Inhibiting Growth Of New Blood Vessels Reduces Heart Disease Plaque In Mice
...vessels that enter the artery and to understandthe role of these vessels in boosting plaque growth and promoting plaquedisruption," adds Moulton. Additional research also is needed to address the possible limitation ofusing angiogenesis inhibitors to reduce plaque growth, says Isner. The resultst...UI Researcher Determines Vital Sign Norms For Cesarean Section Procedure
...uge problem, vitalsign reference limits may play a role in such cases when an expert, usingrecorded vital signs as evidence, claims that an anesthesiologist's care wassubstandard. Until now, experts have relied on their own clinical judgment toestimate reference limits. Dexter's analysis of the data from ...Rice, Medical Center Institutions Join Forces On Health Initiative
... policies in the United States that play acritical role in all of our lives, both as providers and consumers," said Dr.Ralph D. Feigin, president and CEO of Baylor College of Medicine. Baker Institute Director Edward Djerejian said: "Tarlov will lead thisinnovative program, which will be open to f...NIAID Renews Funding For Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...sresearch," he adds. The MACS has played a crucial role in HIV/AIDS research over the past 15 years. One of the first major MACS breakthroughs came in 1988, when John P. Phair,M.D., and colleagues at Northwestern University reported that HIV-infectedindividuals' risk of contracting Pneumocystis carinii pn...Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
...infections and inflammation may play a significant role in the development ofatherosclerosis. Temperature elevations could provide an easy method to detectinfections or inflammation. "According to the theory of inflammation as a factor in the development ofatherosclerosis, local increase of temperature c...Laser Pointer Helps Parkinson's Patients Take Next Step
...er Kurlan. "We've known that visualcues can play a role in helping patients move, but there's never been apractical way to use that information." Patients do try a variety of visual cues to get moving again, Counihansays. Some install tile floors, whose patterns help them navigate across a roommo...New Book Looks At Those Who Examine Our Sex Lives
...tions. Social scientists mustacknowledge their own role in setting research priorities and "look criticall...ynot only at the quality of our surveys but at our role in creating knowledge." Ericksen adds: "This means no longer claiming to stand above the fray butre...... that social interactionsmay play a more important role in why women smoke. Ongoing research usingsimilar diary techniques in adolescents may reveal targets for early preventiveinterventions." The findings suggest that smoking prevention and cessation programsmight be more successful if they ...Study Finds Lymph Node Surgery Unnecessary For Many Breast Cancer Patients
...o use --radiation, chemotherapy, or both. But its role in determining treatment optionsis now being reconsidered in clinical trials, Parmigiani said. Axillary lymph node dissection still provides prognostic information. Lymphnode status indicates if the cancer has spread, and some women need to know wha...NASA Uses EAI Software In Groundbreaking Medical Application
...hat its World2World software will play an integral role in anewtelemedicine application developed by NASA ...in realtime. "EAI is excited to play a significant role in NASA's revolutionaryapplication that will allow physicians to concurrently communicate,diagnosean...... the National Institutes of Health, to examine the role the moleculecyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) plays in signaling pathways leading to cell death. "Cyclic ADP-ribose is an exciting new lead in the area of cellularsignaling," said Myron Jacobson, Ph.D., professor, UK College of Pharmacy, andfaculty a......lestones -the discovery of the stethoscope and its role in diagnosing tuberculosis; theemergence of autopsies to help pinpoint causes of disease and bring thepossibility of preventing them; the first amputation under general anesthesia;the early use of antisepsis at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh; the m...Essential 'Allergy Feedback Loop' Discovered By Hopkins
...y and asthma researchat Hopkins, where IgE and its role in allergies has been intensivelyinvestigated for decades. Researchers Teruka and Kimishige Ishizaka were amongthe first to isolate and describe IgE in the 1960s. Funding for the study came from the National Institutes of Health, theBurroughs...New Approach To Attacking Alzheimer's Disease Studied
...,a brain signaling chemical which plays a critical role in memory processing. After doing its job, acetylc...sdisease drugs aim to temporarily disable it. The role of the other form,butyrylcholinesterase (BChE), is largely unknown. "Consequently, there has beenmi...Biochemical Marker Targets Brain Injury Leading To Movement Problems After Stroke
...laspartate(NAA) in various areas of the brain. The role of NAA in the brain is unclear, but studies suggest it may beassociated with protein building and the transmission of signals between nervecells. The researchers found reduced concentrations of NAA in a particularbrain region were linked with weakne...Better Emergency Medical Assistance Should Be Provided At Marathons
...life support or advanced cardiac life support, the role of medical staff or what is meant by emergency. They report that their daughter collapsed on the finish line close to first aid staff who were equipped with a modern automatic external defibrillator. Evidence presented at the inquiry suggested that ......minant cytokines or proteins that play animportant role in the cascade of reactions that cause the inflammatory processof RA. ENBREL competitively inhibits the binding of TNF molecules to the TNFreceptor (TNFR) sites. The binding of ENBREL to TNF renders the bound TNFbiologically inactive, resulting in ...Community Plays Key Role In Preventing Teen Suicide, UF Scientist Says
...ound that community involvement plays an important role inpreventing suicide. "Until now, we had never tak...d. We often thought of suicide only in terms ofthe role of the family. Now we know we need to look at the school community,too, to find all the factors. "Ki......nt because branching processes appear toplay a key role in human cognition," says Etienne Koechlin, Ph.D., also of theNINDS Cognitive Neuroscience Section and a co-author of the study. "In everydaylife, we often need to interrupt an ongoing task to respond to external eventsand we all experience how dema...