Study links sexual behavior, genetic factors to increased risk of kidney infection in women under 50
...sceptible to more serious kidney infections. Lead researcher Delia Scholes, PhD, senior investigator at Group Health Cooperatives Center for Health Studies and colleagues found that, like bladder infections, kidney infections in women under age 50 are linked to: Frequent (more than three times per week) sexu...OHSU researcher says FDA could broaden access to results of clinical drug trials
A researcher at Oregon Health & Science University and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center is calling upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to share more information provided by pharmaceutical companies regarding their clinical drug trials. Th...Mayo Clinic researchers find PDAs okay with pacemakers
...avid Hayes, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician and lead researcher in the study, says researchers did not expect to find interference based on their past experiences with other devices they have tested. "When new devices are used near a patient with a life-sustaining implantable device, there is a potential of elect...Chemicals found in cherries may help fight diabetes
...escribed, and monitor their insulin carefully, the researcher says. The compounds show promise for both the prev...es extend beyond diabetes. Previous studies by the researcher found that certain anthocyanins isolated from cherries have anti-inflammatory properties and may be ...Researchers report early success using saliva to detect oral cancer
... Li, D.D.S., Ph.D., lead author on the study and a researcher in Wong's laboratory. "Because salivary diagnostics with RNA had yet to be tried, we referenced all of our data through blood. That is, whatever we found in saliva, we looked to see if it matched our data in blood." As presented in their current Clin...Major step forwards for vaccine against cervical cancer
Dutch researcher Laura Bungener has developed a vaccine against cervical cancer. Vaccinated laboratory animals no longer developed the disease and animals which had already developed a tumour, could be treated with the vaccine. Cervical cancer is caused by a virus. ...Infants, children prefer sounds over pictures and only slowly become visually oriented, studies find
...d Development, was co-authored with post- doctoral researcher Christopher Robinson. In the two published papers, the researchers report on 11 different experiments involving 8-, 12-, and 16-month-olds and 4-year-old children and adults. In the experiment involving 8-month-olds, the infants were videotaped while...Drinking without food may set you up for high blood pressure
...particular, for cardiovascular disease," said lead researcher Saverio Stranges, M.D., research instructor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions. The findings were based on blood pressure readings and self-reported alcohol consumption patter...Immigrants, beware: Living in the United States is fattening
...he study's lead author Mita Sanghavi Goel, M.D., a researcher in general internal medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Immigrants also face more barriers to quality health care and are less likely to receive preventive health care than persons born in the United States, Goel said. ...Success of experimental herpes vaccine builds momentum for human clinical trials
...rpes vaccine developed by a Harvard Medical School researcher is a strong candidate for testing in humans. The study, published online Dec. 14 in the Journal of Virology, compared three different experimental vaccines for herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV-2), the virus that causes most cases of genital herpes. HSV-2...Study finds lemons, lilac among top 10 smells that predict Alzheimer's Disease
...t beneficial treatment and medications," says lead researcher D.P. Devanand, MD, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology at Columbia University and Co-Director of the Memory Disorders Center at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. "While currently there is no cure for the disease, early diagnosis an...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...l investigator of the award and an early detection researcher in Fred Hutchinson's Public Health Sciences Division. "All of the institutions involved are international leaders in the rapidly advancing field of proteomics, which attempts to catalog and describe the function of all of the pr...Stanford study questions accuracy of ads for body scans
...d the study's lead author, Judy Illes, PhD, senior researcher in the school's Center for Biomedical Ethics and in the Department of Radiology. "While we can appreciate that in a short telegraphic ad not all the information can be presented, it should at least refer to other sources as well as to more thorough i...New study shows early ritalin may cause long-term effects on the brain
...problem for children and their parents," says lead researcher William Carlezon, Ph.D., director of McLean Hospital's Behavioral Genetics Laboratory and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "While Ritalin is an effective medication that improves the quality of life for many children with...Re-analysis of large trials shows greatest benefit of chemotherapy in ER-negative tumors
...tumors that are estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, a researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center maintains that clinicians have made "enormous strides" in treating patients with tumors that are ER-negative. In a presentation at the annual meeting of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposiu...Breast cancer may be 'uniquely sensitive' to inhibitors of PI3K pathway
...ecially effective for treating the disease, says a researcher from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. A clearer picture is now emerging about the importance of the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) pathway to breast cancer development, says Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., a professor and chai...U of M research explores addiction as a computational process
...PAUL (December 9, 2004) A University of Minnesota researcher developed a computational model of addiction which can be used to make predictions about human behavior, animal behavior, and neurophysiology. By bringing addiction theory into a computational realm, researchers will be able to ask and answer key qu...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...ly time can answer. Roger Pedersen is a stem-cell researcher formerly of the University of California at San Francisco who left the United States in 2001 to continue his research at the multidisciplinary Cambridge Stem Cell Institute in England. Dame Julia Polak, M.D., is head of the Tissue Engineering and Reg...Minority teens' views of drug use differ from reality
...than do youth of other ethnic groups, a Penn State researcher says. "Of all Blacks surveyed in our study, almost two out of three perceived that Black adolescents take more drugs than White or Hispanic young people," says Dr. Michelle Miller-Day, associate professor of communication arts and sciences. Of the B...Replicating an eel's nerve circuitry may aid paralyzed people
...gs, an electronics and robotics expert who is lead researcher on the project at Johns Hopkins. "Our first step is to learn how the brain transmits electrical messages along the spinal cord that tell the legs what to do. Then, we want to make microchips that replicate this process. We've started by modeling the ...