Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
... of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; leads efforts aimed at developing an HIV vaccine John B. Robbins, M.D., chief, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; has pioneered vaccines for diseases that are prevalent in infants and children ...Public leadership in neurology award honors Leeza Gibbons for Alzheimer's awareness efforts
...my of Neurology's powerful work." Her advocacy has aimed to take the shame and stigma out of memory disorders. She began by working with various Alzheimer's-related nonprofits and visiting Capitol Hill. In addition to producing episodes about Alzheimer's and dementia on her daily talk show, Gibbons become ...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
...he RCE program supports interdisciplinary research aimed at new and improved therapies, vaccines, diagnostics and other tools to protect against the threat of bioterrorism and other emerging and re-emerging diseases....Obesity common among Chinese adults
... need to develop comprehensive national strategies aimed at the prevention and treatment of the metabolic syndrome and overweight, to reduce the increased societal burden of cardiovascular disease in China." The metabolic syndrome is described in a seminar in this week's issue of The Lancet....Northwestern's cancer genetics program finds gene variants that greatly increase breast cancer risk
... Cancer Research journal. This is the first study aimed at determining whether various combinations of two naturally-occurring variants of the TGF-beta pathway may predict breast cancer risk. It is also the first study assessing a cancer-related pathway by means of two functionally-relevant variants. Bloo...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (second issue)
...FERENCES A study in 4 intensive care units (ICUs) aimed at family conferences to discuss the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining therapy in critically ill patients showed that in 15 of 51 conferences physicians missed opportunities to provide either support or information to the family. All 51 ...Alternate view for pathology of AD
...dative stress, but might also represent a response aimed at reducing oxidative damage." There is growing evidence that oxidative stress is a significant factor in the development of AD. Free radicals and reactive oxygen species oxidize tissues. Rusting metal is a process of oxidization, for example. In t...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
... and cognitive behavioural interventions which are aimed to help people take control of food stimuli, reinforce good behaviour, develop methods of self-monitoring and problem solving, as well as learning to set realistic goals for themselves. The authors concluded that, when combined with dietary and exerc...Early detection of lung cancer
...ase is also available in Spanish This study was aimed at the detection of lung cancer in its early stage...essential to continue with these lines of research aimed at identifying the population at high risk with precision. Specifically, a priority line of investig...Canadian youth 4th highest in international obesity study
...levision viewing should be the focus of strategies aimed at preventing and treating overweight and obesity ...uld be a fundamental component of health campaigns aimed at reducing the global obesity epidemic."...Child sex abuse policy recommendations published in Science magazine
...nd psychology, recommend: stepping up research aimed at determining the prevalence of child sex abuse and identifying its causes, consequences, prevention and treatment expansion of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a federally funded coalition of 54 centers providing community-based treat...Guava and AHF Global Immunity bring low cost AIDS diagnosis to resource-limited countries
...n the United States, today announced a partnership aimed at increasing access in resource-limited nations to AIDS diagnosis and treatment monitoring. The partnership will initially focus on making Guava's EasyCD4 TM system for direct, absolute CD4 T cell counts available at five sites in rural locations i...College education protects middle-age caucasian women against obesity
...be well established by midlife, prevention efforts aimed at reducing the prevalence of obesity in African American women should begin in adolescence or early adulthood."...Community efforts can reduce alcohol fatalities
... to support the implementation of 10-year programs aimed at reducing substance abuse and related problems. The communities developed 15 different kinds of programs or actions that targeted alcohol abuse, including increasing publicly-funded treatment, establishing awareness campaigns about treatment servic...Excess oxygen worsens lung inflammation in mice
...itutes of Health, has revealed that oxygen therapy aimed at helping mice with acute lung inflammation breathe paradoxically worsened their illness. The researchers say excess oxygen appears to thwart a natural process that limits lung tissue damage. They overcame this deleterious side effect, however, by a...Magnetic stimulation treatment for depression helping difficult-to-treat cases at UT Southwestern
...g noises sounding in her ears. Magnetic pulses are aimed at the left prefrontal cortex of the brain. Inside the brain, the magnetic pulses produce an electric field. This field, in turn, stimulates the neurons in that region of the brain, yet the amount of electricity created in the brain is too small for ...Professor criticises medicine's 'blind spot'
...number of examples of current scientific research aimed at treating patients' symptoms by addressing psychological aspects of medical care. These include exploration of the therapeutic impact of investigation and diagnosis in patients whose symptoms are disproportionate to disease; problem solving therapy...Popular procedures evaluated for diagnostic accuracy and treatment effectiveness
...n this multi-center study from Sweden, researchers aimed to find out whether the technique is effective for GERD patients, as compared to a standard sham procedure. Forty-seven patients were randomized to receive either an EGP operation or sham operation and were treated with esomeprazole for two weeks fol...Jefferson researcher's results show promise for metastatic eye melanoma
... hoped, fight the cancer. In the trial, which was aimed at testing for treatment toxicity and feasibility, Dr. Sato found that 30 percent of 39 patients studied (34 of whom had uveal melanoma) had tumor shrinkage and another 30 percent had tumors that didn't grow. He presents his team's findings May 17, ...... Canada is provided at the provincial level and is aimed at the people who need the care, not those who look after them," says Dr. Keefe, Canada Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving Policy at MSVU. "Recognizing the role of family caregivers and their contributions is important. Many caregivers incur fina...