Draining away brain's toxic protein to stop Alzheimer's
...whiskers. The team is now working with a company created by Zlokovic, Socratech, to create a form of LRP-IV that could be tested in people. Zlokovic hopes to have such a product ready for testing within two years. Zlokovic, a scientist widely recognized for demonstrating that blood vessels, blood flow, a...Obesity linked to hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease
...ng elevations in PTH focus mainly on abnormalities created by the decreased kidney function, and don't factor in these other mechanisms." The study is the first to show that a higher body mass index is associated with higher parathyroid hormone levels in CKD. The results raise the possibility that weight ...Osteoporosis screening and treatment may be cost-effective for selected older men
...or men found to have osteoporosis. The researchers created a computer simulation model for hypothetical groups of white men age 65, 70, 75, 80, or 85 years, with or without prior clinical fracture. Data from several sources were used to estimate fracture costs and population-based age-specific fracture rates...Green tea holds promise as new treatment for inflammatory skin diseases
...rupted and the skin cells dont die before more are created and the resulting lesions form. Animal models treated with green tea also showed reduced levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen, a gene expressed when skin cells multiply. In psoriasis, the gene is over-expressed and speeds production of sk...New grant fulfills wish of late Baltimore Orioles team photographer
...xisting educational website ( www.merkelcell.org ) created by Dr. Nghiems group as well as to pursue journal publications that will educate clinicians about the disease. Funding for the grant comes through the JW Fund, established by the Wachter family to support the American Cancer Society in its efforts ...The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation invests in gastroenterology's future
...The Student Research Fellowship Awards program was created by the AGA more than a decade ago to stimulate int... scientific organizations. In 2001, the Foundation created the Broad Medical Research Program for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Grants. The program is uniqu...From UF and IBM, a blueprint for 'smart' health care
...h salt it contains. Among other devices, they also created an instrument that records how many steps a person takes, information that can tell absent caregivers how active its occupants are. But these and other devices currently have a major shortcoming: They require a team of engineers to install them, He......egistry data from Sweden and Denmark , the authors created a database from which they identified a group of exposed individuals, who had received donated blood from a person who was diagnosed with cancer less than 5 years after giving blood. The study population comprised all individuals with no history of...New study examines effectiveness of tailored health messages
...ges, says Updegraff. Particularly, strong messages created more favorable attitudes towards flossing than weak messages, and were more effective in changing behavior. When messages were relatively weak or contained anecdotal evidence, tailoring the message seemed to have little effect. That tells us when ...Device helps physically disabled turn on computer
...rnet. While several helpful technologies have been created for those with physical disabilities, such as special switches that activate numerous hardware and software, one problem remainsturning the computer on and off. For months, we looked for a device for someone who lacks fine motor skills for months ...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...scanners for several years. The team very recently created a 25-pixel multiplexing CT scanner, but engineering difficulties lie in front of the ultimate goal, a scanner with approximately 1,000 x-ray pixels. According to team leader Jian Zhang (jzh@physics.unc.edu), the cost of these machines would not rise ...Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...ique cases. A final study sample of 4205 cases was created by excluding individuals who had non-surgical treatments. Next, the researchers looked at the medical facilities where each persons treatment was done. A total of 256 institutions in Florida performed at least one resection of a soft tissue sarcom...ACP commends proposed changes to payments for physician work at nursing facilities
...ew Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes were created for nursing home services in 2006, but work values were tied to the old codes that described different services. The work valuation for the nursing home codes is the first time that work value has been assigned to these codes based on a survey of ph...K-State researcher working on a way to make snack foods with extra fiber
...the Kansas Wheat Commission, Alavi and researchers created flour enriched with varying levels of bran. They mixed the bran-enriched wheat flour with water using a standing mixer like the one cooks may use at home, and they let the dough sit overnight. The hydrated flour was then sent through a machine called...Holograms make for better vision tests
...s Letters shows that researchers in Australia have created a new one-step test that uses holograms to diagnose the astigmatic error of the human eye, a key measurement in determining the appropriate prescriptions for eye glasses in patients. This new technique adds to an earlier one, developed by the same r...New study shows Rescue Remedy is an effective all-natural stress, anxiety reliever
...as found that Rescue Remedy, an all-natural remedy created from flower essences, is an effective over-the-counter stress reliever with a comparable effect to traditional pharmaceutical drugs yet without any of the known adverse side effects, including addiction. Rescue Remedy, manufactured by Nelsons, con...Award winning book co-edited by Rutgers College of Nursing Dean updated with new information
... Year award from The Nurse Practitioner. She has created a Web page for nurses to share biopreparedness and emerging infectious diseases information and initiated an annual interdisciplinary conference on emerging infectious diseases. Lashley is certified as a PhD medical geneticist by the American Board...Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography provides high contrast, 3-D look at breast cancer
...Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created the first three-dimensional optical images of human breast cancer in patients based on tissue fluorescence. Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography, or FDOT, relies on the presence of fluorophore molecules in tissue that re-radiate fluorescent light ...Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050
...e prevalence of Alzheimers disease, the researcher created a multi-state mathematical computer model using United Nations population projections and other data on the incidence and mortality of Alzheimers. ...Mouse model points to possible new strategy for treating rare muscle disease, kidney disorders
...st that hypothesis, Dr. Huizing and her colleagues created a transgenic mouse model in which M712T GNE gene mutation was introduced into a strain of mice. However, the researchers were surprised to find that, instead of developing adult-onset muscle disease as expected, the transgenic mice developed a kidney...