Update on cholesterol guidelines: more-intensive treatment options for higher risk patients
... update to the ATP III guidelines is not the final word on LDL goals. There are three ongoing trials in high-risk individuals, which when completed, may lead to a broader recommendation for reaching very low LDL goals in high-risk patients. To interview Dr. Cleeman, contact the NHLBI Communications Of...Emselex(R) receives positive CHMP opinion for the treatment of overactive bladder
... function such as memory, choice reaction time and word recognition, compared to placebo 3 . About Novartis Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) is a world leader in pharmaceuticals and consumer health. In 2003, the Group's businesses achieved sales of USD 24.9 billion and a net income of USD 5.0 billion. The Group ...Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
...er, producing only small surface effects with the word 'blind' meaning the rupture does not extend all the way to the surface," Parsons explained. "Despite this term, blind faults typically produce tell-tale signs in the surface landscape, but in this case all clues have been hidden by later floods and s...Envisat Symposium report day 4: Assistance from space to combat hazards and natural disasters
...gency managers and space scientists, to spread the word about what Earth Observation can do. Echoing Monday's declaration from ESA's Jos Achache, Earth Observation Programmes, that "the mission is not over until data has been delivered", Machiko Louhisuo of Finland's VTT Technical Research Centre outline...Millions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at increased risk for type 2 diabetes
... clinics across the United States, we will get the word out that preventing type 2 diabetes is proven, possible, and powerful," she said. AAPCHO is dedicated to improving the health status and access to health care of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States. ...Northwestern researchers pinpoint how false memories are formed
... objects they were to imagine. For example, if the word was cat, they were told to imagine the cat and decide if a cat is generally bigger or smaller than a video monitor. The memory test was administered outside the scanner and began approximately 20 minutes after the scanning. Subjects hea...Experts debate benefits, dangers of chlorine in C&EN point-counterpoint
Get a group of scientists together and mention the word "chlorine" and watch the sparks start to fly. That's exactly what happened at a forum on a different, but related, topic of sustainability, sponsored by the news magazine Chemical & Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, th...Hmong face high rates of some cancers
...community debate, consensus was reached on a Hmong word for cancer: kheesxawj. The first Hmong arrived in the United States from Thai refugee camps in the early 1980s, settling primarily in California's Central Valley and the St. Paul, Minn., area. Among California's Hmong today, 44 percent have less than...OHSU study: Testosterone deprivation makes men forget
... Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, found that word retention drops sharply after only two minutes amo... new words and were asked whether they'd seen each word before. This test was performed at three time intervals: immediately, after two minutes and after 12...Anxiety good for memory recall, bad for solving complex problems
...en a list of three words and asked to think of one word that, when combined with each of the three given w... worse on the memory test, but had improved on the word and shape tests. "There was a clear relationship between cognitive function and stress levels," Beve...Scientists detail latest advances in development of prosthetic devices for paralyzed
...o have lost the ability to communicate could use a word processor, surf the Internet, or even control a prosthesis," Schalk says. The group plans to extend their findings in more subjects, and hopes to develop a clinical device based on ECoG recordings. New work from a group at Lund University in Sweden ...Promise for helping adults with dyslexia
...in activity. The fMRI scans revealed that during a word processing task, the dyslexic subjects showed less...elete the initial phoneme -- for example, hear the word "cat" and repeat "at." As a control task, the subjects were asked only to repeat the words they hear...Impaired neuromotor function following cancer treatment can improve
... memory, motor speed and dexterity, attention, and word association, were tested before, 3 months after, and 1 year after the transplant. At three months after transplant, patients experienced a significant decline in all the functions tested. By one year, however, the neuromotor functions for most patien...Good intentions versus bad habits: Why the old ways win out
...study first learned one way of responding to a cue word (e.g., "Say 'cup' when you see 'coffee' "), and then later learned another way (e.g., "Now say 'mug' when you see 'coffee' "). They were given memory tests both immediately after learning the words, and the day after. Some people were told to contr...Iris Murdoch's last novel reveals first signs of Alzheimer's disease
...are. The complete texts were also transformed into word lists showing the frequency of each word by word-type. The number of word types within a text is a measure of the variety of vocabulary us...NYU Child Study Center raises a record $3.4 million at Seventh Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
...atric disorder is the last stigma. We can say the word 'cancer' out loud, we can discuss seizures, but too many of us shy away when the topic comes to child psychiatric disorders like depression," said Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., Director of the NYU Child Study Center. Guests at the Dinner included...Drug to treat ADHD has similar effect on children with reading disorders
...to decide whether they saw or heard a real English word or a nonsense word. Their results were compared to a group of 14 healthy adolescents who were not given Ritalin. Although Ritalin did not affect performance, it altered the areas of the brain that were active during the simple performance of ta...Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
...Spanish speakers who did not understand Silbo. The word silbador comes from the Spanish verb silbar, which...ere asked to keep track of how many times a target word or whistle appeared during a trial. When the silbadores listened to the Silbo sentences, several re...Baby talk: Infants have much to say if adults will only listen
...nt to know is if the infant will match the audible word with the correct lip movement. The answer is in the baby's eyes. In another test, the length of time an infant focuses on a red and white checkerboard pattern while hearing various words or hearing no sounds tells researchers that normal-hearing inf...Lifestyle changes especially effective at preventing type 2 diabetes in adults aged 60 and older
...ng that risk among this age group. To spread the word that diabetes prevention for older adults is proven and possible, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) launched a public awareness campaign today called "It's Not Too Late to Prevent Diabe...