In women, caffeine may protect memory
...er understanding of how caffeine affects the brain before we can start promoting caffeine intake as a way to reduce cognitive decline. But the results are interesting caffeine use is already widespread and it has fewer side effects than other treatments for cognitive decline, and it requires a relatively s...Maternal obesity prior to pregnancy associated with birth defects
... babys birth and asked for their height and weight before pregnancy, along with other demographic and medical information. These women were compared with 4,065 women who had babies without birth defects during the same time period. Mothers of babies with the following seven of 16 birth defects were more l...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Aug. 7, 2007, issue
...ernal Medicine at www.annals.org. Authors appeared before the FDA advisory panel on cardiovascular ischemic/...al Guidelines, p. 194). And most studies were done before the enactment of child safety seat legislation....Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
...process is interrupted and the skin cells dont die before more are created and the resulting lesions form. Animal models treated with green tea also showed reduced levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, a gene expressed when skin cells multiply. In psoriasis, the gene is over-expressed and speeds...Many heart attack patients still not getting emergency clot-busting treatment
...n treatment. Patients who waited six or more hours before they reached the hospital were 40 percent less likely to get emergency reperfusion....Electric fields have potential as a cancer treatment
...ey sometimes disintegrated the daughter cells just before they split off from their partners. The dividing cells sometimes destruct because a high-electric-field region develops between the two daughter cells. This leads to a large slope, or gradient, in the electric field from each daughter cell to this re...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...it's not only critical to detect it early, or even before it becomes cacnerous, but in many cases it is real...xpert on pancreatic cancer. In trials that began before the pancreas research, the researchers saw encouraging results with colon cancer detection in a stud...AASM to school-bound: Sleep is the right ingredient for academic success
... Do not go to bed hungry, but dont eat a big meal before bedtime either. Avoid any rigorous exercise within six hours of your bedtime. Make your bedroom quiet, dark and a little bit cool. Also, keep computers and TVs out of the bedroom. Get up at the same time every morning. Parents w...Medical residents score poorly in diagnosing and managing tuberculosis
...s, to recognize and treat this infection early and before it spreads, Karakousis says. ...USC law professor battles schizophrenia
...Elyn and to learn from her. Saks was in her 40s before she was able to admit to herself that her illness was not going away, and that medication and psychoanalysis would be necessary for the rest of her life. For 20 years I struggled with acceptance... Ironically, the more I accepted I had a mental i...Health reform bills could improve quality and efficiency, but fall short of national plan
..., NY, July 26, 2007 -- Several health reform bills before Congress could lead to significant improvements in...-part series assessing major health care proposals before Congress. The analysis indicates that bills seeking to change Medicares payment structure hold the m...ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
...been presented to the press today in Turin, Italy, before being shipped to ESTEC the space agencys research... do this with a level of detail and accuracy never before achieved," ESA GOCE Project Scientist, Mark Drinkwater, said. "This fundamental reference dataset wi...Children and young people show elevated leukaemia rates near nuclear facilities
... would expect leukaemia rates to remain consistent before and after the start-up of a nuclear facility. However, our meta-analysis, consistently showed elevated illness and death rates for children and young people living near nuclear facilities. The research review looked at studies carried out betwee...Helicopter flight trials for EGNOS
...igh altitude until it is closer to its destination before commencing its final descent. In addition, a steeper descent angle reduces the noise generated by the rotor blades as the craft nears the ground. The implementation of instrument approaches for HEMS operations will allow the emergency services to ...Nonsmall cell lung cancer -- chemotherapy before surgery appears better than surgery alone
...ne Systematic Review found that using chemotherapy before surgery can reduce the size of tumours making the surgery simpler, and increasing the number of patients who may be candidates for surgery. The worry is, however, that having a course of chemotherapy delays the operation, and could therefore leave pa...Threats to hope -- Desperation affects reasoning about product information
... accessed the same number of pieces of information before making a judgment on the product, insecure students searched for more information from the favorable source than confident students and ended up rating the memory booster as more effective. Similarly, the researchers found in subsequent experiment...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
... have conventionally relied on image data acquired before the procedure on a diagnostic CT or magnetic reson...The SPECT imaging detects biochemical changes long before structural changes are observable, a valuable feature for early screening or for following therapy. ...K-State researcher working on a way to make snack foods with extra fiber
...ing screws and heated barrels to precook the flour before it is pushed out of the end. After ropes of the dough come out, they are taken to a drying oven or a freeze dryer, the latter of which Alavi said produced higher-quality flour. Then the dried ropes were ground back into flour, ready to use for baking...Chemical in brain acts like a fuel gauge
...riggers a craving for food is best understood just before lunchtime. But exactly how the process unfolds has proven difficult to explain, even on a full stomach. Solving the puzzle would yield new insights in the fight against diabetes. Neuroscientists at the University of Southern California provide a...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
HOUSTON (Not for use before July 3, 2007) -- Current PET-CT scanners with standard commercial software designed to provide images of the heart are falsely indicating coronary artery disease in as many as 40 percent of patients, according to a study published today on the cover ...