Hormone may offer hope for treating some behavioral disorders
...ral effects of secretin. Finally, and perhaps most promising given that abnormalities of amygdala function have been implicated in a variety of behavioral and psychiatric disorders, studies of secretin effects may lead to new treatment interventions for these often debilitating disorders. "Results of our study...Language 'center' of brain shifts with age
...etween hemispheres. These study outcomes may offer promising therapeutic implications for adults who have experienced an injury, illness or other trauma to the brain. Details of this study will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology 56th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., April 24 May 1, 2004...Medication for heart failure may be helpful addition to standard therapies
...al indicate that the medication tolvaptan may be a promising addition to standard therapy for treating patients hospitalized for heart failure, according to a study in the April 28 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Hospitalizations for heart failure are common in the United State......r to protect them from fire and heat. A number of promising avenues of research are ripe for commercialisation. The Mediet experiment consists of Mediterranean Diet elements, an innovative packaging system and an ergonomic food tray, which, it is hoped, will enable 'Earth-like' eating on board the Internation...Future blood tests may use tiny bar-codes to speed disease diagnosis
.... Details about the analytical test, which appears promising in experimental studies, are scheduled to appear in the May 19 print issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society , a peer-reviewed publication of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The study was publishe...Alzheimers disease - recent discoveries pave the way toward new treatments
...r more than a century, there has never been a more promising and exciting convergence of basic and disease-related neuroscience than now," says Mucke. The AAN meeting will be held in the Moscone Convention Center from April 24 through May 1. Some 1,300 scientific studies will be presented as platform or poster...American Academy of Neurology awards 2004 Potamkin Prize to two scientists
...tinues to oversee clinical drug trials for new and promising Alzheimer's disease therapies through the ADCS. Nitsch's research has helped revitalized hopes for a vaccination against Alzheimer's disease. Following the halt of a major vaccination trial in 2002, there was serious concern within the neuroscientifi...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...of Philips Electronics in New York will describe a promising ultrasound method for detecting microcalcifications in the breast (5aBB4). NOISE AND CHILDREN Acousticians are working to raise awareness of the negative effects that noise can have on children. Prudence Allen of the University of Western Ontari...Second NIAID SARS vaccine candidate helps mice fend off SARS
...the second from NIAID in recent weeks describing a promising SARS vaccine candidate. "We now have two candidate vaccines, based on two distinct technologies, shown to be effective against SARS infection in mice," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "The animal model employed in both studies was develop...Discovery sheds light on how cancer cells grow and divide
...hat this partnership turns out to be -- would be a promising potential strategy to pursue in designing new drugs for cancer treatment. Scientific Background The centrosome is a tiny cellular organ that helps organize chromosomes during cell division. It's also a signaling center for the cell, and as such i...Fertility herbal supplement sprouts promising results in Stanford pilot study
...ull evaluation from their physicians. Based on its promising findings, Westphal's pilot study has been expanded to a larger multicenter study. She is currently enrolling women ages 18 to 43 who have been trying to get pregnant for six to 36 months and have abnormal menstrual cycles. She is also looking for men...Heart transplant survival: Results may be key to rejection prevention, detection, treatment
...nting or treating transplant vessel damage. It's a promising time in transplant research." Review abstracts and a complete meeting schedule online at www.ishlt.org . Media invited Late-breaking clinical trial results to be presented in Grand Ballroom B at the San Francisco Hilton: Thursday, April 22 duri...Green and black tea polyphenols consumption results in slower prostate cancer cell growth
...s study suggests that both black and green tea are promising natural dietary supplements useful for chemoprevention of prostate cancer, according to Dr. Henning. She plans to investigate if this effect can be enhanced by consuming larger amounts of tea polyphenols in the form of green tea extract supplement ca...DNA test shows promise for identifying patients with colorectal cancer
...ease and from healthy controls, to assess the most promising DNA methylation markers from a long list of candidate genes. They then tested for these potential markers in samples from two sets of patients and healthy controls, comprising a total of 49 individuals. A gene known as SFRP2 was methylated more frequ...Improving the chances of successful organ transplants
...significant step closer to entering a new and very promising product area, and it would not have been possible without the help of the EUREKA scheme," explains Dr Schwabe. "In my mind, the EUREKA scheme stands out from other funding mechanisms, because of its flexibility. Projects are selected on the basis of ...End of life ICU use may require re-evaluation according to University of Pittsburgh study
...at lead to better patient care, the latest news on promising research, and advances in equipment and techniques....Research news from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy: April 2004
...of plant based compounds, called isoflavones. This promising concept was refuted in a recent Tufts paper, and also confirmed by other studies, showing that contrary to popular belief, the plant based soy isoflavones do not lower cholesterol. As soy has been shown to be beneficial to decreasing heart disease r...Researchers testing compounds that may stop replication of T-cell leukemia virus
...explained. "Later this year, we will test the most promising of these compounds on actual HTLV-I viruses in CDC labs," Dennison added. Meanwhile, Herger is studying the individual amino acids, or structural elements, which make the HTLV-I protease produce an infectious virus. He is determining which of these ...Compound shows promise as vaccine-like drug for preventing type 1 diabetes
...t scientific society. "We believe this is the most promising compound to date for preventing type 1 diabetes," says study leader Yousef Al-Abed, Ph.D., an associate investigator at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute in Manhasset, N.Y. "If it works, it will be especially beneficial for young peop......ing. The functionalized oligomers were shown to be promising candidates for laser assisted vascular repair....