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...he New England Journal of Medicine. Led by researchers at Duke University Medical Center and ErasmusUnive...r biological response in men andwomen. The researchers hypothesize the geographic differences are due to thewidely divergent clinical practices among count...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...r and why they're being made. For eight weeks, the researchers studied 121 men and women between the ages of34 an...medication, on average. At the start of the study, researchers tested all the participants to determinetheir levels of depression and anxiety, and to see what thei......ovement are not equal among physician groups," the researchers reported. The use of beta-blockers varied ... use of beta-blockers," Krumholz said. The researchers concluded: "This study represents the mostcomprehensive evaluation of the use of beta-blockers in e...Study Captures Images Of Memories Being Formed Within The Human Brain
...r had not been included in the tests. When researchers compared the level of brain activity during processingof words remembered with activity for words later forgotten, they found thatincreased activity in specific structures in the left frontal and temporal lobespredicted whether participants would acc...Novel Therapy To Treat Lung Cancer Patients Enrolling Patients At UCSF Cancer Center
...er:invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis. Cancer researchers believe that a MMPI, called AG3340, will block theseprocesses while limiting the damage that may result from a broad suppression ofMMPs. Invasion is the expansion of tumors into neighboring healthy tissue. MMPs actto break down the matrix structure ...Brain Regions Identified That Influence What We Remember Or Forget
...ory for words. In their Science report, theHarvard researchers said they found some of these areas also showed greateractivity when people analyzed words on the basis of their meaning rather thantheir appearance, such as whether the letters were in upper or lower case. Thissuggests that part of the brain is enco...Cereal Lessens Colon Cancer Risk
...health-promotingproperties." It's still unclear to researchers how the wheat bran, raw or processed, reducesthe number of aberrant crypt cells, although it appears to involve microbialaction, according to Yokoyama. Most cereals, whether wheat bran or another type, undergo processing. Extrusion processing...New "Body-Friendly" Fat Substitute Can Help To Transform
...ualify for a "heart-healthy" label. Several other researchers from the USDA and elsewhere also reported on thehe...dith Hallfrisch, Ph.D., and Kay M. Behall, Ph.D., researchers at the ARSHuman Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Md., suggest that beta-glucanslower and ste...Tiny Pellets Could Deliver Alzheimer's Drugs
...eeting in Boston this week, two Cornell University researchers report methods for potentially delivering NGF deep within the forebrain by using a biocompatible polymer (a type of plastic). Mark Saltzman, professor of chemical engineering, has developed a pellet, about 1 millimeter across -- less than the size o......roughs of Dr. Kung and a multi-disciplinaryteam of researchers at Penn, including chemists, radiologists, psychiatrists,and pharmacologists. The paper,entitled, "[99mTc] Trodat-1: a Novel Technetium-99m Complex as a DopamineTransporter Imaging Agent*," describes the development and study of a groundbreaking new...Sunlight Poses Universal Cataract Risk
...om 26.4 percent were AfricanAmericans. The Hopkins researchers photographed the lenses of all participantsand que... National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, the researchers estimated exposure to UV-B theparticipants got when they traveled to areas outside the Eastern Shore......tes a specific type of glutamate receptor,the Yale researchers succeeded in reversing these behavioral effects of PCP. The promising new compound used in the Yale study, called LY354740, isbeing developed by Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis for treating anxiety andother psychiatric disorders. The drug......HS)and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers said today (Sept. 2)at the International Congress ...ropanolamine (found in Accutrim) andephedrine, the researchers found. The body has two mechanisms for removing serotonin: absorption intoplatelets,...Schizophrenia-Like Behavior In Rats Blocked Via Glutamate
... prevented by quenching glutamate? To findout, the researchers targeted a glutamate receptor subtype, known to fine-tunethe neurotransmitter's activity, using an experimental compound (LY354740) underdevelopment by Eli Lilly & Co. The compound attenuates and normalizes glutamateactivity by stimulating these pre...Guidelines Not Necessarily Guiding Physician Behavior, Study Says
...with heart disease may not even get that much, say researchers in areport in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.Researchers evaluated the hospital charts of 225 cardiac care unit patients todetermine how physicians at an academic hospital followed the latest NationalCholesterol Educat...University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center Researchers Awarded Grant To Fight Leukemia Recurrence
...hnology to genetically change the tumor cell." The researchers plan to extract tumor cells from a patient, culture them, andthen using a virus as a transfer agent, will introduce human genes into thecell. The genes are selected for their ability to generate an immune responsetoward cancer cells. The cultured ce...Alzheimers Disease Could Soon Be Treated With Nose Drops
...ed innose drops. After anaesthetising 12 rats, the researchers gave half the animalsdrops in their noses over 30 minutes and injected the rest with NGF. They foundthat within an hour, a significant amount of NGF had made its way not only intothe olfactory bulb, but also into the hippocampus, amygdala and other r...UCSF AIDS Research Center Receives Major New Grant From NIH
...of shared resources that is made available to AIDS researchers atthe local level. Through this network several major advances in AIDS researchhave evolved, including identification of new co-receptors for HIV, the role ofcytotoxic T-lymphocytes in early infection and in controlling virus replication,and the use...Treatment Of Irregular Heartbeat Saves Money And Prevents Stroke In Older People
...rtbeat which increases a person'sstroke risk. The researchers said they believe this finding to be especiallyimp...rokes occur in people with atrialfibrillation. The researchers used data collected on about 4,000 people who participated infive different studies which examined t......on." One offshoot of the study is that the researchers have verifiedprecisely which nerves are involved i...he outer layers ofskin. Under the microscope, the researchers found far fewer of the tiniestsensory nerves in the epidermis than normal. "We suspect other, large...