Advisory: Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine
...eptable because it's administeredthrough a natural root via nasal passages. Maassab said that the vaccine isalso adaptable to other influenza viruses. "We have the methodology to constantly update the vaccine whenever new outbreakshave been identified,'' Maassab said. Maassab is a professor of epidemiolo...Montana Fungus The First But Not The Best
...crobes evolved to protect the trees from agroup of root infecting fungi that thrive in moist environments. Taxol attacksthese fungi the same way it attacks human cancer cells, he said. He says the large number of endophytic organisms--microbes that live inassociation with higher life forms---makes...Early Dental Exams For Children Can Avert Problems Posed By Bottled Water And "Bottle Caries"
...y should follow upwith their dentist right away. A root canal or extraction of the tooth maybecome necessary. For parents, the best way to ensure a healthy smile that lasts a lifetime isearly dental care for their child, Dr. Weintraub stated. "Ask your pediatricianto recommend a qualified pediatric dentis...Early Heart Repair For Marfan Syndrome Patients Critical To Survival
...mepatients who underwent replacement of the aortic root at 10 surgical centers --seven in North America and three in Europe -- between October 1968 and March1996. The patients ranged in age from 4 to 73; 70 percent were male. Theaverage size of the aneurysm in this group was 6.5 centimeters, or about tw...1930s Fascism Spawned Public Health Initiatives
...ioneeredmany such practices. "Nazism took root in the world's most powerful scientific cultureboasting half of the world's Nobel Prizes and a sizable fraction of the world'spatents" says Dr. Robert N. Proctor, professor of the history of science. "Thestory of science under German fascism cannot b...Hospitalitas, the Latin root for our word hospital, implies a relationship, asharing between the visitor and caregiver. In his new book, Mending Bodies,Saving Souls, medically trained historian Guenter B. Risse traces the evolutionof hospitals from their early mission as humble ......n more severe cases, the only option is surgery to root out the partof the brain where the most violent, seizure-inducing waves start. Frequently,these seizures start in a part of the brain called the temporal lobe, which alsoplays a key role in memory. This might not be a coincidence, Kahana says, and f...9th European Congress on Lung Disease
...ns ofensuing daytime drowsiness, which lies at the root of many accidents? The issuesraised will also look at possible medical remedies using well-tried techniques. The spirit of adventure will not be forgotten at the meeting, since theorganizers have decided to extend the agenda to respiratory problems f...U.S., Mexican scientific societies honor former Penn State professor
... to have a structure similar to progesterone; its root canweigh up to 100 kilos (about 220 pounds). Mar... Mexico and returned to Penn State with a 50-pound root ofcabeza de negro. From this he isolated a cheap starting material for producingprogesterone. Unab...Material that made car bumpers shine finds a role in manufacture of drugs, dyes
...atadorn classic roadsters. The raw material at the root of the bumpers' sheen,chromium, is helping University of Rochester chemists leapfrog into the futureby providing an automated way to create hundreds of thousands of compounds in afew easy steps. The classic compound, long used in a variety of chemica...Piedmont researcher receives national award
...ies are unique. That's just the beginning." At the root of water's remarkable properties is what Saykally calls "strong tetrahedral hydrogen bonding." That means the two hydrogen atoms of one molecule are attracted to the oxygen atom of another. Further complicating the picture, a single water molecule te...Dietary bioflavonoids induce DNA breaks, may contribute to infant leukemia
... levels in many foods, including soybeans, fruits, root vegetables and herbs, and are often ingested in hi...bioflavonoids, such as soybeans, citrus fruits and root vegetables is unquestioned. The probable benefits of bioflavonoids themselves have also been demons...New grants program to help create healing environments in hospitals through art
...d staff, the arts in healthcare movement has taken root all across the US during the past twenty years. The National Endowment for the Arts is aiding this effort by designating a $50,000 Leadership Initiative grant to establish professional arts programs inside healthcare institutions. The grant was awar...Brain's efforts to save itself during Alzheimer's may backfire
.... There is no evidence that galanin itself is the root cause of Alzheimer's. Instead, researchers think it could be a combination of the overabundance of galanin and the loss of certain key brain cells that helps explain why Alzheimer's patients suffer the gradual loss of cognition. "It may be that galan...Rutgers researchers developing technology to help New Jersey farmers "grow" pharmaceuticals
... biologically active compounds in their leaves and root systems. These newly synthesized compounds, which normally help protect the plants, are extracted by removing and grinding the leaves and roots, which eventually grow back. The extracted chemicals are then tested for their disease-fighting properti...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
... cord lesion. The third type of damage was ventral root avulsion. In this model the outgoing nerve fibre is torn lose from the spinal cord, for example during a serious motorbike accident. This damage often results in the dying of the affected motor neurones. These are large nerve cells which control move...Lack of inhibition strengthens nicotine addiction
...scientists understand why nicotine addiction takes root so quickly and lasts so long. In 2000, a team from the same laboratory demonstrated how the first exposure to nicotine can create an enduring memory trace, which instills the desire to repeat the experience and amplifies the pleasing effects of subse...More preventive tuberculosis treatment should reduce cases in non-US-born
...country. But the only way, however, to get at the root of the TB would be to better fight the bacterium throughout the world. Tuberculosis is caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, a slow-growing microbe that infects the lungs. People acquire the bacteria by inhal...USC researchers suggest possible cause for kidney cancer
...he April issue of Cancer Causes & Control that the root of the enigmatic cancer lies in a process called lipid peroxidation: the oxidation of fatty acids. "The idea of lipid peroxidation as a mechanism for renal cell carcinoma unites many of the known risk factors for this cancer," explains Manuela Gago-......s, traditional Chinese medicine has used ginseng root to treat a variety of ailments. This study focuse...ere stunned by how different the berry is from the root and by how effective it is in correcting the multiple metabolic abnormalities associated with diabet...