AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
...will be closelycompared between both protocols and within the three arms of the first protocol. "The testing to to be performed will be the most comprehensive virologicassessment possible at this present time," said virologist MichaelGreenberg. "We will have a detailed picture of what is happening ...Study Says Machine Sensors Applicable To Human Ills
...blood pressurereading is today. Hall thinks that within the next six to 15 years less hazardous acoustictechniques will be coupled with better identification of bone failure precursorsto enable physicians to identify when patients need more aggressive treatmentto prevent broken bones . New technology co...Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...1996, issue of Pain, and human trials should begin within a year, he said. Grossman and his team began developing the pain polymer five years ago as an inexpensive, abuse-resistant way of offering pain management to people in developing nations, where cancer rates are high, but little or no treatment for pa...What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found In Tourette Twins' Caudates
...counted for almost all of the symptomatic variance within each twin pair. Previously, preoccupation with the motoric aspects of Tourette Syndrome had led researchersto search for clues in the putamen, according to Weinberger. Subtle changes in receptor availability in one small area appear to explain ra...... AIDS symptoms develop quickly and aggressively -- within the first one to two years of life -- and those in whom symptoms may not appear for a number of years. Until now, doctors have not known conclusively how to predict which HIV+ infants will fall into which category. Thymus dysfunction was common to ...KUMC Researchers Announce Breakthrough Method For Predicting Epileptic Seizures
...EEGs are tools used to measure electrical activity within the brain. By using the algorithm, researchers can now predict when a seizure is imminent. "The algorithm measures brain activity and separates the signals into seizure and non-seizure components. This creates a ratio of seizure to non-seizur...Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...ram's first year had recidivism rates of 12percent within six months and 17 percent within 12 months. For comparison, arandomly selected group of 41 HIV-positive women at the state prison who...Early Menopause Stress Related In Developing Countries
...usal, had actually experienced a menstrual period within the year," says Holman. "Preliminary analysis of the hormones in the samples seem to indicate that some of the women are actually experiencing amenorrhea, rather than menopause." Because of their low body weight, disease load, the stress of nurs...Drug And Radiation Treatment May Shrink Pancreatic And Gastric Tumors
...ression occurredrapidly in certain patients, often within three weeks after treatments began.After two months of treatments, tumors in several patients had decreased to asize to where they could be removed surgically. "Paclitaxel makes tumors much more sensitive to being killed by radiation,"said Safran, a...Duke Study Uses Tiny Temperature Changes To Probe Water-Exclusion At Protein Binding Sites
...r binding events control many biological processes within ourbodies, from the activity of enzymes to the signaling that takes place withincells. And blocking these binding events using synthetic molecules is thebasis of action of almost all pharmaceutical compounds, Toone said. Chemical reactions in t...Kids Near Airports Don't Read As Well
...e need to reestablish an office of noise abatement within the Environmental Protection Agency; such an office was abolished during the Reagan administration. They point to other health concerns related to chronic noise, including hearing damage, chronic cardiovascular activation, elevated annoyance and irr...Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...eory about how a major component of vaccines works within the body has been shot down by a Purdue University...minum adjuvant in the body is starting to dissolve within an hour, it's likely that whatever was collected on the surface is being released within a fairly sh...Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
... breastmilk itself, while others are made by cells within the breast. Breast milk has very high concentrations of complex carbohydrates, andsome of these have been shown to have immune properties, too. Oligosaccharidesand glycoconjugates, in particular, may inhibit infection by binding topathogens a...3D Ultrasound Gives Better View Of Brain's Arteries
...constructions yielded more precisereference points within the cerebral anatomy. "Thanks to the workstation," Delcker said, "we knew that follow-upimaging was showing us exactly the same level and same region in each patient asbefore." Also, with the prototype workstation and the 3D reconstr...Ultrasound Detects Pathology In Patients With Whiplash
...enceof normal pulsation of the cerebrospinal fluid within the thecal sac. Smallarteries and veins around the spinal cord can be visualized, which "could havean important impact in research of spinal cord injuries." Another benefit to the ultrasound is its ability to get aroundobstacles, such as surg...NIH Honors Emory Researcher With Merit Award For Work On Renin-Angiotensin System
... is initiated by a testis-specificpromoter located within a certain portion of the somatic ACE gene-a findinglater confirmed in the human gene. To determine whether testis ACE has any real importance in malereproduction, Bernstein created recombinant knockout mice containing no somaticor testis ACE g...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...re hopeful that we willsee commercial applications within two to five years." "One can envision something like a Star Trek medical ?tricorder' that anurse might bring to the bedside of a patient," said Michael Sailor, Ph.D.,professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSD, and co-author of the study.......ver extremely short pulses of light, which can cut within the delicate structures of the eye, such as the cornea, while avoiding damage to overlying or adjacent tissue---something not possible with current clinical laser technology," said Ron Kurtz , assistant professor of ophthalmology at the U-M Medical......lstatus would decrease but by less than 50 percent within 25 years. "The resultof combining the effects of these factors will lead to an increase in human lifespan," the draft report said. Section III asked respondents to estimate mortality improvement ratesfor the three countries by age group, gen......ic HealthReports. The structural problems within the Indian Health Service (IHS) abound. While nearly 60% of Indian people live off reservation in cities; funding forservices to them meets less than 20% of the estimated need. IHS lacks the authority to enter into risk contracts with state Medic...