Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...ctive, which means that radon atoms in the air can spontaneously decay, or change to other atoms. When the resulting atoms are formed, they are electrically charged and can attach themselves to tiny dust particles in the air. The radiation given off by inhaled particles cannot travel far enough to reach cells in...Medication Offers Hope For Relief From Burning Mouth Pain
...plains, the cranial nerve that senses paincould be spontaneously sending pain messages to the brain even though there is no stimulus for thepain. When the BMS patient eats, this stimulates the taste nerve to send taste messages to the brainand stops the spontaneous firing of the pain nerve. Even though eating offe......izedfunction," says Fincham. "That function is to spontaneously self-assemble intoa matrix with nanospheres -- a matrix that controls the microarchitecture of thedeveloping enamel, both the three-dimensional spacing between the initialmineral crystals and the later crystal growth." Currently, CCMB researchers are......, the corresponding left side component rapidlyand spontaneously emerges from its understudy role, and starts to activate to anormally high level during language processing. The rapid recovery of the ability to use language after strokedamage to the language network was previously attributed to tissue ...Self-assembly of new microstructured material defies textbook physics
...ions. Under the experiment's conditions,these ions spontaneously migrate in such a way as to overwhelm the membrane'sown positive charge, and effectively reverse it in the region not covered bybeads. The raft of attached beads then has a definite size, determined ultimately by the membrane's chemical composition. ...Experimental peptides prevent diabetes and halt its progression
...alancebetween Th1 and Th2 in a strain of mice that spontaneously develop diabetes. Ina series of experiments, these non-obese diabetic (NOD) mice, 12 weeks old, were given injections of GAD65 peptides. The researchers hoped that some ofthese might prompt the immune system to produce Th2 cells. "We were trying to i...Self-assembled nano-capsules resemble bacterial cell walls
...esearchers have discovered a way to make chemicals spontaneously self-assemble into ribbon-like tubules that resemb...ys on both sides of the lipid layer, and then they spontaneously wrap into tubules." The spaces between the layers are filled with water and could be used for a vari...Early treatment of blinding eye disease in infants can prevent severe vision loss
... treatment decisions. In many infants the disease spontaneously regresses and spares vision. However, in some infants ROP progresses, resulting in serious visual impairment. Although current therapy can stem its progression, many infants are still blinded by the disease. Due to a lack of clinical criteria to p...Mayo Clinic discovers cause of a frequently fatal myasthenic syndrome affecting children
...e exertion, fever or excitement but also can occur spontaneously or during the night. As children grow older, the episodes become less frequent and milder, and are rarely fatal after age 15. The condition is hereditary and more than one child in a family can have the condition. "What we have developed is a way at ...UIC Nature paper points to new drug discovery direction
...rotein synthesis. Protein synthesis may come about spontaneously when ribosome positions substrates close together. This activity is called peptide bond formation. Understanding how ribosome functions is likely to enable researchers to understand better how many antibiotics inhibit activity that is critical to bac...Natural immune response reduces nerve damage; may lead to improved treatment for spinal cord injury
...neuronal loss. The authors say that the ability to spontaneously mount a protective immune response does not exist in all individuals, but can be induced in deficient individuals or boosted if it exists. Since this response represents the bodys own attempt to heal itself, stimulating or boosting it is likely to p...Yale researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study the hypocretin cells involved in narcolepsy
...nd, despite their best intentions to the contrary, spontaneously fall asleep, raising the ire of their employer. Then at night they may have trouble sleeping, and may suffer from hallucinations when falling asleep or waking." Van den Pols laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford and the Scripps Res...Training can improve age-related memory decline in elderly
...under-recruitment, older subjects are less able to spontaneously recruit specific areas of the brain that aid in memory processing. In non-selective recruitment, older subjects tend to draw on regions of the brain that are not useful in memory processing tasks. While older people can likely learn techniques to he...Urgent action needed to improve maternal care in Latin America
...y found that nine in every 10 women who gave birth spontaneously in hospitals in Latin America between 1995 and 1998 had an episiotomy, despite evidence that the procedure is not justified. This situation is inadmissible in the light of the current evidence, and the challenge now is to change the use of episiotom...New hope for treating or avoiding heart failure after cancer drugs
...hracyclines. Dr Jensen said: "The patients did not spontaneously recover during the observation period. Function could only be reversed by ACE inhibition for several months. We have now successfully treated more than 60 patients with severe congestive heart failure and achieved a remarkably long-lasting recovery."...Episiotomy rates decreasing, but procedure still overused
...e less likely to receive episiotomy than those who spontaneously delivered, said Dr. Weber. Magee residents and faculty had a very low percentage of episiotomy use (17.2 percent), compared to private practitioners (65.7 percent). What this analysis demonstrates is the persistence of high rates of episiotomy, parti...A helping hand: Healthy arm helps retrain stroke-impaired arm
...r body. Experts say that if these patients are to spontaneously regain their movement, it will happen only during the first year after stroke. According to the study's lead author, James H. Cauraugh, Ph.D., a significant percentage of stroke patients have long-term movement disability and often have trouble perf...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
...pox in the family, Salsabil's antibodies developed spontaneously and she did not develop any sign of the disease. Since this first-of-a-kind procedure was performed, two other children have received a similar protocol from the Italian team, apparently with a similar success rate....Remembering stressful events may lead to later heart disease
...ional task they just performed, the subjects would spontaneously ruminate on them afterward, making it take longer for their blood pressure to drop back to normal. "Delayed recovery may have been due to the fact that those who just experienced an emotionally involving episode were dwelling on this experience and t...Most patients take less than two minutes to tell their story
...t an outpatient clinic in Basle were asked to talk spontaneously about their complaints and indicate when they had finished. Their doctors were instructed to time them on a hidden stopwatch and not to interrupt until the patient said "What do you think, doctor?" The average spontaneous talking time was 92 second...