Mouse provides clues about chronic pain
...l heat on your skin when youre cooking, so you can quickly withdraw your hand if you need to," Zhuo says. "Our study has provided a target for the development of drugs that would be highly selective for persistent pain. They would allow people to ignore chronic pain while leaving the rest of the pain system ...Sleepyheads, snorers face risk of stroke
...uses snoring and frequent awakening as the sleeper quickly gasps for breath. It can lead to drowsiness during the day. Sleep apnea is recognized as a contributor to heart disease and stroke. Qureshi and colleagues conducted an earlier study using database information in which they found that individu......se studies allow thousands of genes to be analyzed quickly a much more efficient process than the previous method of looking at each gene individually. Now gene array methods are used nationwide to perform research in a variety of fields. Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute is one of a rela...Aspirin and other non-specific COX inhibitors may slow atherosclerosis
...s ago as anti-inflammatories, the COX-2 inhibitors quickly became popular for treating illnesses such as arthritis. But because of the properties of prostacyclin, FitzGerald and his colleagues wondered whether blocking this COX-2 product might lead to hardening of the arteries, particularly in young patient......, says Kerr, finding a therapy would progress more quickly with a formal organization of neurologists and patients worldwide. Spurred on by Unser and the First Step Foundation's $20,000 donation, Kerr has organized an international consortium of research hospitals. The new centers, so far, include Washingto...Study: Ripped aortas kill often, but new knowledge may aid survival
...that it may be possible to help physicians predict quickly which patients need the most aggressive treatment. And other preliminary data suggest that minimally invasive techniques may help improve survival for those who can't endure surgery. The significance of the IRAD study stems both from the fact th...High-tech scan for blocked arteries matches conventional tests in finding root of symptoms
...rdiovascular images because of its ability to scan quickly and to be linked to a patient's heartbeat. But though the technique has been studied by many researchers and judged accurate by the American Heart Association, its use for diagnosis and screening has not yet been completely accepted, or approved by i...Cincinnati chemist wins national award for medical contributions
...hine, the Clark electrode to measure oxygen levels quickly in blood, surgical techniques to reattach the eye's retina, agents to image tumors and heart-attack damage, topical medicines to speed healing of burns and other advances. His liquid-ventilation techniques can help premature infants breathe until t...Transplanted human neural stem cells improve memory in rats
... assess how well they had learned the task and how quickly they recalled the location of the platform. Aged, memory-impaired rats that had received the implants performed as well as-and in one case, better than-younger rats. The aged rats also outperformed control animals. Postmortem examination of the rats......are able to report temperature, pressure, and flow quickly from great distances. Sensor Highway Ltd. of England is deploying the unique sensors in drilled holes in petroleum fields (oil and gas wells and flow lines). A. Lynn Abbott and Bin Yuan, of electrical and computer engineering, received patent 6,1......ins a powerful but local estrogen that metabolizes quickly in the tissues and the blood stream," Hochberg sai...s that the estrogen could be metabolized extremely quickly in the bloodstream. Tests in female rats showed that there was very little systemic activity." Ho......ally for patients with HIV,where skipped doses can quickly lead to the virus becoming resistant to the medication, said Dr. Honghu Liu, lead study author and associate professor, UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. HIV treatments consist of complicated drug regimens, invo......id design and implementation of clinical trials to quickly evaluate new and existing asthma treatments. In the past eight years, ACRN has completed six clinical studies providing answers to important asthma treatment questions. The participating centers are: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Harlem Lu...Researchers to test skeletal muscle as replacement for damaged human heart muscle in humans
...reatments for heart disease. Taylor chronicled how quickly her findings in the laboratory are being translate...into the damaged heart," she explained. "Myoblasts quickly start acting like the muscle cells they are and begin contracting like those around them. If stem ce......ting that their bones were disintegrating twice as quickly as the bones of untreated men. In addition, they had significantly lower blood counts and levels of estradiol, a hormone that is needed, along with testosterone, for bone health. Treated men also showed an increase in total body fat and loss of muscl...Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...e pulp andpaper industry can now be conducted more quickly and efficiently on computers rather than in laboratories. In 1986, the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations Scientific Acheivement Award recognized the international scope and impact of the Glassers' work....New pilot study suggests flaxseed and low-fat diet can be protective against prostate cancer
...n on the diet, their tumor cells did not divide as quickly and there was a greater rate ofapoptosis (tumor cell death) in this group. With such a short-term dietary intervention, the researchers said they did not expect to see adifference in tumor biology between the diet-treated patients and the control...Safe effective treatment to stop seizures can be delivered outside of the hospital
...ho is in status epilepticus needs to be treated as quickly as possible in order to prevent serious neurological damage," said Audrey S. Penn, M.D., acting director of NINDS. "This study demonstrates that there is a safe and early treatment for a serious condition." Despite the positive outcome of the study,......an happen in as little as three months, which can quickly lead to fractures. It is estimated that up to 50 percent of patients on chronic glucocorticoid therapy (> 7.5 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) will experience osteoporotic fractures. Glucocorticoids are a primary therapy for many inflammatory a......ent team. "Until now, local labs have been able to quickly determine the presence of a bacterium, but they ca...who have been exposed to anthrax, and it will more quickly alleviate undue anxiety for people who havent been exposed," says Dr. Cockerill. The Mayo Clinic te...