Could exercise protect older people from hip fracture?
...nt and variety of exercise is reduced, and walking becomes the main source of load on the femur. The authors state: "Several popular forms of exercise also involve extension of the flexed femur under load (cycling, sculling, gymnastics, weights). Some should be investigated for their potential to protect, a...Hospice referral rates increase with intervention improving communication
...ime in nursing homes near the end of life, it will becomes increasingly important to emphasize simple, low-cost interventions like this one that can help to ensure that residents and their families have access to the best possible quality of care."...OHSU researchers help develop portable device to assist those combating balance disorders
...s lean forward, they hear a high-pitched tone that becomes higher and louder the farther they lean forward. I...ts louder as they lean back. In addition, the tone becomes louder in the left ear when a subject leans too far to the left. The tone becomes louder in the righ...Recurrent miscarriage project update
... to keep the market updated as further information becomes available on the status of the PV903 project. GroPep is a world leader in the development, manufacture and commercialisation of biologically active proteins for cell culture and biomedical research. The Company has an active biopharmaceutical develo...Why were the HIV prevention trials in commercial sex workers abandoned?
...use those in need to snub the drug if, or when, it becomes licensed for use as a PREP." In a commentary on the essay, Joep Lange, who was the President of the International AIDS Society at the time of the Bangkok conference, criticizes the protestors who derailed the PREP trials. In the absence of an eff...Doctors should stop prescribing antibiotics for the common cold, review advises
...ays "this practice is on the decline as the public becomes more sophisticated about health issues." Dr. Arroll says that patients are not doing themselves any favors looking for a "quick fix" in pressuring their providers to prescribe antibiotics for colds. "Patients will get a quicker fix if they take decon...Potential 'weak link' between virus and liver cancer discovered
...ation and thus inactivation of GSK-3. "When GSK-3 becomes inactive, then beta catenin is over-expressed," Hung says. "This is important because beta catenin over-expression is found in many cancer types." But Hung says the investigators found "a way to turn this around." In current research, they have creat...Gene found in 90 percent of breast cancers may be cancer vaccine target
... in small amounts in normal breast tissue, somehow becomes over-expressed in breast cancer cells. Researchers hope to use the cancer-specific protein to train the immune system to specifically attack breast cancer cells. "There is a tremendous need for new molecular targets to treat breast cancer," Radvanyi...Researchers model avian flu outbreak, impact of interventions
...n an outbreak of avian flu at the source before it becomes a pandemic," said Ira M. Longini, Jr., Ph.D., a bi...ns and test different scenarios as new information becomes available. By developing a collection of models, they can compare and contrast different interventio...Anxiety disorders can compromise success of alcohol-dependence treatment
... operating as the cause' and which as the 'effect' becomes murky."...Children's receives one of only two national pediatric rheumatology training grants
...e disease symptoms. "The concept is that the gene becomes the drug," Dr. Hirsch says. "We are delivering the gene to the synovium itself. Synovial cells then incorporate it into their genetic machinery and begin to make the protein locally." The goal is to achieve steady-state levels of short-lived biologic...... Toronto has charted how and where a painful event becomes permanently etched in the brain a discovery that has implications for pain-related emotional disorders such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress. U of T physiology professor Min Zhuo and his colleagues Professor Bong-Kiun Kaang of Seoul National U...New online atlas provides collective maps of human brain folds
...rtex into a perfectly spherical shape, and then it becomes much easier to rotate and locally deform each beach ball so that they are all consistently aligned to the target atlas," he explains. "We can do this with much more accuracy than is possible when both the atlas and the individual brain are in the cru...MRSA is a global problemperspectives from around the world
...ients being discharged before their MRSA infection becomes apparent. "Inter-city transfer of patients has encouraged national MRSA spread", says Barry Cookson, of the Health Protection Agency. However, MSRA is not only a problem within hospitals. The emergence of community-acquired MRSA is presenting a new c...UCSD study clarifies insulin's role in blocking release of energy in patients with type II diabetes
...cines called insulin sensitizers, so that the body becomes more sensitive to using its own insulin, rather than compensating for insulin resistance by making more. In order to understand the mechanisms of insulin resistance present in Type II diabetes, the researchers used a new breed of cellular enzyme r...Scientists breed special rats to learn more about hypertension
...his common form of heart failure, the heart muscle becomes stiff and cannot fill with enough blood to meet the body's demands. Diastolic dysfunction is more common in women after menopause and is frequently associated with hypertension. In these rats, the researchers found that estrogen depletion exacerbates...Loss of body mass linked to development of Alzheimer's disease
...ease that affects BMI before the clinical syndrome becomes apparent--that loss of BMI reflects the disease process itself." "Our understanding of Alzheimer's disease is changing as we get more information, particularly as we look at the pathology of the disease," adds Buchman, the lead investigator for the ...NASH clinical research network launches trial for treatment of liver disease in children
...not be controlled with treatment or when the liver becomes so damaged from scarring that it completely stops functioning, a liver transplant is necessary. Researchers are concerned that the disease may progress in children and increase their risk for cirrhosis, liver failure, and death as adults, particularl...Real-time MRI helps doctors assess beating heart in fetus
...gy may also be useful in determining how the heart becomes malformed in the mother's womb." Although further studies will be necessary to build on his team's preliminary results, Dr. Fogel suggests that fetal cardiac MRI may be used to complement echocardiography in cases where the latter technology cannot a......expand access so that malaria is treated before it becomes severe, is also a formidable barrier, they add. All of these problems can only be solved through partnership between African ministries and regional and local international researchers, they write. "ACT deployment has the potential to be one of the m...