Placebos can bring emotional relief
... emotional and modulatory areas. "The present data demonstrate that emotional experience may be modulated through a placebo treatment in a similar manner as has been previously reported for pain perception," concluded Petrovic and his colleagues. They wrote that the study "demonstrated that very similar mechanis...Fine tuning drug levels in neuroblastoma patients is effective, St. Jude researchers show
...s effective and nontoxic. Results of the study demonstrate that this technique for monitoring and adjusting drug levels, called pharmacokinetic-based (PK-based) dosing, can be a powerful tool for tailoring cancer treatment to individual children, said Clinton F. Stewart, Pharm.D., associate member of Pharmac...Novel approach for eradicating prostate cancer wins award for young Hebrew University researcher
...ile another 25% did not respond. The results thus demonstrate an encouraging clinical potential for prostate cancer analysis and treatment. Furthermore, the engineered NCRs are also capable of recognizing many other tumors, opening an avenue for further investigation of this approach for dealing with other type...Non-invasive MRI technique distinguishes between Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia
... The next step for future research, he said, is to demonstrate that the perfusion abnormalities correlate with specific clinical symptoms. "At the moment, we have just dichotomized [patients] into Alzheimer's and FTD," he said. "But of course cognitive impairment is usually more complex -- you have a range of im...New computer program uses brain scans to assess risk of Alzheimer's
...enter for Brain Health. His group was the first to demonstrate with CT and later with MRI scans that the hippocampus, a sea-horse shaped area of the brain associated with memory and learning, diminishes in size as Alzheimer's disease progresses from mild cognitive impairment to full-blown dementia. Yet unt...Thalidomide treatment proves better than conventional chemotherapy for multiple myeloma
...researchers from the University of Bologna, Italy, demonstrate that Thal-Dex (thalidomide used in combination with dexamethasone) is more powerful than conventional chemotherapy for the treatment of multiple myeloma. Their findings will be published in the July 1, 2005, issue of Blood , the official journal of ...NYU, Salk Institute neuroscientists offer new path for measuring visual responses to complex images
...on the stimulus presented to it, they were able to demonstrate that these neurons are more complex than previously appreciated. "This analysis can be extended to study the further transformations of image components into the higher representations that allow us to recognize, remember, and act upon visual inform...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
... Clinical Ethics Group "The results of our study demonstrate just how ethically complex health care has become," says report co-author Jonathan Breslin, the JCB's Senior Clinical Ethics Fellow. "This complexity is one of the main reasons why it is becoming more and more common for health care institutions to...Diuretics effective for people with diabetes and high blood pressure
... especially for people with diabetes. Our findings demonstrate the advantages of diuretics in diabetics as well as in those with impaired and normal fasting glucose levels," said NHLBI director Dr. Elizabeth G. Nabel. "As a physician, I have seen the consequences of poorly controlled hypertension and diabetes. T...A promising candidate for a Lassa fever vaccine
...will need to assess the duration of protection and demonstrate the safety of the vaccine. Another crucial question is how quickly vaccinated individuals acquire protection, and thus whether the vaccine would be suitable for creating a ring of vaccination around an outbreak zone, the most likely early application...The promise of a tetracycline antibiotic for treating osteoarthritis
...atment groups, leaving only limited opportunity to demonstrate improvement in joint pain. On the other hand, the drug significantly reduced the frequency with which subjects reported increases in knee pain 20 percent or greater than the level of pain they had at their previous semi-annual visit. Notably, doxyc...Hormone replacement therapy safe for women with menopause & cancer survivors
...ght. Several retrospective studies have failed to demonstrate an adverse effect and the establishment of a definitive role for HRT will depend on the analysis of randomized clinical trials....Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic
...e current 1994 criteria require that an individual demonstrate only "a lack of spontaneous seeking to share achievements with other people" and peer relationships less sophisticated than would be predicted by the individual's developmental level. As another example, the 1980 criterion of "gross deficits in lang...ACTOS (pioglitazone HCl) significantly improved components of diabetic dyslipidemia
... of Miami Miller School of Medicine. "The results demonstrate a clear difference between ACTOS and Avandia on their effects on diabetic dyslipidemia, with ACTOS lowering triglycerides and raising HDL-C to a greater extent than Avandia." Study Design This 24-week prospective, randomized, multicenter, double-b......eff Wadsworth, lab director, noted that the honors demonstrate the relevance of research taking place at ORNL. "I am absolutely delighted that ORNL staff members have won three more of these prestigious awards," Wadsworth said. "The fact that we have both repeat winners and first-time winners is an impressive st...Catchers mitts don't provide enough protection
...g, the catchers examined in this study continue to demonstrate changes to the gloved index finger consistent with...We suspect that at least some of the players would demonstrate a progressive decline eventually leading to additional numbness and tingling," said Koman. Other res...European approval trial enrolment gathers momentum
...rd of implants enables us to gather information to demonstrate the VentrAssist is safe and efficacious, and then use that data to achieve our regulatory milestones within the predicted timeframe," he said. "We are developing robust and repeatable treatment protocols, greatly reducing the clinical risks to patien...Bone marrow researcher recieves Pew Award
...e nominated by one of 136 invited institutions and demonstrate innovation in their research. A national advisory committee selects the scholars. "I am honored to have received a Pew Scholar Award and believe the funding will enable my group to more quickly translate our basic science findings into therapies th...Brain function in schizophrenia can improve with support, holds promise for cognitive rehabilitation
... & Sciences at Washington University. "First, they demonstrate that individuals with schizophrenia possess the ability to learn to the same degree as healthy control subjects, although they may not spontaneously use such memory strategies in everyday life. "Second, our findings also indicate that use of these be...Adult lifestyle biggest risk factor for diabetes, study finds
...fat and higher waist-hip ratio were more likely to demonstrate increased insulin resistance. The data was collected as part of the Thousand Families Study, a Newcastle University project which has examined the health of children born in Newcastle in May and June 1947 throughout their lives. The study was funded...