Exercise shown to have positive effect on cholesterol
...sed two new and different methods to determine the subtle and specific changes in cholesterol particle size and number. While Kraus, an ardent proponent of the benefits of exercise, believed that it would have a beneficial effect on cholesterol, he was most surprised by what appeared to happen to the contro...Teen-age girls, depression, alcoholism, and brain activity
...r than active depression, to see if they exhibit a subtle abnormality in brain function. The study also inv...n? Or, alternatively, do these patients possess a subtle brain abnormality which is always present, in other words, a trait ?" Researchers examined 151 adol...New UCLA program to study the possible environmental causes of cancer
... the School of Public Health will seek to discover subtle variations in the human genetic blueprint that predispose some individuals to develop cancer after contact with environmental pollutants. The program will explore, for example, why some individuals exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke develop lung ...Doctors focus on pupil size for safety of laser vision correction
...ve optics to discover dozens of previously unknown subtle imperfections in the eye, and he has found that those imperfections loom more important as the pupil size gets larger. He reports that if a surgeon treats a large enough swath of the eye for such patients, those imperfections are minimized. His study...Could a mandated food additive aimed at better fetal development be a risk for seniors?
...commonly associated with anemia than with its more subtle but potentially grave complications. Emerging evidence points to B-12 deficiency as an increasingly common reason behind high levels of homocysteine in the blood. While homocysteine, a non-essential amino acid, is normally present in low concentrati...Anemia elevates risk of physical decline in older people
...nd pale skin. However, the warning signs are often subtle and can be difficult for doctors to detect....UCSF-led team discovers possible cancer 'susceptibility' gene
...a cell's regulatory controls. In themselves, these subtle variations are not harmful. A mouse or human tha...wenty different human individuals, identifying the subtle variation now known as Ile31. The researchers examined this variant in tumor samples and cells in cu...INEEL researchers develop medical imagery breakthrough
...s of disease. But such warning signs are often too subtle to spot by eye, and too complex for computers to interpret.Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory have developed the Change Detection System, technology that highlights slight differences...Rush studying the role of intra abdominal fat in coronary artery disease risk in women
...mong menopausal women," she said. This sudden but subtle weight gain made her search previous literature to examine what, if any, association existed between fat that collects around vital organs, also known as intra abdominal fat. "I found very little credible research that examined this," she said. So,...Mayo Clinic study reveals new fathers struggle with obsessional thoughts too
...ead to the rare case of harm against the child, is subtle but important. In the case of obsessional thoughts, parents are repulsed, disgusted and frightened by the thought of harming their child. The person tries to resist these thoughts. In the case of psychotic thoughts, parents view their thoughts as rea...'Shifty-eyed' monkeys offer window into brain's social reflexes
... is looking. The subjects also provided other more subtle clues that their attention had reflexively shifted in the direction of the monkey-image gaze, said Platt. An instant after the monkey images appeared, the subjects showed infinitesimal, involuntary eye movements in the same direction the monkey image...High blood pressure is a factor in some 'senior moments'
... a little differently on mental tasks. These were subtle differences, almost the sort of thing that would s... tests. But he cautions that the differences were subtle -- "the hypertensive patients only missed a percentage point or two." When a person has high blood ...Both languages active in bilingual speakers
...guage. "This suggests that people are sensitive to subtle environmental cues and language," says the Penn State researcher. "It provides a clue to the cognitive basis of learning a second language."...Evidence that neurons prune only 'twigs' to rewire themselves
...e." In initial studies, the researchers found only subtle changes in the neurons. "The changes bordered on the imperceptible -- like a tree that lost or gained only a few twigs over time," said Katz. "It wasn't what we initially thought, that the neurons would be like rose bushes in spring, in which a trem...Implanted stimulator for Parkinson's disease impairs cognitive function
...on tend to be much less obvious," she says. "Those subtle effects fit with anecdotal reports from patients who sometimes complain that when their stimulators are on, they don't think quite as clearly. It's not such a dramatic change that everyone complains of it, but it could make things like paying bills o...Study finds subtle brain damage in some HIV patients on drug therapy
Researchers have found subtle damage in the brains of HIV-positive patients whose viral load is effectively suppressed by anti-retroviral therapy. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers from the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) used a combinati...UCLA study looks at life after breast cancer
...t once that is over, you begin to realize the more subtle changes and losses that come along with the diagnosis. For me, I lost my fertility, but didn't really get to deal with it until later." Now, 10 years after treatment, the Santa Monica resident is still learning to cope with those changes. "Sometimes,...Most hospitals don't use latest ordering technology
...able to avoid the unintended consequences of these subtle silent errors," the study's authors concluded. For this article, separate studies were conducted in the United States, The Netherlands and Australia. The authors used similar qualitative methods to study patient care information systems. These sys...MRI helps radiologists predict future memory decline
.... Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study subtle changes in a specific area of the brain, scientists can predict future cognitive or memory decline in healthy adults, according to a study appearing in the December issue of the journal Radiology. This is the first study to use MRI to predict the con......ogy at the U-M Medical School. "We're able to see subtle tumors as small as 2 to 3 millimeters, in areas where other exams can't go, and we've been able to save patients the delay and aggravation of coming back for repeated diagnostic scans and procedures," adds Caoili, a clinical assistant professor of ra...