New coating could lead to safer, more convenient asthma drugs
...nto the blood stream, theysaid. So the researchers set out to create a coating that would eliminate orreduce the side effect. The challenges were numerous. For one thing, the coating had to be nontoxic. Foranother, it had to dissolve in four to six hours, or the lungs' natural cleaningprocess would move ...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...re. 74 percent say that national limits should be set on how much physicians cancharge, and 71 percent say that a national health policy is needed -- although12 percent strongly disagree with each of these statements. Virginians continue to favor three controversial issues: 77 percent of Virginian...Study suggests potential new approach to glaucoma therapy
...damage seen in glaucoma. To explore that idea,they set out to determine whether NOS-2 was causing the damage in retinal cellsor appearing as a byproduct of that damage. "We adopted an animal model of glaucoma that raises pressure levels in the eyesof rats," Neufeld said. "And we found that, as in humans,......t sexual encounter," said Hocking. The stage was set by having participants read to themselves a scenario in whicha male and female student meet, date and decide to have sex. At the point atwhich sex looks likely, some role-playing booklets made it clear that theirpartner insisted on using a condoms (f......ediatric transplantation presents awhole different set of challenges. Infants and children who become candidatesfor liver transplantation are usually very young, often one or two years of age.They're oftentimes very malnourished and small in terms of their achievement ofweight and height milestones for t...Alcohol consumption triggers free-radical damage in the body
...or safe driving, damagingpro-oxidant processes are set in motion." In healthy volunteers given alcohol in an experimental setting and inabstaining patients being treated for alcohol-induced liver diseases, measuresof oxidant stress due to free radicals were significantly elevated. Ten healthy ...Better diagnosis of pain in children
...rlands by the NWO's MedicalSciences Council, looks set to change this situation. Using the new painobservation scale will make it possible to evaluate pain effectively in childrenaged up to four. Pain slows down recovery, interferes with sleep and appetite, prevents childrenplaying and going to school, a...Study finds concussions affect brain behavior in hockey players
...two-hour tests, conducted in a mobile testing unit set upoutside local rinks, include an electroencephalogram, or EEG, which measureselectrical activity in the brain. Players conduct a range of tasks -- from simplypushing a button to keeping a running mental count of words presented on acomputer screen -...Who should have heart bypass surgery? New guidelines will help doctors, patients decide together
...mplications and shouldopt for another approach. A set of comprehensive guidelines for physicians - based on a review of over 750studies of coronary artery bypass and its alternatives - is being published inthe October issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It wasprepared by a commit...NICHD funded researchers discover gene for Rett syndrome
...rmolecules in an elaborate network that silences a set of genes. Dr. Zoghbi said that she and her coworkers intend to pursue a strategyto find other genetic switches that, in the absence of properly functioningMECP2, can serve to switch off the necessary genes. Noting the potential of the...Scientists grow heart tissue in Bioreactor
...ndconventional spinner flasks. "We've identified a set of conditions that so far appear to be best for cardiactissue engineering," Vunjak-Novakovic said. Work continues. Understanding the structure of cancer A different sort of tissue engineering - understanding the g...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...s return. "This is providing an invaluable set of specimens to follow what happensin individual patients as their cancers recur," Mohler said. In the second project, French, Wilson and Gregory will employ a uniquetumor model known as CWR-22. It consists of human prostate cancer growing...Is a one child policy worldwide the solution to human population growth?
...ions of an ever growing world population, which is set to break the six billion mark on 12 October. Commentators advocate two opposing views on what the future will hold for demographics. Some deny that the population increase is a cause for alarm, say Professor Anthony McMichael and Professor John Gui...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
...study, Dr. Golub, Dr. Lander, and their colleagues set out to develop amore systematic and objective approach to cancer classification, using acuteleukemia as their test case. The scientists first sought to create a so-called"class predictor" that could classify new, unknown samples based on alreadyknow...CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign
... Doctors, Tomorrow's Cures," the medicalschool has set a target of raising $300 million during the next seven years. Among the goals for the campaign: * $75 million for research programs in basic and clinical sciences * $75 million for equipment and facilities for educatio......icians'belief that they cannot perform the actions set out by a guideline, or theirexpectation that they won't get the desired outcome even if they do.Interestingly, the authors discovered that 68 percent and 75 percent,respectively, of the surveys that reported these barriers related to guidelinesthat i...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
...eople about Ehrlichia equi. With the ELISA we are set up fornext summer's tick season." Testing for ehrlichiosis is conducted by the Connecticut Department of PublicHealth and Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health with financialsupport by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...New approach to imaging separates thought from perception
...ng asingle trial. For example, they can obtain one set of images while a personanticipates a visual stimulus and a second set when the stimulus appears. "This enhanced precision in human neuroimaging allows us to track...Northwestern researchers present findings at Neuroscience Meeting
...ual's ability to recognize other persons. Using a set of face photographs, each of which was associated with a unique nameand a short, spoken vignette, they measured brain activity during personrecognition with two methods that provided information about relevant neuralevents. The first method was based...Material that made car bumpers shine finds a role in manufacture of drugs, dyes
...t; the material clings to the beads likealgae to a set of buoys. Also in the solvent is a strip of manganese. Chromiumchloride acts as a catalyst, going back and forth between the strand of polymerbeads and the strip of manganese and converting nitroarenes to anilines.Schematically the process is a remin...