Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia
... people respond better to treatment than others or develop metabolic side effects, she added. Schizophrenia...nd senior study investigator. "Now we can begin to develop better medicines that target the specific metabolites important for the disease but not those that c...World-leading innovation in child-allergy detection
.... EUREKA project E! 3292 MULTI-PATCH has helped to develop a full range of 'DIALLERTEST' products, aimed at detecting the most frequently observed children's allergies, including milk, corn, soy and house dust mites. Already being marketed internationally, the results represent a major success for European m...Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain
...laborate with computer modeling experts. "We could develop a mathematical model that would allow us to generate hypotheses about what we expect if we deliver a certain type of stimulus. We'd see what effect it would produce in our model." Simulating brain activity in the mathematical model "would take the...Vitamin D supplements may offer cheap and effective immune system boost against TB
...n people are infected. Nine million people a year develop the active disease worldwide, which kills two million each year. "Most cases of TB in London arise from people who have already become infected with the bacteria but in whom it lies latent," says Professor Chris Griffiths from Queen Mary's School o...Treatment of kidney condition requires an individualized approach
... year 6 in every 100,000 people in the Netherlands develop the disease. Up until 40 years ago patients died from lupus nephritis. Since then various treatment methods have been sought to suppress the inflammation in the kidney. To date no thorough research into the differences between these methods had been ...Pediatricians and pathologists see traumatic brain injury differently
... her colleagues. They reported on their efforts to develop a framework to help researchers compare cases in t...ies of abusive head trauma but researchers need to develop improved tools to correctly identify and ultimately prevent this abuse according to Dr. Laskey. "W...Weill Cornell researchers use 'Virtual Iraq' simulation to study post-traumatic stress disorder
...s. Usually this is studied by comparing people who develop PTSD months or even years after trauma exposure. With this pilot study, we are trying to develop a paradigm in which we can use virtual reality to learn more about how the responses of people expos...Grain fiber and magnesium intake associated with lower risk for diabetes
... grain products (cereal fiber) were less likely to develop diabetes than those who ate less fiber. When the participants were split into five groups based on cereal fiber intake, those who ate the most (an average of 17 grams per day) had a 27 percent lower risk of developing diabetes than those in the group...Mediterranean diet halves risk of progressive lung disease
...estern diet were more than four times as likely to develop COPD, even after taking account of other influential factors. The higher the compliance with a Mediterranean diet, the lower was the risk of developing COPD over the 12 year period. Conversely, the higher the compliance with the Western diet, t...A self-fulfilling prophecy in bleeding stroke?
... predicting who is whom." "Our goal should be to develop therapies that will lead to survival with good outcome rather than survival with severe disability," says senior author Lewis Morgenstern, M.D., director of the U-M Stroke Program and of the Texas stroke study that yielded the data used in the analys...Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
...er disease or gastroenteritis. Eventually they may develop a fear of eating and lose large amounts of weight. Surgical treatment of chronic mesenteric ischemia results in death in as many as 15 percent of patients, in part because the procedure is complexit typically takes four to eight hours to performbut a...Bare-metal stents are better for some heart patients
...those patients who receive drug-eluting stents may develop life-threatening cardiac complications if they undergo subsequent, non-cardiac surgery." This prescription for the potentially deadly problem begins when a person, often a senior citizen, learns that she or he must have elective surgery. The surger...SCAI Founders' Lecture highlights remarkable progress in catheter-based aortic valve replacement
... heart to the rest of the body. Patients typically develop shortness of breath, heart failure, chest pain, and sometimes lightheadedness and fainting. Surgery to replace the aortic valve is very effective, but it involves opening the chest and requires a lengthy recovery. At least one-third of elderly pati...Study offers clues to 'Broken Heart Syndrome'
...or a colonoscopy. "We don't know why some women develop this syndrome after what appears to be minimal str...men experience severely stressful events but don't develop Takotsubo cardiomyopathy," Dr. Regnante said. A surge of stress hormones likely plays a role, he sai...Estrogen is important for bone health in men as well as women
...hough women are four times more likely than men to develop osteoporosis, or porous bone, one in 12 men also suffer from the disease, which can lead to debilitating - or even life-threatening - fractures, mainly of the spine, hip and wrist. The underlying causes of osteoporosis are numerous, but in women, low...Counseling, coping skills could reduce arthritis disability
... with arthritis, Keefe said, "If patients begin to develop problems coping with persistent pain, they could ask their health care provider to refer them to a psychologist who specializes in pain coping skills and cognitive behavior interventions." Over 43 million adults in the United States have an arthrit...Patients with 'bleeding' strokes less likely to get prevention treatment
...he statistics. The data suggest it may be time to develop performance measures specifically for treating hemorrhagic stroke."...Use of Swedish 'snus' is linked to a doubled risk of pancreatic cancer
... according to our data, eight or nine of them will develop pancreatic cancer, as opposed to four amongst those who use neither product. But 9,991 wont, so the odds arent that bad," he says. The debate on whether the net effect of snus is positive or negative has been raging for many years. Some scientists...An aspirin a day keeps colorectal cancer away
...in is thought to reduce) take at least 10 years to develop into cancers. The study showed that use of Aspirin for five years reduced the subsequent incidence of colorectal cancer by 37% overall, and by 74% during the period 10-15 years after treatment was started. In an accompanying analysis of observatio...... the neurodegenerative processes and, if they are, develop pharmaceutical medicines that can neutralise these processes or the elements that enable them to progress, the goal being to halt the process of death. In collaboration with neurologists they have also been able to access biological samples of pat...