Vanderbilt School of Nursing begins graduate program in correctional health
...aged care. Many of the prison health care delivery systems use the managedcare concept-- controlling cost and...nical experiencethrough the state and local prison systems in the Nashville area as well asselected federal prisons in the U.S. "There is excitement for this p...New Wake Forest study to pin down soy's active ingredient
...if any, doesphytoestrogen have on the reproductive systems of males. The studies will be conducted in... estrogens do not adversely affect thereproductive systems of males. Clarkson said the developing evidence that soy offers protection againsthormone- d......," says Berninger. "Or it may be that theirnervous systems are wired differently and more practice will aggravate theproblem. At this point we don't know if this problem can be fixed or if schoolcurriculums are wrong for these children. Schools may well need newinterventions to help these children." ...Symposium on treating drug addiction -- Tip sheet
... addiction A new technique has induced the immune systems of test animals to createspecific antibodies against cocaine. The antibodies keep the cocaine moleculesfrom reaching their target, the central nervous system. Over a period ofseveral weeks, the animals' bodies built up a sufficient number of antib...Double transplant frees patient from need for immunosuppressive drugs
...uce a state of mixedchimerism, in which the immune systems of donor and recipient are blended in away that pr...no conflict between the donor and recipient immune systems -continues in this patient, the actual chimeric state seems to be disappearing. In fact, donor cells...Stress and social support linked to prostate cancer
...fects on the immune system and other physiological systems in the body." The research was supported by an internal grant from the Applied BehavioralMedicine Research Institute at State University of New York at Stony Brook....University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...encoded in the brain and then influence other body systems thataffect health, according to Richard J. Davidso...nalpsychological and social factors influence body systems and thus affect health,"Davidson says. "We will examine this premise from five different perspective...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...ssels (angiogenesis) associated with cancer, model systems in whichtumor cells are grown in an unnatural location - for example, gallbladder cancercells grown under the skin - may produce misleading results. The study's results, appearing in the October issue of Nature Medicine, maysomeday lead to strategie...Novel neural net recognizes spoken words better than human listeners
...nly bested allexisting computer speech recognition systems but outperformed the keenest humanears. Neural net...ay brains process information. Speaker-independent systems can recognize a word no matter who or whatpronounces it.No previous speaker-independent computer sys......ition, he says, if the results obtained with model systems provesuccessful, "We could potentially reduce the ...acles Researchers have been using membrane-based systems for concentrating differentlysized proteins since at least the 1960s, Zydney says. But, attempts to ...How alcohol may harm your baby's brain
...cohol is a 'dirty drug' as it affects a variety of systems in the brain,"said James R. West, Professor and Head of Anatomy and Neuroscience at the TexasA&M University Health Science Center. "Alcohol does different things atdifferent times in different parts of the brain. During the third trimester,for exam...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
.... Moving cancer diagnosis away fromvisually based systems to such molecular based systems is a major goal of theNational Cancer Institute. In the study, scientists used a DNA chip to examin......l examine the effects of smokingcessation on brain systems which are known to be controlled by tobacco smokingand smoking cessation, using brain imaging techniques to better understand thisphenomenon. Naltrexone Augmentation of Transdermal Nicotine Replacement Therapy , led byStephanie S. O'MalleyThis st...AAPS announces 1999 award winners
...teins, hisdevelopment of new mucoadhesive delivery systems and his study of novelbiomaterials. He is the Showalter Distinguished Professor of Chemical andBiomedical Engineering at Purdue University. This award is sponsored bySmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. AAPS New Investigator Grant in Pharmaceutics ...Northwestern researchers present findings at Neuroscience Meeting
...ing biological clock. The animals?circadian timing systems were monitored when they where young and later old, andall the mice exhibited a change in their daily rhythms (e.g., exercise andactivity-rest cycle) when older. However, the mice with a mutated Clock geneshowed a significantly greater disruption in ...Noveau neurons are better than no neurons at all
...ured it. The Navy would like to emulate biological systems for information processing and control. One approach is to understand biological neural networks. "This demonstration shows that we know enough about the biology of a simple network so that we now can build models and hardware to take advantage of th...Anti-HIV treatment improves immune system and fights sight-threatening eye infection
...ti-HIV drugs appears to help rejuvenate the immune systems of people with AIDS and prevent progression of cyt...c anti-CMV retinitis medications. Stronger immune systems respond better to HIV and other infections, potentially allowing patients to live longer." "This st......GH, Nov. 15 -- Two computer-based decision support systems can improve the diagnostic reasoning of clinicians... The finding suggests a role for decision support systems (DSSs) in medicine, particularly in physician training, according to the authors. DSSs are computer-...Work overcommitment impacts the heart
...ing, or coagulation system. An imbalance in these systems can lead to excessive clot formation and subsequent atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease....How long-term alcohol consumption can damage the immune system
...for example, is a threat to this homeostasis. Our systems will recognize this challenge and do whatever is necessary to bring the body back to where it used to be." Homeostasis is a delicate balance of biochemical and physiological functions that are constantly challenged by a variety of stressors. Thes...