USC dental researchers develop first test for predicting cavities in children
...e effect of sugar chains on the tooth's ability to resist disease is analogous to the effect of "good" and "bad" cholesterol on blood vessels. "Good" sugar chains tend to repel the bacteria that cause cavities, while "bad" sugar chains allow the bacteria to bond to a tooth and start the decay process. Unlik...Teaching a less obvious medical skill -- Ethical decision-making
.... As an example, in end-of-life care, a family may resist additional treatment for a patient's pneumonia, which is normally not controversial to treat, because they believe the loved one has suffered enough. Yet the doctor may feel additional care is important because pneumonia is treatable with antibiotics...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
...d with the vaccine and caused a greater ability to resist the virus. For the non-white group, the authors suggest that biological differences in immune response or genetic markers of resistance to infection could have made the vaccine more effective. Also examined in the trial were the immune responses to t...Consumers to benefit from organic potato breakthrough
...es of potato that can be grown organically but can resist blight, and it's taken a lot of investigation to get this far. "From a European perspective, you can't really find a 'one size fits all'solution to the organic problem. For instance, a potato that's popular withthe Swiss for making dishes such as t...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
...just how to make a polyethylene cushion that would resist wear and erosion through years of constant motion and weight. They eventually found the solution by "crosslinking" the polyethylene, which involves using a high dose of irradiation to bond molecules more tightly together, producing a much stronger a...Brain region identified that controls collecting behavior
... further interest in the collected items, patients resist attempts to discard the collection. To determine if certain areas of damage were common to patients who had abnormal collecting behavior, the UI researchers used high-resolution, three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging to map the lesions in eac...Injury from epileptic seizures relatively rare, Mayo Clinic study find
...tients with epilepsy in school or work settings to resist automatically placing restrictions on the patient. "People with well-controlled epilepsy should not arbitrarily be considered at higher risk of injury than those without epilepsy," he says. "School authorities and work personnel should understand t...M. D. Anderson receives SPORE grant for melanoma research
...response; Determining which patient's tumors will resist treatment by identifying the molecular markers and creating regulators to turn these markers off; and Blocking melanoma tumor growth factors in patients by using specially designed blocking antibodies. In addition to the further development of key...The dangers of NHS reorganisation
The NHS should resist the temptation to reorganise and merge primary car.... The Department of Health and NHS managers should resist the temptation to reach for the old panacea of reorganisation, they conclude....Lab studies show two proteins prevented progressive nerve cell loss in Parkinson's disease
...r words, these new viral vectors would effectively resist any attack by the immune system and have built-in switches that allow the doctor to regulate the delivery of the neuroprotective proteins as needed." In the laboratory study, the investigators used an adenoviral vector to test the effectiveness of th...College students mandated to take alcohol interventions: what works
...with 'emerging adults,' who are likely to actively resist authoritarian edicts. Second, the approach focuses on assessing where a given student is at motivationally and tailors the intervention accordingly. For example, with a student who is drinking heavily and experiencing substantial negative consequen...Dartmouth researchers advance fight against pancreatic cancer
... growth, these molecules allow the cancer cells to resist the drugs and to continue to grow. This chemo-resistance is a hallmark of aggressive cancers such as pancreatic cancer. "Now that we know this pathway exists, it will allow us and other investigators to try to figure out ways to interfere with this ...Sitting in nonsmoking sections a powerful tactic for preventing teen smoking
...gram focused on teaching youth how to identify and resist social influences to smoke - the main thrust of smoking-prevention education and research for more than two decades - simply doesn't work. While the results were surprising, the data remain a rich resource for further analysis with regard to parental...Prevention program curbs drug abuse among middle-school youth
...ghth grade. The lessons help students identify and resist prodrug pressures and understand the social, emotional, and physical consequences of using harmful substances. The original Project ALERT was tested in urban, suburban, and rural schools in Oregon and California. Thus, it has been shown to be effecti...Cool brain opens stroke treatment window, say Stanford researchers
...brain that's 4 degrees cooler than normal seems to resist injury better than a brain at normal body temperature. In collaboration with Robert Sapolsky, PhD, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences, Steinberg has combined this cooling treatment with a form of gene therapy. Together ...Landslide warnings from satellites may save lives
...its cohesiveness, weakening the slope's ability to resist the remorseless pull of gravity. The heavy earth flows downward. For all in the path of a landslide the results are devastating, and frequently lethal. "In Italy, landslides have claimed an average of 54 victims per year during the last half century...3-D virtual colonoscopy is more sensitive than conventional procedure
...op into colon cancer if not removed. Many people resist screening because of the discomfort caused by conventional colonoscopy and other tests. "The goal of screening with virtual colonoscopy is to increase the number of patients that would participate," said co-author Lieutenant Colonel J. Richard Choi,...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...irmly entrenched that patients or clinicians might resist recommendations to reduce their frequency? Is it reasonable to screen for common cancers, like breast cancer and cervical cancer, among the elderly? Do most family physicians routinely use a chaperone when collecting a Pap smear? Is a speculum exami...Emory and CDC scientists explore why most breastfed infants of HIV-positive mothers resist infection
...to pinpoint the reasons why many breastfed infants resist HIV, with the goal of devising future intervention strategies to prevent newborn infections. Their findings were published online in November and will be published in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The researchers, led by Athe......otein that cells use to grow new blood vessels, to resist dying, and to invade other cells. Blocking the act...ors that had genetically manipulated themselves to resist the effects of toxic chemotherapy, the study showed. SB431542 Another new compound, SB431542, was ...