Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
...ful in the study becauseparticipants had dedicated themselves to building exercise into their lives and found the variety helpful. "The message is not that all you have to do is buy this equipmentand you'll lose weight," said Jakicic. "But it is useful when helping to build a...A new strain of flu has turned up in Hong Kong
...amme in the 1980s, says that health officials find themselves ina dilemma each time a virus crosses over from pigs. "The question is: how do younot cry wolf while avoiding closing the door after the horse has bolted?" But given the obviously devastating impact of a flu pandemic, no one canafford to be ...Daughters' vulnerability, source of depression in women at high risk for ovarian cancer
...the journal of Gynecologic Oncology. "Mothers find themselves in a real confrontation when they think that, in addition to brown hair or green eyes, they may have inadvertently passed on a fatal disease to their daughters," says Professor Paul Ritvo, a public health scientist at the University of Toronto and Pr...UI study shows classification system for evaluating childhood hip disease may be unreliable
...am set out to measure how well surgeons agree with themselves and how well they agree with each other when using the system. The UI investigators also wanted to identify and quantify any sources of nonrandom error. The UI study involved nine individuals representing three levels of experience --three staff pedi...New book asks ethical questions about human subjects research
...of questions conscientious researchers have to ask themselves about how to work with human subjects," King says....ch in North Carolina, where researchers have asked themselves - or should have - questions like, 'Will my research put this community at risk? How should I protec...Few physicians counsel adolescents about smoking
... percent of office visits when patients identified themselves as smokers, physicians counseled patients on the r...t in 1996. The percentage of patients identifying themselves as smokers and the percentage of visits that included smoking-related counseling remained unchanged ...Cigarette smoking among American teens
... [The question asks how much "people risk harming themselves (physically or in other ways) if they smoke one or more packs of cigarettes per day."] (See Figure 3.) "Certainly this is a move in the right direction," Johnston comments, "but among the eighth-graders, even today only 55 percent think there is a...UM researchers discover 'key' to blood-brain barrier
...cell barrier in the intestine. The proteins attach themselves to receptors in the intestine to open the junctions between the cells and allow substances to be absorbed. The new research indicates that zonulin and zot also react with similar receptors in the brain. "The blood-brain barrier is like a gateway to......le of widely divergent disability levels who found themselves funneled into one-size-fits-all nursing homes -- to the roughly 300,000 "missing elders" cited in Bishop's report, those who have most likely abandoned government-regulated facilities in favor of less formal varieties of long-term care. Bishop say...BioMed Central -- freedom of information for the science community
...most exclusively by libraries. Theresearch reports themselves are highly-formalized articles whose formreflects the limits of the printed-paper format. We believe that newtechnologies can make the publishing process so much more efficient andflexible in both format and economic terms. BioMed Central believes th...Dietary bioflavonoids induce DNA breaks, may contribute to infant leukemia
...uestioned. The probable benefits of bioflavonoids themselves have also been demonstrated, such as the low mortality rates from prostate cancer in Asian men compared to Western countries, which may be because of higher intake of isoflavones." The benefits of dietary supplements containing bioflavonoids, howev...An active life helps to ward off Alzheimer's
...out the possibility that lower activity levels are themselves symptoms of the disease in its very early stages, Friedland believes that to be unlikely, because the study looked at levels of activity from at least five years before the onset of dementia.......ow fascinating the brain is, and help them imagine themselves working in a similar environment." Intrigued by th...vice will give students a chance to experience for themselves some of the challenges neurosurgeons encounter....Parenting, stress and your child's risk for alcoholism
... aroused or anxious, and then helping them to calm themselves down." Higley's study looked at rhesus monkeys, which share between 90 to 95 percent of their genetic material with humans. These monkeys also have a similar adrenal system which, for the purposes of this study, means that they respond to stress lik......, gone through the healing process, but still find themselves aching with unexplained pain months or years later -- there may be hope, according to an article in the June JACA. New research being conducted by Dr. Geoffrey Bove, a chiropractor and full-time neurophysiology researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Me...Study opens doors to significant changes in medications for schizophrenia
... believed that antipsychotic drugs work by binding themselves to dopamine D2 receptors in the brain. Using positron emission tomography (PET), a brain imaging technique that makes it possible to measure the amount of medication in the brain, the CAMH / U of T research group previously demonstrated that antipsyc...The bone marrow is the source of mature liver cells
...known that these cells are capable of transforming themselves into many types of tissue, including brain and muscle tissue. Like pieces of clay that can be sculpted into any design, they could possibly be used to generate replacements for organs in the body. Over the last eight months, the journal Hepat...Selective inhibitor can target specific enzyme that promotes cancer
...omb. Cancerous tumors, however, use MMPs to supply themselves with the blood needed for survival and to aid the spread of tumor cells throughout the body. Since gelatinases help supply blood to tumors, the inhibitor is designed to prevent the blood flow without stopping the normal functions of other MMPs, Mobas...Self-assembled nano-capsules resemble bacterial cell walls
...s of actin filaments. The filaments first arrange themselves into two-dimensional parallel arrays on both sides of the lipid layer, and then they spontaneously wrap into tubules." The spaces between the layers are filled with water and could be used for a variety of applications, including the packaging of cer......are untested or poorly tested, while the compounds themselves are generally not regulated. As a result, consumers who use these products are subjecting themselves to potential health risks, says Posner. Other laboratories are also developing cancer-preventive d...