25-minute test distinguishes between different types of schizophrenia
...p the condition at an earlier age. It is not known why or whether this illness is biologically different from later onset schizophrenia. In addition, people who develop the illness at an earlier age have a worse outcome -- they often have more problems relating to other people, finding a job or living in...Establishing "stroke centers" in hospitals would reduce deaths and disabilities, say stroke experts
...t together the resources to treat trauma patients, why can't they do the same for stroke patients?" said Mark J. Alberts, M.D., lead author of the JAMA paper. Dr. Alberts is also chairman of the Stroke Belt Consortium and director of the stroke acute care unit at Duke University Medical Center. There ar...Humans can regrow liver from bone marrow
...n cells," said Theise. "So some people have argued why invoke stem cells? A couple of studies have looked for them in humans but the data have never been definitive until now." Theise and his team, which also includes investigators at Yale University School of Medicine and at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Can...... and servicing. Participants also learned when and why this shift is likely to occur, and who will be the winners and losers. Prescription Utilization Patterns In Senior Populations, Emily R. Cox, PhD, Outcomes Research Manager, Express Scripts This timely, in-depth evaluation of prescription drug use a...New research reveals jury bias against whiplash lawsuits
...ot a little neck injury," "that kind of lawsuit is why our court system is overloaded and premiums are so high," "it's real easy to claim injury when you're not really hurt and get large amounts from insurance companies." The national survey upheld that attitude showing that 92 percent questioned belie...UI-led study shows experimental anti-cancer drug also has anti-HIV properties
...Achilles heel," Price said. "Understanding how and why HIV-1 is so sensitive to P-TEFb inhibitors will be the focus of future work in my lab."...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...bout moral accountability. The authors help us see why some people take responsibility for their lives when others do not. They show how social organizations and institutional arrangements sometimes support and at other times hinder individual responsibility....Some autistic people have memory advantage for certain tasks
...se of context helps us in most situations - that's why the index words confused some of the control subjects," Beversdorf said. "Autistic people don't use context as well; and that helped them during the test." But the same ...Farmers tend to work long past typical retirement age, survey finds
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... explanation. It didn't explain, for instance, why the presence of the donor antigen prevented the cells from showing a DTH reaction to tetanus toxoid (TT) - a test antigen that normally elicits a response. "We figured that the donor antigen...Fine-tuning naltrexone treatment for alcoholics
...atients. Yet researchers couldn't quite determine why some alcoholics were helped and others were not, despite their equal commitment to quit drinking. McCaul's findings may help resolve this mystery. "This paper is especially important on two fronts," said Volpicelli. "First, it begins to identify ...Attachment helps young children inhale asthma medications, UF researcher says
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...nd an important clue in the brain that may explain why some people respond better to an anti-depressant t...rnational journal Biological Psychiatry, looked at why there is often a delay of several weeks before an anti-depressant starts to make a person feel bette...Transgenic mice aid research into deadly cancer
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...ing septic shock, we hope to solve the question of why blood pressure most often continues to plummet in sepsis cases despite using pharmacological agents that should, in fact, increase and maintain vascular pressure and blood flow, said Dr. Daniela Salvemini, MetaPhores Director of Biology and the Princ...Studies: delay in seeking stroke treatment can lead to death, permanent impairment
... schools of public health and medicine, focused on why stroke treatment often is delayed. Both appear in the November issue of Stroke, a publication of the American Heart Association. One, titled "Second Delay in Accessing Stroke Healthcare (DASH 11) Study," looked at how patients and witnesses reacted......vision. This explains the long-standing mystery of why oestrogen affects cell division. "It's been doing this for years, and no one knew why," says Dahiyat. The new technique allows millions of different proteins to be generated, each one tagged to the gene that made it. So far Xencor has only tried...