Advanced prostate cancer previously considered inoperable may be operable, curable
...s not conducted as frequently and more cancers are discovered later than in the United States, allowing the cancers more opportunity to spread outside the prostate. This study was conducted as a single-institution, retrospective study of 5,652 men who had radical prostatectomy at Mayo Clinic for confirmed prost...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2005 (first issue)
...h those treated at a sanitarium. Furthermore, they discovered that family members who were in contact with the t...sanitarium. Then, using a drug called pyrazinamide discovered in 1952, U.S. researchers working with experimental tuberculosis in mice showed that as bacterial me...Autistic children's abnormal metabolic profile findings
...mes, is to determine whether the metabolic profile discovered by the researchers could be used as a diagnostic test for autism to support the purely behavioral diagnosis currently in use. It also would be important, she says, to determine whether the abnormal profile is present in high-risk children, such as to...Carnegie Mellon researchers open window into the ability of humans to recognize faces
... presented side by side. The researchers also have discovered through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans that, contrary to their expectations, the regions of the brain that are activated when normal individuals perceive and recognize faces also are activated in individuals with congenital prosop...Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research
...tors. It was during this time that his laboratory discovered phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), an enzyme that p...sphorylated in human tissues, Cantley's laboratory discovered an enzyme that could phosphorylate a unique position on phosphatidylinositol (the 3 position of the ...Angiogenesis factor may help tumors prepare the way for spread to lymph nodes
...ely promote further lymphatic development, a newly discovered phenomenon the researchers called lymph node lymphangiogenesis. Detmar explains that the transportation of tumor cells by the lymphatic system previously had been considered a passive process. "Our findings reveal that tumor cells, even after they ...Metabolic side effects of antipsychotics are known, but rarely monitored
...renia meeting. "In this study," says Buckley, "we discovered that a patient's genetic make-up of their serotonin receptors can predict whether a patient will gain weight or not during treatment with clozapine." Another study being presented seeks to give physicians and patients information on which of the new...Music improves sleep quality in older adults, researchers find
...mbers into a music group and a control group. They discovered that the 30 who had listened to carefully selected music experienced physical changes that aided restful sleep. These included lower heart and respiratory rates. "The difference between the music group and the control group was clinically significant...Scientists discover way to control allergic reactions
Scientists have discovered a novel method to reduce cat allergic reactions by...al College London and Royal Brompton Hospital have discovered a way to decrease allergic reactions by increasing numbers of CD4+ regulatory T-cells. Dr Mark Larch...Institute of Medicine news: Review of HIVNET 012 study
...Health, Boston. "None of the shortcomings that we discovered upon reviewing the data and conducting our own original analysis of source documents indicates a need to retract or discount the study's findings. Our confidence in the trial's data and findings is based on several factors, including evidence that t...Breakthrough in national diseases
...here was a link to human diseases. The researchers discovered that people with the variant ran a 2040 per cent greater risk of developing rheumatism, MS or a myocardial infarction. The gene variant is also common: an estimated 2025 per cent of the population carry it. The discovery reveals a new area of applica...Soy and fish oil may help prevent heart attacks
...family history of heart disease." Researchers also discovered that while patients in both groups experienced a significant increase in HRV, those who took the fish oil supplements achieved a greater increase in a shorter time period. Patients who received fish oil experienced increased HRV within the first 2.7...Painless test using teardrops may speed diagnosis of Sjgren's syndrome
...would then be analyzed in the laboratory for newly discovered protein biomarkers and results can be obtained in as little as one hour, Tomosugi says. The test, which is being refined, could be available to consumers in two to three years, he estimates. The development of an accurate and noninvasive diagnostic t...Breakthrough findings by Ume researchers link obesity to diabetes
... converted to fats in various tissues. A recently discovered surface receptor for free fatty acids, called GPR40, is in mice present solely in the insulin-producing beta cells. Mice, like humans, that eat a diet rich in calories gain weight quickly and experience disturbances in their blood levels of insulin,...Being too clean could be hazardous to your health and the environment
Blacksburg, Va. Researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered that the use of antimicrobial soaps and other products may unnecessarily be directly exposing consumers to significant quantities of chloroform. Peter Vikesland, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, has shown in his research th...Prenatal sonography has no effect on the intellectual capacity of the developing child
... Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have discovered that there is no clear correlation between routine ultrasonic scans and intellectual impairment. "Fears have been expressed that sonography can lead to diminished intellectual capacity," explains Helle Kieler, research scientist at Karolinska Insti...Scientists identify protein that controls cancer cells
...ed, they found only very low levels. Instead, they discovered that a little-known protein called Fra-1 is present at large amounts in the tumor cells. "We were very surprised when we saw it for the first time," said Debinski. "We had to learn more about Fra-1 because it is not a widely-studied biological fact...Ovary removal elevates risk for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism
...d parkinsonism many years later in life. They also discovered that the younger a woman is at the time of the surgery, the higher her risk. "The risk is higher for women with both ovaries removed; however, it may also be somewhat increased when only one ovary is removed," says Walter Rocca, M.D., Mayo Clinic ep...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
...rvard Medical School in Boston, and his colleagues discovered two cellular enzymes that the Ebola virus co-opts and uses to cut up one of the virus' surface proteins. Once this protein is snipped apart, the virus is free to begin multiplying. The scientists applied broad-spectrum enzyme inhibitors to mammalian ......versity have, together with colleagues in England, discovered a new way of treating and preventing hereditary breast cancer. The article, published in Nature, describes how the use of a chemical inhibitor can specifically kill tumour cells, which have a defect in the gene causing hereditary breast cancer. This ...