USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...nevitable, they concluded, so was disease. Furth's researches were not all in dusty archives. Many of the traditions shewrites about are still alive in some form, and she recalls with pleasuretracking down practitioners and patients both in the People's Republic andTaiwan. The result is an exploration of territ...Immune system rebounds for some children with AIDS, finds UF study
...niversity of Massachusetts MedicalCenter, who also researches AIDS in children. "Further studies are lookingat newer and even more potent medication regimens and their effects on theimmune system. Over the next year or so, we should begin to know the resultsof these studies." The Pediatric AIDS Foundation recen...Researchers identify enzyme that may turn fleeting experience into lasting memory
...edy's assassination, for example--the question for researches is how. "There is a threshold for memory storage," Hegde said. "The brain has to decide what is important for long-term storage. We're trying to understand how norepinephrine leads to strong-memory formation." When a memory is formed, structural chan...Award-winning research affirms use of hypnosis in eliminating pain
...hology in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, researches the neurophysiology of hypnosis, pain control, and attention, and, more recently, the genetic determinants of hypnotizability. Her work has such a presence in the international world of hypnosis research and has made such lasting contributions that ...Depression predicts mortality in women with heart disease
...iod, 31 -- or 12 percent -- of the women died. The researches then compared the BDI scores of the women who died to those who were alive, and found that women whose BDI score was 12 (the top 25 percentile in terms of symptoms of depression) were twice as likely to have died when compared to women with a score o...Beta blockers usage low despite insurance
...ck in order to get the benefits," Kramer said. The researches believe that reasons for the declining adherence are probably many and complex. "Many patients do not realize, or were not told, that these drugs need to be taken for years," Kramer said. "For others, it could be an economic issue, since many of thes...How odors help make multimodal memories
...ng surf, and the smell of brackish seaweed." While researches know that the hippocampus acts to associate sensory memories into a coherent whole, they know little about how the sensory-related brain regions contribute to that association. Specifically, Gottfried and his colleagues sought to find out whether the...U of M research explores addiction as a computational process
...iety of disparate learning theories and will allow researches to test how addiction impacts learning systems. ......ited bruxism (grinding teeth) more frequently, the researches found. Both conditions have been associated with anxiety. Fukumizu says the impetus for the research was to try to shed light on a growing problem in Japan with new parents, who are becoming fewer as Japan's birth rates decline at a rate that has con...