Pioneering UK skin researchers achieve international quality standard
...e are examining the different ways in which we can develop our services to the pharmaceutical, personal product and hygiene industries. Collaborative applied research is extremely valuable to us, as much of our research informs our commercial services for companies. It also works the other way, with commerci...Marijuana worsens COPD symptoms in current cigarette smokers
...re two-and-a-half times as likely as nonsmokers to develop COPD, while smoking cigarettes and marijuana together boosted the odds of developing COPD to three-and-a-half times the risk of someone who did not smoke either cigarettes or marijuanain other words, adding marijuana smoking to cigarette smoking incr...Transplanting human gut bugs into mice helps understanding of metabolic system
...t microbes effects, good and bad, and help them to develop better treatments (including probiotics and functional foods) for a wide range of conditions. Professor Jeremy Nicholson, one of the lead authors of the paper from the Department of Biomolecular Medicine at Imperial College London, said: "Humans ca...Veterans exposed to Agent Orange have higher rates of prostate cancer recurrence
...e exposed or not, to see which were more likely to develop a recurrence and patients with a history of Agent Orange exposure were more likely," says Dr. Sagar R. Shah, MCG urology resident who is presenting the data May 20 during the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. The st...Epidemiology of TB: Updates from CDC studies to be presented at ATS 2007
...gs, along with the research of others will help us develop effective interventions to address TB prevention a...of TB. Data from the first phase will be used to develop and implement the intervention phase that aims to help reduce the disparity of TB among African Amer...House dust may protect against allergic disease early in life
...toxin in their homes, the less likely they were to develop either condition by age 3. Were trying to find why children exposed to endoxotin have lower levels of disease early in life, says researcher Melisa Celaya, M.A., of the Arizona Respiratory Center in Tucson. Celaya found that certain environmental ...Sleep apnea may increase risk of diabetes
...derstand the risk factors for diabetes in order to develop additional preventive strategies. Understanding the link between sleep-disordered breathing and diabetes may represent one such approach....Parents and schools, major factors in China obesity boom
...ces self-regulation, thereby allowing the child to develop new and healthy activities," Dr Li noted. Unlike findings from western countries, higher parental education was associated with overweight and obesity in adolescents. Eating and exercise behaviours can be shaped and cultivated by good family habits...Could statins be a new option for hepatitis C patients?
...f pegylated interferon in 2001, the opportunity to develop a new generation of therapies that offer better outcomes may be imminent. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. "Studies such...UIC awarded $7M NIH grant for infertility research
...ffects of endometriosis on infertility in order to develop possible therapies and to help understand the basic mechanisms associated with embryo implantation and the establishment of pregnancy. ...How insulin-producing cells develop -- new finding could help fight against diabetes
...ling healthy beta cells, which secrete insulin, to develop in the pancreas of an embryo. Glucose prompts a ge...earchers also hope that scientists will be able to develop drug therapies that enhance the action of glucose and hence encourage the growth of healthy beta cel...Commonly used drug offers promise for premature babies
...germinal matrix. Steroids, commonly used to help develop the lungs of a premature infant, can help prevent bleeds too. And recent research has shown that indomethacin, which like celecoxib is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, has been shown to help prevent such bleeds and is used to treat premature i......ision Sciences which will enable it to continue to develop world-class internationally competitive teaching and research....Lowering body temperature could aid standard stroke treatment
...at lower temperatures, their study enabled them to develop a model to explain the mechanism of how tPA gets into the clot and subsequently breaks it up. "Around 33 Celsius is what most folks would consider the target temperature in cooling for therapeutic hypothermia," Shaw explains, "although there have b...25,000 needless deaths each year due to failure to tackle blood clots in hospital
...idelines and called for an expert working group to develop a strategy and report back to the chief medical officer. The expert group's report and the chief medical officer's response were published last month, recommending that every adult should have a mandatory VTE risk assessment on admission to hospita...Commercializing university research -- Hopping robots, liquid shoes, electricity from heat
...r will continue to work with all the applicants to develop commercialization strategies and, if possible, hel...omedical device technologies."This project aims to develop thermoelectric device modules for application to biomedical devices, such as hearing aids and pacema...Some children are born with 'temporary deafness' and do not require cochlear implant
... Attias. He added that some of the children only develop partial hearing, which can be augmented with external hearing aids. Prof. Attias is now researching "temporary deafness" among young children, looking to find a way to identify those who will recover and those who will not....ACE inhibitors help preserve kidney function in IgA nephropathy
...ldmay reduce the number of patients who eventually develop progressive kidney disease requiring dialysis. Dr. Coppo concludes, "It is of interest that most of the patients with IgAN who enter dialysis are middle-aged, and since the disease takes decades to progress, it is likely that their disease started in...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
...wever, has thwarted scientists efforts thus far to develop a classic preventive vaccine for the virus because...rus to escape detection. While early efforts to develop an HIV vaccine focused on the viral envelope, an improved understanding of how HIV causes disease ha......these individuals over many years saw many of them develop symptoms of dementia. Postmortems showed they all ...of dementia, all patients we have seen with RBD do develop the pathology." This is both good news and bad news. While Lewy body dementia and Parkinsons disease...