Melts in your body, not in your hand
...in the body where they are needed and at the right concentration at the right time. Some potential pharmaceuticals are hindered by being too crystalline--not dissolving quickly enough, or at all, in the body--or too glassy, breaking down too quickly or in uncontrollable ways. A detailed University of Wisconsin p...Antibiotic ear drops favored over popular oral antibiotics for ear infections
... oral antibiotics. Researchers discovered that the concentration at the infection can be a thousandfold greater than when oral or IV medication is used. In addition, because the antibiotic is not distributed throughout the body, there is less chance of developing antibiotic resistance. Dr. Roland has previousl...Researchers devise safer way to dose life-saving heart drug
...f adult patients who had a steady state of digoxin concentration in their bloodstream were reviewed for six months. An equation was derived using the patients' blood digoxin level, digoxin dose, kidney function, and ideal body weight. The new formula was then compared to two older methods frequently used to esti...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
...the d2-test) that primarily measures attention and concentration [2]. Dr Bartsch said: "After short-term sobriety of less than two months, we found that brain volume had increased by an average of nearly two per cent (1.82%), with a range of -0.19 to 4.32%. Only the one patient with the longest history of alcoho...New imaging technique identifies people-at-risk for Alzheimer's disease
...the more advanced the disease the higher the FDDNP concentration in areas where the abnormal protein deposits typically accumulate in the temporal, parietal and frontal brain regions. Patients with Alzheimers disease showed the most FDDNP binding, indicating a higher level of plaques and tangles than other subj...Glucose levels trigger compensation for type 2 diabetics
...dietinduced insulin resistance, changes in glucose concentration are likely to be the main trigger of increased beta-cell mass. The beta-cell mass of mice expressing only one copy of the gene encoding the sensor of blood glucose levels, GCK (Gck-/- mice), showed little increase compared with wild-type mice fed a h...Researchers warn milk eliminates cardiovascular health benefits of tea
...they found interacted with the tea to decrease the concentration of catechins in the beverage. Catechins are the flavonoids in tea that mainly contribute to its protection against cardiovascular disease. Senior researcher Dr Verena Stangl, Professor of Cardiology (Molecular Atherosclerosis) at the hospital, said...A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go to work
...on-stop, but for many treatments there is a narrow concentration range at which drugs are beneficial," said Professor Carding. "Outside of this, the treatment can be counterproductive and make the condition worse. It's vitally important to be able to control when and how much of the drug is administered and we bel...Using nanomagnets to enhance medical imaging
... in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)as long as the concentration of nanomagnets is carefully managedaccording to a ...n non-clinical MRI imagesas long as the nanomagnet concentration is below a certain threshold. (A nanometer is one billionth of a meter.) Previous studies by other r...Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has ...e liquid, optical imaging is used to determine the concentration of a specific protein or virus in the liquid sample based on the number of proteins or viruses attac...Fixed versus growth intelligence mindsets: Its all in your head, Dweck says
...ar races can last hours and drivers may lose their concentration at pivotal points, making it possible to lose a race by only a few seconds. The objective of coaching is to help drivers recover quickly and maintain an optimal state of flow, he said. The research, carried out by psychology graduate student Fred Lea...Cancer drug can extend survival in patients with deadly brain tumors
... treating gliomas because these tumors have a high concentration of vascular endothelial growth factor, a protein that stimulates development of new blood vessels in a process known as angiogenesis. New blood vessels spur a tumors growth and ability to spread, so researchers are interested in cutting off angiogene...In presence of fragrant cleaning products, air purifiers that emit ozone can dirty the air
... When limonene was added to the room, the particle concentration shot up in both cases, on some occasions up to 100 times the original level. Adding limonene to the room when a purifier was not operating produced little change in the overall particle level. The scientists also developed a mathematical model that...Patients with type 1 diabetes don't wake in response to hypoglycemia
... healthy control participants), plasma epinephrine concentration increased with hypoglycemia by at least 100%. In all participants who awakened increases in epinephrine always started before polysomnographic signs of wakefulness. These results suggest that the awakening response to hypoglycemia is impaired in T1...Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning
...mercury's impacts on ecosystems and wildlife. The concentration of methylmercury in fish in freshwater and coastal ecosystems can be expected to decline with reduced mercury inputs; however, the rate of decline is expected to vary among water bodies, depending on the characteristics of a particular ecosystem. ...Chromium 6: A killer compound with an improbable trigger
...s and cellular mutations. "When we increased the concentration of vitamin C inside cells, we saw progressively more mutations and DNA breaks, showing how seemingly innocuous amounts of chromium can become toxic," Zhitkovich said. "For years, scientists have wondered why exposure to small amounts of hexavalent ch...Treatment of in-hospital cardiac patients is focus of Jefferson University presentations
...alyzing a number of measures, including hemoglobin concentration (the component of red blood cells that carry oxygen) which determines the severity of the anemia, the researchers found no significant difference between these medications and their affect on a patients anemia. They conclude that despite the fact t...Obesity may be linked to middle ear effusions in children
...ex," the authors write. "Using serum triglyceride concentration as the standard, we found that 34.7 percent of chi...n were obese, whereas with serum total cholesterol concentration as the standard, only 19.2 percent were obese." "The frequency of ventilating tube insertion in th...Fish oil may help kidney disease sufferers
...own anti-inflammatory properties due to their high concentration of Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA). "EPA has been used successfully in other population groups with chronic inflammation including people with osteoarthritis and cancer cachexia, however the anti-inflammatory effects have not yet been applied to patien......nanswered questions, such as whether the magnesium concentration slope could be used to predict the time at which clinically significant hypomagnesaemia will occur, and he indicates that validation of The Lancet Oncology data in a larger prospective study could help in the development of a model that accurately pr...