Research breakthrough in understanding treatment resistant depression
...nvestigating people with depression focused on the reaction to stimuli that induce a negative emotion or on th...st time, Professor Sharma's group have studied the reaction to the negative and positive mood inducing stimuli. Six women with treatment resistant depression we...US DoE awards $4 million in funding to Stevens' Center for MicroChemical Systems
...oduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by controlled reaction between H2 and O2. H2O2 is commercially manufactured at 70wt% concentration; however, most commercial applications use 15wt% concentration. End users have increasingly become interested in the concept of onsite, on-demand H2O2 generation to reduce tr...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for October 2003 (second issue)
... the lungs (alveoli) that is caused by an allergic reaction to inhaled organic dusts and occasionally, chemicals. After exposure, the lungs become inflamed and white blood cells accumulate in the walls of the alveoli. If a person has developed hypersensitivity to a specific organic dust, a fever, cough, chi...Common drug, given promptly, reduces incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, small study finds
... event. In most people, after minutes to hours the reaction begins to subside. In some 25 percent of people, h...del is that if you experience a more intense panic reaction in a life-threatening situation and it takes you a longer period of time to calm down afterwards tha...Brain maps perceptions, not reality
...lled intrinsic signal optical imaging to study the reaction to the same illusion in the brains of squirrel monkeys. Intrinsic signal optical imaging uses a specially designed video camera to detect changes in light reflectance viewed through a "window on the brain." These cortical reflectance changes are rel...Gender differences in brain response to pain
...hat different parts of the brain are stimulated in reaction to pain depending on gender. The research, which represents the largest gender-comparison study of its kind, focused on people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), one of the nation's most common chronic medical conditions. The findings may help deve...Updated data compares DOXIL (R)/CAELYX (TM) (doxorubicin HCl liposome injection) to Topotecan
...palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia, or PPE), a skin reaction that usually occurs on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, was reported in 49 percent of DOXIL-treated patients and in one percent of topotecan-treated patients. The incidence of stomatitis (inflammation of the oral mucosa) was 40 perce...Nicotine metabolite may improve memory, protect against disease
...gs in reducing the startle response -- the natural reaction to a loud noise. Normally, rats -- and people -- are startled by loud noises. If a less intense noise consistently precedes the loud one, however, the startle response tends to weaken -- but not in people with schizophrenia or in laboratory animals g...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...bereavement process," said Dr. Schulz. "A person's reaction to death is altered by the context in which the death occurs. It is possible that caregivers who know their loved one is on a trajectory towards death grieve for that person before death, and that may be the time when they need the most support." At ...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
...), a type of brainwave, while subjects performed a reaction time test. The CNV is considered to be a measure o...lus (for example, a hand touching a hot pan) and a reaction (pulling the hand away). But the fact that response times were equal could mean that alternate neuro...NIAID Ebola vaccine enters human trial
...lunteers' blood to look for signs of immune system reaction to the vaccine. Ultimately, the scientists envision this vaccine as the first in a two-stage vaccination strategy called prime-boost: after "priming" with the DNA vaccine, the immune system response is "boosted," or augmented, by a second inoculation...Experimental drugs reduce neuron death in rats following insulin shock
...lin shock, and when it occurs, a biochemical chain reaction is initiated that ends with the destruction of neurons, particularly in the hippocampus, a region of the brain instrumental in processing memories. Permanent memory impairment is a common and serious complication of severe hypoglycemic shock. Intrave...Long-term follow-up of mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
...d to infection with a more pronounced inflammatory reaction than others. While this might help in the acute situation, such factors might accelerate other processes such as arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) over longer periods. However, these hypotheses remain speculative....PRAECIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC receives FDA approval for Plenaxis
...r the initial dose. The cumulative risk of such a reaction increases with the duration of treatment. Following each injection of Plenaxis TM , patients should be observed for at least 30 minutes in the office and in the event of an allergic reaction, managed appropriately. In all of the prostate cancer cli...Brain activity abnormal in children with delayed speech
...erns between the two groups. To study the brain's reaction to passive language, the children's brains were imaged as they listened to audiotapes of their mothers. The children were between ages 2 and 8 with a mean age of approximately 4 years. The findings indicated that children with seriously delayed spe...... and on As I start to float the first instinctive reaction is one of panic and I start to flail my limbs around as if I was drowning. But this just sends me up from the ground all the faster. I realise I have to start taking Newton's advice and make my limbs relax. I gently push myself off the ceiling to sta...Animal model shows early promise for SARS vaccine
... was found to be effective in triggering an immune reaction among six rhesus macaques. A new form of coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was identified as the causal agent of SARS earlier this year. Andrea Gambotto from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and th...Study finds fewer than half of early stage breast cancer patients get full chemotherapy doses
...them during chemotherapy. Most were prescribed in reaction to neutropenia, rather than as a preventative or prophylactic measure. "Far too many patients are not receiving the chemotherapy doses they need in order to have the best chance of remission or cure," said Lyman, director of the Awareness of Neutr...Parents' vaccine concerns on the rise, making accurate information crucial
...iven to their children, Freed notes that physician reaction varied in the survey data. Ninety percent of the physicians who encountered a single refusal said they noted it on the child's chart, and 19 percent said they required the parent to sign a record of their refusal -- a proportion that rose to 27 perce...Spreading cancer survives via signals from nearby blood vessels long before new vessels are grown
...cking sites for proteins to bind to and activate a reaction inside the cell. Without a bFGF receptor, the bFGF protein cannot directly communicate the cancer cell. when scientists prevented cancer cells from utilizing VEGF -- a protein that prompts blood vessel growth - they inhibited cancer cell survival an...