Migraine linked to risky heart health
...r, PhD, of the National Institute on Aging and the senior author on the study. Men with migraine were almost twice as likely to have a father with a history of early heart attack. Both men and women with migraine overall were 1.78 times more likely to have a mother with a history of early heart attack....Physical activity linked to protection from Parkinson's disease
...per day ranging from two to 15. Alberto Ascherio, senior author and associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, said: "These are intriguing and promising findings that suggest that physical activity may contribute to the prevention of Parkinson's. A protective...Lack of specific collagen type leads to osteoarthritis
...Guilak, Ph.D., director of orthopedic research and senior member of the Duke team. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The researchers focused their attention on the narrow region of tissue that surrounds the cartilage cells on the surface of joints and is known as the pericellular ma...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...needed in order to prevent abuse. Judy Illes, PhD, senior research scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will discuss the clinical implications of new imaging technologies today during the "Neuroethics: Neuroscience and its ethical, legal and social impli...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
... center where a large number of Cantonese-speaking senior citizens gather daily. They readily embraced this...gram for Chinese women at a community center where senior citizens already gather daily for lunch, activities or health talks. The 27 Chinese women in the st......AS conference in Washington, DC, Juliette Blevins, senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, presents a new approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages across the world often show similar sound patterns, without invoking innate mechanisms speci...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...ectiveness," says Dana-Farber's James Griffin, MD, senior author of the study. Gleevec shuts down CML by blocking the function of Bcr-Abl, the abnormal tyrosine kinase protein in the leukemic cells that causes them to grow too quickly. However, it does not bind very tightly to this protein, and patients ca...International gathering of experts to share retinoblastoma breakthroughs
...s, including Alfred G. Knudson Jr., M.D., Ph.D., a senior researcher at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. "Dr. Knudson is internationally recognized for his 'two-hit' theory that explains how a cell accumulates mutations before becoming cancerous," Dyer said. "And he predicted the existence of t...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
... the scientific community" who served as long-time senior adviser to AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and editor of the Association's journal, Science . Abelson, who also served as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, died 1 August 2004, following more than 60 ...Small increases or 'blips' in HIV levels do not signal mutations leading to drug-resistant HIV
...them that their medications have not failed," says senior study author and infectious disease specialist Robert Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. "Physicians and patients now have a much better idea of ...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
...bia Center for Children's Environmental Health and senior author of the study. Exposure to combustion pollutants was assessed through personal questionnaires and portable air monitors worn by the mothers during the third trimester of their pregnancies. Researchers then calculated the concentration of air po...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...ectiveness," says Dana-Farber's James Griffin, MD, senior author of the study. "The goal of this study was to develop a drug that hits the same target on CML cells as Gleevec does, and to hit more of the target." Gleevec shuts down CML by blocking the function of Bcr-Abl, the abnormal tyrosine kinase protei...Study finds happiness persists, despite illness
...adversity, such as end-stage kidney failure," says senior author Peter Ubel, M.D., a U-M professor of internal medicine and psychology, and a staff physician at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. "People who haven't experienced such adversity assume that it would destroy their happiness when in truth it pr...HIV infection still on the rise
...to stem the rising rate of HIV infection, warn two senior doctors in an editorial in this week's BMJ. An estimated 38 million people worldwide, including over 2 million children, are now infected with HIV, and a record 4.8 million became infected in 2003. The underlying reason for this continuing increase ...Carrot component reduces cancer risk
...he rats in the control group. Dr Kirsten Brandt, a senior lecturer with Newcastle University's School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, carried out the research with the University of Southern Denmark and the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences. She said: "We already know that carrots are ...Bone density returns when teens stop using Depo Provera, Group Health study finds
...uture risk of fractures," said Delia Scholes, PhD, senior investigator at Group Health Cooperative's Center for Health Studies and the study's lead investigator. "This information can be useful in helping young women balance the need to avoid unintended pregnancies with the need to build strong bones." Sch...Mailman School of Public Health researchers develop infectious disease diagnostic tool
...eurology and Pathology at Columbia University, and senior author of the paper. "However, we envision implementing this method for a wide variety of applications such as blood product surveillance, agriculture, forensic microbiology, and biodefense." To address the need for highly sensitive diagnostics, res...Children's Hospital Oakland opens new $5.6 million infectious disease lab
... not otherwise perform," said Bertram Lubin, M.D., senior vice president of research at Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland and president of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI). "Some of our most talented scientists will be using this state-of-the-art laboratory to translate ...Opportunity missed: TIA patients receive less aggressive attention than those with stroke
.../L, M.S.; James Gebel, M.D. and Vijay Vasudevan, a senior at the University of Florida....Rheumatoid arthritis linked to excess risk of congestive heart failure
...e lungs. A leading cause of hospitalization among senior citizens, CHF affects up to 5 percent of Americans over age 65. Its victims have anywhere between a 4- and 18-fold increased risk of dying from a cardiovascular event. In the general population, studies have associated CHF with cytokines. Cytokines...