Study determines commonly used contrast agent safe for 'universal use' in CT
...s such as abdominal CT and angiography and only at specific dosage amounts. "We undertook the study to clarify...his study provides insight into the safety of this specific contrast agent in a large group of patients and attempts to answer some of those unresolved question...Scientists uncover new mechanism for the amygdala in fear recognition
...of Medicine. "The new findings, however, suggest a specific mechanism for the impairments of fear recognition that can be found in patients with amygdala damage." "This study tells us how it is that the amygdala plays a role in recognizing fear and in so doing it shows us that the amygdala isn't specia...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...he patients in a particular hospital and for other specific criteria. Based on the new results, the researche.... But the new analysis does show the need for very specific studies on, for example, measures to prevent hospital-acquired infections and bedsores among hospita...NIH action plan charts future challenges for liver disease research
...ate clinical research. Developing sensitive and specific means of screening individuals at high risk for ea...nt improvements in management of liver disease and specific prevention of many of these important causes of disease and mortality among Americans." In 2003, ...Mayo Clinic study suggests no link between autism and immunizations
... consistent, contemporary criteria for autism to a specific population over a long period of time," says William Barbaresi, M.D., a Mayo Clinic developmental pediatrician and one of the study authors. "In doing so, the study accounts for improvements in the diagnostic criteria for autism, the medical communit...Study shows long-term use of NSAIDs causes severe intestinal damage
...od proteins (hypoalbuminemia) can be attributed to specific findings visible by capsule endoscopy. "Diseases of the small intestine contribute significantly to ill-health and often go undetected or misdiagnosed," said Graham. "We hope further studies will determine the clinical significance of our findings...Government solutions won't cure kids' obesity, survey says
...though the survey participants did not want to see specific taxes on foods, more than 70 percent said they wou...e first survey to compare and contrast support for specific types of childhood interventions that have recently been implemented or proposed. Such data are like...Veterans in better health than other residents of nursing homes, new test for evaluating tinnitus
...nd identified five characteristics associated with specific physiological responses. Study results provide a greater understanding of skin blood flow control mechanisms that may be used to prevent ulcer formation in patients at high risk, such as the elderly and individuals with spinal cord injury. Patient ...LA BioMed Medical/Research briefs January 2005
...dministration (FDA) taking place at LA BioMed. The specific aim of the study is to learn whether the psychoactive drug, psilocybin, might be effective in reducing anxiety, depression and physical pain, and therefore improving quality of life for Stage IV cancer patients. Psilocybin is a novel agent that produ...Mice with depression-like behaviors reveal possible source of human depression
St. Louis, Dec. 27, 2004 -- Mice missing a specific protein from their brains react to stress differently. The genetically engineered mice develop an imbalance in a hormone involved in stress responses, and during stressful situations, they behave as if they are depressed. Genetic variations in the sa...McMaster researchers develop test for rare bleeding disorder
...are bleeding disorders, such as QPD. Although this specific disorder appears to affect a few families in Quebec, this tool is a step forward to developing a better way to assess bleeding problems in many other conditions. The McMaster researchers developed a detailed bleeding history questionnaire based on in...Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
...tal of over 1.2 million records. They selected for specific study only those records listing cancer as the leading cause of death. The process generated a database of 309,221 cancer deaths that were further identified by date of birth, gender, race and ethnicity. An initial analysis of all deaths -- those ...Genetically targeted therapies create opportunities to do business in new ways
...cogenomics, which matches drugs to an individual's specific genetic makeup, as having major implications for t...o a particular drug therapy. The goal is to target specific drugs at specific patients, using genetic information to increase treatment successes and reduce adv...Mayo Clinic researchers find PDAs okay with pacemakers
...tient who is pacemaker dependent may ask whether a specific WLAN device can be used and/or carried safely in a coat pocket when turned on near the patient's implanted device." Dr. Hayes suggests that a template for further study could be from the cellular telephone study he led which was published in 1997 in ...Discovery of key protein's shape could lead to improved bacterial pneumonia vaccine
...they can carry carbohydrate targets for only a few specific strains of pneumonia bacteria," Tuomanen said. "So...aped extensions of the protein must be folded in a specific way in order for CbpA to work. The discovery of the actual shape of CbpA was made using nuclear ma...Acupuncture relieves pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis
...cture--the practice of inserting thin needles into specific body points to improve health and well-being--originated in China more than 2,000 years ago. In 2002, acupuncture was used by an estimated 2.1 million U.S. adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2002 National Health In...Timing appears essential to combining antiangiogenesis and radiation therapy
...mprovement resulted from the increased activity of specific enzymes. One crucial result of these findings is alleviation of the concern that reducing a tumor's blood supply would actually worsen hypoxia and increase resistance to radiation therapy. "The success of this treatment approach depends on carefully...National Academies news: Gulf War and Health
...ave more definitive answers to questions about the specific diseases that may be associated with these substan...ing health effects -- the committee could not draw specific conclusions about Gulf War veterans' chances of developing lung cancer or any other health problems ...NIH halts use of COX-2 inhibitor in large cancer prevention trial
...ecoxib (Vioxx) informed us of the need to focus on specific cardiovascular issues, and our Institutes brought in the experts to do so, said Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., NIH Director. "Our overwhelming commitment is to advance the health and to protect the safety of participants in clinical trials. We are examinin......ns, so we envision drugs that increase or decrease specific activities of this new source of phosphate could be important in neurologic and psychiatric illnesses, and perhaps in cancer as well," says Solomon Snyder, M.D., professor and director of neuroscience, one of the departments in Johns Hopkins' Institu...