Annals of Internal Medicine, Tip Sheet, September 4, 2001
...ignificant factor in determining whether a patient receives an inappropriate heart procedure....Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
...y are known to enhance microbial survival. Florida receives more than 50 percent of all microbe-laden African dust that reaches the United States. Over the last 25 years, dust quantities reaching Miami have increased during periods of African drought. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says these tiny d...Area of brain found to play key role in initiating memory storage
...d sub-cortical structure in the temporal lobe. It receives electrical signals carrying auditory information through axons traveling one way from the medial geniculate (MG) nucleus in the thalamus. New research published in the Jan. 1 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that the amygdala plays a piv...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
Nomos Corp. receives Food & Drug Administration clearance for new technology LIVERMORE, Calif. Mankind will soon have another weapon in the 4,000-year fight against cancer. Clearance has been granted by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for an advanced method for...Using PET scan technology to study alcohol's effects on the brain
...in the basal ganglia, which is a brain region that receives extensive innervation (supply) from dopamine, a neurotransmitter implicated in the reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse, including those of alcohol. Alcohol was perceived as more stimulating and more reinforcing than Ativan, as assessed by self-rep......iving site called the Earth Scan Laboratory, which receives weather information from satellites above Louisiana, then provides that information to the National Weather Service. The Earth Scan lab has a Web site with animated imagery and photos at www.esl.lsu.edu . The researcher who directs the lab al......h Scan Laboratory, a satellite-receiving site that receives weather information and provides it to the Nationa...Anthropology, can discuss the methods by which LSU receives weather data more quickly than the National Weather Service. The data is also stored at the climate...Chemists take new approach to fighting resistance
...ucture. The researchers' newly designed antibiotic receives the inhibitory group and releases it in a short time. Thus, the original active form of the antibiotic regenerates and remains effective at fighting bacteria. The "self-regenerating" antibiotic fosters an environment in which the development of re...Business and political leaders honored for their commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS
...he initialMacy's West funding, the Center now also receives grant support from theUniversity of California and the National Institutes of Health. The UCSF AIDS Research Institute is a campuswide enterprise without walls thatencompasses all UCSF AIDS programs under a single umbrella and includes closeto1,000 i......em that control behavior and moods. When a neuron receives a signal from the outside world or from another neuron, it has to have a way of "remembering" whether it has been stimulated previously. This is essential for the neuron to function properly. "Part of this neuronal memory may occur in the mitochon...NPSF makes safe use of pharmaceuticals a national health priority
... bedside and into the home - so that every patient receives the optimal medicine in the right amount, with efficient monitoring, understanding interactions and promptly recognizing, treating, and ultimately preventing adverse reactions". Since the issues are complex, broad cooperation is needed across the hea...A growth factor reverses nerve damage in diabetic animals
...ome damage to the peripheral nervous system, which receives and sends messages to the hands, feet and other outlying sites in the body. Diabetic neuropathy also can occur in the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system, a specialized portion of the nervous system that controls involuntary reflexes. Su...Northwestern researchers present findings at Neuroscience Meeting
...en it was injected intothe striatum, the area that receives connections. To further determine if GDNF gene therapy is effective, it must be tested inlarger animal models of Parkinson's disease. In addition, improved and safermethods of inserting genes into the brain must be developed. The Northwesternresearch...CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign
...n the nation with $129.9 million of NIH funding.It receives more NIH funding than any medical institution in the State of Ohio. Berger said the school has identified seven broad interdisciplinaryareas of research concentration upon which it will build for the future -- brainsciences, cancer, cardiovas...Use it or lose it applies to nervous system, scientists find
...ving animals. They found that amuscle protein that receives messages from nerve fibers skulks away if ignored.This may explain why withdrawal of neuromuscular blocking agents sometimes isfatal to patients who have been on respirators. And it supports the idea thatlearning involves rapid molecular changes at c...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
... 20 percentof the total NCI funding an institution receives to support peer-reviewed cancerresearch studies. Currently, UCSF receives $25 million from the NCI to support 94 cancer researchprojects, and this amount is expected to incre...Elderly should receive the same cancer care as young people
...e, this group is less extensively investigated and receives less treatment than younger patients, say the authors. They say that this need not be the case as some elderly people can tolerate chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy just as well as younger patients. A 75 year old men and women have life expect...National Jewish researchers first to identify component in thymus that positively selects T cells
...th and are often the first noticethe immune system receives about a disease attacking the body. Peptides arebrought to the surface of the cell by MHC molecules that continually sample acell for disease....Scientists can now see sense of smell
... each of the 2,000 glomeruli in the olfactorybulbs receives impulses from nasal receptors tuned to specific odorants,relaying those signals to higher processing centers in the brain. The scientists' detection method depended on the fact that active cellsconsume more oxygen, converting oxygen-carrying ...Jefferson scientist begins clinical trial to study promising Parkinson's disease drug
...rminals in the striatum, the part of thebrain that receives dopamine from the substantia nigra, which is the b... neither the researchers nor the patients know who receives the drug. Theparticipants, patients with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease, will bedivided into t...