Early statin therapy for patients with acute coronary syndromes reduces death, cardiovascular events
...Our study showed that intensive statin therapy and controls experienced comparable rates of hepatitis, myositis and rhabdomyolysis. Serious adverse events were rare." The statin regimen with the most evidence of effectiveness is an 80-milligram dose of atorvastatin, begun within 14 days of hospitalization ...Insulin receptor stops progression of Alzheimer's disease
...e, RI Stimulation of a receptor in the brain that controls insulin responses has been shown to halt or diminish the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease, providing evidence that the disease can be treated in its early stages, according to a study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical ...The Starr Foundation launches multi-institutional cancer consortium
... molecular machinery that drives cell division and controls cell shape. Weill Cornell Medical College is one of the nation's top-ranked clinical and medical research centers, with an array of twenty academic departments devoted to the scientific disciplines that inform both the study of medicine and investi...Feinstein Institute's top scientist weighs in on mind-body medicine at conference with Dalai Lama
.... Tracey's groundbreaking discovery that the brain controls the immune system via the vagus nerve -- the large...ve is the conduit through which the brain directly controls the immune system -- and prevents excessive TNF, shock and death. This is the inflammatory reflex. ...Can a vitamin alleviate chronic, progressive multiple sclerosis?
... and 4. All differences between treated groups and controls were statistically significant. Mice with the greatest neurologic deficits had the lowest levels of NAD in their spinal cord, and those with the mildest deficits had the highest NAD levels. Mice that had higher levels of an enzyme that converts n...Doctors cut repeat LASIK visits dramatically
... The software developed by Venkiteshwar and MacRae controls how the laser beam dances around the surface of the cornea during a LASIK procedure, allowing the surgeon to sculpt the cornea into just the right shape so that it produces as flawless an image as possible. During a procedure that typically might las...Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis
...he team's next step is to determine precisely what controls the toggle mechanism in cancer cells, Garcia-Blanco said. Identifying the various steps that occur during the natural progression of tumors could lead to therapies for blocking metastasis, he said....Molecule helps cells plug leaks following lung injury
...rlier studies had shown that FoxM1, a protein that controls the expression of genes, plays a critical role in cell proliferation. Working with the late Robert Costa, professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at UIC, whose research focused on FoxM1, the researchers developed a mouse model that lacked th...Mutation plays key role in hypertension
...NA sequence of the stretch of the kinase gene that controls how often it is copied, and thus controls the level of kinase in the cell. She found a mutation in the hypertensive animals -- an insertion of...A potential new affordable diagnostic test for TB
...They used blood from patients with the disease and controls from several different countries, including the UK, The Gambia, Uganda and Angola, representing at least four ethnic backgrounds. Using a combination of four biomarkers from this technique, they achieved a diagnostic accuracy for TB of up to 78%. T...Bipolar disorder exacts twice depression's toll in workplace
...ymia, 93 with rheumatoid arthritis and 193 healthy controls recruited from primary care physician practices fo...d" depressed patients performed worse than healthy controls on mental, interpersonal, time management, output and physical tasks. The arthritis patients showed...New cell-based targets for treating autoimmune inflammatory diseases
...t's more, these links are related to BLOC-1, which controls lysosomes, tiny organelles that contain digestive enzymes critical to maintaining healthy cell function. "The profound role of BLOC-1 appears to be platelet-specific among immuno-inflammatory cell types," notes the study's lead author, Dr....St. Jude first to describe new statistical method
.... "Therefore, it was appropriate to use historical controls for this modified version of SJMB96; specifically, the children who had been already been treated on SJMB96. The researchers will now be able to determine whether the addition of amifostine to the treatment is beneficial," Xiong said....Analysis of Spanish flu cases in 1918-1920 suggests transfusions might help in bird flu pandemic
...patients was small, and assignment to treatment or controls was not random, blinded or placebo-controlled; dosages and definitions were not standardized; disruptions caused by World War I probably affected medical personnel available to record data as well as exacerbated the spread of the disease; and wartime...Columbia researchers restore memory lost in mice with Alzheimer's
... enzyme Uch-L1 is part of a molecular network that controls a memory molecule called CREB, which is inhibited by amyloid beta proteins in people with Alzheimer's. By increasing Uch-L1 levels in mice that had Alzheimer's, they were able to improve the animals' ability to create new memories. "Because the amy...Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and congenital anomalies
...tal abnormality, the researchers matched up to ten controls by date of conception and maternal age, region of residence, and diabetes status. They performed statistical analyses to uncover any associations between the congenital abnormalities and the mother's use of NSAIDs during the first trimester. Among...Largest review of Loeys-Dietz Syndrome to date
...ind TGF-beta, a family of signaling molecules that controls cell growth, movement, activity and death by controlling whether certain genes are turned on or off. TGF-beta receptors normally are found on the cell's surface, facing the outside of the cell, where TGF-beta can be found floating around. The rece...Report issued on outbreak of serious eye infection linked with use of certain contact lens solution
...erviews for case patients and neighborhood-matched controls by trained personnel. As of June 30, 2006, the ...ft contact lenses. Forty-five case patients and 78 controls were included in the case-control study. In the final analysis, case patients were about 20 times m...Neurological effects of childhood sleep apnea
...th OSA had significantly lower scores than matched controls on full scale IQ tests and significantly lower performance on measures of executive function, including verbal working memory (sentence span) and word fluency. The special brain imaging (proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging) showed decreas......gulatory T cell is a kind of white blood cell that controls the activity of a number of other types of immune cell. This increase was observed in both groups of students. The study also showed that blood concentrations of a group of inflammation products called cytokines had changed and shifted against a...