International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...Thousands of women have already beat breast cancer thanks to recent research on aromatase inhibitors. As a result, we think this could be an effective approach to preventing it from developing in the first place." The ExCel research study will follow more than 4,500 postmenopausal women from the U.S., ...Emory Study finds HIV is not an independent risk factor for severe heart disease
...rus (HIV) is no longer anautomatic death sentence, thanks to the use of highly active anti-retroviraltherapy (HAART). However, several studies questions have suggested that HIVinfection poses a serious threat to the heart -- specifically, that HIV positivity leads to an increased risk for the development of...Brain synapse formation linked to proteins, Stanford study finds
... suspects what few synapses the mice eked out were thanks to the remaining thrombospondins or perhaps other glial proteins. "Had we been able to knock out all five we might have seen even more synapse loss," Barres said. Figuring out how and why new synapses form could be a boon for doctors treating people ...New mosquito control strategy proves successful against dengue fever
...e have been protected from dengue fever in Vietnam thanks to the implementation of a novel strategy to control mosquitoes in the country, concludes a report in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Dengue fever is the most common insect-borne virus infection, causing more than 50 million infections, 500 000 case...Get ready for next generation surround sound
...istic surround sound is a step closer for everyone thanks to a new method that will cheaply and efficiently compute the way individuals hear things. Currently, creating accurate 'virtual sound fields' through headphones is almost exclusively the domain of high-budget military technologies and involves lengt...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...t would replace more traditional yellow-amber LEDs thanks to GaNP's higher luminescent efficiency. Some of its advantages derive from the fact that the material is grown through one-step epitaxy that is much simpler than conventional methods of substrate removal and wafer bonding. With von Liebig Center fun...New programme will train the next generation of health leaders
...will have access to intensive leadership training, thanks to a new programme launched today by Imperial College London and the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Public Health Leadership Programme, funded by the Soros Foundation, is designed to support health professionals who have taken o...Tracing the life cycle of a manmade disease
...f this work are patients throughout the world who, thanks to Dr. Harris and his team, now have the chance to experience a better quality of life for a much longer time."...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...world as it takes its first steps toward becoming, thanks to Proposition 71, a destination of choice for stem-cell research, with government support to the tune of $3 billion. Questions about the ethics of using embryonic stem cells for disease research have threatened to slow progress in many countries, in...Scientists pinpoint flaw, offer new promise for stroke treatment
... the Rochester neuroscientist who led the research thanks to funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "This holds great promise for stroke therapy." TPA is best known as a clot buster useful for patients who have the most common type of stroke, where a blood clot blocks blood flow to a po...Churches nationwide issue plea for increased rates of African American organ donation
... "Today, I am alive and healthy with a new kidney, thanks to someone else's generosity. If more people would consider donation, everyone in need could have this wonderful gift of life." Linkages to Life events, usually held during church services, feature local organ donors, recipients and transplant med...New quick test for drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea
...ea can be detected without culturing the organism, thanks to a rapid test developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Key to the usefulness of the new test is that it does not require collection, culture or testing of the bacteria themselves - called Neisseria gonorrhea. Instead, the genes linked to resista...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...elease, and more generally, function in the world, thanks to precise communications between circuits of millions of nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord. Once a mystery, new studies now decipher some of this complex chatter. The new research was presented at the 34th Society for Neuroscience annual ...p110 delta: A key player in the allergic response
...ns of people with allergies could one day be eased thanks to new research from UK investigators. Findings from the University College London Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR), published in this week's Nature, detail how inactivating a key signalling molecule called p110delta reduced ...Healthy foods choices highlighted during National Chemistry Week, Oct. 17-23
...tioxidants -- Cranberry lovers can give heartfelt thanks to their favorite fruit. An antioxidant comparison of some of the most common fruits found that the red berry in its pure form contained the highest quantity of disease-fighting phenols, an antioxidant that is thought to reduce the risk of chronic ...Envisat Symposium day one: Steady symphony of Europe's largest satellite
...h online near-real time distribution made possible thanks to the intensive use of the Artemis communication satellite more than 50% of Envisat data are now transmitted via Artemis. For the future, Envisat will remain a crucial part of the joint ESA-European Commission Global Monitoring for Environment and...Listening in on the whispering heart
...e heart rhythm problems arise, may now be possible thanks to research described in the latest issue of the Institute of Physics journal, Physiological Measurement. More than five million people worldwide have been diagnosed with the heart disorder atrial fibrillation (AF). In AF, the upper chambers of the h...Jefferson-based technology promises to help find hard-to-diagnose appendicitis cases
...the decision to operate somewhat problematic. Now, thanks to a new imaging agent based on technology developed by nuclear medicine researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, doctors may finally have a way to rapidly and accurately detect those hard-to-diagnose cases. The U.S. Food and ...Left brain damage may make people more vulnerable to infection
...erent has settled comfortably in our imaginations, thanks equally to science fiction and self-help books. But beyond a predominant role in language for the left half, scientists have had a hard time pinning down what these differences mean for how our brain works. Animal studies have shown distinct differen...Even drug-resistant HIV infection responds to right treatment
...now surviving into their teens and early adulthood thanks to research advances over the past decade. However, it's also likely these children will develop drug resistance due to sequential exposure to HIV treatments, including antiretroviral (ARV) therapies. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Cente...