Implanted medical device aims to lower blood pressure
...ure by allowing the brain to direct the body's own control mechanisms." "This device, if found effective, wou...ood pressure in patients who have not been able to control their blood pressure with medications, and could conceivably reduce the need for pressure-lowering m...Top anti-arthritis drugs cause skin disease
...ion that led them to visit a skin specialist. In a control group of patients who were not undergoing TNF-alpha blocking therapy and had less severe disease only 13% visited a dermatologist during the same period of time. The most frequent conditions that patients on therapy suffered from were: skin infection...If you fill it, they will slurp, and slurp, and slurp ...
...c evidence of the importance of visual cues in the control of food intake in the current issue of Obesity Research, a leading nutrition journal. The researchers served a free soup lunch to 54 adults, half of whom ate from normal 18-ounce soup bowls, while the other half ate from identical bowls that, unbekn...Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
...h the production of cytokines whose function is to control the spread of infection and turn on various immune...entist said. Antiviral cytokines, important in the control of initial viral spread, were significantly lower in obese animals. Similarly, some of the pro-infla...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
...rain structures are smaller in the region known to control face recognition. Congenital prosopagnosia seems to run in families, which suggests a genetic basis, although that is not true in every case and Behrmann cautioned against calling the condition a genetic disorder. Unfortunately, a cure for the disord...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...al and dynamic bases for protein interactions that control cellular processes. Cantley continued to focus on the biochemical basis for the mechanism and regulation of membrane-associated enzymes as an assistant professor in the biochemistry and molecular biology department at Harvard University. ...ACP guidelines to treat obesity cover diet, exercise, drugs and surgery
...trolled trials comparing surgery with non-surgical control groups. Furthermore, all have possible side effects, ranging from surgical complications to gall bladder disease and digestion difficulties. The ACP guidelines estimate that the death rate from bariatric surgery, including in-hospital and deaths with...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...trolled trials comparing surgery with non-surgical control groups. Furthermore, all have possible side effects, ranging from surgical complications to gall bladder disease and digestive difficulties. The ACP guidelines estimate that the death rate from bariatric surgery, including in-hospital deaths and deat...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
...ing them in equal numbers into a music group and a control group. They discovered that the 30 who had listene...s. "The difference between the music group and the control group was clinically significant," said Lai, lead author of the study. "The music group reported a 2...Hormonal birth control, bacterial infections in women linked to increased shedding of type-2 herpes
...e if the type of contraceptive (such as oral birth control pills versus injectable Depo-Provera) affects shedding frequency. The novel finding that some vaginal bacterial infections are also linked to a higher frequency of HSV-2 shedding could be important in controlling the spread of HSV-2. "BV is an infect...Nutritional supplement reduces need for traditional ulcerative colitis treatment
...reduction in the dose of corticosteroids needed to control clinical symptoms of ulcerative colitis. Ulcerat...ing corticosteroids and mesalamine are intended to control inflammation. While corticosteroids are highly effective in the treatment of ulcerative colitis, pr...Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
...ime we have found a way to manipulate them to help control allergic reactions." There are a number of types o...evels of CD4+ T-regulatory cells they were able to control the extent of the allergic inflammation. They injected cat allergen synthetic peptides into voluntee...Asthmatics naturally deficient in antiviral immunity, report scientists
...d in the asthmatic group compared with the healthy control group, who were almost completely protected from infection of their lung cells. The asthmatic cells displayed very deficient interferon responses, and the researchers found that replacing the interferon protected these cells from infection, making th...People can learn motor skills by watching
.... "A powerful new idea in neuroscience links motor control with action observation," wrote Mattar and Gribble...ment kinematics and associated time-varying neural control signals to muscles," they wrote....Scientists to study actions of botanical oils
...ly searching for better, more natural ways to take control of their health," said Chilton. "By funding this center, NIH has provided us with an incredible opportunity to determine the therapeutic potential of fatty acids found in several natural oils to treat sufferers of many of the most common diseases tha...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...dvertising and decline in prices effective tobacco control policies, particularly comprehensive advertising bans and adequate taxation rates, should be implemented before privatisation occurs."...Older children may benefit from treatment for lazy eye
...ition that involves poor vision and/or poor muscle control of one eye, can be effectively treated in children younger than six, it has generally been believed that older children were unlikely to benefit from treatment, according to background information in the article. The upper limit for successful treatm...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
Moderate levels of exercise may not be enough to control mild hypertension in men and women over age 55, th...does not seem to be enough for full blood pressure control in older people. "Alternatively, older persons may need to get started sooner on medications to im...Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...functional materials, devices, and systems through control of matter at the nanometer scale (one nanometer being equal to 1 x 10-9 of a meter), and the exploitation of novel phenomena and properties of matter at that scale. When matter is manipulated at the tiny scale of atoms and molecules, it exhibits nove...Chemical library aids in developing drug system for nerve damage
...slow release rate for all three of them, so we can control affinity and concentration to our advantage."...