Researchers show beneficial role of bacterial DNA in fighting inflammatory bowel disease
...timulatory (ISS) oligonucleotide (ODN), which is a short segment of bacterial DNA which has immunostimulatory properties. Rachmilewitz noted that when we test the efficacy of this treatment in human clinical trials, we hope to show that IBD patients can take an oral form of this compound once a week to p...Depressed brains get better on placebo!
...rent capacity to heal itself -- but it is likely a short term effect," says Dr. Mayberg. As shown in other systematic studies of maintenance placebo versus active drug treatment, placebo patients tend to relapse sooner while those on active drug stay well longer. In this study, all patients were put on act...Infliximab could offer long-term benefits to people with Crohns disease
...ug infliximab could reduce disease symptoms in the short term; Stephen Hanauer and colleagues from the University of Chicago, USA, investigated whether treatment with infliximab every two months could be more effective in reducing the symptoms of Crohns disease in the longer term compared with a single inf...Heart health should be the front line of diabetes care
...n weight over many years are compressed into a few short years in young teens. The rise in type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents is a disturbing trend, the authors say. It is likely due to obesity and sedentary lifestyle, and increases their risk of early CVD. Grundy says that merely calling diabete...Repeat stenting not always durable
...to the narrowed artery will solve the problem in a short time, some of the vessels will again narrow, explains Yoshihiro Morino, M.D., a research fellow at Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. The question of whether to re-stent or not to re-stent is an ongoing debate, so our study was desi...Study finds potential danger to workers in food flavoring manufacturing
...to severe non-reversible airway obstruction over a short period of time while working, but after they stopped working in the food flavoring manufacturing industry, they did not experience any further loss of lung function, he said. The study identified a number of substances that might potentially be harmf...Depression predicts quality of life for lung transplant patients
...and lung function. "Often, when a lung patient is short of breath, he or she becomes anxious or agitated, which can then cause them to breathe faster and shallower it can then quickly become of vicious cycle," Blumenthal said. "Anything we can do to lessen the degree of anxiety for lung patients should b...Type 1 diabetes safely arrested with short-term use of new drug
...la), acts far more selectively and requires only a short treatment period compared with the earlier immunosuppressive drugs. The selectivity and shorter use are intended to minimize toxicity, and hOKT3g1 (ala-ala) caused few side effects, the study showed. The drug was designed to prevent activation of...First quarter 2002 prescription drug spending: Higher again, but rate of increase drops
...her than anticipated. Additionally, the extent of short term use, the substantial use in patients not at risk for gastrointestinal adverse events, and the higher than expected rate of co-prescribing with other costly gastro-protective agents, calls into question the cost-effectiveness of the overall use o...Gene linked to testicular cancer
...the same gene in nematodes (called prg's, which is short for "piwi related genes"); miwi in mice; and hiwi in humans. The piwi family is the only family of genes known to be required for stem cell function in to both animal and plant kingdoms. They also identified two previously identified genes in plants ...Serious physical illness linked to suicide in later life
...y people who commit suicide consult their doctor a short time before their death, but many fail to communicate their despair, say the authors. Further research should focus on the detection and treatment of depression and suicidal ideation in the context of physical disease, they conclude....UF research: For stroke recovery, two therapies better than one
...tilevel task, so improvement by seven after such a short period of training time is rather dramatic." Cauraugh said. "Many of these movements we take for granted, but these people struggle incredibly to execute them."...Researchers discover effects of exercise in women taking hormone replacement therapy
...rogen users, the levels stayed elevated for only a short period of time following exercise, Williams said. "It seems unlikely that there are any increased risks due to elevated levels of estrogen in active patch users. Perhaps an exception might be women who use transdermal estrogen patches and have freq...Angiogenesis reduces leg pain from clogged arteries
...atients with his condition typically can only walk short distances before the pain forces them to stop. The pain diminishes with rest. Since such pain isthe main symptom limiting the quality of life of these patients, the researchers wanted to test rFGF-2's ability to allow patients to walklonger distanc...Intensification therapy studied in head and neck cancer
...ese advanced cancers very aggressively over a very short time span, says Schuller, and thus we call it intensification therapy. Patients in this regimen require a lot of support from everyone around them, including physicians, nurses, dietitians, social workers, and most importantly, from their family. P...Alcoholics have 'blunted' responses to psychological stressors such as public speaking
... "Yet when we asked them to prepare and memorize a short speech and then deliver the speech to a video camera, the patients reacted with little or no change in heart rate, and of course, they failed to have a cortisol response. The patients reacted as if the social challenge of public speaking had no spec...Androgen therapy boosts muscle strength for older men
SAN FRANCISCO (June 19, 2002)-A short course of hormone therapy appears to increase olde...ression. "Our findings are encouraging because a short course of treatment appears to increase muscle mass, strength and power, which can be augmented or m...Insight into how the body tells time
...viduals experience recurrent depression during the short days of winter." Three similar studies were published immediately preceding this paper, each estimating the number of genes controlled by the internal clock to be more than 100. Eighteen of the 22 genes identified in this study also were identified...Individualized educational materials help women decide about hormone replacement therapy
...an take a significant amount of time in an already short health care visit. The debate over the relationship between HRT and disease revolves around the fact that the therapy might reduce the risk of osteoporosis and improve quality of life. However, it also carries a possible increased risk of breast can......ical systems in a non-invasive way over relatively short timescales. Journal article: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v65/e061913 4) Word association is a small world A. E. Motter, A. P. S. de Moura, Y.-C. Lai, P. Dasgupta Physical Review E (Print issue: June 2002) If you try to connect two words, s...