sitive for HBV mutations. To determine whether the presence of HBV mutations in the blood could predict future cancers, the researchers monitored 120 people in China, where liver cancer and HBV infection rates are high. After 10 years, there were six cases of major liver disease, including four cases of live...Existing therapies applied to new use in broader spectrum of cancer care
...mouse model for colon cancer. After confirming the presence of GABA receptors in the colon cancer cell lines, the researchers documented a marked reduction in cellular cAMP concentrations in colon cancer cell lines treated with Nembutal. In animal models, nude mice were injected in...Environmental and dietary influences on cancer risk
...)pyrenes. "This is the first study to show the presence of carcinogens in the fetus at this early stage of development," said Steven R. Myers, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and lead author of the study. ...Nanotech imaging, molecular fingerprints and signatures hold promise for cancer
...e patient. "In breast cancer patients, the presence of lymph node metastases greatly affects the progn... the location of true sentinel lymph nodes and the presence or absence of metastatic cancer in those nodes within an hour by a single MRI study," Kobayashi said...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse based on faulty evidence
... when you read the current medical literature, the presence of perimacular retinal folds and hemorrhages in a young child with a serious head injury are considered diagnostic for shaken baby syndrome and cannot be from anything else. When physicians read that, they may stop investigating other potential cause...Older people lose out all round in breast cancer treatment and care
...cult for a number of reasons related to their age presence of other diseases, impaired physical status, depression, neurological impairment etc and this means that their preparation and design requires more time. But if this is not done we will discriminate against an already vulnerable group and deny us ...Mechanism leading to life-threatening infection identified by UCSD School of Medicine researchers
...alert other components of the immune system to the presence of an infection and secrete proteins that recruit other types of white blood cells to join the fight against the bacterial invaders. Three different pathogens were used to activate TLR4 on the surface of macrophages: Bacillus anthracis, which causes ...Tumor suppressor genes predict bladder cancer future
The presence of two mutated genes in bladder cancer tumors indicates there is a high risk that the cancer will continue grow and spread, said a Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researcher in a report released today in the March 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical...HPV in skin of psoriasis patients treated with medication and UV light therapy
...Graz, Austria, and colleagues examined whether the presence of HPV in the skin is increased after long-term PUVA treatment. The researchers screened for HPV DNA in body hairs plucked from patients with psoriasis (81 patients, average age 52 years), including those with a history of PUVA exposure and a history...A new hypothesis about Alzheimer's disease
...l be difficult to prove, admits Kelly, because the presence of these abnormal metabolites are hard to detect years after they initiated the aggregation. There is, so far, no smoking gun. "Is [this theory] right? Time will tell," says Kelly. "That's how science works."...Childhood abuse may predict social phobia, agoraphobia, and PTSD among adult alcoholics
...and physical abuse is an important factor for the presence of comorbid anxiety disorders in treated alcoholics, particularly regarding social phobia, agoraphobia, and posttraumatic stress disorder," said Willemien Langeland, a freelance trauma researcher at the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universit...Poor prognosis for depression linked to an autoimmune thyroid condition?
...mon in depression there is evidence suggesting the presence of an underlying autoimmune process affecting the thyroid gland in depressive patientsThe finding that depression often co-exists with autoimmune subclinical thyroiditis suggests that depression may cause alterations in the immune system, or that in ...Hawaii community focus groups determine priorities for oral health research
...al epidemiological studies have not been done. The presence of many ethnic groups, blending of ethnicities, and the lack of universal water fluoridation may contribute to this situation. Rosanne Harrigan and co-workers at the University of Hawaii took on the task of determining the community's and oral care p...Loss of smell linked to key protein in Alzheimer's disease
...By tying decrements in the ability to smell to the presence of key disease proteins, such as tau, we may well ...onfirmed a link between the olfactory loss and the presence of excess tau proteins in brain structures important for smelling. Additionally, the genetically en...Novel prostate cancer marker may lead to earlier diagnosis and fewer repeat bioposies
...testing for a protein in tissue that indicates the presence of early disease. The researchers suggest that tes...h high levels of PSA, we may be able to detect the presence of prostate cancer earlier, before it is discoverable by biopsy, saving patients the fear and stress...2004 Salivary Research Award to Ekstrom
...he conventional transmitters, he has studied their presence in the glands extensively. Importantly, he has pioneered functional studies on the roles of many non-conventional transmitters in salivary phenomena. This has involved specialized studies on the receptors and on the intracellular mechanisms involved......neration). The scientists went on to identify the presence of large cells on the surface layer of cells in the mouse ovaries that they proved to be germ cells (stem cells that are precursors to oocytes and are not associated with follicles). They also found signs in adult animals of meiosis, the specialized...