Medication helps alcoholics control drinking
...f alcohol. For me, that's the fundamental issue of what addiction is: impaired control." However, this app...port the notion that while one drink is not great, what you really want to stop is excessive drinking." While few professionals advise people with alcoholis...Young blood revives aging muscles, Stanford researchers find
... themselves, that's at fault in aging. One clue to what might be going on also comes from previous work. Rando had found that satellite cells in younger muscles begin producing a protein dubbed Delta in response to muscle damage. Older muscles maintained the same pre-injury levels of Delta even after musc...Changing chemistry helps explain estrogen threat to the heart
..."What we were finding is that estrogen seems to be what you might call a natural nitroglycerin; nitroglyce... general. It causes a lot of cellular damage. But what we also have found is that now, instead of causing relaxation, it causes constriction. So you comple...Hepatitis B viral load, genotype affect liver cancer risk, study finds
...wn risk factors for HCC development, it is unclear what role HBV subtype or viral load--the amount of the virus in the blood--might have on cancer development. To determine whether HBV genotype and viral load are associated with HCC risk, Ming-Whei Yu, Ph.D., of National Taiwan University in Taipei, and c...Another look finds promising proteomics test is not biologically plausible
...udy, researchers present a "cautionary tale" about what may go wrong when using the fledgling science of p...searchers say. "Are we going to be able to measure what we want to measure?" Baggerly asks. "Given issues in technology and a lack of standards, I think it ...Study examines effect of managed care on quality of care for cancer patients
...crease with increased managed care market share in what is often referred to as the spillover effect. However, whether this decrease in expenditures is also associated with changes in the quality of care received by patients, including cancer patients, is not known. To examine associations between managed...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...hey want to change their drinking, and to consider what goals of change whether stopping or cutting back ...are several large-scale studies in progress to see what the impact of these interventions may be en masse, and how long the effect lasts. "But for many dri...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
...cancer. Consequentially, researchers were not sure what to make of the different findings, Cristofanilli says. M. D. Anderson's study is the first clinical investigation to examine the characteristics of invasive breast cancer in patients with hypothyroidism and compare the incidence of this common condit...UCLA study: Nearly a third of drug ads in medical journals contain no references for medical claims
...ical ads in American medical journals to determine what materials are cited in support of medical claims a...influenced by pharmaceutical ads. We wanted to see what documents were being used to substantiate the claims and how accessible these were to physicians who...Study finds new designer drug is potent treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...sive," says Griffin. "We've been able to expand on what we learned from Gleevec to produce a therapy that, thus far, has a more powerful and enduring impact against CML." AMN107 has been started in early phase clinical trials at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and if it proves safe to administer, will be te......ical ads in American medical journals to determine what materials are cited in support of medical claims a...influenced by pharmaceutical ads. We wanted to see what documents were being used to substantiate the claims and how accessible these were to physicians who...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...have cardiac surgeries. That speaks volumes about what the team at the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute has... The Fall Education Series, which was the first in what will be a series of educational conferences to share knowledge with surgeons and cardiovascular spec...Herb used to treat diabetes works like modern-day prescription drugs, study suggests
...ctively. "These kinds of reductions are similar to what we might see with prescription oral medications fo...now he and his colleagues are trying to figure out what dose of the herb is most effective, and when it should be taken relative to a meal. "We want to know...U of T researchers describe 'Joe Canadian' tongue
...nt for speech. Now, we can work toward determining what the ideal method of reconstruction is for different lesion locations and extents, so that we can ensure optimum speech outcomes for every patient." The researchers are now collecting ultrasound data from more tongue cancer patients in order to build ...Mayo Clinic identifies key cellular process in prostate and other cancers
...articular, the Mayo Clinic team wanted to find out what disables FOXO1 tumor suppressor, and how it works -- in hopes of reversing the process to find a new cancer therapy strategy. The Experiment The Mayo Clinic research team knew from previous research: FOXO1 possesses tumor suppressor functions. ...Falling in love in three minutes or less
PHILADELPHIA It seems that the heart wants what the heart wants and it can figure it out fairly q...se another. Other people say that don't even know what they're looking for. But our data suggest that, however it happens, people know it quickly when t...Dialogue & personal example work best for parents in drug talks with teens
...nces. One tactic would be for parents to ask teens what they hope to gain from use of alcohol, drugs and tobacco (e.g. relaxation, especially around the opposite sex; greater peer acceptance). The parent can then suggest wholesome alternatives to achieve the same end. These tools for a healthy lifestyle ...Penn joins major NCI research initiative to advance breast cancer therapies
...ermits us to ask such questions as: Can we predict what a tumor will do in its natural history? Will it me...read clinical use of non-invasive imaging, much of what we learn how to do in a mouse should be translatable to patients." Additional key investigators in t...High levels of airborne mouse allergen in inner-city homes could trigger asthma attacks
...nanograms per cubic meter or higher, comparable to what is seen in mouse research facilities. All study participants were also tested for mouse and other allergies, and nine children were found to be sensitized to mouse and 69.7 percent of children had at least one positive skin test to other common indoo...ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Despite what able-bodied healthy people might think, people wit...nd on average have moods that were much lower than what the real patients actually experienced. Interestingly, the patients themselves seemed to underestim...