Study links body image to athletes' fertility
... their exercise and dailydiet and to provide urine samples during a complete menstrual cycle so thattheir hormone status and ovulation could be tracked. The results showed that athletes who experienced irregular menstrualperiods also had a poorer body image and more excessive exercise schedules than...Study suggests a drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms
...ility to inhibit the activity ofMMPs. The aneurysm samples from the patients who had not taken the drugcontai... leave the cell. Curci determined thatthe aneurysm samples from the patients who had not taken doxycycline containednearly one and one-half times as much of th...Space plays havoc with your immune system
...sured levels of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in saliva samples taken from10 astronauts before, during and after a... foundelevated levels of cytomegalovirus in saliva samples taken on the shuttle. Thisvirus can cause blindness in immunosuppressed people. "When these ...Help for women's urinary tract infections
...ere ordered: 85 percent of women were asked togive samples before the guideline took effect, while only 64 percent underwentthe test after the new standard was in place. The rate of follow-up officevisits for repeated cystitis infection or sexually transmitted disease did notincrease substantially under the...Unexpected target may unlock the door to fighting sepsis
...body to C5awould have lower bacteria counts. Blood samples taken 96 hours after sepsisinducement showed that ...hite blood cells to kill bacteria. They took blood samples and stimulated theneutrophils to produce hydrogen peroxide. The neutrophils taken from ratstreated w......end Report is a one-of-a-kind study based on large samples of 8.8 million planmembers in 1998 and 7.2 million in 1997. Express Scripts, Inc., is the nation's leading independent full-service pharmacybenefit management (PBM) and specialty managed care company. Through facilitiesin seven states and Canada, th...Want to feel good? Don't smell a child, sniff your granny
...and men in their seventies. The volunteers allgave samples of their body odour by strapping a gauze pad under...strong-smelling foods, in the four days before the samples were collected.They could shower, but only with unscented soap and shampoo. Odours were alsocollecte...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
...e Swedishmassage of the neck and shoulders. Blood samples were taken before, during, andafter each of the three events to measure baseline oxytocin levels in thebloodstream and any change. The results, on average, were of borderline significance - relaxation massagecaused oxytocin levels to rise slightly an...Immunology experiment aboard historic shuttle mission
...ly 24 as planned, thescientists will collect their samples and fly home right away to begin analyzingthe results. Ultimately, LigoCyte is interested in learning enough about adhesion todevelop pharmaceuticals that could boost flagging immune responses on earth andin space, said Bargatze. ...Aspirin's role in colon cancer prevention focus of $5 million grant
...DA-caused DNA damage in benign andmalignant tissue samples and will study the impact of COX2 inhibitors on thatprocess....Researchers learn how stress slows wound healing
... blisters after 24 hours. The samples were then analyzed. Researchers also took samples of saliva from each of the women at the start of the experiments, at five hou...Advances in 'On the Spot' tests have huge public health implications
...or infection on the spot, without the need to send samples to a laboratory) could bring great improvements in public health, says Prof Peter Borriello in the week's BMJ. The author, who is the director of the PHLS Central Public Health Laboratory in London, predicts that near patient testing kits of the fut......st for measuringVEGF in the blood. They took blood samples from 51 patients with coronary heartdisease. These patients were divided into three groups based on an X-ray oftheir coronary arteries: those who formed a large amount of collaterals, thosewho formed intermediate amounts and those who formed no colla...New imaging method detects abnormalities in the brain's tiny blood vessels
...d could help guide the biopsy tools used tocollect samples of tumors....Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...late 1980s, Chlamydia pneumoniae was discovered in samples ofdiseased coronary artery tissue. Two small trials showed positive results whenpatients with heart disease were treated with an antibiotic. The national clinical trial was the outgrowth of those pilot studies. Inthe trial, to be called the A...National Cancer Institute to support statewide UNC-CH colon cancer study
...viewingpeople in 33 N.C. counties and taking blood samples to examine behavioral andgenetic factors that boost the colon cancer risk. "Dr. Sandler's sample is especially good because it is a well-balanced,racially diverse group of both men and women, some of whom already have hadcolon cancer and some...Milestone study in development of xenotransplantation
...en. In two of the fourpatients there were previous samples which indicated that the antibodies werealready present at the time of treatment. Unfortunately, there were no earliersamples for the remaining two patients but these two patients were negative inthe other tests looking for evidence of PERV DNA and c...Hypothyroidism during pregnancy linked to lower IQ for child
...th ofthe child," he said. From 25,216 frozen serum samples obtained during pregnancy, researchersidentified 62 women who had children between January 1987 and March 1990 andwho, in retrospective analysis, were identified as having been hypothyroidduring their pregnancies. These children were compared to a c...UI study advances understanding of antimicrobials and cystic fibrosis-related infection
... lysozyme and lactoferrin, functioned in test-tube samples of humanairway secretions taken from healthy people and people with cystic fibrosis. "We found that the airway secretions, and the individual antimicrobial proteins,could kill bacteria in low-salt conditions, but they were less able to killbacteria ...