Zimbabwean women very willing to use diaphragms-potential HIV prevention method
... to consent to use, the potential of this existing product can no longer languish unexplored," said Padian, who is also director of the Women's Global Health Imperative at UCSF. The study-which took place in Zimbabwe where thirty percent of the population is estimated to be HIV-infected-first enrolled women ...Playful therapy garments for children receive patent
... by KSU, she is continuing her research on apparel product design for children with sensory dysfunctions. The patent is assigned to the Kansas State University Research Foundation and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (www.vtip.org). One company is looking at the product, Boles reports. And Haar is ...Aspirin's target, the COX-2 enzyme, linked to cancer of the uterus
...un and other researchers have shown, COX-2 and its product prostaglandins set off a cascade of molecular even... Bulun has found increased levels of COX-2 and its product prostaglandins in endometriosis, a painful, inflammatory disease in which endometrial tissue from th...Female physicians more emotionally focused and 'patient-centered' when communicating with patients
...ew style. These differences in communication are a product of our society, but they are not unchangeable," explained co-author Judith A. Hall, PhD, professor of psychology at Northeastern University....Female physicians more emotionally focused and 'patient-centered' when communicating with patients
...ew style. These differences in communication are a product of our society, but they are not unchangeable," explained co-author Judith A. Hall, PhD, professor of psychology at Northeastern University....Philadelphian wins national organic chemistry award
...ty of the didemnins' structures. To turn a natural product into a candidate for cancer treatment, one must first understand how the various piece of the structure relate to its action. To that end, Joullie has not only created laboratory versions of didemnins as found in tunicates but also modified their str...Cancer revealed: New $10M grant establishes cancer imaging center
... help do." The center's founders also see it as a product of Michigan's Life Sciences Corridor, an effort to tie the state's top biomedical institutions and companies together through research ventures. Before receiving the NCI grant, teams from UMHS, VARI and Molecular Therapeutics first worked together un...UCI researchers leading the effort to understand the causes and effects of air pollution
...rest Fires Also Raise Ozone Pollutant Levels The product of the large-scale forest fires that have plagued the Western United States is easy to see -- thick, dark smoke filling the skies. But downwind, gaseous emissions from fires create a pollutant invisible to the eye, but no less dangerous - ozone. Atmo...$2.2 Million herbal cold remedy study underway at U.Va.
...h has a different chemical composition -- are in a product could all possibly affect its medicinal value. The study will use one crop of echinacea plants processed using three different extraction methods to produce three different concentrations of various echinacea constitutents. The composition of these t...Foundation funds UCSF research to test diaphragms as HIV prevention tool
... could prevent disease. Their enthusiasm to use a product that did not require negotiating with their male partner was overwhelming." said Padian. Because it protects the cervix, the diaphragm holds enormous promise for preventing HIV transmission. The cervix is a "hot spot" in terms of susceptibility to ...New overview adds more evidence for safety of third generation Pill
...sure to third generation OCs and non-use of any OC product in respect to myocardial infarction has allowed the laboratory investigators to realise their goals of developing newer and safer preparations. This is the first epidemiological report of such equivalence. "Subsets of older women those with a famil...Study finds additional evidence for contamination of herbal supplement for prostate cancer
... manufacturer of PC-SPES, voluntarily recalled the product and has since gone out of business. In this anal...having to deal with the added problem of potential product adulteration." He says that preclinical and clinical trial research of promising herbal intervention...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
...oore hopes to develop the system into a commercial product in the next two years. As they become more practical, such systems could be helpful to some blind people, Maurer said....Depression and exposure to other smokers linked to alternative tobacco product use among teens
...icantly affect the likelihood of alternate tobacco product use among adolescents, a study by researchers from...nd psychological factors have on alternate tobacco product use. Audrain led a research team that interviewed 1,107 ninth grade students as part of a four-year ...Bicycle handlebars pose serious health risk to children
... standards should be adopted to ensure appropriate product modifications, offering potential for the reductions in both frequency and severity of handlebar-related injuries. Clinicians should educate parents about choosing and maintaining their child's bicycle to help minimize the risk of bicycle-related inj...Concern over billion dollar alternative medicine bill
...of people who use alternative medicines would like product information on the packaging to the same standard as pharmaceuticals - such as the dosage, contents, potential side-effects and their evidence of effectiveness," he says. "The public should have better evidence that their $2.3 billion a year is being...Snuff use may be gateway to cigarette smoking
...on to cigarettes. Snuff is a finely milled tobacco product that contains nicotine; users typically place a "pinch" or "dip" between their lip and gum. A study in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reports that although daily snuff users are more likely than other men to have qui......mber of respondents felt that 'bad' doctors were a product of a society that undervalues doctors. The response of one first year intern from Israel echoed the thoughts of several others: "Our society undervalues doctors yet expects and will accept nothing short of perfection Even with perfect risk management...Stanford researcher to find cure for widespread Celiac disease
...sts, clinicians, the pharmaceutical industry, food product manufacturers and the general public. Dr. Khosla'...ong scientists, healthcare professionals, consumer product manufacturers and the general public. Its primary goal is to translate emerging knowledge about Cel...'Glutaid' on the horizon? Study may someday spell relief for people on gluten-free diets
...sglutaminase, the authors found, and the resulting product was a potent stimulant of inflammatory T cells isolated from small intestines of celiacs. Although other peptides capable of triggering celiac-specific T cells have been identified from gluten, they are structurally related to the peptide identified...