Kids carry bike helmet safety message into middle school
... students said they knew how to fall in a way that prevents injury during a bicycle crash. Almost half of the students said that one reason some people do not use helmets is because they think helmets or riders with helmets are not cool, according to their responses. Kirsch and colleagues say that the program...Smart virus eliminates brain cancer in animal experiments
... of a tumor. In normal cells, the Rb protein also prevents a virus that enters a cell from replicating. Adenoviruses, however, counteract that defensive measure by expressing their own protein, known as E1A, which binds to Rb to stop it from functioning. That allows the common cold virus to "take hold" and s...UNC physician says patient, doctor education improves health outcomes
...ors over the past 20 years. Low health literacy prevents many people from receiving the full benefit of the biomedical advances of the 20th century, DeWalt said. Improving patient-physician communication is an important strategy to lessen the burden of low health literacy. We desperately need more resear...Patients lose access to neurological care, according to survey
...ntatives in March, according to Rydell, because it prevents further patient loss of access to medical care....Studies could lead to next-generation cancer drugs
...," said Bane. "Taxol binds to the microtubules and prevents them from disassembling. The net result is that the cell dies." Using natural products in the war against cancer is big business. "More than half of the drugs we use that are commercially available have natural products as their origin," said Bane. ...From diagnostic tool to cancer therapy
...s they would normal glucose. However, the fluorine prevents the radioactive glucose from being completely metabolised. Instead the glucose is trapped inside the cells. The patient is then scanned and doctors can see where the radioactive substance has been stored by analysing the pattern of energy it emits. ...Stanford, Packard research finds better drug therapy for children predisposed to bipolar disorder
... problems of bipolar offspring, but also delays or prevents the onset of the disorder, Chang noted. Studies of the drug in cell cultures and mice suggest that it can help protect the brain, but such studies have not been done in humans. For now, though, Chang hopes to alert psychiatrists to the possibility th...Computer design yields better, more efficient therapeutic for preventing tissue damage
...tein or protein fragment) called Compstatin, which prevents the autoimmune-mediated damage of organs during transplantation, and various inflammatory diseases. The computer modeling and optimization process cut down on trial and error and created a version of Compstatin seven times more efficient and stable ...Subversive strep bug strategy revealed
...hion. Essentially, explains Dr. DeLeo, S. pyogenes prevents the neutrophil from either recruiting help or completing an orderly shutdown sequence. "Dr. DeLeo and his co-investigators have gained an important new insight into how S. pyogenes creates conditions favoring its survival," says Thomas Kindt, Ph.D., ...High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...s effectiveness is not in question, says Davis: It prevents infections by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that cause tens of thousands of potentially deadly bacterial meningitis and bloodstream infections each year, and untold millions of painful ear infections. That's why parents have clamored to get kids ...Sleep apnea treatment helps patients and partners
...ep and can often lead to daytime sleepiness. CPAP prevents upper airway closure, improving sleep quality and, subsequently, reducing daytime sleepiness. "Snoring and sleep apnea interfere with the quality of sleep of both the patient and the bed partner. Many bed partners choose to sleep in separate rooms r...Lotion made from tea could help fight skin cancer
...umors, the researchers say. Unlike sunblock, which prevents the skin from absorbing harmful ultraviolet (UV) light, tea polyphenols work after the skin is exposed to excessive sunlight. The compounds, which are found in both black and green teas, inhibit a newly discovered chemical pathway involving an enzym...Starve a tumor, or feed a tumor?
..., she showed how an immune factor, interleukin-12, prevents angiogenesis. "There's no rhyme nor reason for how blood vessels grow in tumors," says Fenton. "It's like a race, where the tumor is expanding rapidly and the blood vessels are growing as fast as they can to keep up. Both are out of control. Oftenti...A cheap and easy way to treat Parkinson disease
...le to penetrate the blood-brain barrier that often prevents potentially beneficial drugs from entering the brain. D-beta-HB may therefore be considered as a novel form of neuroprotective therapy in the treatment of Parksinson disease....UCLA scientists invent search-and-destroy method to flush HIV out of hiding places in body
...rcing the toxin into the cell and killing it. This prevents the cell from making more virus." "The beauty of this approach is that it doesn't destroy healthy T-cells -- only the ones hiding virus," Brooks said. Prior to the UCLA discovery, scientists needed to over-stimulate T-cells to force them to expres...Tai Chi class boosts shingles immunity
...s had chicken pox, but the immune system typically prevents outbreaks. This cell-mediated immunity to the virus declines with age, however, leaving older adults particularly susceptible to the painful condition. The greater the decline, the greater the risk. No vaccination against shingles exists. The study r...Roche pledges continued support for Organ Transplantation Research Foundation
... improve graft and post-transplant health: Zenapax prevents the acute rejection of the newly transplanted organ, CellCept, the largest selling branded immunosuppressive in North America, offers both physicians and patients the possibility of an effective long term immunosuppressive regimen with low toxicity, ...US prostate cancer deaths down one third in men aged 5074: Europe following?
...or of breast cancer is by hormonal therapy, which prevents the fragments from being stimulated into becoming more malignant and dangerous by the body's own sex hormones. Randomised trials have shown that, following successful surgery, a few years of hormonal treatment substantially reduces the 10-year risk ...Dispute over toxic shock syndrome
...nts do not develop antibodies is because the toxin prevents antibody formation," he says. TSST-1 is a superantigen, meaning that high levels can trigger an immune overreaction, preventing antibody production. But the P&G team thinks the lack of antibodies could be linked to a deficit of a protein called comp...Immune alarm system can both amplify and silence alerts, scientists find
...e same area of the cells. But at the same time, it prevents strong signals from overpowering the cells -- which in most cases would lead to cell death -- by rapidly turning off the very strongest signals. "We only realized this with the use of a computational analysis that allowed us to see how all these diff...