Cancer immunoresistance linked to loss of tumor suppressor gene
... The results of Parsas work may have implications beyond brain tumors. Loss of PTEN function is found in many types of cancers, including prostate and breast. Emerging therapies that rely on the immune system to fight cancer could potentially be more or less effective based on PTEN function. Immunothe...UCSF pharmacy school receives major grant from Amgen Foundation for Medicare Part D outreach
...d to continue moving innovative Part D initiatives beyond the classroom and into communities and pharmacies statewide," said Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD, clinical professor in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy and co-principal investigator of the new program with Lipton. "Partners in D represents the...New study finds treatment with certain anti-hypertensive drugs may reduce Alzheimer's disease
...mental, and at this stage we have no clinical data beyond phenomenological observation, said Pasinetti. We need to complete clinical trials in the future if we are to identify preventive drugs, which will need to be prescribed at dosages that do not interfere with hypertension....Survey of Marine Corps military recruits reveals risk factors for alcohol disorders in young adults
...s. They also were more likely to report education beyond a high-school level, having more close family members or friends for personal support, and being motivated to join the military for travel, adventure or to leave problems at home. "Factors inversely associated with risky drinking were being married,...Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage
...6 women whose most recent pregnancy had progressed beyond 12 weeks. The women were asked about socio-demographic, behavioural and other factors in their most recent pregnancy. The findings confirmed the findings of previous studies into possible risk factors, for example in relation to increased maternal ag...Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients
...w technique to determine whether cancer has spread beyond the breast. Thirty-two percent of patients had their surgery recommendations changed based on a multidisciplinary approach to surgical management The researchers found radiologists re-interpreted imaging results in 45 percent of patients, in some c...MRI shows brains respond better to name brands
...rn imaging methods, researchers are now able to go beyond marketing surveys and gather information on how the brain responds to a particular brand at the most basic level. Brain imaging technologies may complement methods normally used in the developing area of neuroeconomics, Dr. Born said. Dr. Born a...New breast CT scanner rivals mammography
...his allows them to look deep within the breast and beyond the tangle of fibro glandular streaks. By compar...ed to avoid radiation exposure to the chest tissue beyond the breast. The University of Rochester holds several patents on the Cone Beam system, which was i...Adolescent smokers have a greater risk of developing alcohol-use disorders than nonsmokers
...ty to AUDs." Grucza said that these findings go beyond the popular view that bad behaviors like smoking and drinking to excess simply tend to "go together," especially during adolescence. "It seems that smoking makes the adolescent brain more vulnerable to other addictions," he said. "Addictive drugs a...Drug derived from snake venom not effective if given late in the treatment of stroke
...The authors state that most patients were included beyond 3 hours after onset of stroke and this is likely t...t be recommended for use in acute ischaemic stroke beyond 3 hours....'Moral clarity' espoused in debate over health-care reform
... of uninsured parents--and proposes ways of moving beyond the standard ideological roadblocks. The anthology, edited by Timothy Engstrm and Wade Robison, professors of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, call for a renewed national dialogue committed to revamping the U.S. health care model gu...Fresh use of targeted therapy advances treatment of early HER2-positive breast cancer
...the most difficult to treat, because it had spread beyond the breast. Still, when used with chemotherapy, trastuzumab reduced tumor size by more than 50 percent, and extended survival, according to investigators who conducted these clinical studies. The best response to trastuzumab was seen in patients with...No benefit to mechanically opening arteries days after a heart attack
...teries with angioplasty in stable patients who are beyond this treatment window, although there aren't any definitive clinical trials addressing this practice. The study, called the Occluded Artery Trial or OAT, evaluated whether opening arteries three to 28 days after a heart attack benefited patie...Kennedy Krieger awarded $9 million to study learning disabilities in growing ranks of adolescents
...et very little is known about reading disabilities beyond the early elementary grades. To address this critical gap in knowledge, the Kennedy Krieger Institute has been awarded a $9 million grant from the National Institute of Health (N.I.H.) to establish a Learning Disabilities Research Center. The new ce...Healthier preemies and parents, thanks to a new early intervention program
...sical, mental and behavioral outcomes that persist beyond school age," says the study's lead author, Bernadette Melnyk, RN, FAAN, dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing at Arizona State University's College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation. "Parents of preterm infants also experience high ...Trying to control pain can be a double-edged sword, say scientists
...the team went on to show that when faced with pain beyond their control, people who tend to feel more in control of their own lives show a lower response in the prefrontal cortex, indicating that they are less effective in coping with pain than those who don't expect to have control. "Patients with persis...NC State receives $3.5 million to design new treatment strategies for HIV patients
...arn" the virus, actually damages the immune system beyond repair. In addition, HIV patients tend to develop drug resistance or reactions to the medications the longer they are treated, necessitating frequent "drug holidays." So the question becomes not only whether to treat these patients immediately, but...Alarming revelation: Women over 50 live in fear
... with the confidence to participate in social life beyond the home was an important part of improving the quality of life for older women. "Fear of violence needs to be recognised as a barrier to older people's social connectedness and the health and wellbeing of older women specifically." Professor Lov...U of MN earns $7.9 million NIH grant to expand neuroscience research
...e MR technology or to develop unique MR techniques beyond what may be provided with commercially available MR instruments. The money provided by the new NIH grant will be used predominantly to support scientific staff who are experts in the technology. This will enable more University researchers to have a......experience a concussion have symptoms that persist beyond six weeks. These people are diagnosed with post-co...ptoms. But it's imperative that the patient not go beyond the exercise limits. "After the first three weeks of regulated exercise, we reassess the patient to...