Using PET scan technology to study alcohol's effects on the brain
...ABA) activity, also affects other neurotransmitter systems in the brain. It is likewise clear that alcohol, which has both sedative-like and stimulant-like effects, has addictive qualities. Benzodiazepines (used as sleeping pills) -- which primarily facilitate GABAergic activity in the brain -- have mainly......s to protect and improve the intellectual property systems that are vital to America's technological and economic leadership by bringing together the voices of large, medium and small businesses, independent inventors, authors and patent attorneys. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is a major patient care...Self-assembled nano-capsules resemble bacterial cell walls
...bules have potential applications in drug delivery systems and as templates for the synthesis of inorganic nanostructured materials. "The 'artificial bacteria' consist of the biopolymer actin attached to charged lipid membranes," said Gerard Wong, a professor of materials science and of physics at the Univer...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...d by the way institutions are designed and the way systems (including informal rules of family life, rules of...e researchers are interested in how social control systems could induce parents to take responsibility and to become better organizational players and advocate...Mechanism found behind drug-free acceptance of transplants
... Left to their own devices, most patients' immune systems would reject organs transplant...t recipients keep their immune systems from reacting violently to the foreign organ. When patients...Increase in effective contraceptive use can reduce abortion rate
...s through clinics and community-based distribution systems and by providing education and counseling. "The reach and quality of these services are still far from adequate in many developing countries, so that recourse to abortion remains more prevalent than is desirable," the authors conclude....Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...y to get the best level of beta-naltrexol in their systems in order to have the best clinical effect." McCaul is planning to continue her studies in this area. "Currently," she said, "we are using positron emission tomography to scan brain opioid receptors to determine the extent of opioid receptor blockade...Hutchinson Center receives $1.2 million from National Science Foundation to study plant genetics
...ding mice and the roundworm C. elegans, both model systems used at the Hutchinson Center to study the basic mechanisms of cancer. The basic strategy for TILLING in Arabidopsis involves exposing the plant seeds to a chemical that induces point mutations, or single-base changes, in the plant's DNA. Plants are ...Attachment helps young children inhale asthma medications, UF researcher says
...earchers currently are evaluating how well inhaler systems deliver preventive medication and how much gets into the bloodstream in children. In addition to its convenience, the inhaler system offers other advantages. When a nebulizer is used, a child often swallows a lot of the medicine, causing it to be ab...Lawrence Livermore Lab pioneers advanced radiation treatment for cancer
...stration clearance to produce and market Peregrine systems to the medical community. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson made the announcement today at NOMOS headquarters. "Peregrine could change the way cancer is treated in America," said Secretary Richardson. "This technology was developed through adva...Gender differences in private substance abuse treatment retention
... treatment allows people to develop social support systems and friendships among people who are not drinking and/or using drugs, and who support their recovery." "Substance use disorders develop over an extended period and are not readily resolved," concurs John Finney, director of the Program and Evaluation...Effective Clinical Practice, Sept/Oct 2000 highlights
...t all patients with a disease the same way. Health systems should instead look for ways to target the highest-risk patients ("Are We Overvaluing Performance Measures?" p. 247)....There are a few 'safe' days in menstrual cycle
...iversal "safe" days for such natural birth control systems as the "rhythm method." Even women who regard their cycles as "regular" had a 1 to 6 percent probability of being fertile on the day their next period was expected. To obtain precise fertility information, the study required that the women volunt...SU scientist receives patent that could revolutionize medical magnetic resonance imaging
...having published his first paper on HD frozen spin systems some 30 years ago, before the technology to conduct the experiments was fully available. He began experimenting with highly polarized HD targets about six years ago; four years ago, he started looking at the Xenon puzzle. "No one had been able t...Another cold? The best advice is still plenty of rest and fluids
...ons such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis or immune systems disorders. Zinc -- In 1996, a study showed that taking zinc made cold symptoms disappear more quickly than was expected. More recent studies have had mixed results. Although more research is needed, taking zinc to treat a cold isnt likely to harm mo......chair of the UCSF department of community health systems and Maryline Dodd, RN, PhD, UCSF professor of physiological nursing. "We look forward to working closely with the Institute for Health and Aging, the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Center for Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, and faculty...Effective Clinical Practice, Nov/Dec 2000 highlights
... The VHA has, over the past three years, adopted a systems approach toward assuring patient safety. Efforts i...ry system. A VHA researcher says that other health systems can learn from the VHAs progress but patient safety efforts require constant attention (Developing a...New Zealand chemists present new research findings at Pacifichem 2000
... researchers investigated different meat-packaging systems and discovered that freezing is the best way to store the meat. Chilling, they found, apparently increases spoiling and decreases sweetness, especially over time. (AGRO 115, 9:05 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 16) Native Asian kozo tree - Researchers at the ...Getting older and feeling weaker?
...ry Nussbaum, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech, who has received a $425,000 grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to study the effects of age on work capacity. "Physically demanding work isnt going away," Nussbaum remarks....... are exposed to these spores daily, but the immune systems in healthy people routinely attack and destroy the spores. Because the spores are prevalent in the air, soils and on plants, they are easily inhaled. According to some studies, the spores are responsible for as many as 40 percent of deaths among l...