Mayo Clinic study identifies brain changes in people likely to develop Alzheimers disease
...vasively measure the part of thebrain that we know shrinks with the advent of Alzheimer's disease and providesome indication to patients whether their chances of developing Alzheimer'sdisease are high, low or in-between." "Planning for the future is very important to elderly patients and theirfamilies," say...New nasal obstruction procedure offers cheaper, pain-free alternative to surgery
... is stuck into the turbinate, it creates ascar and shrinks it down, so that it can't swell up like before." The surgeon has performed the procedure for snoring for two yearsand for nasal obstruction for the past year and said both work well. The nasalobstruction treatment has helped several of ...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...n with a benign butenlarged prostate, the prostate shrinks and stays small for the rest of hislife," Mohler said. "With prostate cancer, however, if you take androgens away,the tumor goes into remission but will come back after several years havingacquired the ability to grow again even without androgens." ......pattern along the length of the gland. The process shrinks the prostate by killing excess cells that typically grow as men age. The uniform heating pattern is a major improvement over some existing treatment devices. A US patent (6,051,018) was issued for this technology April 18. Older men typically suffer ...Cedars-Sinai researchers detail events that enable brain tumors to weaken immune system
...ency of the immune system's T cells. As the thymus shrinks and its normal structure becomes distorted, many of the thymocytes the "immature" cells destined to become functional T cells potentially capable of destroying a variety of antigens undergo a process that weakens and kills them. Thymocytes are der...Thymus transplant might save babies born without immune systems
...thymus has completed most of its role in the body, shrinks in physical size and becomes dormant. Without intervention, few children with complete DiGeorge Syndrome live to age 1, and none survive past 3 years of age. The seven surviving Duke patients are all well and living at home two to 10 years after rece...Antidepressant drugs may protect brain from damage due to depression
...reases in hippocampal volumes. Why the hippocampus shrinks is not clear. It may be that brain chemicals released during depression, such as cortisol, damage brain cells. Or it could be that depression damages the connections between nerve cells, resulting in a smaller volume. But however the damage is done, ...Drug improves brain structure in Alzheimer's patients
...the brain begins to deteriorate as the gray matter shrinks and the disease progresses," Krishnan said. "We are unsure of why and how donepezil slowed the loss of hippocampal volume but we think the drug may help to improve cognition by increasing the levels of N-acetylaspartate in the brain, at least tempora...Experimental drugs show promise in halting brain tumors
...e tumor's blood supply is diminished and the tumor shrinks and slows its spread. Secondarily, ZD6474 prevented activation of the EGF (epidermal growth factor) receptor, another protein that cells use to grow new blood vessels, to resist dying, and to invade other cells. Blocking the activation of two growth ...A new technique detects earliest signs of Alzheimer's in healthy people
...to demonstrate with MRI scans that the hippocampus shrinks in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a form of memory loss that often precedes Alzheimer's. Despite the promise of the MRI studies, the hippocampus is notoriously difficult to measure. Shaped like a sea horse and only about four centime...Combined drug therapy prevents progression of prostate enlargement
...lief from symptoms and, over time, the finasteride shrinks the prostate and actually prevents growth so that fewer men at highest risk for progressive disease need surgery," said John D. McConnell, M.D., lead author of the paper. McConnell is a professor of urology and executive vice president at the Univer...Chronic back pain shrinks 'thinking parts' of the brain, study finds
... back pain, a condition afflicting many Americans, shrinks the brain by as much as 11 percent -- equivalent to the amount of gray matter lost in 10 to 20 years of normal aging, a Northwestern University research study found. Loss in brain density is related to pain duration, indicating that 1.3 cubic cent...