Artery Temperatures Identify Hot Spots On Plaque That May Rupture And Trigger Heart Attack
...ust suffered a heart attack. Moreover, the plaques themselves showed temperature variations at the five sitesmeasured. The greatest difference in site-to-site plaque temperatures occurredamong the heart attack patients, followed by those with unstable angina andthose with stable angina. No correlation was foun...Fetal Cell Therapy Benefits Some Parkinson's Patients
...archers who evaluated thepatients nor the patients themselves knew who had received the treatment or theplacebo. While the study results indicate that fetal cell implants can help some patientsyounger than age 60, they also raise important questions, including why thetreatment did not benefit older patients. F...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...arned physicians and their efforts todifferentiate themselves from vulgar popular healers, including "medicalgrannies" and midwives, Furth has also stressed that knowledge of medical textsand of the art of prescription was not a professional monopoly. Rather, for theperiod under study, most medical practice was...Teen Line Panel Of Six High School Students To Address The Issue Of Teens And Tolerance
...ed or sociallyunsuccessful. "Students who perceive themselves as outsiders will often try tofind someone in a similar social position and form a group. This provides themwith a sense of belonging, but the tone of the group often reflects negativevalues or even violence. Gangs, for example, are formed in this wa...Nerve Cells Live Long And Talkative Lives In Sculpted Colonies On Silicon Chips
...ociated cells, approximately 80,000 of them, affix themselves to thetestbed and grow, sending out processes and reforming synaptic contacts witheach other. They can live on the chips for extended periods -- as long as months,according to Brinton. Brinton's lab is one of only a very few in the world able to cult...Children Benefit Most From Sun Safety Interventions
...ses. Parents were less likely to use sunscreen on themselves than on their childrenbut they scored higher than children on overall sun protection habits mainly dueto wearing sunglasses more often than children. The research was supported by funding from the Centers for Disease Control andPrevention of the U.S....Summer swimsuit research flash: thigh-reducing creams don't work
...h volunteer's thighs at theend, but the volunteers themselves said they could see and feel no differenceeither," Marks said. "They said both products worked well as moisturizers, andsurprisingly, they seemed to be less negative about their thighs at the end ofthe study. We don't know why." The supposed a...Study finds predictors for youth violence and drugs
...USC researchers found that students who identified themselves as part ofcertain "high risk" campus groups showed a high tendency over the course of thesubsequent year to become involved with violence, drugs, or both. The "high risk" groups included "gang members" and "stoners." Other categories listed on the qu....... In this blinded study, participants gave themselves injections ofsynthetic GHRH or a placebo (inactive substance) each evening for five months.Before and after treatment, subjects were tested at the UW Clinical ResearchCenter for hormone levels, body composition, physical performance andpsychological ...Can a terminally ill person want to hasten death and be mentally competent?
...(82%) said theywould consider assisted suicide for themselves under certain circumstances, forother respondents, opposition to assisted suicide was strongly a function oftheir opposition to suicide per se. One third of the respondents indicated that performing such evaluations wasoutside of their practice area....Risk factors for women remain high one year after heart surgery
... factors bereduced. Some cardiac patients may view themselves as fixed' after bypasssurgery. Other patients are not being properly informed about the risk factorsthat lead to secondary episodes of heart disease. Patients do not spontaneouslymodify their risk factors after bypass surgery, so health care provide...Researchers discover the driving force behind cancer cells in Hodgkin's disease
...dy, determinedthat it was the Reed-Sternberg cells themselves that produce the deadly growthfactor. "Now that we know IL-13 plays a major role in the growth of at least someHodgkin's tumours, we can begin to look at new treatments for the disease usingIL-13 neutralizing antibodies or by blocking IL-13 producti...3-D magnetic resonance imaging safer way to diagnose heart disease
..., we have no methods to image thecoronary arteries themselves that do not require injecting a dye into a bloodvessel." Manning and his research colleagues used a sophisticated MRA approach to enhancethe MRA image quality and spatial resolution to provide detailed images of theblood vessels. With the new MRA t...Men and women agree: love, romance vital part of sexual person
...tempt to see how men viewed themselves and other men as sexual bei... scale -- those who described themselves as veryromantic, aggressive, loving and so on -- were more likely thanothers ...Clues to heart disease seen in cholesterol reactions to stress
...re falsely accused of shoplifting andhad to defend themselves in the store's security office. Their speeches wherevideorecorded, and they were told they would be rated for poise, articulationand appearance. Although both groups showed significant increases in all of the lipids duringthe stressor, those men w...... and boys don't tend to disclose information about themselves as easily asgirls, says Crouter. "If parents are happy and the father is not in aparticularly stressed situation, boys may spend more time with the family in amore relaxed atmosphere, making it easier for parents to find out what's goingon." ...Women at high risk for breast cancer may avoid mammograms
... study. "Such women mayhave difficulty motivating themselves to obtain a mammogram due to their fear ofbreast c...ious individuals, therefore, are likely tomotivate themselves to complete difficult or unpleasant projects. Thescientists report the results of their study in th...Keck Foundation funds research to repair the injured spinal cord
...d out whether the transplanted cells mustintegrate themselves into these circuits for functional recovery to occur. "Thisstudy will determine whether transplanted nerve cell precursors can function aswell as survive," Jacquin says. Gottlieb, David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, genetics...Keep an eye on the weather if you take herbal antidepressants
... extra careif they go out in the sunshine to cheer themselves up. A combination of thepopular herbal remedy and bright light can lead to cataracts, researchers told ameeting in Washington DC last week. Hypericin, the active ingredient in St John's wort, reacts with visibleand ultraviolet light to produc...