Study identifies new drug target for preserving brain cells
...ral Nervous System injury response, Levison's work reveals why inhibiting IL-1 will protect brain cells from injury and disease. Additionally, this research could lead to new drug therapies to preserve brain tissue in people who've suffered a brain injury or stroke, or have a neurodegenerative disease. Levis...Drug combo curbs artery re-closing after some heart attacks
...tack." In some heart attacks, an electrocardiogram reveals ST-elevation, an indicator of heart damage often associated with a blood clot. Survival after an ST-elevation heart attack depends on how quickly coronary blood flow is restored. Recurrent heart attacks are often attributed to reocclusion, or closi...More clues about obesity revealed by brain-imaging study
...Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The study reveals that the parts of the brain responsible for sensation in the mouth, lips, and tongue are more active in obese people than in normal-weight control subjects. "This enhanced activity in brain regions involved with sensory processing of food could make ...U.S. cancer mortality rates reflect changing socioeconomic patterns
A new study reveals that there were higher U.S. male cancer mortality rates in the 1950s and 1960s among men living in high socioeconomic areas compared with men living in low socioeconomic areas. However, by the 1980s and 1990s, this situation had reversed, and men in ...Buszaki neuroscience research published in current journals 'Science' & 'Nature'
... of Activity in the Neonatal Hippocampus In Vivo," reveals findings that have possible implications for a newborn's brain. Buzsaki collaborated with Xavier Leinekugel, Rustem Khazipov, Robert Cannon, Hajime Hirase, and Yehezkel Ben-Ari from the Inserm, Marseilles, France. Previous Buzsaki research has indica...New test identifies aggressive and less aggressive prostate cancers
...e nodes were clear. "The ratio of CB to stefin A reveals differences in tumors that are not visible under the microscope," said Sinha. "If this test were done on tumors of newly diagnosed patients, we would have an indication of which cancers were most aggressive, and we could give those patients aggressiv...Scientists become filmmakers to decipher immunity
...teins that helped the T cells mature. Their study reveals the diversity of interactions that help regulate T...nal Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), reveals properties of T- and B-cell behaviors that are critical for initiating immune responses. NIAID and...Elderly colon cancer patients benefit from chemotherapy and surgery
...ased study by Columbia Health Sciences researchers reveals that elderly people with colon cancer live longer when they receive both types of treatment. In the study, the investigators found that patients 65 years and older with colon cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes a...Childhood cancer survivors: Good health for some, long-term complications for others
...r, M.D., of the University of Texas, Southwestern, reveals that survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia are significantly more likely to be overweight or obese when compared to siblings. Female survivors treated with cranial radiation before the age of five years were four times more likely to be...Knock out blood protein drug signals possible new treatment for Alzheimer's and diabetes
...he sticking of SAP to amyloid. The NATURE research reveals how the new drug was developed and outlines the mechanisms that cause SAP to be removed from the blood. The drug glues pairs of SAP molecules tightly together and the resulting clump of protein is then promptly removed from the blood by the liver an...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
...s -- at least according to theory. Yet a new study reveals that the potentially lifesaving message may be lost on young adults. This observation has considerable public health significance, the studys authors note, given that cardiovascular disease often begins early in life and is the leading cause of death...Helium imaging detects emphysema changes in smallest airways of lung
... period of two thousandths of a second. The method reveals the distance traveled both along and across the airways. These distances are recorded as colors ranging from red (the smallest distances) to violet (the largest distances). This information also indicates the physical diameter of the airways and o...College drinking problems and research solutions
...he NIAAA Task Force on College Drinking, the study reveals that drinking by college students age 18-24 contributes to an estimated 1,400 student deaths, 500,000 injuries, and 70,000 cases of sexual assault or date rape each year. It also estimates that more than one-fourth of college students that age have d...Fatty acid from fish oil fights arrhythmias, sudden death
...otentially fatal blood clotting. The new analysis reveals that the lower mortality rate for the n-3 PUFA patients, compared with patients who got a placebo, resulted largely from a 42 percent reduction in sudden cardiac deaths at three months follow-up. That was a surprise, says lead author Roberto Marchiol...Report shows decline in youth smoking, but work remains
...arting to smoke and to help them quit. The report reveals a particular need for research among certain racial/ethnic groups where smoking trends have not decreased or, in some cases, continued to increase. Changing Adolescent Smoking Prevalence: Where It Is and Why was compiled by over 30 public heal...Devices that emit sounds to track medical status or pinpoint military targets may cause mistakes
...ife-threatening situations. However, new research reveals that people misperceive how sounds change when both their pitch and loudness change, as often happens with these devices. Listeners cant accurately judge how the sounds changes reflect changes in the underlying data -- and may, as a result, make ser...People suffering from epilepsy continue to lack a good quality of life
...rk March 27, 2002 New survey data released today reveals that people with hard to control epilepsy experien... Life in Epilepsy survey, sponsored by Cyberonics, reveals that people with epilepsy are three times more likely to be unemployed than the national average. A...Majority of parents schedule child's first dental visit two years too late
...ers, mothers and primary caregivers released today reveals that nearly 70 percent of children begin receiving... comparison with the findings of the earlier study reveals that todays parents are more informed and involved in their childrens oral care routine. For example...Husbands of fibromylagia sufferers in slightly poorer health, more depressed than other men
...on, than other men. But the same new research that reveals these differences also indicates that they are not as great as predicted, possibly because the husbands have developed ways of coping. Authors Silvia M. Bigatti, Ph.D., of Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and Terry A. Cronan, Ph.D.,......f subsequent nicotine exposure. The current paper reveals how nicotine prolongs the reward period by disabling the system that counterbalances the drug's pleasant effects. The reinforcing effect of nicotine is the primary reason people cannot quit smoking, despite widespread awareness that smoking causes c...