Epilepsy Drugs Useful To Treat Alzheimer's, Studies Find
...with only limited success. Some doctors have previously reported case studies whereanti-seizure medicines like carbamazepine seemed to improveAlzheimer's patients' symptoms. Doctors normally use themedicines to treat epilepsy and help patients control impulses oraggression similar to that seen in most Alz...Epilepsy Drug Found To Stop Cocaine's Effects In Animals
... of time that rodents spentin areas where they had previously received cocaine. Such behavior is importantin hu... tested more extensivelyin animals than any of the previously reported drugs. The BNL-led team used atotal of ten techniques, including state-of-the-art medical ...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...ructure in the medial temporal lobe that was known previously to play a rolein memory, based on studies of animals and of people who suffer brain lesions orAlzheimer disease, Brewer said. Scientists did not know before, however, if thisregion was involved in encoding information into the memory, or if it wasinv......younger than 16 years, had not been previously treated with protease inhibitors or ...e or superior to that observed with previously tested combinations of antiretrovirals in this patient population. Fur...Electronic Nose Inspects Cheese, Hints At Human Sense Of Smell
... what human noses and taste buds have previously deemed acceptable. "An electronic nose is not a replacement for people -- it is a supplement," said Harper. "It allows companies to run a large ...Penn State Chemist Identifies New Lime Aroma Component
...Pa. --- A Penn State Erie chemist has identified a previously unnoticedcomponent of what makes limes smell, well, like limes. Dr. Mary Chisholm, associate professor of chemistry at Penn State'sBehrend College, has identified a balsamic, woodsy scented material,7-methoxycoumarin, as an unexpected part of...Eating Berries Can Help Lower LDL Cholesterol
...hibited antioxidant activities "comparableto those previously found for fresh grapes and wines," said Frankel. "As far aswe know, this is the first time berry extracts have been evaluated for theirantioxidant activities in human low-density lipoproteins." Research is ongoing to determine the amount of b......gs and related species with far more accuracy than previously possible. In the paper, BioNumerik researchers report preclinical animal data showing thatBNP7787 can completely protect against cisplatin-induced kidney toxicity,vomiting and bone marrow toxicities while increasing cisplatin's antitumoractivity. I...Restaurant Meats Higher In Suspected Carcinogens
...chas ten times higher than similar fast food items previously analyzed by thescientists. The study involved beef hamburgers, steaks and pork ribs, purchasedfrom three different national restaurant chains in the Beltsville, Md., areanear Washington, D.C. The study from Lawrence Livermore National Labora...Differences In Brain Function Found For Attention Deficit Disorder
...n the drug, but all of them hadbeen taking Ritalin previously as part of their ongoing treatment. Despite these limitations, the study points to new directions for research intobrain function that could improve individuals' performance. "This is one of the few studies to examine brain function in children, and...Study Confirms Safety Of Common Heart Drug
...ored to individual patients, is far less toxicthan previously reported with higher doses, according to senior study author Dr.J. Herbert Patterson, associate professor of pharmacy and research associateprofessor of medicine at UNC-CH School of Medicine. A report of the study appears in the December 7-21 issue......chemotherapydrug cyclophosphamide alone to control previously untreatable forms ofautoimmune disorderssuch as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and hemolytic anemia. Their findings are reported in the December 15, 1998 issue of Annals ofInternalMedicine. Of eight patients treated in the study with stand-alo...UCSF Study Shows Drug Reduces Risk Of Spine And Hip Fractures By Half In Women With Osteoporosis
...had two arms: the Vertebral Fracture Arm,which was previously reported at the 1997 American Society for Bone and MineralResearch Meeting and that included women who had a spinal fracture, and theClinical Fracture Arm, which is the subject of this current study being reportedin JAMA and that included women witho...An Ergonomically Redesigned Analgesia Delivery Device Proves Safer And More Efficient
...al evaluation replicate most of the results we had previously obtained with student nurses, confirming the hypothesis of this study. Measurements of nurses' performance with programming tasks indicate an overall improvement in performance with the redesigned interface compared to the existing Abbott interface. ...Study Highlights Flu Risks For Women With Chronic Illness
...sease. What's more, these rates arecomparable with previously reported hospitalization and mortality rates inadults older than age 65 who don't have high-risk conditions. Nationwide, efforts to improve influenza vaccination levels have been a successamong persons aged 65 years and older. During the past decade,...Chemists Discover That Aerosol Clusters Play Larger Role In Generation Of Air Pollution
...em to play a much larger role in pollutingair than previously was understood. The work, reported in the current (March 22) issue of the Journal of ChemicalPhysics, may give government and industry a better handle on just how airpollution forms. "If you're going to regulate compounds in the upper atmosphere, y...'Motion Blindness,' Not Just Poor Memory, Causes Alzheimer's Patients To Lose Their Way
A previously unobserved condition in many Alzheimer'spatients that physicians are calling "motion blindness" is a bigreason such patients become disoriented and lose their way,asserts a University of Rochester study in the March 23 issue ofNeurology. For yea...You Don't Need To Make Sperm Or Even Be Alive To Be A Father
...on in Rome. Antinori attracted controversy previously when he used IVF to allow a62-year-old woman to become a mother. Now he claims to have turned sterile meninto fathers by maturing their sperm inside the testes of rodents. At aconference in Venice last week, he claimed the technique had already resul...Antibiotics Reduce Inflammation In Heart Disease But Effect On Heart Attacks Remains Unproven
... Most American men and women over age 50 have been previously infectedwith Chlamydia pneumoniae, according to Grayston. "We also found Chlamydia inthe plaque, fatty deposits in the blood vessels, of more than 70 percent of ourown patients, and that really piqued our interest. "Laboratory studies have a......sduring or soon after surgery. These investigators previously had shown thathardening of the aorta was a risk factor for those strokes. This new studywanted to learn whether the risk would decrease with time or remain high inpatients with hardening of the aorta. More than half of the patients in this st...