UIC researchers to develop new drugs to fight bioterrorism
... ... "Anthrax has bee...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
... Suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents, according to background information in the article. In 2003, 6.5 per 100,000 U.S. teenagers aged 14 to 19 years committed suicide. In 2005, more than 8 percent of high school students reported one or more suicide attempts in the previous year. Childho...Genetic variations may predispose some men to suicidal thoughts during treatment for depression
... Although most patients with depression respond favorably to antidepressant medications, a very small subgroup may experience worse symptoms after beginning treatment, according to background information in the article. Regardless of treatment specificity, nearly all antidepressant medication studies...Suicide awareness, prevention programs needed in schools
When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the same way they skirted discussions about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools. ... James Mazza will challenge the more than 60...Antipsychotic drug may block addiction, UIC researchers find
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that a long-approved oral antipsychotic drug can stop the addictive properties of opioid painkillers in mice. ... ...The researchers injected a small dose (half a milligram) of trifluoperazine -- used in the treatment of mental diseases such as schizophrenia -- into laboratory mice hooked on morphine. After a few hours their add...TB test offers patients quicker and easier diagnosis
... ... For the new test, patients use a nebuliser to inhale salty water, or hypertonic saline, for twenty minutes. This enables them to produce sputum samples from deep inside the lungs...UIC awarded $7M NIH grant for infertility research
... ... One of only 14 national sites, the UIC...Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
... During a two-semester course, the seven-student team fabricated a thin film that should melt quickly in a babys mouth, prompting the child to swallow the vaccine. The dissolved medication is coated with a material to protect it in the childs stomach. This coating is also designed to release the vaccine in the sm...Quick, innovative procedure helps men minimize incontinence after prostatectomy
... ... ... "Modifying existing tissues, our technique added only a few minutes to standard robotic prostatecto...NIH funding UIC brain tumor research
... A hydrogel-based delivery system, similar in consistency to gelatin, has been developed to control the release of chemotherapy drugs that will kill glioblastoma multiforme, the most advanced and invasive form of brain tumor, and other solid tumors, said Richard Gemeinhart, assistant professor in the departments of biopharmaceutical sciences and bioengineering and lead researcher of the stud...Teens with migraine at greater risk of suicide
... "Teens with chronic daily headache should be screened for psychiatric disorders so they can get the treatment and help they need," said study author Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD, of...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
... Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is an important factor in the AIDS pandemic, although important strides have been made in limiting transmission with antiviral drug therapies before, during, and following birth. In the last few decades the rate of mother-to-child transmi...Did pack-size laws reduce paracetamol suicides or was fall just a coincidence?
... Paracetamol is a cheap and effective pain-killer but overdoses (accidental or deli...Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
A Cornell researcher is working to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly by as much as 10 to 15 years.... The work is part of an $8.6 million international consortium, called the CD4 Initiative, led by Imperial College in London an...Study links attempted suicide with genetic evidence identified in previous suicide research
... Were hoping our findings will eventually lead to tests that can identify those at high risk for attempting suicide, says Virginia Willour, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author of the study. An estimated 4.6 percent of Americans ages 15 to 54 have tried to take th...100 percent juices found as beneficial to health as fruits and vegetables
... ... Juices are comparable in their ability to reduce risk compared to their whole fruit/vegetable counterparts say several researchers in the United Kingdom who conducted the literature review....UIC receives grant to find new drugs for bipolar disorder
... ... "Currently, treatments for bipolar disorder include so-called 'mood stabilizers' -- lithium and valproic acid," Kozikowski said. "Both are relatively dated drugs that...Sleep disturbances, nightmares are common among suicide attempters: Journal Sleep
... The study, conducted by Nisse Sjstrm, RN, and colleagues of Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gteborg, Sweden, focused on 165 patients between the ages of 18-68, who were admitted to medical units or psychiatric wards at Sahlgrenska after a suicide attempt. It was discovered that 89 percent of subjects reported some kind of sleep disturbance...Antidepressants associated with increased risk for suicide attempts, decreased risk for death
... Major depression is one of the most important risk factors for suicidal behavior, according to background information in the article. However, medications used to treat depression have also been linked to suicidal attempts and behavior, especially among children and ad...Inexpensive test detects H5N1 infections quickly and accurately
Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed an inexpensive "gene chip" test based on a single influenza virus gene that could allow scientists to quickly identify flu viruses, including avian influenza H5N1. The researchers used the MChip to detect H5N1 in samples collected over a three-year period from people and...Poor readers have higher risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior
... ... The res...Doctor urges health-care workers to be alert to suicide risk amongst cancer patients
... ....Large subset of learning disabled children can be quickly identified by new diagnostic device
... ... "Learning disabilities are believed to affect nearly one in 10 children, but their causes are difficult to pinpoint," says Nina Kraus, director of Northwestern University's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory. She and Northwestern researchers Trent Nicol and Steven Zecker have fou...Daily weighing and quick action keeps pounds off
Providence, RI -- Most successful dieters regain the weight they lost. But new research shows that stepping on a scale every day, then cutting calories and boosting exercise if the numbers run too high, can significantly help dieters maintain weight loss. The study, conducted by researchers at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, reports results of the first program designed specificall...Same mortality but higher suicide rate among women with breast implants
... Universit Laval's Jacques Brisson and Louis Latulippe and their colleagues collected infor...Drug can quickly mobilize an army of cells to repair injury
... Recently, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrated that a drug called AMD3100 can mobilize angiogenic cells from bone marrow of human patients in a matter of hours instead of days, as was the case with a related...Juices may reduce Alzheimer's disease risk
In a large epidemiological study, researchers found that people who drank three or more servings of fruit and vegetable juices per week had a 76 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimers disease than those who drank juice less than once per week. ...... The study by Qi Dai, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine, and colleagues appears in the September issue of The American Journal of Me...Orange juice is better than lemonade at keeping kidney stones away
... ... Medically managing recurrent kidney stones requir...Quick diagnosis of flu strains possible with new microchip test
Scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a microchip-based test that may allow more labs to diagnose influenza infections and learn more about the viruses causing illness. The FluChip successfully distinguished among 72 influenza strains--including the H5N1 avian influenza strain--in less than 12 hours. The rese...Researchers find nicotine withdrawal begins quickly
Tampa, FL (Aug. 16, 2006) - Smokers who have tried to quit are well aware of the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal: cravings for cigarettes, mood disturbances, appetite increase and sleep problems. However, it had not previously been known when withdrawal symptoms first appear. Thomas H. Brandon, Ph.D., Director of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute's Tobacco Research & Intervention...Cancer survivors at risk for suicidal thoughts, attempts
... The suicidal symptoms were reported by more than 12 percent - a greater proportion than had been expected -- of patients seen at a clinic providing care for adult cancer survivors, the researchers write in the August 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The findings should prompt providers at survivor clinics to conside...Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State get grant to study link between antidepressants and suicidality in teens
... In 2004, the FDA performed a meta-analysis of th...Children and teens taking antidepressants might be more likely to attempt, complete suicide
... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently began requiring drug manufacturers to include a warning regarding the risk of suicidal behavior among children and teens treated with antidepressants after a large analysis of clinical trials revealed a potential link. It is uncertain whether there is an association between...... By demonstrating a clear relationship between odor sampling time and accurate odor identification, the Monell researchers solved a controversy centering on whether the brain processes olfactory information in a similar manne...Key event in cell death occurs as single, quick event
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated that a key event during apoptosis (cell suicide) occurs as a single, quick event, rather than as a step-by-step process. Apoptosis eliminates extraneous cells from the developing body; and disposes of cells that sustain irreparable harm to their DNA or are infected with microorganisms....The researchers photographed individual...New MRI technique quickly builds 3-D images of knees
... ... Magnetic resonance has long been touted as the ideal method for capturing...Recently released prisoners in England and Wales at high risk of suicide
... Several studies have looked at suicide in custody, but few after release from prison. To investigate, Jennifer Shaw (University of Manchester, UK) and colleagues used a national database to identify all individuals in England and Wales who had died by suicide or who had received an open verdict* at the coroner's inquest between 2000 and 2002. The researchers then identified which of these s...Hopkins researchers develop new quick tool to sort out insect bites in children
... ... ... ... Insect-bite skin rashes mimic the symptoms of a variety of conditions, ranging from fungal infections, scabies, al...The familiar "no pain, no gain" phrase usually associated with exercise may be a thing of the past if results from a study on cherry juice published June 21 in the online version of the British Journal of Sports Medicine prove true in future research....... Historically, a number of approaches to prevent exercise-induced muscle pain and damage have been examined, but few have been effective. Decl...Cherry juice can reduce muscle pain and damage induced by exercise, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.... ... Many approaches have been used to try and stave off muscle pain and damage after exercise, but few have been effective, say the authors.... ... Fourteen volunteers were asked to either drink fresh cherry juice blended with commercial...