Johns Hopkins study shows home test kits highly effective against sexually transmitted diseases
... that they have Chlamydia because symptoms may not appear for long periods after infection," says Gaydos. In the case of Chlamydia, for example, 80 percent to 90 percent of those infected develop no symptoms, putting them at extremely high risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, a condition that can leave a...Exercise, weight control may help reduce risk of breast cancer, Meharry-Vanderbilt study suggests
...ationship between BMI levels and disease risk that appear to exist between Western and Asian women. A 25 kg/m2 body mass index among Western women is considered to be normal weight, while a BMI of 25 kg/m2 among Asian women is considered to be in the overweight category and was associated with an increased...Johns Hopkins team finds 'ancestral' hepatitis-C virus at the root of evolution in infections
... sexual exposure. Symptoms of hepatitis C may not appear for years after infection, and diagnosis must be confirmed by blood tests. However, in addition to liver inflammation and tumors, earlier signs of infection are persistent flulike symptoms, including any combination of body aches, headaches, night s...Key to breast cancer prevention could hang in the balance
...ationship between BMI levels and disease risk that appear to exist between Western and Asian women. A 25 kg/m2 body mass index among Western women is considered to be normal weight, while a BMI of 25 kg/m2 among Asian women is considered to be in the overweight category and was associated with an increased...Research results from the 'Era of Hope' Department of Defense breast cancer research program meeting
...ng telltale genetic changes in breast tissues that appear normal, a new test may help predict the return of breast cancer after treatment, report researchers from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. The assay measures the DNA content of telomeres (TC), specialized nucleoprotein complexes that ...Teen-agers with Type 1 diabetes already developing cardiovascular disease
...fared better on IMT measurements than boys. "Girls appear to have a gender benefit, as do pre-menopausal women without diabetes," Kaufman says. "It is not known how long this gender benefit persists in teens and young adults." In a separate study, Karantza, Kaufman and their colleagues also looked at the ro...True cancer-causing genes revealed by new technique, say Stanford researchers
... cancerouscells in a lab dish, find mutations that appear in many of the samples,develop drugs to target proteins made by the mutated genes, and voila, newchemotherapy drugs are born. Or at least that's the hope. The problem with this approach is that while some mutations do lead tocancer, others just tag a...Nutritious frozen foods can play role in weight-loss programs
...s in overweight and obese men. Their findings will appear in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. The study was placed online by the journal last month. Subjects following the first of the diets ate a self-selected regimen based on the Food Guide Pyramid, a nutrition plan established by the U.S. De...Study examines reasons for suboptimal outcomes following deep brain stimulation surgery
...utcomes. The study is posted online today and will appear in the August print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. According to background information in the article, since the Food and Drug Administration approved deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease...Drinking for just eight weeks impairs learning and memory in mice
...he deficits are permanent. Two, that the deficits appear to be global, affecting all types of learning. Three, that the deficits are not related to any nutritional or sensory deficits produced by the alcohol. This indicates that the alcohol produced neurochemical changes in the brain important for learni...Nanoparticles carry cancer-killing drugs into tumor cells
...eam and enter the brain. The nanoparticles did not appear to generate an immune response in mice in the study. In future research, scientists at the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute will determine the maximum therapeutic dose, in research animals, of targeted nanotherapy with methotrexate, and complete oth...A vaccine approach to treating Parkinson's disease
...g Parkinson's and similar diseases. These results appear in the June edition of the journal Neuron. Eliezer Masliah, M.D., Professor of Neurosciences and Pathology at UCSD, and colleagues at UCSD and Elan Pharmaceuticals in San Francisco, vaccinated mice using a a combination of the protein that abnormally...Study shows importance of exposure age for Hanford nuclear workers' cancer risk
..."Survival of the fittest could have made radiation appear to be less important among the older survivors." Older people may be more sensitive to radiation because they already have accumulated a lifetime of exposures to radiation, chemicals and other carcinogens, he said. They already may have gone through ...10-year survival after minor stroke established
...th cerebral ischaemia." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) In an accompanying comment Graeme Hankey (Royal Perth Hospital, Australia) states: "The implications of van Wijk and colleagues' study, which can confidently be generalised to other hospital-referred patients, are that patients wi...Antibiotic treatment successful against elephantiasis
...rs and pregnant women." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper) In an accompanying comment Wilma Stolk (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands) states: "Research should now focus on identification of regimens, based on doxycycline or other antibiotics, that are practical for use in mass treatment"...New research evidence on anger in children and adults
...ily become angry or unhappy adults. But there does appear to be a raised chance that people who were persistently angry as children turn out to be frequently and persistently angry as young adults. Similarly, anger in adulthood is not always associated with adverse health outcomes. But anger in adulthood i...Researchers develop way to identify individuals at high-risk of stroke after a 'mini-stroke'
...e effectively focused." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper.)...Therapy may not be necessary for autoimmune hepatitis with no symptoms
...IH with symptomatic AIH. The results of the study appear in the July 2005 issue of Hepatology, the official...ill not develop symptoms during follow-up and they appear to do well without immunosuppressive therapy at least for as long as they remain asymptomatic."...NIAID scientists unveil mechanism behind resistance to severe malaria
...mas E. Wellems, M.D., Ph.D., whose team's findings appear this week in the journal Nature. Hemoglobin exists in several varieties. Hemoglobin A is the most common, but in parts of West Africa, where malaria is rife, one-fourth of the population has at least one gene for hemoglobin C. Children with at least...