Research urgently needed to treat blood clots in children
...problems," Dr. Massicotte said. The review results appear in the March, 2005 issue of Pediatric Radiology. The condition, which exists in children ranging from premature infants to the late teens, is often not discovered until the autopsy stage. PTE most frequently exists in children who suffer from underly...Alternate view for pathology of AD
...binger of neuronal death since NFT-bearing neurons appear to survive for decades. In fact, one study found that neurons containing NFTs can survive for as long as 20 years. Senior author, Mark A. Smith, Ph.D., professor of pathology at Case, noted, "These findings are in accord with our own published findi...Tea may help prevent diabetes and cataracts
...ons, including cataracts. The report, scheduled to appear in the May 4 print issue of the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , was published March 31 on the journal's Web site. ACS is the world's largest scientific society. Researchers fed green and black tea to diabet...Spice it up or just veg out, either way you may be helping to defend against cancer
.... We discovered that red chili pepper and broccoli appear to be effective inhibitors of the cancer process,"...certain nutrients in vegetables and dietary agents appear to protect the body against diseases such as cancer." The first study, abstract number 2469, looked ...The Cochrane Library newsletter, 2005, issue 2
...ct them from CVD, and various uncontrolled studies appear to confirm this idea. However, the question of whether HRT has a long-term benefit for women at risk of CVD is unresolved. To answer this, Cochrane Review Authors drew on data from 10 large, well run studies. Pooling the results they were able to com...Some Alzheimer's patients can benefit from drug memantine
...n treat agitation in Alzheimer's patients, it does appear to prevent the onset of agitation, the review finds. The studies also hint at some cognitive benefits from the drug for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, which occurs when brain cells are starved of oxygen by blocked o...No strong evidence linking mercury levels with worse neurobehavioral performance in older adults
...ince the blood mercury levels in our study did not appear to be associated with adverse neurobehavioral effects, our results suggest that these levels of exposure may not present a concern for older adults. Studies with more detailed dose assessment are necessary to confirm this conclusion since a single bl...Researchers develop 'genetic blueprint' to predict response to esophageal cancer treatments
ANAHEIM - For the first time, researchers appear to be able to use a comprehensive panel of genetic variants to predict how a patient with esophageal cancer will respond to a spectrum of cancer treatments. At the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), researchers fro...CML found to wield 'death factor' that kills normal blood marrow cells
...ome a cell killer," he says. The secreted proteins appear to destroy bone marrow stem cells responsible for producing red blood cells as well as platelets, but leukemia cells are believed to be resistant to the effects of 24p3, the researchers found. "This provides an understanding of how Philadelphia chrom...Short sugar chains-a future drug for Alzheimer's?
... build-up of amyloid, morbid protein deposits that appear in several serious diseases. This is shown by Uppsala scientists in an article published in today's Net edition of the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Heparansulfate, long chains of sugar molecules, is produced by most c...Study links cigarette smoking with progression of multiple sclerosis
...urological damage from the disease. Study results appear in the March 9, 2005 issue of Brain. Miguel Hernn, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of epidemiology at HSPH, noted that "the findings are interesting because no modifiable risk factors for the progression of MS are known. ...Feeling safe and secure? CUMC scientists find it's all in the caudoputamen
... associated with safety and security. The findings appear in the April 21 issue of Neuron. "This work points to a second system in addition to the brain's well-known fear circuits that probably malfunctions in some people with anxiety disorders," says the study's first author, Michael Rogan, Ph.D., of Col...Genetic variation linked to alcohol dependence found in a Russian population
...s in general anesthesia. Some of alcohol's effects appear to be mediated through GABRA2." This gene is often found in persons who do not become alcoholic, but its presence causes a small increase in risk that appears to be consistent across U.S. and Russian populations, Lappalainen said. It is not known ho...High levels of immunosuppressant may lead to tumor recurrence
... affect rejection rates. The results of this study appear in the May 2005 issue of Liver Transplantation, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) and the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS). The journal is published on behalf of the societies b...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...s that all of the potently neutralizing antibodies appear to recognize the same general region of this domain," says Fremont. "It was very consistent--all the neutralizing antibodies that bind this domain adhere to that area; all the non-neutralizing antibodies that bind this domain adhere to different area...Breast cancer detector that uses electricity instead of X-rays under study
...lk production," says Dr. Craft. Less-dense breasts appear darker in an X-ray image, making them easier for the radiologist to assess. "If this is a very innocuous study that can be applied to younger people and we can pick up cancers in women who are 25, 27, 28 and save many lives without giving them radiat...American Academy of Neurology sums up scientific highlights from 57th annual meeting
...to the growing list of conditions for which NSAIDs appear to offer protection. [P05.073] The known genes for Parkinson's disease account for only a small percent of all cases. At the meeting, researchers described the most recent gene discovery, LRRK2, whose function is not yet known, which may be responsib...Study of iron overload yields surprising results
...mutations. The full results of the screening study appear in the April 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Wake Forest University School of Medicine was the coordinating center for the study, which recruited more than 100,000 participants in primary care settings and seven blood drawing labora...OHSU study finds ginkgo beneficial for MS symptoms
...ment of Neurology and the OHSU MS Center of Oregon appear to back up that claim. A study presented this month at the American Academy of Neurology's 57th Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Fla., suggests that ginkgo may be effective in improving attention in MS patients with cognitive impairment. Side effects a...College education protects middle-age caucasian women against obesity
...ses," Lewis said. "Because race-education patterns appear to 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."...