Fat is the new normal, FSU researcher says
...food prices drop, but thats just part of the story behind the nations dramatic weight gain since the late 1970s, according to the researchers. The full price of a calorie has dropped by about 36 percent relative to the price of consumer goods since 1977, but prices leveled off in the mid-1990s. And yet Amer...Shining light on pancreatic cancer
...e used in endoscopy, but the underlying technology behind all of the examinations is the same. Each patient was scanned using a combination of elastic light-scattering and low-coherence enhanced backscattering techniques developed by Backman and his colleagues over the last five years. The researchers devel...National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...h Care Opinion Leaders survey finds leaders united behind several key reform measures: more than half (56%) support the creation of a new public-private entity to coordinate quality efforts and form a national quality agenda; 95% believe that fundamental payment reform is needed; and three-fourths (73%) sa...New book guides boomers through retirement maze
...rity. According to the authors, the law often lags behind the latest fraudulent schemes. Hegland was motivated to write Alive and Kicking once he began teaching an elder law class at the UA. I began to realize that are so many complicated issues to think about when approaching retirement, and baby boomers ...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...re reasonable that a medical physicist was working behind the scenes to make sure the imaging procedure was as effective as possible. Medical physicists help to develop new imaging techniques, improve existing ones, and assure the safety of radiation used in medical procedures. They contribute to the deve...Women's mortality rates for cardiovascular disease differ widely among hospitals
... their overall performance still lags considerably behind the best-performing hospitals. If all of the 513 study hospitals in the 19 states studied performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals during the years 2003 through 2005, 15,925 deaths among women hospitalized for cardiovascular disease c...Predicting danger of flu pandemic rests on differences in affected population, says O.R. Forum
...s less contagious infected persons. The reasoning behind these assumptions is that heterogeneity across the population in these attributes may affect in first-order ways the manner in which the disease propagates and, consequently, the manner in which we should address mitigation measures. The paper intro...Hormone therapy offers new hope for ovarian cancer patients
...the University of Edinburgh and the lead scientist behind this trial, said: Ovarian cancer can be a devastating disease, so this new discovery is particularly exciting. We still have a lot to do, but this research has furthered our understanding of the hormone control of ovarian cancer, which could provide ...ESA satellite guides polar explorers across disintegrating sea ice
...ny case that the worst of the problems are finally behind us and we can now look forward to the final part of our expedition with greater peace of mind." The Arctic Arc expedition was originally planned to continue on to southern Greenland, but bad ice conditions have made progress slow, so a decision as ...Researchers develop criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
...the 50th percentile for bone mass remains or falls behind that percentile by age 15, and whether he or she may be at risk for osteoporotic fracture later in life....Study identifies new regulator of fat metabolism
...cal Center (BIDMC) have identified a key mechanism behind this turn of events. Their findings, which appear ...eased levels of FGF21 may be a potential mechanism behind low-carbohydrate diets beneficial properties when it comes to lipid metabolism, says Maratos-Flier. ...New biodegradable magnesium stents for coronary arteries
...bsorbed into the vessel walls, with the space left behind "filled in." The magnesium is eventually replaced by calcium and phosphorous through the body's natural processes. However the trial also showed that angiographic restenosis (re-blocking of the artery) occurred in 47.5% of patients who received th...Panel offers guidelines on skin reactions to new class of cancer drugs
...y EGFRI-related skin reactions occur and the logic behind their management. "[I]t is important to emphasize that, in the majority of cases, there is no clinical need to withdraw EGFRI treatment," Dr. Lynch and coauthors conclude. "Even in worst-case scenarios, suspension of EGFRI treatment often needs onl...Free public talk on epilepsy research and progress towards better treatment
...Robinson for an evening lecture about the research behind this new discovery and how it may one day be used to development treatments for epilepsy, schizophrenia and mood disorders. There is also an opportunity to take a back-stage look into the CMRIs state-of-the-art research facilities and hear from a w...Cure for hepatitis C announced by VCU researcher
...that effectively enables them to put their disease behind them." The results are based on a long-term follow-up study designed to determine if the virus re-emerges in patients who have achieved treatment success. The study reviewed 997 patients, either mono-infected with chronic HCV or co-infected HCV an...HIV's effect on white blood cells questioned by new research
...r studies are required to understand the mechanism behind HIVs distinctive slow process of cellular destruction. The research team think that one possible explanation could be that the virus slowly adapts itself over the course of the infection, but they stress that further analysis is needed to verify th...The hepatitis C link: Diagnose, treat, transplant
...(HCC, liver cancer). Unfortunately, the mechanism behind hepatitis-associated cancer remains puzzling. Such effects as oxidative stress and DNA damage are known to occur in hepatitis, through which the role of the liver in nucleic acid metabolism may be impacted. This study evaluated the key elements in ...Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
...st of their work in the brain, but they also leave behind in the bloodstream a trail of hundreds of chemicals that may be used in the future to direct better treatment for schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions, say Duke University Medical Center researchers. The study is among the first to use me...Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
...hood vaccine needed in the developing world, right behind a malaria vaccine," he said. "The mortality rate is high." The student inventors are pleased about the potential public health benefits. They also found the hands-on assignment to be a valuable part of their engineering education. "This was a r...Quick, innovative procedure helps men minimize incontinence after prostatectomy
... technique uses tissues that would normally remain behind after prostatectomy -- tissues that we can flip around and support to our advantage," Dr. Tewari explains. "We reconstruct the anterior and posterior parts of the sphincter and surgically join the bladder and the anastomosis (the gap in tissues left ...