Rockefeller University researchers are changing the face of drug addiction treatment
...g remembers one patient saying, "I felt like I was going down the drain with drug use, that I was going to die soon. This [intervention] got me connected, got me involved in groups and back into things. N...Hormonal birth control, bacterial infections in women linked to increased shedding of type-2 herpes
...in check, according to Dr. Cherpes. "I think it's going to be an important thing--it's not going to be a panacea, but it will help slow the spread [of HSV-2], and right now we want to do anything t...OHSU scientist helping explain basis of psychotic behavior
...pamine neurotransmitter system. "But to say you're going to then reverse supersensitivity by changing the D2-high status, we haven't done that. To do that, we have to be able to selectively manipulate the system in such a way that we could drive the receptor from high-to low-affinity or otherwise effect it...Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
...d adhesive industry and wood products industry are going to see some major changes in the next few years," Li said. "It appears our adhesives will have a huge impact in the creation of improved wood products that work better and are safe in the environment." The new adhesive should improve both work and li...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...eter Singer. "Science and technology alone are not going to magically solve all the problems of developing countries but they are critical components of development. Nanotechnology is a relatively new field that will soon be providing radical and relatively inexpensive solutions to critical development pro...Little answers to world's biggest problems
... the study. "Science and technology alone are not going to magically solve all the problems of developing countries but they are critical components of development. Nanotechnology is a relatively new field that will soon be providing radical and relatively inexpensive solutions to critical development pro...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...or the rate of release and determine what's really going on." This ability is important for researchers to get insight into the biological activity of different drugs and how they might be modulated for drug release. "We have low, medium and high affinity binding proteins," Sakiyama-Elbert. "We can look ...Jefferson researchers find timing of post-epilepsy surgery seizures predicts outcome
...e says. "If not enough tissue was taken out, it is going to happen sooner rather than later." There is also a known "running down" phenomenon in which in some cases the epileptic brain eventually loses the ability to have seizures. These results, if confirmed, "May help predict the long-term success of su...College students likely drink much more alcohol than they think they do
...art. This might be true, but it's also clear that going over that limit can increase a person's risk of a variety of diseases, particularly in women. So, it's sort of dangerous, in my opinion, to tell people that a drink or two per day is safe without also teaching them what we mean by the term 'drink.' ...Easing the anxiety of pregnancy after miscarriage
...ve nearly the vivid pictures of what this baby was going to be likeI knew that I was pregnant, but I didn't think that I was going to have a baby. Six weeks before the due date someone sent me a baby present and I said, 'They thin...Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
...obs to Scotland. There are already 100's of trials going on in the city and the project is set to expand further on these innovative developments. Health Minister, Andy Kerr said: "I'm delighted to attend the launch of Glasgow Biomedicine to promote the excellent standard of clinical trial work in Scotland...MR spectroscopy may be superior for determining prostate cancer prognosis
...roscope, often cannot distinguish which tumors are going to spread and which are not. Many men live for years with slow-growing prostate tumors before they die of unrelated causes, and treating such patients could cause more harm than benefit, Cheng notes. So finding a better way to determine which patie...Research reveals emotional trauma parents face when a child is diagnosed with diabetes
...ositive and were relieved that their child was not going to die and that the diagnosis had enabled them to ...h you have to have, but you're thinking I am never going to come to terms with it." - Mother of a 13-year-old boy, four months after diagnosis. "So things ...Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
...ars," added Quinlan, "but around 1999 they stopped going down, despite safer cars and highways." The researchers, all based at the time at the CDC, analyzed telephone surveys with more than 100,000 people in the United States in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2002. Respondents, aged 18 or older, were asked ab...New research reveals common beliefs about gender differences in health
... Our findings suggest in contrast that what may be going on in response to these type of questions is neither an optimistic nor negative bias for one's own sex, but rather a bias towards thinking any health experience, whether positive or negative, is more probable for one's own sex than the opposite sex t...New grants to Georgetown to help build national cancer biomedical informatics grid
...ause the people building it are the people who are going to use it," he says. Clarke himself focuses on breast cancer research, and says "the entire Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center community is committed to adopting the infrastructure being developed and implemented by the caBIG community. We also s...New guidelines recommend screening HIV-infected patients for kidney disease
...ng care of them early so they don't have to end up going on dialysis." According to the guidelines, those at high risk of kidney disease include people of African descent, those with low CD4+ cell counts or high viral loads, and people with diabetes, hypertension, or hepatitis C coinfection. All patients d...UT Southwestern researchers show new drug may help treat certain forms of leukemia
...ave been working on shows considerable promise for going into the clinic," said Dr. Robert Ilaria Jr., associate professor of internal medicine and molecular biology and senior author of the study that will appear in an upcoming issue of Blood. The study is available online. The study on the drug, called P...Response of New York City public school children to September 11
...osed themselves. "The fifth main finding was that going to a school near the place of the near the place of the attack was associated with lower rates of probable mental disorder," the authors write. "This somewhat surprising finding may possibly be explained by a combination of factors, such as worldwide...Exercise in cold water may increase appetite, UF study finds
... the students didn't know their caloric intake was going to be measured. "We found that during the recovery period when the subjects had access to an assortment of foods that significantly more calories were eaten after exercise in cold water compared to exercise in warm water or at rest," White said. ...