Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...to the antigens carried on its surface." The study raises new questions about the mechanism by which aluminum hydroxide works, Hem says. The findings will appear in the September issue of the British scientific journal Vaccine. During the 1930s, researchers discovered that using aluminum hydroxide to carry ...NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
... Through its vasopressor action, angiotensin II raises blood pressureand, through a variety of physiologic effects, decreases fluid loss by thekidney. For example, angiotensin II stimulates the adrenal cortex to secretaldosterone, which regulates the body's electrolyte and water balance bypromoting the r...Researchers Finding May Boost Effectiveness Of Anti-HIV Drugs
...Center researchers have found. The finding raises hope that the effectiveness of protease inhibitorscould be boosted by combining the anti-HIV drugs with medication to block theaction of the protein protecting the virus. That strategy might also reduce the cost of the now-very-expensivethera......essant. "From a societal point of view, the result raises the issue of cosmeticpsycho-pharmacology," Reus says. "To what degree should our expectationsinclude not experiencing any significant distress if a drug is available thatcan reduce the dimensions of distress?" The UCSF researchers also measured "af...Anti-Clotting Drug May Cause Potentially Fatal Platelet Disorder
...hinfour weeks of the procedure. The study raises concerns over the potential for a rash of new case...itals. Bennett said that this study also raises concern that additionalmeasures by the FDA or the pharmaceutical company are likely to be needed top...Promising Results For Woman-Controlled Anti-HIV Product
... microorganisms,including HIV. Semen, for example, raises the pH level, allowing sperm and othermicroorganisms to thrive. Another paper by Mayer provides more clues for why some women may transmit HIVmore readily, knowledge that may eventually help in the development of vaccines.Women with undetectable HIV ...International Study Finds Statins Raise Good Cholesterol, Wake Forest Physician Reports
...ional study shows a class of drugsknown as statins raises levels of the good cholesterol, John R. Crouse II... "The observation that simvastatin beneficially raises low HDL whilelowering LDL should make this finding attractive to physicians for thelipid-altering pr...UCSF Study In Rats Suggests Synthetic Drug Mimicking Marijuana Might Be Used To Treat Pain
...ing, reported in the September 24 issue of Nature, raises thepossibility that marijuana-like drugs could be used to treat pain, said the leadauthor of the study, Ian Meng, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory ofHoward Fields, PhD, a professor of neurology and physiology and a researchscientist in th...Insulin Resistance And Obesity Avoided In Genetically Modified Mice, As Reported In Science
... in the 5 March issue of Science. The finding raises hopes that researchers might someday design a drug forhumans that mimics these effects by targeting the same enzyme. "It willcertainly take some time to find a compound useful for humans based on our mousemodel, but it has the possibility of being a ...Health And Wealth: Women Are DifferentOr Are They?
...'s mortality risk,but increasing the wife's income raises men's odds of dying. The team raised several possible explanations of this and said further researchwould have to answer such questions: Could it be because the wife's increasedearnings lower the husband's sense of power or self-esteem? That more h...UI Study Finds Many Physicians Withhold Pain Medication
...decisions. The informed consent definition raises two questions, Graber said. One,does administering pain medication void patients' informed consent because of aloss of judgment and competence due to mental clouding? Two, recognizing that nophysician would purposefully cause patients to suffer, can ......n, Mass.,says, "This study is important because it raises the possibility that even afterunstable angina occurs and the bells go off, heart attack can be prevented withmedical therapy." The drug, abciximab, is a blood-thinner. It keeps blood particles known asplatelets from clumping and forming clots that ...New outpatient surgery is helping women with stress incontinence
... hard when the bladder is full and sudden movement raises intra-abdominalpressure. Unable to resist the force, the sphincter gives way, and urine spurtsfrom the bladder. Stress incontinence accounts for about half of the estimated 10 million cases ofincontinence among American women. And whereas other forms...Hospitalists should work with patients' primary care physicians, according to UCSF researchers
...his discontinuity or disruption in care, he added, raises several ethicalconcerns. The promise of confidentiality between a patient and primary care physician maybe compromised once the patient is hospitalized. The hospitalist may not honorpromises made between patient and PCP, for example, the promise not...UI researchers identify prostate tumor suppressor
.... When directly applied to patients,this discovery raises great hope of limiting the spread of prostate cancerwithin the body and thus improving survival."...Study suggests potential new approach to glaucoma therapy
...mage. "We adopted an animal model of glaucoma that raises pressure levels in the eyesof rats," Neufeld said. "And we found that, as in humans, the eyes of rats withelevated pressure lost retinal ganglion cells and that the tissue also containedelevated levels of NOS-2." For the last century, most medical an...New links found between an 'iron' gene mutation and increased risk for heart attack and stroke
...esearch involving thehemochromatosis gene mutation raises some interesting questions, further studyis needed before the organization could make widespread recommendationsconcerning screening for the defective gene or risk-reduction methods for thosewho are found to carry the hemochromatosis gene mutation. I...Lower death rate in Oregon hospitals linked to better care
Study raises the possibility of improved hospital care for heart failure inOregon Portland, Ore.-- A study by two Oregon Health Sciences University researchersfinds that the recent decrease in hospital mortality rates for Oregon heartfailure patients is likely......cognised risk factors are reduced by rosiglitazone raises the hope that treatment of insulin resistance may, in the long term, reduce the heavy burden of disease complications in people with type 2 diabetes."...New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
DALLAS, Oct. 26 -- A new type of therapy that raises the good form ofcholesterol -- and caused a "shrinkage" of atherosclerosis in mice experiments-- may lead to novel treatment approaches for heart disease and stroke,according to a study in today's Circulation: Journal of the American HeartAssociation...