Forensic pathologists tell physiologists what they know about death and what puzzles them
...Or they pinpoint the number of pills a person took before dying of an overdose. Such precise pronouncements are often not possible for the real life medical examiner. In real life, the cause of death may not be entirely clear, and this is especially difficult for families when the deceased is young, said ...Green tea extract protects against brain damage in new mouse model of HIV-related dementia
... Cultured neurons from mice were exposed to EGCG before being given a cocktail of the two neurotoxic HIV proteins and the toxic cytokine. The green tea compound inhibited the ability of the cytokine to act with the HIV proteins to cause death and damage of the neurons. In further confirmation, the green ...First clinical trial of gene therapy for childhood blindness
...ze without difficulty; something they could not do before the treatment. As this trial is the first to treat...rm effect of the treatment. It will be many months before we have the full picture. We anticipate the best outcome in younger patients, as we will be treating...Gender, ethnic differences may hamper eating disorder diagnosis
...conditions, like gastric problems or brain tumors, before their physicians hit on the right diagnosis." Ethnic differences may also play into the range of symptoms experienced by people with eating disorders. In the second study, Peebles used a Web-based questionnaire to survey a variety of people who vis...Serious illness among children with sickle cell disease reduced with vaccine
...g children with SCD in Tennessees Medicaid program before and after the introduction in 2000 of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). They found the rate of serious pneumococcal disease dropped by more than 90 percent among children under 5 years of age. "I was not surprised that there was a decrease,...Eating soup will help cut calories at meals
Eating low-calorie soup before a meal can help cut back on how much food and calo...rticipants in the study ate a first course of soup before a lunch entree, they reduced their total calorie intake at lunch (soup + entre) by 20 percent, compa...Topical testosterone cream does not increase sexual drive in female cancer survivors
...ured the womens sexual desire with a questionnaire before treatment, then again at four and eight weeks. ...roups showed increased libido compared with levels before treatment, which suggests a placebo effect. The researchers propose that their negative results coul...Study raises new treatment possibilities for cognitive disorders
...onfirm findings and make sure the compound is safe before testing can be done with human subjects. ...$1.5 million awarded for palliative care research
...rity area. Pilot data results are typically needed before a federal agency will consider funding a research project. "One of the major barriers to reducing suffering for people living with a serious illness like cancer has been the lack of research funding directed towards palliative care interventions."...JCI table of contents: May 1, 2007
...YING COMMENTARY TITLE: Cutaneous mosaicism: right before our eyes AUTHOR CONTACT: Jorge Frank Maastricht University Center for Molecular Dermatology, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Phone:31-43-387-5292; Fax: 31-43-387-7293; E-mail: jfra@sder.azm.nl View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jc...Inflammatory system genes linked to cognitive decline after heart surgery
...e University Hospital a battery of cognitive exams before heart surgery and then six weeks later. They found that patients with the variation of the C-reactive protein gene were 20.6 percent less likely to suffer mental decline, and patients with the P-selectin variant had a 15.2 percent risk reduction. The...Acrux completes enrollment in key phase 2 trial
...Phase 3 trial in 150-200 patients will be required before marketingapplications can be made to regulatory authorities. This trial is expected tocommence in early 2008 and will again require the measurement oftestosterone levels in the blood, rather than the impact on clinicalsymptoms. Acrux CEO Richard Trea...Infection takes high toll in young children
...hildren to have access to good quality health care before these infections become so serious that they require hospitalisation," Dr Lehmann said. "It also reinforces the importance of continued vaccine development and implementation, particularly for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rotavirus and influe...LAP-BAND System surgery improves insulin resistance
...B is very successful in controlling diabetes, even before substantial weight loss has occurred. Fewer studies investigating reductions in cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors after LAGB have been published. This study was undertaken to determine the overall and gender-related effects of LAGB on body co...Good news on heart attack and chest pain
...other studies show that we still have a ways to go before every heart attack and ACS patient receives the full range of tests and treatments that we know can benefit them," Eagle continues. He notes, for example, that only 85 percent of STEMI patients and 83 percent of ACS patients in the study received a s...Exercise can cut coronary artery disease risk for some with MS
...nd fitness. Subjects were assessed for CAD risk before and after the exercise intervention, according to ...btained the morning after a 12-hour fast, 48 hours before the first and final exercise session of the training program. Enzymatic colorimetric methods were us...Drama can help educate and motivate, research shows
... area agreed to complete a 22-question survey both before and after the play that assessed their attitudes a...eatment to stop using. Of those who had reported before the play that they never or sometimes volunteered time, talked with others in the community or donat...Teens with migraine at greater risk of suicide
...me with an aura, or a warning sensation that comes before the headache, were even more likely to have psychiatric disorders. Teens with migraine with aura were six times more likely to be at high suicide risk than those without migraine. Researchers don't exactly know how underlying mechanisms may link...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
...tance testing of viruses from HIV infected infants before treatment should be implemented wherever feasible. ...Significant rise in proportion of chronically ill children dying in intensive care
... 25%. Children spent almost two weeks elsewhere before admission to intensive care. Infants with congenital problems or perinatal disease were more than twice as likely to die in intensive care, while older children with cancer were more than six times as likely to die in other hospital wards. . T...