Inflammatory system genes linked to cognitive decline after heart surgery
...ic variants were less likely to have problems with areas of cognitive function such as memory, attention and concentration. While bypass surgery has saved millions of Americans with coronary artery disease, many patients and families find that cognitive decline after surgery has reduced their quality of ...Studies suggest investigational agent reduces disease activity in MS
...ment with the drug rituximab reduced the number of areas of brain damage, or lesions, in people with MS and the number of relapses, or times when symptoms flare up, when compared with placebo. Rituximab is a therapeutic antibody that selectively targets and depletes a subset of immune cells called B-cel...New prostate cancer treatment wins operations research award for Sloan-Kettering
...nging improvements to health care, not only in the areas of policy, finance, and public health but in diagnosis and treatment, as well. Dr. Marco Zaider, Attending Physicist in Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center received the award together with Professor Eva K. Lee, Director of the...Your brain and hormones may conspire to make you fat
...e, for example) than fat that accumulates in other areas of the body, such as the hips. Glucocorticoids, a ...dy fat stores. They interact with receptors in key areas of the brain, including in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, to regulate food intake and glucose met...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
... to reliably detect resistant HIV in less affluent areas of the world. SUGGESTED "FAST FACTS": Five of 21 HIV-positive infants in this study were infected with drug-resistant HIV transmitted from their mothers. These drug-resistant strains in quickly took up residence in inactive T cells, from ...How plastic is your brain? UH engineer seeks answers
... to assign tasks normally performed by the damaged areas to the still-functioning portions. Because adu...ted, resulting in that section and the surrounding areas reorganizing themselves. The imaging device, because of its speed, will create orientation maps eve...Hay fever can send work productivity down the drain
...rgy symptoms. Hay fever symptoms can disrupt all areas of life, and study participants cited a lack of sleep and a negative impact on their overall health as the two main reasons for missing work. Szeinbach suggests that people who suspect they have hay fever get an allergy test, either from a family d...Elsevier extends ScienceDirect ArticleChoice to academic institutes worldwide
...rsity and college libraries cover multiple subject areas and have difficulty acquiring all the information they need at a price they can afford. We feel that ScienceDirect ArticleChoice will offer them the flexible access and pricing options that they need. The unique flexibility of the product is echoe...Livestock interventions can protect lives, livelihoods
Boston -- Pastoralist communities in dryland areas of Africa are reliant on livestock as sources of f...as a normal and often predictable event in dryland areas of Africa, and plan accordingly," says Catley. "This means that long-term development programs need ...Obesity increases workers' compensation costs
... this information anonymously in order to identify areas of potential occupational risk and to develop plans to reduce that risk. The analysis covered a diverse group of workers, such as administrative assistants, groundskeepers, nurses and professors. The researchers looked at the relationship between b...Hebrew University research shows developmental problems for siblings of autistic children
...ere found to have delayed development in the three areas studied, as opposed to only 5 percent in a comparison group (children whose siblings did not suffer from autism). The reasons for this phenomenon, says Prof. Yirmiya, can be traced to the genetic tendency of children in the former group to carry a...Kenya moves toward national food and nutrition policy
...egy for moving the policy forward. Some of the key areas of strategy addressed at the meeting were as follows: Forming a consensus on agricultural production and food trade issues Establishing a life-cycle approach to organize nutritional interventions, including a cross-generational approach for ...RAND study finds school playgrounds can help fight childhood obesity
...fact that girls with higher BMIs tended to live in areas with locked schools also could signal that the girls live in a more stressful, high-crime area or a neighborhood with less access to stores that sell healthy food. The study is titled "Weekend Schoolyard Accessibility, Physical Activity, and Obesit...Detection of melanoma by dermatologists linked with earlier tumor stage, higher survival rates
...ver, metastastic melanoma that has spread to other areas usually requires both surgery and chemotherapy and five-year survival rates are less than 20 percent. "From a health policy perspective, whether a difference in melanoma outcome is associated with a patients physician type (specifically, dermatologi...IOF and EU panel prepare osteoporosis audit
...o assess developments over the years, and identify areas that require more attention. The audit will measure prevalence of fractures, accessibility of diagnostic testing, availability and access to evidence based therapies, economic costs, and national health ministry support as well as public and profe...Brain structure changes years before memory loss begins
...ease had less gray matter in key memory processing areas of their brains even at the beginning of the study when they were cognitively normal. "We found that changes in brain structure are present in clinically normal people an average of four years before MCI diagnosis," said study author Charles D. Smi...Satellite images aid implementation of agricultural reforms
...hotography have been used for some time to monitor areas where subsidies are provided. VHR Earth observatio...By comparing older and recent images of these same areas with the processed reference landscape feature layer, the removal of these features can be detected....UCLA study finds severe shortage of Latino dentists
...both speak Spanish and English, and to practice in areas with heavy Latino populations. As a result, there will be fewer dentists to serve this population. Also, the shortfall during that period was so large that a dramatic increase would not make up the difference today. AUTHORS: David Hayes-Bautista, M...Poor diet puts teenagers' health at risk
... fruit the least consumed. Teenagers in regional areas tended to eat more vegetables and less fast foods than their metropolitan counterparts. Girls diets included more fruit and less fast food and sweetened drinks than boys, with boys consuming more meat and meat alternatives. On the positive side, 87......ntists who might otherwise pursue careers in other areas of science." During a year of noteworthy anniversaries, Aflac increased their support in 2007 to mark its decade-long partnership with AACR, as well as the AACR Centennial. Commemorating 100 years of progress in cancer research, in 2007 the AACR h...