Hairy treatments for winter ills
...Centre (CRC) for Bioproducts are researching hairy root cultures as a source of large quantities of the pl...produce valuable products from plant cells. Hairy root cultures are believed to offer particular advantages. To be commercially viable the tissue culture m...FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
...g cause of blindness in aging Americans, may be at root an inflammatory disorder, the result of an "inappropriate" immune-system response to injury. If true, that would open the way to treatment with anti-inflammatory agents at a very early stage in the disease process. LOOKING IMMUNITY IN THE EYE. M...UC Berkeley study indicates promise of Chinese herbal medicine in treatment of chronic hepatitis B
...e herbal treatments included mixtures of plant and root extracts, and they varied from study to study. Two...nother two studied kurorinone, an extract from the root of the plant Sophorae flavescentis. The authors only included trials in which patients used Chinese...Heart devices, transplants have similar costs; what will we pay?
...s of documents to explain the costs and get to the root question of whether it is worth it for society to invest money in this technology."...Bridge Medical experts speak at Atlanta pharmacy conference
...we have gained through its use has allowedus to do root cause analysis and change some of our processes,"explained Larrabee, "insuring that we are eliminating the sources forpotential errors in our medication delivery process." The 30,000-member ASHP has been urging the FDA to mandate barcodeson all m...Studies could lead to next-generation cancer drugs
... mitosis, the process of cell division that is the root of cell growth. "When a cell divides, it makes the microtubules longer," said Bane. "Taxol binds to the microtubules and prevents them from disassembling. The net result is that the cell dies." Using natural products in the war against cancer is big ...Is there a way to derail the children's 'Allergy March'?
...en-induced atopic dermatitis with food allergy the root cause in one-third to one-half of all childhood ca...like Homburger believe that food allergy maybe the root cause in 10-15 percent of colicky infants. Scientific findings have identified a wide array of aller...UC Davis neurosurgeon implanting artificial cervical discs
...l intervention and show signs of progressive nerve root or spinal cord compression....Dental procedure may reduce risk of premature birth
...han 35 weeks pregnant and who received scaling and root planing. Researchers also found that adjunctive me...en who were given the antibiotic after scaling and root planing had more preterm births than patients receiving scaling and root planing and a placebo. "Wha...Gingivitis vs. gum disease: What's the difference?
...ion such as using antibiotics, deep scaling of the root surface, removing infected gum tissue or extracting teeth. To avoid these potentially painful symptoms and treatments, it is important to catch the disease in its earlier stages. "Gum disease can develop within weeks," cautions Itzhak Brook, MD, MSc......rd tissue procedures, including cavity removal and root canals....Comfort-food cravings may be body's attempt to put brake on chronic stress
...ological drives on stress output, which can be the root causes of stress. (Drugs and alcohol do not provide sufficient metabolic feedback, and may even stimulate further stress, and its attendant compulsions for pleasure.) As for the use of food, there are serious health consequences of a diet high in fat...Poor health affects business bottom line, says HHS
...ividual attitudes and behaviors, calling them "the root cause of chronic conditions." But the report also acknowledged that people face "significant barriers [to change] in their social and physical environments." Many of the corporate programs praised in the report rely on counseling, education and other...Gender and geography increase racial disparities in health care, Dartmouth study shows
... racial and ethnic disparities exist, but that the root causes of these disparities are multifactorial. No simple, single explanation can be cited."...New insight into heart failure suggests novel drug target
...ressure. The finding provides new insight into the root causes of the progressive decline in cardiac function that is heart failure and suggests a novel method to prevent the deterioration. "Despite newer therapies to treat heart failure, patient mortality rates remain high, indicating a need for novel tr...OHSU study shows four daily servings of fruits & vegetables reduce breast cancer risk by half
...e of fruit or vegetable. While persimmon and lotus root were associated with a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer, this association was not as strong as those seen for the combination of all fruits and vegetables and could be due to chance. Data for the nutrition study was collected and analyzed ...Women & men differ in heart disease traits and treatment
...hat else they could be doing for you." As for the root cause of the difference between the genders in which vessels get blocked and how blocked they get, Dey and Eagle say only more research will tell. Simply the fact that women's bodies and blood vessels are smaller and therefore more vulnerable to bloc...Environmental influences found to have role for development and function of the pain system
...al nerve cells in an "in vitro" spinal cord-dorsal root slice preparation from rats. Prior to recordings, ...d in such a spinal cord preparation. Then a dorsal root was stimulated electrically and C-fiber-evoked responses were recorded from spinal projection neuron...Brain signals from the paralyzed or injured captured by computer
...plant arrays of 36 microelectrodes into the dorsal root ganglion, part of the spinal nerve that contains the nerve cell bodies that house these natural sensors. Historically, it was difficult to record from these sensors because their cell bodies are located in this difficult-to-reach nerve bundle enterin......ells. In addition, adult cells were likely to take root and form oligodendrocytes, not other brain cells such as neurons or astrocytes, which are not necessary for myelin production. On average, each oligodendrocyte from an adult cell successfully remyelinated five axons, compared to just one axon for fet...